snafuHi All,
I know through experience that it is classed as theft, years ago I collected Telephone cards let’s just say I was shopped to the police for allegedly vandalising a phone box, (Someone told me how to open a used card receptacle without damage 1st and last time.) needless to say I was interviewed at the station and given a caution, I was informed even rubbish if not given permission to take it it’s still classed as theft. And yes I hold my hands up I was guilty of trying to take/Rob used telephone cards lucky for me I never got charged.
Phone cards in phone boxes? Those ones stuck up in the box with a phone number, a brief description of the service provided, and a photo of the lady concerned, you mean?;o)
Freeze it, distribute to the poor, use for animal feed or burn it for energy.
Or just change the law that says you have to throw it away. Sell all out of date food destined for the bin for 10p an item.
We freeze most of the food we buy cheaply. Others do distribute to the poor and needy. It cannot be used for animal feed (apparently due to the BSE episode). It generally does go for incineration or landfill now.
I believe shops can (and do) get prosecuted for selling food after the sell by date, it probably protects both the shop and the customer from the potential of selling or buying food that turns moldy the following day.
Food is generally (but, unfortunately, not always) sold off cheap before it passes the best before date.
There are plenty of … extremely cheap cuts of meat to make stews and casseroles
The horse meat saga made lots of people think twice about cheap meat. Apparently the mobile butcher who visited the local market was selling stuff off extremely cheap at the end of the day after the news broke and no one bought anything.
snafuTrying to get in on the back of Fifty Shades of Grey thing, eh?;o)
Wouldn’t worry too much; the proof reader would hi-light any problems and the style editor (or whatever they are called) is paid to make that sort of decision. On the other hand if you are trying to publish it yourself…
snafuI heard a stand-up the other day suggest that ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother on Channel 5 was a programme where people came out less famous than they went in.
The Now Show on Radio 4, by any chance…?
“Celebrity” is probably the word most likely to cause me varying degrees of apoplexy when heard or read. The very word signalling the arrival of some nonentity to the TV screen has me reaching for the off switch.
Yes. There is a new and crassly different definition of the word to that which I see in my dictionary.
That and ‘reality’ when used in an entertainment setting..
But come on – should the uncelebrity Bieber be deported from America back to Canada?
snafuDon’t sit on the fence, Moggy…
snafuNot if it was for health reasons. Apparently.
Interesting about distractions – we are not allowed to use mobile phones whilst driving, yet the police can and do use their radios when driving. But most of us can drive without crashing into things because of the kids, or things on the radio, whatever. My youngest travels in her child seat and is subjected to cold air if I open my window, she can’t change the temperature by herself, and if her brother breaks wind next to her she is stuck with it (whereas I can open a window…). If I smoked she would be subjected to the smoke without any say in the matter, and even if she did complain whats to say I’d take notice of a whining child anyway?
I agree that it is, as it appears now, unworkable.
snafuHmm, there seems to be a theme developing with this thread…
Guillermo Reyes was stopped at an alcohol checkpoint in Mexico City last week, and while the stop was routine, what the cops discovered was not. When Reyes was pulled out of his car for testing, cops heard a voice inside the vehicle saying, “He’s drunk, he’s drunk,” according to Spanish-language newspaper El Universal who first reported the story.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/15/hes-drunk-pet-parrot-rats-out-drunk-driver-at-police-checkpoint/
An activist in Belarus registered his parrot as a candidate in a local council election…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25830718
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How about
This brightly-coloured parakeet decided to show his face in a speed camera located on one of the UK’s busiest motorways.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/highways-agency-parakeet-speed-camera-3009706#ixzz2rsBC761j
Milan, 30 January 2014. Pope Francis blessed and took into his hands a green parrot that belonged to a former male stripper during his general audience on Wednesday.
http://www.finnbay.com/pope-francis-blesses-male-strippers-parrot/
Oo-er!
snafuBut there’s more!
Police divers in Salford Quays searching for a “body part” have instead found a dead parrot.
Maybe the parrot couldn’t take the disgrace of a court appearance and became…an ex-parrot?
Or maybe the woman, incensed at being lied to about the parrots lack of licence and inability to supervise her driving, sent it to sleep with the fishes…
snafuOk, as you were. The case was dropped:
Baljit Ubhey, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “This case has been reviewed by a senior lawyer and it has been decided that a prosecution is not required in the public interest.
“While the decision to charge was taken by the Metropolitan Police Service, a subsequent review of the case by the CPS did not give due weight to the public interest factors tending against prosecution.”
The Met said it would not comment on the CPS’s decision to drop the case.
Obviously the CPS looked at all the bad publicity and had second thoughts…
The Met are still left looking silly though.
snafuThe food would not be loose, but packaged. (Loose cheese, in Iceland, in this day and age? In fact none of that food would have been on sale loose – this is Iceland we are talking about!)
