You are right Jim, I am going to India next month for vacation. I think i’ll try to find out where it is.

Jim, my grandfather resides in a small town in India and not in UK. He tried to visit Britain to meet some of the families of the survivors from his fathers regiment in the early 70s with the help of my father who was sponsoring his visit, but unfortunately he was not granted a visa.

To be fair the government here, although took away his gun, which I considered as our families most prized possession, agreed to not destroy it. But we have no proof of this, and have no idea where it is stored, or if at all it is. But I have made my peace with the idea that it had been destroyed when it was confiscated in 1998.

My great-grandfathers gun was all I was interested in. It was well over 100 years old and he used it to fight in WWI in Ypres for the British Army, he lost 80% of his regiment there. I have no idea what the gun was but it was taken away from my grandfather after he crossed a certain age by the government. I am still quite pissed off about it.

Come on Jay….lets not drag every thread to that one topic. :rolleyes:

I have a good story to share, in 1996 I, as a young lad, went to Bhutan on a Druk Air BAe 146. We were only 6 passengers on the flight with four us from my own family. On the way to Thimpu you get some of the most spectacular views one can imagine. The captain of the 146 after take off spent some time talking to my dad in the cabin. He decided to take a little detour and we did two complete rounds around Everest and Kanchunjunga in the 146. It was an awe-inspiring experience.

Northern Lights…seen them in Bodo, Norway. Its an indescribable phenomenon.

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The shear uselessness of this thread baffles me. Either you lot behave or I see the trash can in the future for this “discussion.”

According to Jay it seems everyone other than the ‘youth of today’ is a saint. :rolleyes:

For one thing, if I am correctly informed here, Blackberry’s were used, or are used worldwide on such anti-social behavior is because RIM does NOT allow governments to have a look at there data. That is the whole USP of RIM’s business. There are claims that RIM has ‘special deals’ with the US to access encrypted data but that’s about it.

May I put the case of India almost banning all BlackBerry services last year after RIM refused to give access to the government on certain servers as a fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. UAE did the same.

And I am all for access to all type of information to get these vandals nicked, but from what I know BlackBerry is not compliant to any governmental interference.

lots…. but this is not under government control.