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jackie 46- Number of posts : 4999
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I'm keeping an eye on the news about Hurricane Gustav. One of ma online besties lives in Louisiana. She's stocked up on food etc, and ready to wait it out. She's not right in New Orleans but they'll still get it bad where she is.
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It's starting to look that way. The whole thing is just awfully grim isn't it..
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CCTV caught gun-toting dad torching mansion
MANSION massacre dad Christopher Foster went on the rampage rather than face bailiffs coming to repossess his six-acre spread.
Foster — whose breakdown was filmed by his own security cameras — hid his financial plight from his wife for a year.
A source revealed: “In the end his state of mind must have been, ‘If I can’t have all this nobody will’.
“He adored his wife and daughter so he must have been in a terrible mental state to do what he did.”
The source added: “A villager who had kept a horse there for years was told out of the blue days before the fire that she’d have to move it. Chris was preparing the ground for what he was going to do.”
Police have recovered CCTV footage showing Foster, carrying a rifle, leaving a burning stable block after shooting dead three horses.
He is then seen running to the main house where wife Jill, 49, and 15-year-old daughter Kirstie were already dead.
Kirstie's body – the last to have been found – has now been removed from the ruins of the mansion.
A pathologist will carry out a postmortem examination on its remains this afternoon.
Crazed Foster, 50, killed the family’s four dogs before turning the rifle on himself as the house burned around him.
Yesterday, detectives showed the grainy footage to an elderly relative for identification.
Film from other cameras will also be studied but much was destroyed in the inferno.
Foster had lived a lie for a year, carrying on spending despite liquidators winding up his pipe insulation company. But the game was up when he learned he was to be served last Tuesday with papers to repossess £1.2million Osbaston House in Maesbrook, Shrops.
On the Monday he got drunk at a neighbour’s party and may have told Jill the truth on their return.
Yesterday well-wishers laid flowers at the gates.
A tribute to Kirstie read: “School will never be the same without you.”
Jill’s body was identified on Sunday.
Near her were a .22 rifle and a man’s body, yet to be formally identified as her husband.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1635674.ece
Foster — whose breakdown was filmed by his own security cameras — hid his financial plight from his wife for a year.
A source revealed: “In the end his state of mind must have been, ‘If I can’t have all this nobody will’.
“He adored his wife and daughter so he must have been in a terrible mental state to do what he did.”
The source added: “A villager who had kept a horse there for years was told out of the blue days before the fire that she’d have to move it. Chris was preparing the ground for what he was going to do.”
Police have recovered CCTV footage showing Foster, carrying a rifle, leaving a burning stable block after shooting dead three horses.
He is then seen running to the main house where wife Jill, 49, and 15-year-old daughter Kirstie were already dead.
Kirstie's body – the last to have been found – has now been removed from the ruins of the mansion.
A pathologist will carry out a postmortem examination on its remains this afternoon.
Crazed Foster, 50, killed the family’s four dogs before turning the rifle on himself as the house burned around him.
Yesterday, detectives showed the grainy footage to an elderly relative for identification.
Film from other cameras will also be studied but much was destroyed in the inferno.
Foster had lived a lie for a year, carrying on spending despite liquidators winding up his pipe insulation company. But the game was up when he learned he was to be served last Tuesday with papers to repossess £1.2million Osbaston House in Maesbrook, Shrops.
On the Monday he got drunk at a neighbour’s party and may have told Jill the truth on their return.
Yesterday well-wishers laid flowers at the gates.
A tribute to Kirstie read: “School will never be the same without you.”
Jill’s body was identified on Sunday.
Near her were a .22 rifle and a man’s body, yet to be formally identified as her husband.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1635674.ece
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Carlsberg don't do family slaughters ... But Fosters do.
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This is one of the best news stories I've read .. (It's an old one but a good one still)...
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This is one of the best news stories I've read .. (It's an old one but a good one still)...
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I got invited to a BBQ in Shropshire, plenty of charred meat, but all the Fosters was gone.Linda wrote:Carlsberg don't do family slaughters ... But Fosters do.
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This is one of the best news stories I've read .. (It's an old one but a good one still)...
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Dave Mercury wrote:I got invited to a BBQ in Shropshire, plenty of charred meat, but all the Fosters was gone.Linda wrote:Carlsberg don't do family slaughters ... But Fosters do.
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This is one of the best news stories I've read .. (It's an old one but a good one still)...
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jackie 46- Number of posts : 4999
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Whats this, a news thread?
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LMAO Sam.. the title is pretty self-explanatory..
