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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Schad

    Schad Well-Known Member

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    Unless the thief is holding up their driver's license beside their face, while chanting "I am committing a crime, this is an illegal thing I am doing!" they sadly will probably remain unmoved.
     
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  2. Saints_Alive

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    That reminds me of the time when I was lodging in the house of the brother of my brother in law. I had all of my electrical possessions taken (they cut through live wires with a knife!) while i was out one night. Now I knew straight away what had happened, the other brother of my brother in law who was a known junkie obviously found out that i was out and possibly in collusion with the landlord or maybe he innocently passed on that i was not in the house, he was out too.
    It was an opportunistic crime and I reported it to the police and gave them the name of who I knew it was, the reply was "oh we know him well, he's just a user and not much chance of getting your stuff back" and left it at that. Well how the **** do they think that he managed to feed his habit? by illegal means obviously. I was so frustrated by their attitude, they knew the bloke well and was an obvious suspect, it was just like they couldn't be bothered with a few electrical items.
     
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  3. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Video of my car being nicked. If you’re a car geek, you’ll note they use an Alfa Stelvio as the lead vehicle, which either means there was a run on alfas that night, or they fooled my car into accepting the Stelvio key frequency. Either way, ****s.

    https://video.nest.com/clip/f95615b914064127861288bd8ee29ee8.mp4
     
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  4. thereisonlyoneno7

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    So brazen!

    At 4:30am it is getting light and then they shoot off at speed to wake everyone up.

    I hope you get who did it. And you didn’t leave anything too valuable in the car.


    FWIW, you don’t have your keys near your door? We leave ours in a box now that blocks signals so they can’t use a relay to steal the cars. The only downside is when we can’t find the keys, it also blocks th AirTag signal…though if the AirTag is unavailable we know where the keys are…
     
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  5. Le Tissier's Laces

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    No, nothing valuable in there. Keys are kept at the back of the house for that reason, and the car was parked about four doors down, so wasn’t done like that.
     
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  6. StJabbo1

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    Government says it will comply with the high court ruling and hand over all documents to the Covid inquiry. Another wedge spaffed up the Boris wall.
     
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  7. Onionman

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    I said I'd find a graph of NHS stats.

    There are a bundle in here, an article from the House of Commons Library.

    e.g.

    upload_2023-7-6_17-15-52.png

    and

    upload_2023-7-6_17-15-7.png

    Remember, when you're looking at the graphs, that Covid-19 struck in early 2020. Many of the indicators showed trouble long before Covid hit.

    I stress again that I can't see why the NHS (according to the narrative of those in the government begging for private health care to take over) suddenly became inefficient in the years from 2010 to 2020.

    Plenty of other graphs in here including a surprising one on doctor numbers

    https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7281/

    Vin
     
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  9. Osvaldorama

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    I find this cocaine in the White House story interesting.

    Can pretty much guarantee two things:

    1) that it was Biden’s son
    2) There will be no consequences whatsoever
     
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    Bit like when they found it at Chequers.
     
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  11. Schad

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    Ah, yes, preemptively getting outraged that someone has not faced consequences for a thing that no one knows whether they did.
     
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  12. Schad

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    As an amusing (?) follow-up: I went to get groceries this evening. When I got to the door to leave, I was greeted with a whole bunch of police cruisers (I counted at least four cars and six cops) blocking off a section of the parking lot, emergency lights on. Asked an employee who was watching the scene what was going on, and it was a shoplifter. See, it wasn't enough to send one cop; it required half the detachment to block the minivan in (and a number of other cars) lest they initiate a high-speed chase or something? And even though they had arrested the person, they had to keep that section of the parking lot blocked off because...reasons.

    Seems that the type of policing that they like to do is the sort that i) requires very little effort, ii) allows them to strut around, and iii) allows them to use the fun flashy things on the top of the car. Crimes that require investigation are far less fun.
     
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    Had nosebag Gove been there at the time?
     
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    Or in Westminster.
     
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    It’s sad though. Both LTL’s crime and the White House cocaine thing are more examples of a failing society. I really hate how corrupt the western regime has become. Politicians across the west have less accountability to the public and the law than in even some authoritarian dictatorships. This leads to more crime in the general population as they see there is no justice served.

    We are “led” by psychopaths that have zero accountability, propagate lies, want to restrict free speech and subjugate people’s physical & financial freedom.

    I also think that the massive need for reform goes further than just the NHS - the entire West/G7 is in huge, huge decline. We have taken for granted that the UK is a stable, safe, well-run nation for a long time… and it just isn’t anymore. It is now a country where crime is becoming accepted even by the police. This is a downward slope. Things are getting worse & worse.

    Same across Europe. I read in the FT that the German central bank is going to need a bailout soon according to the Financial Times. This would have been absolutely unthinkable a couple of decades ago. Now it’s just accepted and normalised that the leading European nation is run so poorly that they can’t pay their debt.
     
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  19. StJabbo1

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    Loads of police time could be saved by drugs law reform. But no, recent home office directives stopping on site testing at festivals to avoid harm to users is indicative of backwards steps this government is taking. Decriminalisation of cannabis in numerous countries worldwide have been a positive move one that should be implemented in the UK.

    Recreational drugs users here can take their disco biscuits anonymously for testing before use. Coffee shops takes criminality out of buying weed or hash although how it get to the shops in bulk is an anomaly being addressed. Not that it effects us in any way our house is called Dunravin.
     
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  20. Schad

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    It is 1974. Until he resigns in August, the American president is an out-of-control alcoholic and criminal whose Secretary of Defense has (illegally, I might add) directed that no use of nuclear weapons is to occur without his agreement, as he was afraid that a drunken and depressed Nixon would order them fired. The recently-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom holds a tenuous grip on the job, with a hung parliament and a second election of the year looking likely. The German chancellor, scandal-ridden and drowning in booze, has just resigned in disgrace. The Greeks and Turks are on the verge of war after the coup and invasion of Cyprus. A bomb is detonated in Westminster Hall, and several large car bombs rip through Ireland as the Troubles reaches its zenith. Italian neo-fascists bomb a train, killing dozens; other terror attacks perpetrated by Japanese communists, Palestinian militants, Puerto Rican nationalists, soon follow. Inflation rages unchecked, as it has for several years, in part a ripple effect from the oil crisis that consumes the first few months of the year.

    But this isn't western civilization in huge decline. No, that'll have to wait 50 years, for some dipshit to leave a gram of blow in the White House.
     
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