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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: knightquest on February 22, 2011, 09:58:46 pm
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One of our customers came in today and told us that her brother in law went out to his bins to throw out some rubbish and found a badly beaten dead body lying there :o :o
Last week, less than two miles away we had a drive by shooting. Today in the same place we had an actual calculated shooting. :o :o :o
It all seems strangely alien to the area around our shop but some of the scutters around here could probably do with being put out of our misery but it sure makes you think!
Got to go into hospital tomorrow for an op. Who knows what will happen there? I'm bricking it to be honest but if the worst did happen at least I wouldn't have to dodge any bullets :) ;D :)
Ian
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where are you, Libya?
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Good lord!!!!!!!!!!!
hope your op goes ok, good luck :bouquet: :wave:
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Good luck with the op Ian - it won't be as bad as you think, I'm sure. Scary for you, but routine for all the folk doing the work. Think of it as an extra snooze :)
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Thanks guys.
In answer to the question...........Birmingham ::)
I don't need any excuses to snooze Juliet, I have slept standing up before now :D but the extra rest will be nice.
Ian
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Hope you're all recovered from the operation really soon.
Sounds like an interesting neighbourhood :o What a shock for the body finder. I've stopped walking the dogs because so many bodies are found by dog walkers; now I'll have to stop putting out the rubbish ::)
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I've stopped walking the dogs because so many bodies are found by dog walkers; now I'll have to stop putting out the rubbish
:D :D :D :D
Hope the op was successful Ian. :wave:
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All ok thank you. Bit sore but soon back to fighting fitness.
Turns out that the dead guy was a well known drunk who used to upset people when he'd had a few and we've since had another shooting....... :o
If there is a funny side to all this (and there really isn't) it turns out that just as all the police were arriving at the scene of the shooting, a local thief was just running out of Iceland after carrying out an armed robbery. It was three doors away from the shooting.
You couldn't bloody write it!
Ian
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glad to hear your ok, all the best for a speedy recovery :bouquet: :wave:
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an armed robbery in Iceland? what did he take, frozen chicken strips?!
hope you feel less sore soon Ian, and keep yourself away from all this trouble... :)
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an armed robbery in Iceland? what did he take, frozen chicken strips?!
That's the level of intelligence round here!
Seems he pulled a knife as the cashier opened the till...............Anybody want to buy a shop? :D :D :D
Thanks again for the good wishes :wave:
Ian
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::) ::) \\\\\\\\\\\\\and I thought it was rough here, I always worry about finding a dead body in the Forest!!!!!!!!! I also found a baseball bad hidden behind our garage now I check there for dead bodies!!!!!! Mind you, this B&B has had 1 or 2 murderers as guests and thats the ones I know about!!!
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that's where the bat went ...I put things down and just forget where I put them !!! ::)
I don't worry about finding a stiff in the woods , as long as they don't stink to much !!! but I hate the thought of finding one hanging somewhere.... freaks me out that does....
Take it easy Ian , hope all is ok !!!
cheers
Russ
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OMG - our relatives in Birmingham do begrudge us for our slow lifestyle a bit - to be honest, I can do without corpeses of people!
I hope you are ok, KQ! :&>
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[quote but I hate the thought of finding one hanging somewhere.... freaks me out that does..
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Thats a side of RUSTYME we dont see often ;) :wave:
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i spend a lot of time round rivers and lakes (im an angler) and my nightmare would be finding a floater!!!
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oh dear there are 2 ways to take that one ::) ???,
whoops me and my weird sense of humor (sorry) ;) :wave:
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bulletproof vest for next birthday? ::)
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I am just outside of Birmingham in Lichfield - I have to say I hate driving in,I find all big cities intimidating!
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i spend a lot of time round rivers and lakes (im an angler) and my nightmare would be finding a floater!!!
Now I used to be a angler , years ago , and me and my dad used to fish the canals round London a lot .
This particular day , we went to the cut near Greenford I think it was, but maybe it was nearer Northolt , wherever . It was summer , and the weather had been hot and sultry for some days .
We set up early , just as the light was breaking through the darkness , and the mist rolled across the water like in a Hammer House of Horrors film . I could imagine Dracular gliding along the footpath with his cape flowing out and blood dripping from his mouth .