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999 Nuisance Calls
Some of the stories you read about, are they off their nut?
A woman dialled 999 because a rabbit she bought via a newspaper advert did not have floppy ears, Central Scotland Police have said.
And one call was from a woman splashed by a car which drove through a puddle.
Some of the stories you read about, are they off their nut?
A woman dialled 999 because a rabbit she bought via a newspaper advert did not have floppy ears, Central Scotland Police have said.
And one call was from a woman splashed by a car which drove through a puddle.
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Here are some actual 999 calls:
Police: "Police emergency"
Caller: "Hi. I'm next to the M32, city centre... there's an M32 city centre sign. Can you inform Animal Rescue that there's a grey squirrel with no hazelnut trees please."
Police: "There's a grey squirrel with no hazelnut trees?"
Caller: "Yeah. Animal rescue – can you inform the...?"
Police: "And you're phoning on 999 for that are you?"
Caller: "Actually yeah, 'cause his life is in danger. It's rare... it's a grey squirrel. It's a rare... it's a rare species."
Police: "Grey squirrels are not rare, it's the red squirrels that are rare."
Caller: "Well actually I'm not trying to be funny but its half and half... grey squirrels are definitely the rare ones.... It might be a cross breed, oh my god, its even rarer."
Police: "Ok, thanks for your call."
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Communications operator: "Police Can I help you?"
Caller: "Yeah this is... I've been tired, stopped policeman, rung you up... I beat-up one of your coppers last year and I can't get health insurance because of it. Now I know it's over a year and I've been very polite and I've tried to ring the court ...I've... waved down a policeman today..."
Communications operator: "Right, Madam is this an emergency 999 call?"
Caller: "Yes! I would like to talk to the sergeant at Bath Prison - Nick"
Communications operator: "Yes, Madam this is not an emergency call"
Caller: "Yes it is!"
Communications operator: "Well I'm afraid you'll have to ring on the normal number which is..."
Caller: "What 999? I've just done that..."
Communications operator: "That is the emergency number for life and death and emergencies..."
Caller: "How do you know I... !!!!! they been !!!!! all day"
Communications operator: "Right, let me just warn you now that if you swear at me again..."
Caller: "You'll put the phone down on me and I can die..."
Communications operator: "What is the problem right now?"
Caller: "I'm in agony and I've took all the painkillers I can... and nobody cares..."
Communications operator: "Well, have you rang your doctor?"
Caller: "(Sigh!) You ring your doctor they put you through to the NHS and then you get..."
Communications operator: "Right, so tell me something if you've got a medical problem why are you calling the police?"
Caller: "Because I would like to go to sleep and I don't want to take Zopiclone because they give you a bloody hangover..."
Communications operator: "Yeah, but..."
Caller: "I don't want to drink. I've been dry over a year. I'm celebrating but I actually ripped my back yesterday and I might have ME..."
Communications operator: "Right, Madam it's five minutes to four in the morning..."
Caller: "I know what time it is..."
Communications operator: "Right, so why?..."
Caller: "I'm just trying to get some help!"
Communications operator: "Alright, I'm sorry..."
Caller: "My doctor's told me I'm anaemic I've got to take more valium..."
Communications operator: "Alright, I'm cutting you off."
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Communications operator: "Hello... what's the emergency?"
Caller: "My emergency is that I've come to pick up my money at the Portland Square Social Security office."
Communications operator: "Yes."
Caller: "Nobody wants to pay me up and I must have payment cos they gave me a book last week. The post office took the book off of me."
Communications operator: "Right... I'm afraid that's not a police matter sir you're going to have to sort it out with the people that are doing the payments or the post office."
Caller: "When I came into the office this morning there were two policemen there, they didn't even stop to find out what was going on they've gone about their business and I can't live without payment mate."
Communications operator: "Yes... I appreciate that but it's not a police..."
Caller: "Well if you appreciate that then send ..."
Communications operator: "No I'm sorry... if you are insistent upon seeing a policeman you'll have to go into your local station... Okay? We're not attending to come and see you about a dispute over whether or not you are entitled to civic..."
Caller: "Thank you very much."
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Communications operator: "Thank you, hello, you're through to the police..."
Caller: "With very sore feet. Could you put me through to Southmead Police Station please?"
Communications operator: "I can't..."
Caller: "I'm very angry..."
Communications operator: "But listen sir you dialled 999 you need to tell me what your emergency is."
Caller: "There's no emergency except that there are no buses in Crow Lane..."
Communications operator: "Are you phoning 999 to report there are no buses in Crow Lane?"
