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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 21:41:38 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 15, 2018 22:07:55 GMT
If I was 11 years old and ginger, I wouldn't want my photo plastered all over the BBC website.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 16:02:22 GMT
It all looks like a bit of fun but this sort of publicity will lead to magnet fishing being officially banned. It is already against the bye laws but careful and sensible people won't have any problems.
Once the plebs start dragging awkward items out it gets a bit irritating.
For example we have had situations where people pull large volumes of waste out and leave rusty old shite on the towpaths. Health and safety hazard. More people being encouraged to use the towpath? Child trips and falls onto rusty steel object by a bridge? Oops.
Ban time.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2018 16:04:48 GMT
Could we pull another narrowboat behind us with that magnet you gave us? You know, if we attached a length of string to it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 16:17:04 GMT
No. That magnet is specifically designed for quick recovery of magnetic things you have dropped or thrown in. Like windlasses, pins, hammers, keys, broken dreams and false teeth (the old magnetic type).
Strictly no towing and definitely no bombs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 12:01:52 GMT
I dont get this latest trend, seen a bloke doing it the other day, not in a bridge hole or lock landing, but at Stoke Golding, on the sharp bend next to the road, what the fuck was he hoping to find..
They deserve to get blown to bits.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 14:02:24 GMT
Russians trying to recover the Uzi used in the KGB Dadlington Assassination.
Or possibly someone thinks they might find some cannon balls from the old Bosworth skirmish.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 14:32:14 GMT
Or just idiots.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 17, 2018 16:09:23 GMT
I dont get this latest trend, seen a bloke doing it the other day, not in a bridge hole or lock landing, but at Stoke Golding, on the sharp bend next to the road, what the fuck was he hoping to find.. I really don't know - anything from down there is going to be some old rusty shit. Sainsbury's trolleys I imagine. Although Magnetman claims he has pulled up many windlasses worth Millions on Ebay. Now that we have a MAGNET, I would like to have a bit of a dip here and there. If I find a UXB I'll leave it on the next boat that isn't displaying a current licence. Hello, Daniel!
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Post by faffer on Aug 17, 2018 16:25:52 GMT
I reckon he is a bright kid knowing what he fished out and it being a `mortar shell`
most kids, well a lot of kids now dont even know the basic things in life like what a bogey is or cassette tape lol
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 17, 2018 16:39:34 GMT
I showed the girl in the Alko (alcohol) shop after work today the picture I took of the Novichok Bristol Vodka and asked if they had any. She said she doesn't know that one, but could order some in. I said "Don't you watch the news?". Apparently not. And they say Finns are 'highly educated'. Bunch of thickies if you ask me.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 17, 2018 18:31:35 GMT
I reckon he is a bright kid knowing what he fished out and it being a `mortar shell` most kids, well a lot of kids now dont even know the basic things in life like what a bogey is or cassette tape lol I suppose I ought to 'fess up .............. when I was 8 or 9 I got into trouble for bringing home a Piat shell (British version of a Bazooka) that I found in rough ground in Weald Park. A group of us used to go and play war games there round the remains of a shot to pieces tank. We kept finding 303 ammo (and occasional 50mm) but that was the only bit of large ordinance we found. Shortly after I went there and was stopped by a cordon as bomb disposal were clearing the area. They didn't half find a lot of unexploded munitions around including a couple of antitank mines plus quite a few more piat shells. It had apparently been a training area before D day and had been forgotten and not cleared up after the war (this would have been 1952/3) It was good fun sitting up on the top of the hill watching them blow all the stuff up (no carting it off to a range for disposal in those days)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 18:36:58 GMT
In 1987 when we moved to Surrey I found some .22 bullets in the garage of the house we bought. When I took them to my new school (aged 12) and distributed them around the fellow students the head teacher found out and took a very dim view of it. He thought they might go off from people playing with them. I really doubt that.
I was hauled up in front of him and he showed me one of the bullets he had acquired from another pupil. I had one in my pocket and luckily, being the observant type, I noticed that his bullet had a V on the cap and mine had a K. So I told him the one he had was not from my batch.
That shut him up !
Later I found a .45 bullet under a temporary building at the school but I told my mother and she confiscated it. I never got it back. Sadly.
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Post by patty on Aug 17, 2018 21:07:05 GMT
Later I found a .45 bullet under a temporary building at the school but I told my mother and she confiscated it. I never got it back. Sadly. yes us mums do stuff like that..I confiscated kung fu or similar fighting knives off one of my sons...he never got them back....they got destroyed
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 21:51:36 GMT
She was a good mum. I will never know what happened to the bullet. It was a real nice brass casing it had. I don't think she destroyed or threw it away. I suspect whoever bought the house found it somewhere random. It may have been put in the safe with the 17kg of gold which we later lost the key for.
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