Anyway , we set up just along from our normal spot , as we saw some fish activity about 30 feet or so along the cut . We sat and fished for some hours , and had a good catch of fish in the net . Some really good roach , a load of gudgeon, a couple of rudd, some bream and a huge perch and a tench or two .
We were sitting there having a cup of tea and some sandwiches , when there was lot of activity over the other side of the canal . A few blokes speaking in lowered voices , and then a small row boat came along with another couple of blokes in it .
Dad and me just sat there fishing and chatting whilst drinking our tea and then there was a shout from one of the blokes over the other side , they all rushed over to where the man was , and the blokes in the boat started to poke at something with a long pole with a hook on the end .
Dad and me continued to sit and watch as the drama unfolded . After a minute or two something appeared in the water , at the end of the pole . It was hard to see what it was , but the men all stood back a bit from the edge of the canal . The men in the boat leaned over the side and grabbed hold of something , they threw a rope to one of the men on the bank , and he pulled on it and the boat slowly glided towards the bank .
Lots of low murmurings filled the air as the men on the bank leaned over the edge and grabbed at the object in the water . They heaved and up it came ..... it was a body .
It was the body a of a man . He had been in the water for some time and his skin was a strange translucent whitish colour . It was obvious that fish had been feeding on his face as part of it was missing . On seeing this , one of the men was very ill , the others laughed and clear voices could be heard for the first time .
I was trying to hear what they were saying but it was then that I was overcome by the most revolting smell I had ever sensed . It was the smell of the man they had just pulled from his resting place in the depths of the water . We were talking to the men later, and they said he was the 5th one that week that they had found in that stretch of water . Who he was , we never knew , but he is forever known now as Canal number 5 .
We gave that stretch of water a miss for a few weeks after that day .
To this day, I still think of canal number 5, when I smell maggots .
cheers
Russ
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RUSTY, I have smelt death and its horrid and hard to forget!!! I worship what life I have and would hate to end up as a topic of converstation...poor sods!!!
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[quote but I hate the thought of finding one hanging somewhere.... freaks me out that does..
Thats a side of RUSTYME we dont see often ;) :wave:
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He's just showing his sensitive side ;D
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Blimey Russ, I thought there was going to be a punchline about the perfume Chanel No 5.............. Must be the anaesthetic :)
The sad thing about the shootings are that they aren't even big news on the telly ??? ??? You'd think that they would be but perhaps it's the times we live in.
Truth is, there are a lot of nasties around and frankly, if one of these scumbags gets nailed then it aint the end of the world. The big problem is that innocent passers by get involved and they always seem to come off worst. The shootings have happened in broad daylight too.
Scary.
Ian
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yes I know what it smells like Sandy , that did actually happen when I was a kid ...and it is sad that no one ever knew who the bloke was , what a way to go .
I hate the way some people pop their cloggs in towns , and don't get discovered till someone complains of the smell .
I didn't put the channel No5 punchline in on purpose Ian ... :D I thought it may gross some people out a bit too much ... but it is how my sick mind works, sadly ...(yours too I see mate ... ::) ;D ;D ;D) .
Same sort of thing happens in Moss side and along the road in Liverpool , shootings and stabbings , fairly regular things these days . Only the odd one makes the news now . But if you look back into victorian history , the number of deaths by murder , mostly unsolved, was unbelievable .
Glad I live in the country . Just my luck Peter Rabbit carries an Uzi now days though ...
cheers
Russ
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I hope you didn't eat the fish you had caught Russ :o
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Hi Ian - hope you have a restful recovery :wave:
where I grew up (near wembley till I was 8) a lot of the asian ladies were found in the bottom of the reservior bottom of our garden. not sure if they were 'unfaithful' or found to be carrying a baby of the wrong gender but it was a weekly occurance at one point :( such a horrible childhood memory.
A nurse friend of mine, when we were training we had to go on the ambulances for some shifts, she went to a hanging. Was traumatised for ages.
Two days ago, a tiny village here was cordoned off due to a 'shooting'. We were all a bit panicked, not sure if loose gunman was walking round taking shots (a la hungerford style) but it turned out it was a suicide, 38 he was (my age) recession again >:(
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Look what Rhum brought to me today ::) I saw Rhum our Chocolate lab looking at me with these in her mouth, after reading all t his my first thought was a pair of false teeth, looks like a Rabbits head but never the less, spooked me at first!!!!
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TIny photo as I am having trouble with the nice big ones ::)