The food would have been on sale until closing time. If it is likely to make anyone taking it from the bin ill then the food was bad whilst still on sale. Also the food is good for at least several days past the best before date, even without being irradiated, since the supermarkets are usually just covering themselves from the moaners (who wants to purchase an apple that goes rotten in the fruit bowl the day after you bought it?).
Anyone who goes bin diving, I suspect, knows what to look for and could hardly blame the supermarket for any problems; if someone at the shop were to poison the food to teach the skippers a lesson (as I heard on the radio this morning) they would be up for potential manslaughter charges, for knowing that the food might still go on for possible consumption.
snafuSorry to drag this back to the top but…
Thanks Mr. V! So 2-REG will allow for 999 registrations! 🙂
If there (as I believe there are!) are 26 letters in the standard alphabet then that (if we leave them all in, is there any need to dump Q for looking like O these days when phonetically they don’t sound the same anyway?) gives 17,576 individual registrations in a 123 format and 456,976 individual registrations in a 1234 format.
Just think yourselves lucky they haven’t yet decided to go over to a barcode on the side…
snafuBugg£r.
I shouldn’t have taken so long researching and putting in detail and fetching the kids and finished my thread instead…
snafuSo just to clarify, snafu, you would conclude, if you were the jury, that the guilty party was the police and that Duggan was completely innocent?
Just asking as everyone else, including me, think the police did the right thing whereas you don’t.
No, read what I wrote.
Duggan was, according to information supplied by the police, a nasty piece of work; I said that early on.
Two members of the jury were not convinced enough to agree with their fellow jurors so the court had to take a majority verdict.
There is a hole in the basic story that shouldn’t be there – the gun in the sock – yet how it came to be so far away without anybody seeing it being disposed of (when you would imagine they would be very focused on where this gun was, in case it was pointing at them) allows an element of doubt to enter the proceedings when it needed to be clear cut and fully explained. You cannot claim that it was thrown there when he got out of the taxi or that it must have been thrown there when he was shot whilst (initially) claiming that he was firing his gun at the police was the reason to fire on him. The marksmans accurate description smacks of conferring with his colleagues, which must be a little like getting the answers to an test by consulting with school friends actually in the exam…
The Met was told several years ago that the hard stop tactic was a high risk option, with the target liable to be shot unless they reacted to what the police wanted immediately – something rather unlikely if they
are not fully focused on the idea that the men surrounding them with guns are actually police and not some drug gang or similar (the Met was recently found to have unlawfully killed Azelle Rodney in a similar situation, even down to the false claim that he was holding a gun when shot six times in the head and upper body. The claim that he was a major crack dealer en route from his factory to conduct a deal – something the police have since played down – was countered by his family’s claim that he had accepted a lift from two men he hardly knew since they would pass the hairdresser he was going to visit).
In fact it is the last point that niggles me – if armed police accidentally hard stopped me later today then I will almost certainly be dead – they might be shouting ‘armed police’ but in all the excitement and fear am I going to hear them and understand what is happening? The cars are unmarked, the cops are in civvies, they might be wearing bullet proof jackets and police-marked baseball caps but I am not going to be the quickest off the starting block and won’t have a clue what is happening. So since this tactic is deemed to be high risk (probably to the police as well as the target) then is the risk necessary? And all along I have been harping on about this in case it is an innocent, rather than an apparent gangster, who is inadvertently the target; on this occasion it was someone they could point a finger at and claim he was a naughty boy, but they need to be lucky on every occasion – and that doesn’t always happen.
snafuRemember not so long ago, when an elderly Judge had to ask, “Who were THE BEETLES?”
[PEDANTIC]Well, its either a member of the Coleoptera order of insects or its an old Volkswagen…[/PEDANTIC]
Or did you mean Beatles?;o)
It’s blatantly obvious Chas, as you have never been a Copper, that you have little idea.
Oh, good grief. How patronising.
So…you’ve never been a murderer, so you are not allowed to comment on threads about capital punishment? Never been in the air force or a pilot so not allowed to comment on threads about aeroplanes, never been a god so can’t post on religious threads, or never been an executioner so not allowed to comment on death penalty threads?
How about, rather than talking down to Charlie, try putting the reason why its blatantly obvious to you (a former copper) so that all the other non ex-coppers can see why you feel that way. This is a forum, and since posting is not restricted to professional knowledge about a subject only (whereby it would be very boring, no matter how many people might wish for that to be the rule) it should not be assumed that your knowledge is shared by all who read your threads but that you need to explain yourself.
I’ve recently been reading about hanging, drawn and quartering and the use of the Guillotine as a means of capital punishment. Guess you lot would would be demanding one or the other to be reinstated…
snafuAdmitting that you’re here just to act as a troll (aka “stirrer of excreta”) does you no credit, whatsoever.
Or maybe he was checking that his argument is being followed and its you who is stirring the dung?
snafuThe video was taken after the shooting, and if its anything like my phone doesn’t have much of a zoom facility. In fact I can see clearer with my eyes than with the screen.
Apparently he was 100 yards away, which is not that great a distance but might preclude hearing any orders from the police or shouting/whatever from Duggan.
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