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Ian Rawlings

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• Sep 24, 2006

• #21

On 2006-09-24, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hear, hear, same up on the North Pennines. There was a mugging last
> month,

A what?

<looks it up in dictionary>

Criminy! What'll they think of next! Horseless carriages?

> first one I've heard about in 7 years of being up here and not
> heard stories of others previous to that. Regular crime is fairly petty,
> theft from motors/sheds/barns or minor criminal damage. Even those are
> currently running at about 2 or 3 incidents/month (yes month).

In the village (no not *that* village number 6) there's a crime
warning regarding a spate of burglaries in the area, there were two in
the space of 4 months! We'll all be murdered in our beds! The "area"
covers almost half of North Dorset. The report was last updated 8
months ago ;-)

> Same here, I fully intend to die here and be scattered over the paddock.

Not sure I'll die here, not enough parking space for toys! I've got
four and only have space for another two with only covered space for
one :-( Now that's a crime.

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Torak

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• Sep 24, 2006

• #22

Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:26:24 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:
>
>
>>No it's not mush, just in the cities. If you get out of the cities
>>you quickly leave the chavs and other pond life behind. Out here in
>>Dorset ....
>
>
> Hear, hear, same up on the North Pennines. There was a mugging last
> month, first one I've heard about in 7 years of being up here and not
> heard stories of others previous to that. Regular crime is fairly petty,
> theft from motors/sheds/barns or minor criminal damage. Even those are
> currently running at about 2 or 3 incidents/month (yes month).

I'm up in SW Scotland, and the local paper is filled with crime reports
every week.

All right, so most of them are things like "Joe Bloggs, 34, of 27 Random
Terrace, was cautioned by the Sheriff on Tuesday for failing to wear a
seatbelt", but still.

And we had a murder a few years back. Someone chased down his dad in the
Co-op car park and decapitated him with multiple blows with a baseball bat.

Other than that, though, it's just boy racers in their pimped
tossermobiles[1], and the drug capital of Scotland....



[1] - I've seen one - a metallic blue *van* - with a spoiler. Except it
was obviously too tall for his garage, because the spoiler had been
lowered to be flush with the roof

 

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TonyB

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• Sep 24, 2006

• #23

We've had one robbery in our village in 15 years.
Someone took the number of the getaway car and the police went round to the
registered owners address to inform him. They found the car parked
outside the house and the lads at the kitchen table counting the dosh.

We laughed until we ****ed ourselves.
TonyB

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Sep 25, 2006

• #24

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:57:19 +0200, Torak wrote:

> I'm up in SW Scotland, and the local paper is filled with crime reports
> every week.

You must live somewhere urbanised to *have* a local paper. We have a
locally produced quarterly news letter. Of the commercial papers the
weekly Cumberland & Westmorland Herald is the only one that regulary
produces stories for this area, not many crime related ones though and
compared to the likes of Penrith and Carlisle, none.

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Torak

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• Sep 26, 2006

• #25

Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:57:19 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
>>I'm up in SW Scotland, and the local paper is filled with crime reports
>>every week.
>
> You must live somewhere urbanised to *have* a local paper. We have a
> locally produced quarterly news letter. Of the commercial papers the
> weekly Cumberland & Westmorland Herald is the only one that regulary
> produces stories for this area, not many crime related ones though and
> compared to the likes of Penrith and Carlisle, none.

The Galloway News - published every Thursday.

 

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bumble101

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• Sep 26, 2006

• #26

Had one robbery in 8 years where a gang one windy night went through
our village in Northamptonshire of 70 house and cleaned out a few
unsecured sheds/barns of machinery, tools etc.

A local did spy someone fly tipping at a farm gate took down number and
rang a neighbour who works in Special Branch. Got the address,
collected a few other neighbours together, scooped up all the rubbish
and tipped it bag by bag all over his front garden in full view of the
culprit and his neighbours. He was too shocked to speak up or complain
and I don't think he will be fly tipping again, especially as they also
walked across the road and had a drink in his local after all their
hard work!

Neil

TonyB wrote:
> We've had one robbery in our village in 15 years.
> Someone took the number of the getaway car and the police went round to the
> registered owners address to inform him. They found the car parked
> outside the house and the lads at the kitchen table counting the dosh.

 

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Richard Brookman

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• Sep 27, 2006

• #27

Ian Rawlings wrote:

||| Hear, hear, same up on the North Pennines. There was a mugging last
||| month,

|| In the village (no not *that* village number 6) there's a crime
|| warning regarding a spate of burglaries in the area, there were two
|| in the space of 4 months! We'll all be murdered in our beds! The
|| "area" covers almost half of North Dorset. The report was last
|| updated 8 months ago ;-)

The last time we saw the police in this area (we're not even in the village,
strictly), apart from the visits to check my shotgun security, was about 8
years ago, when a garage was broken into and *nothing stolen*. Having been
brought up in Nige's neck of the woods, it's a dream, and like others I
would never consider going back to the city.

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 27, 2006

• #28

On or around Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:58:28 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Ian Rawlings wrote:
>
>||| Hear, hear, same up on the North Pennines. There was a mugging last
>||| month,
>
>|| In the village (no not *that* village number 6) there's a crime
>|| warning regarding a spate of burglaries in the area, there were two
>|| in the space of 4 months! We'll all be murdered in our beds! The
>|| "area" covers almost half of North Dorset. The report was last
>|| updated 8 months ago ;-)
>
>The last time we saw the police in this area (we're not even in the village,
>strictly), apart from the visits to check my shotgun security, was about 8
>years ago, when a garage was broken into and *nothing stolen*. Having been
>brought up in Nige's neck of the woods, it's a dream, and like others I
>would never consider going back to the city.

Don't you get the dodgy Irish boys nicking chainsaws and stuff over your way
then? There was a spate of it around here. Mind you, a couple of the
locals caught 'em out - one of them was offered a saw he recognised as
belonging to the other. He claimed not to want it, but that he knew a bloke
who might, then rang up the other chap, who came round and said "that's me
fookin' saw, yer bastard" and they then proceeded to intimidate the would-be
saw-seller somewhat.
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Dave Liquorice

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• Sep 28, 2006

• #29

On 26 Sep 2006 01:10:28 -0700, bumble101 wrote:

> A local did spy someone fly tipping at a farm gate took down number and
> rang a neighbour who works in Special Branch. Got the address,

Oh naughty...

> ... collected a few other neighbours together, scooped up all the
> rubbish and tipped it bag by bag all over his front garden in full view
> of the culprit and his neighbours.

Yes there is a certain amount of "civil law" used around these parts as
well, also with the full knowledge of the local constabulary.

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