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Post by kerny on Nov 24, 2009 7:17:53 GMT -1
Do you do a lot of mushroom picking while out in the wilds Steve ? Magic ;D
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Post by THURSOMAN on Nov 24, 2009 7:35:41 GMT -1
;D ;D ;D
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Nov 24, 2009 14:36:30 GMT -1
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Nov 24, 2009 19:22:18 GMT -1
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Nov 24, 2009 19:24:01 GMT -1
Bodies in my garden
My actual trade is an aircraft instrument maker, so when I dug up some copper bellows in my back garden I recognised that they were from an aircraft altimeter. I used to live on the Kent Surrey border in a place called New Addington. Which was only 2 miles from a place called Biggin Hill? This was the home of a battle of Britian airfield. So as you can imagine it was a very busy place in the Second World War. So I took the bits and pieces up to the Biggin Hill aircraft museum. They said that they would do some investigations into it and let me know what they find out. Well 6 months passed and I had given up hope of ever hearing anything else about it. One day the phone rang and it was Mr XXXX from the museum, he sounded very excited and wanted to come down to meet me and have a look at the site, that by now I had filled in and landscaped over. Anyway he turned up. It turned out to be a Fokker Triplane; He even showed me a picture of one. He told me the registration markings from the plane, and the date that it had been shot down on. He then went on to say that because of the speed that the aircraft had hit the ground, what they had done in the war was cut the fuselage away, and just filled in the hole. This was the shocker, he then said that the crew of 3 were still in the plane, and that the museum was very interested in excavating the site, and that they would re landscape the garden. I refused as I felt that things are sometimes better left alone. I moved soon after this to Wales.
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Nov 29, 2009 14:48:46 GMT -1
O no it’s a dead body
The wife an I went fishing one night to Shoreham harbour, we had set up on the beach, it was a lovely still evening, very calm, and we were getting bites straight away, mainly from flatties. When out of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like a hand sticking up out of the water. O my god it’s a dead body. The hand was blueish, as it would be if it had been in the water for any length of time, so one would imagine anyway. I couldn’t reach it, it was just too far out, the wife kept saying lets call the police, she kept saying it. And for once I stood my ground and insisted that we would call them in a minute when we get the body out of the water, by now she was half a mile up the beach. The current very slowly moved it more inshore, closer and closer it came, until at last I could reach it with the tip of my rod. I tried to ease it towards me, it moved towards me, I could almost reach it now, Very slowly it came towards me. I put my rod back on the beach and waded out I could now reach it, as I got hold of it there was no weight to it, I lifted the blue marigold glove out of the water. Air had been trapped inside of the glove making it float in a very menacing way; we often have a laugh about that to this day. After that episode we had a very good nights fishing. And no we didn't catch a soul sole.
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Post by THURSOMAN on Nov 29, 2009 15:59:36 GMT -1
;D You kept me in suspense for a minute there Steve! YOUR WIFE GOES FISHING WITH YOU!!!!!
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Nov 29, 2009 16:35:55 GMT -1
On the night it had us going for quite a while, I guess the time frame for this event was over about an hour, what I didn't say was that it was a foggy night and the fog horn was also going off. All adding to the atmosphere.
Chris I can set up 2 identical rods with the same rigs on, same baits. Cast both rods out. I would then say OK you watch that one, and I'll watch this one. And I can guarantee you she will out fish me every time.
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Post by caveman on Nov 29, 2009 17:15:29 GMT -1
Im married to a alien for sure !
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Post by izzetafox on Dec 1, 2009 5:23:23 GMT -1
Talking of dead bodies......... The canal in Leicester has always been a popular place for suicides during my police days you could be sure you would get a couple a year. Not too bad if they had only been in a couple of days but........a week or more and you needed a strong stomach. The only way was a grappling hook in the centre of the chest to pull the body out in one piece unless you had a sprog on shift..... 'Go on lad just grab the arm and pull. ' Sure enough the arm would come away and a 19yr old kid would be spewing in the hedge in no time. Sick people some coppers. I remember one in the canal one hot summer night, the last thing I wanted was THAT smell! Now it just so happened that it was only about 50yds upstream from our divisional boundary...lol A few gentle prods with a stick and an anonymous phone call and that gave me an hours entertainment from the dark area under nearby trees as two of their guys got rid of their dinner as they hauled it in. Sorry to bore you but just one more.....me and a crew mate got sent to a tower block for a smell of gas !! Now as most will know they don't put gas up tower blocks so that call only meant one thing.....a stiff. Well first job was to call up the new policewoman on shift...too good to miss lol. When she got there we kicked the door in and the smell was overpowering. There was about a months worth of mail so we knew it would be a good 'un. Well we found the body in the bedroom along with a million bluebottles......as you pulled the bedsheets back the flesh was rippling with the maggots and they started to spill out. Well I saw a chance, I called to the PW' Quick check the kitchen for some tupperware.' She said: ' Why? Is there some evidence?' I said: ' No!!! But I am not going to let all those maggots go to waste they will be great for fishing ?' Sure enough a technicolour yawn all over the bedroom carpet. Don't ya just luv it? ? The crazy thing is we had to call a doctor to establish if the body was dead "!!!!!! We were not qualified !!!!!
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Post by SEAJUNKY on Dec 1, 2009 5:59:37 GMT -1
There is no way I could have done your job mate. No way. But as you said the maggots, or would they have been gozzers? would have been handy.
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Post by kerny on Dec 1, 2009 13:22:36 GMT -1
Poor PW
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