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  1. mackem
    That would have been the icing on an already farcical cake,the clips already a prime candidate for a "Carry on Copper" movie.
  2. mackem
    The police farce at their finest,makes the keystone cops look like seasoned pro's,and the inept dogwork was the icing on the cake,payback for the dogs that nutty copper fried in the back of his van.
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    I have james castner's book "Shrunken Heads" probably the best pictoral tsantsa guide on the (niche)market,as far back as the middle-ages heads of state,royalty,prominent figures had death masks taken,made from wax or plaster as mementos or for later portrait use,this was before the advent of photography.
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    Just an empty husk mate,nothing morbid about spending a few minutes with the shell of a relative or friend who is no longer around.
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    Memories,I have family members who have taken pics of dead relatives,not because the deceased was dead,just as a last memory,we are all different mate,its the norm in some parts of the world,europeans just handle death a little differently,its more sterile here,not in your face or up close and personal,undertaker comes out,removes the corpse,cleans it up,does the dirty-wrok for the family,some parts of the world(and even here in some ethnicities)your relative dies you clean and bathe the corpse,wrap it in cloth yourself etc.
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    Open caskets are commonplace in some cultures,I went to one home in Manila years ago when the guy was on view,glass over the coffin to stop the flies,it was all souls eve a few nights back,entire families visit the cemetary,sleep around the grave or eat,drink,throw a small party for the deceased,North Cemetary in Manila approx 10,000 people live in the place,inhabiting the tombs and small shanty-shacks,some cultures are just more comfortable with death and the dead than some western societies.
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    I think Hunter Catapults has wound-up,no longer exists mate.
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    The mechanism and action might have longevity but what about the snare itself getting kinked,how many captures does the collarum supplied snare last on average?
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    Theres a world famous family got a tomb not a million miles from here,the graveyard is a haven for roe deer,quite a few kicking about,I was having a mooch around once and looked over the small wall into the grounds of the family plot which is set back slightly,they have a life-sized bronze statue of a lady,looks beautiful,she is on a plinth,when I heard of the Carshalton theft my first thought was that particular statue and how long before its weighed-in somewhere,comes to something when even the dead arent respected.
  10. mackem
    Once or twice there was a distinct possibility of doing one of those long times you referred to if there hand'nt indeed been a great escape which you also mentioned,and therein ends the sermon,if you cant do the time dont do the crime.
  11. mackem
    Amen to that,most of us are interested.
  12. mackem
    Sounds like the opening line of a bad joke.I sometimes used to pilfer sweets from the pick'n'mix as a kid,I never once thought to crowbar a plaque from the local war memorial,you are a regular simon templar,your halo is blinding.
  13. mackem
    Down here they say posession is nine-tenths of the law?Thats a better idiom methinks?
  14. mackem
    Oh,ummmm,well,what about....Posession is nine tenths of ownership?I am sure we said something like that at school when caught nicking?It always seemed to work anyway.
  15. mackem
    Its fairly local,the memorial beside Carshalton pond,theres a spate of such thefts,roughly 150'ish plaques from croydon cemetary,a bronze bell from the church in cheam valued at roughly £6000,I saw a bronze plaque missing from a war-grave last week,you could see the angle-grinder marks on the stone,thats in Weybridge cemetary as you walk in near the main gates,a number of the village churches in surrey are getting smart-water as a deterent to stop their roofs being stripped.
  16. mackem
    And irradiated so the finers scrotum shrinks,whoever put it there had no right to do so,they did it without seeking permission,questionable motives,it was removed awaiting their return so they can collect it from the farmhouse and explain themselves and their actions,losers weepers finders keepers or something along those lines.
  17. mackem
    On now...............who is policing the police?
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    Collarum in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nMgkLbTOE
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    I know a case of two total idiots who tried to fit someone up through spitefull vindictiveness,maybe they were bullied at school or whatever,anyway long and short and tall of it was the guy they tried to set-up had recorded everything,case went to court,they are both EX-coppers now. Good friend of mine was walking home in the early hours from his girlfriends,only a couple of streets,he is a big guy,I mean big,and looks handy,cop car crawls up alongside him,plod ask can they have a word with him,he took it as a request and said no then carried on walking,no reason to lie to me thats what happe
  21. mackem
    Never meet your hero's lest they stand on broken pedestals.........
  22. mackem
    Always dial Max first.Thats true Charts,but I have had a run in or two with Plod in the past,they really do rely on Joe Bloggs ignorance of the laws while being unsure of them themselves,I overheard a cop-woman at an RTA once telling someone he couldnt take pics of the wrecked vehicle in case he caught the Reg-number in the pic.But your right,its rarely the full story,bits and pieces are added later over time to eventually build up the full-picture,be Lucky Charts.
  23. mackem
    Plod isnt as clued up on the laws he is supposed to be policing as he would lead you to believe,call their bluff,as has been said citizens-advice for harrassement,tell them you resent them sending letters to your home,and give the station a bell complaining,tell them to log the complaint.
  24. mackem
    The guy at 2.18 bears an uncanny resemblance to Pat Carey (the Warrener).
  25. mackem
    I bet they rue the freedom of information act being conceived and drafted.
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