Hardy St Patrick's Day punters camp overnight outside Scots pub leaving bosses in stitches

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Hardy punters camped outside a pub in Edinburgh overnight in preparation for St Patrick's Day celebrations.Bosses at Dropkick Murphys on Merchant Street in the capital were left in stitches after the dedicated revellers slept in tents outside the Irish boozer on Saturday night.Staff were left stunned as they arrived to clean the premises before being greeted by the two tents at the door.

Images shared by the pub showed one blue tent and one pink tent situated at the door of the pub.The words 'PADDY'S DAY 24' could be seen scrawled across the side of the pink tent - which was draped in green, white and orange bunting.In a second image a man and a woman posed up with Guinness hat's covering their faces - with a bottle of Frosty Jack's cider seen situated at their feet.In a post on Facebook, pub bosses said: "What greeted our cleaners this morning...

PLEASE DO NOT CAMP OVERNIGHT OUTSDE DROPKICKS, JUST TO BE THE FIRST IN ON ST PATRICKS DAY!"Also there was no one else in the queue...

Happy St Patricks Day to everyone including these campers/total rockets."Speaking to the Record, manager Seamus Murphy said: "Holy Mother of God.