I've changed a few names in this weird story for legal reasons.
In April 1966, a 21-year-old Tranmere man named Jack Blaney had a blazing row with his long-suffering girlfriend Babs Hughes in a Birkenhead pub.
This time she threw her engagement ring at him and left.
Jack was now homeless and penniless, as he'd been staying with Babs at a bedsit in Clifton Park.
Being too proud to sign on and too lazy to find a job, he'd constantly sponged off his fiancée.
Jack started asking the drinkers in the pub to have an arm wrestle with him; if they lost they bought him a drink, and if Jack lost he’d give them his former fiancée's engagement ring.