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Easy-X
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 01 Feb 2020    Post subject: This'll cheer you up... Reply with quote
BBC News wrote:
Swindon catalytic converter thief was found dead under car


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-51326361
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PostPosted: 00:47 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pleased Pepperami is pleased Thumbs Up

I hope it took a long time for him to die.
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PostPosted: 01:03 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperami wrote:
Pleased Pepperami is pleased Thumbs Up

I hope it took a long time for him to die.


Coroner said he died of exhaustion.

Did I leave a jacket in here? Embarassed
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PostPosted: 09:20 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm a bit surprised the garage aren't in trouble for leaving a car where it might fall on innocent lovely lad who only wanted to look at how the exhaust was mounted so he could fix a car used by orphans to go on their one day out each year.
That may come later.
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
MCN wrote:
Coroner said he died of exhaustion.


That one left me feeling flat.
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PostPosted: 10:10 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thiefs name is not Jack.
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PostPosted: 11:30 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's nice little stories like that and the sadness exuded by BCF patrons that make me so happy to be a member of this little community.
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dying for Vauxhall Astra catalytic converter, what a sad end of life.
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Mr Gray lived in Swindon, Wiltshire, working as a mechanic.

Why someone who has a certain job(not job-less) tries to steal such a parts. I was always wondering if such parts or bike thieves were job-less or young guys wearing hoodies.
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PostPosted: 14:34 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
kawashima wrote:
Dying for Vauxhall Astra catalytic converter, what a sad end of life.
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Mr Gray lived in Swindon, Wiltshire, working as a mechanic.

Why someone who has a certain job(not job-less) tries to steal such a parts. I was always wondering if such parts or bike thieves were job-less or young guys wearing hoodies.


He wouldn't have been working. Why risk a reasonably well paying job for a few quid you would get from a scrappy for a cat. Idiot.

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PostPosted: 14:58 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
kawashima wrote:
Dying for Vauxhall Astra catalytic converter, what a sad end of life.


Don't be sad, the planet's a better place now.
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PostPosted: 15:24 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
kawashima wrote:
Dying for Vauxhall Astra catalytic converter, what a sad end of life.


Don't be sad, the planet's a better place now.

True. It's rather pathetic. He was a mechanic and yet didn't know how to jack a car properly. Feel sorry for Astra owner. He didn't lose converter but must be so uncomfortable.
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hello? Admiral? I like to get insurance for my Astra.

"Yes, sir, let ask some questions about the car. Does it have any anti-theft devices?"

Well I did get a curse laid on it by an old gypsy lady and it seems to be working so far...
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PostPosted: 22:31 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just had a flash back..
Mates old garage had a car in for repair - it had hit someone (they'd stepped into the road) and came in for repairs. I'd visited to bag a free coffee and went to look at the car. I spotted something weird hooked into a plastic undertray and pulled it out - was one of the pedestrians fingers that had become detached in the collision!
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PostPosted: 23:49 - 02 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sister Sledge wrote:
Just had a flash back..
Mates old garage had a car in for repair - it had hit someone (they'd stepped into the road) and came in for repairs. I'd visited to bag a free coffee and went to look at the car. I spotted something weird hooked into a plastic undertray and pulled it out - was one of the pedestrians fingers that had become detached in the collision!


You can't just leave it there.
What happened next?
Did you get a KitKat with your coffee.
Was the undertray damaged at all?
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PostPosted: 08:51 - 03 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Police called etc. Don't panic.
Was just one of those things where following the collision it was hauled to the garage for the necessary repairs. The pedestrian hadn't died, just lots of broken bones and a missing finger lol.
I was told that it was an initial impact with the pedestrian going under and not over the car.
Investigators had missed the finger at the crash scene and by the time my friends garage got the car, the finger didn't look like a finger at all. Was grey/white but still had the nail on it.
I washed my hands thoroughly.

Edit: Coffee was gross but visits to friends garage were more for the banter anyway. KitKat? Not likely!
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PostPosted: 10:34 - 03 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
^^^ Kentucky fried rat, finger licking good ^^^
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PostPosted: 14:46 - 03 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sister Sledge wrote:
Just had a flash back..
Mates old garage had a car in for repair - it had hit someone (they'd stepped into the road) and came in for repairs. I'd visited to bag a free coffee and went to look at the car. I spotted something weird hooked into a plastic undertray and pulled it out - was one of the pedestrians fingers that had become detached in the collision!


I used to work with a chap who used to steam clean the undersides of trains when they went in for major service at BR Derby. He used to get £250 compo everytime he found a body part & the wafty cranker used to stockpile them for use later . . .
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 03 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
In b4 the suing occurs...
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 03 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sometimes i log into BCF and my day is made - today appears to be one of 'those' days Thumbs Up Mr. Green Cool Very Happy
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PostPosted: 08:20 - 06 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sister Sledge wrote:
Police called etc. Don't panic.
Was just one of those things where following the collision it was hauled to the garage for the necessary repairs. The pedestrian hadn't died, just lots of broken bones and a missing finger lol.
I was told that it was an initial impact with the pedestrian going under and not over the car.
Investigators had missed the finger at the crash scene and by the time my friends garage got the car, the finger didn't look like a finger at all. Was grey/white but still had the nail on it.
I washed my hands thoroughly.

Edit: Coffee was gross but visits to friends garage were more for the banter anyway. KitKat? Not likely!


Any micro-surgeon-ist worth his/her salt could have re-attached that finger. If pointed in the general direction.
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PostPosted: 08:45 - 06 Feb 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
At the time yes. The car had sat in a compound for several weeks before being released for repair at my friends garage.
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