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Same in Cyprus. I would take bin liners with me knowing that it would be a shit tip when I got there.
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We've noticed that in Spain and also in Cyprus especially where they have been fishing. About 7 years ago I went off in our camping-car on a fishing break while the wife was in the UK. I parked up on a track alongside the river about 400 metres from the main road where there was a canoe hire place and picnic tables. After fishing, when it got dark I took the spaniel for a walk towards the road and into the town. As I got to the canoe hire place I heard young voices and the sound of breaking glass. Just like used to happen on the sports field back home. Except these kids were disposing of
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To be fair after the firework display at Locke Park in Barnsley back in the 1960's the place was a shit tip. And a friend of ours used to collect litter at the Great Yorkshire Show and he said it was unbelievable what they threw away.
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No idea where that is. We sold our house in Barnsley in Nov 2011 just after I had retired. We didn't want to move to France until afte the winter so my wife's bosses let us have the flat above the vets until we got sorted. Free of charge, no heating costs. I moved out in early Feb, drove 14 hours through the snow to get to the rented cottage we were moving to 750 miles away. It was -25C when I got there. The cottage had no wood in the store and just two small electric heaters. It never got above -8C for a fortnight. The water was frozen, the gas bottle was frozen and the log burner was 4k
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Wasn't me. I only lived there for 3 months - honest ?
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Melton Mowbray - the Slumberland manager?
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I had no time for them and their 'confrences'. You could never reach them on their radios and their mobiles were always turned off. One night we had a burglary at a shop and couldn't get any CID so I phoned the DCI at home at daft o'clock and asked him if he could nominate someone to come out as we couldn't contact the detective who wss supposed to be available. Ten minutes later the missing detective phoned in. He was in Wakefield on 'enquiries' and was heading back asap. He was shagging more like.
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If they'd have accepted meal tickets maybe.
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No. But I ate there a lot ?
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I couldn't help anyone now. I'd just tell them to get a proper job. The job these days isn't anything like I know. I was fighting a rearguard action for the last few years. Refused to toe the party line and had asked the Chief some very embarassing questions on the force intranet regards his own dodgy business affairs. He alledgedly put a contract out on getting me sacked. The first one tasked to do it was too thick and lazy to find his own car keys, not that there was anything to find. The second one told me all about it. I'd taught him how to do the job properly when he was a probationer and
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I worked with every one of those characters in my first few years. PACE eventually cleaned them out. But the drinking, arrogant culture lingered on for years.
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Cheeky sod! When I left the station for the last time, a day earlier than they anticipated as I had 8 hours on my time off card they had overlooked, I dumped my keys, pass cards, etc on the sergeant's desk and walked out never to return. My locker was empty. The car was parked outside with 'The Great Escape' primed to play on the CD. Not even my best mate knew I was checking out early. I tell people that I left the police in 2011, but the police had left me long before that. I wouldn't have wanted to have joined earlier though. All that corruption, drinking and rule breaking, Life
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The SERCS were the boys. Organised armed robberies and took their cut. Creamed off a share of all drugs they found and any money recovered. It's in a book called Bent Coppers written by a journalist. Only a fraction of them were prosecuted and even less convicted. The Flying Squad were amateurs compared to SERCS.
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Unnecessary and reasonable are the type of words that gets lawyers debating for days. If something like this went to High Court my money would be that pigeons could only be shot to protect growing crops. And I could imagine some bewigged barrister asking the defendant why the birds aren't allowed to land where they could be more cleanly dispatched. It is a minefield. I hope it never gets that far.
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This just the sort of situation that could define the Act. It has all the hallmarks of some police inspector or sergeant going for glory. The stubble issue has been around for a few years. If it got to court it could easily go the wrong way. Same with the duty of care issue. Dodgy ground that no shooting man wants to tread on.
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Crimestoppers aren't the police. They are an independent charity. If you want to complain then write to the Commissioner explaining your view. It won't make any difference because, as I have said before, the police and all public services have gone beyond the point when they can be saved. All the quota fillers they were taking on in the 1990's and 2000's are now in charge. The wokes run all public services including the armed forces as we saw with the RAF recruitment policy. The country is fecked! I watched a program the other day where there were 6 or 7 double crewed traffic cars waitin
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I wasn't there at the time. But he probably said: "With my luck you'll get me with the second barrel."
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I worked with a bloke who had been shot at point blank range with a shotgun. His radio took the impact and the second chamber jammed. The forensics examined the gun and it worked perfectly every time. Despite that he regularly used to say: "With my luck it will be raining on my day off / my car won't start / ther'll be nothing on the menu I like.........." I just used to say: "Shut the feck up because if that first round had jammed you'd have never made Sergeant while you had a hole in your arris!" Some people are never happy.
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You are lucky to get the gig. I've heard of tree surgeons dowsing nests with chainsaw fuel and setting light to it. Anything to save a delay.
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Shame you couldn't have left a video cam on the nest Kev. Would have been brilliant. I wouldn't fancy trying it with Asian hornets though. Bloomin' lethal they are.
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I was waiting outside school waiting for the step daughter to arrive. While I was sat in my car a bloke got out of his car, put a can at the side of the kerb and walked around the corner towards the school. I got the can which was half full and put it in his car, wedged under the clutch pedal.
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Yes, I am sure that they do. We used to set up different scenarios to see what the dogs did. You can only learn these rhings by watching them. Then trying to work out the whys and wherefores.
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No, but it only takes 2 rich Chinese busninessmen to make the price of the horns worth the risk. The business is in China that's what counts.
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Thanks. It is the hunting side of canine-ology that fascinates me. Normally the hunt would start with a stalk then a well worked ambush with a possible encirclement prior to the chase and ambush. But in the situation you describe the dogs have to learn new tactics. I wondered whether they stayed true to their quarry or changed to individuals that had splintered off or were lagging behind.
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How do the dogs react to that scenario. Do they follow the first one that catches their eye to the end or would they change to an easier target as the chase develops?