Caller: "Exactly. Exactly. Because the police are doing bugger all about this. All this aggro that's going on. I'm a visitor here."
Communications operator: "Excuse me sir I can't take a complaint about no bus services on 999..."
Caller: "Well would you put me through to Southmead Police Station?"
Communications operator: "I will give you the correct number for you to dial sir."
Caller: "That's lovely."
Communications operator: "Unfortunately I cannot transfer on this terminal I'm on."
Caller: "No but that's fine you give me the number."
Communications operator: "The recorded message is coming up now sir... okay?"
Caller: "Thank you."
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Police: "Police Emergency."
Caller: "Hello Sir, it's not an emergency I'm stuck on something for college my love and if I don't get this right I might not pass my exams my darling."
Police: "Hang on a minute, You are on an emergency line, you realise that don't you?"
Caller: "I know but..."
Police: "You want me to help you with your college homework?"
Caller: "No not college homework, my love, it's a questionnaire form."
Police: "What sort of questionnaire?
Caller: "I want to know what year the internet first came out I can't remember."
Police: "What year the internet came out on?"
Caller: "Yes please sir"
Caller: "Yes I'm doing something for my slimming and my dietician helps me loose weight."
Police: "What year the internet was formed!?!"
Caller: "Yes please sir"
Police: "I'm sorry I can't answer your question. We are very very busy tonight"
Caller: "You couldn't tell me a rough guess could please my darling?"
Police: "No, there are other ways of finding out, your local library, asking a friend. 999 calls are purely for emergency calls only."
Caller: "I knows that my darling."
Police: "Please don't call us on something like this again."
Caller: "You couldn't tell me roughly what year?"
Police: "I can not tell you, I have to take other 999 calls so I am going to terminate the call."
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Communications operator: "Police Emergency..."
Caller: "Hello... I know this is gonna sound stupid but a pigeon's been run over... and I've got no money to phone the RSPCA or anything..."
Communications operator: "Right... so you're ringing police emergency line..."
Caller: "Well, I've just been told..."
Communications operator: "...which is for life and death about a pigeon which has been run over?"
Caller: "Well, I've just been told to phone you by the operator..."
Communications operator: "Right... Madam I'm going to put you on another line which will give you a number to call. I'm not prepared to deal with your enquiry on this line... just one moment..."
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Communications operator: "Hello police"
Caller: "My wife's left me two salmon sandwiches which was left over from last night... and I'm a sat in the chair here and she's out there decorating. She won't put any food on or anything for anybody, I don't know what...."
Communications operator: "I'm sorry but I really can't take this. It's not an emergency because your wife won't give you anything to eat."
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Communications operator: "Thank you go ahead please..."
Caller: "Hello..."
Communications operator: "What's the emergency please?"
Caller: "The emergency is... I am at Lockleaze... and I would like to get home..."
Communications operator: "We're not a taxi service sir..."
Caller: "I know, I know, I know, but I am in a bit of a mess in so far as I cannot get a..."
Police: "Police emergency"
Caller: "Hi. I'm next to the M32, city centre... there's an M32 city centre sign. Can you inform Animal Rescue that there's a grey squirrel with no hazelnut trees please."
Police: "There's a grey squirrel with no hazelnut trees?"
Caller: "Yeah. Animal rescue – can you inform the...?"
Police: "And you're phoning on 999 for that are you?"
Caller: "Actually yeah, 'cause his life is in danger. It's rare... it's a grey squirrel. It's a rare... it's a rare species."
Police: "Grey squirrels are not rare, it's the red squirrels that are rare."
Caller: "Well actually I'm not trying to be funny but its half and half... grey squirrels are definitely the rare ones.... It might be a cross breed, oh my god, its even rarer."
Police: "Ok, thanks for your call."
******************************
Communications operator: "Police Can I help you?"
Caller: "Yeah this is... I've been tired, stopped policeman, rung you up... I beat-up one of your coppers last year and I can't get health insurance because of it. Now I know it's over a year and I've been very polite and I've tried to ring the court ...I've... waved down a policeman today..."
Communications operator: "Right, Madam is this an emergency 999 call?"
Caller: "Yes! I would like to talk to the sergeant at Bath Prison - Nick"
Communications operator: "Yes, Madam this is not an emergency call"
Caller: "Yes it is!"
Communications operator: "Well I'm afraid you'll have to ring on the normal number which is..."
Caller: "What 999? I've just done that..."
Communications operator: "That is the emergency number for life and death and emergencies..."
Caller: "How do you know I... !!!!! they been !!!!! all day"
Communications operator: "Right, let me just warn you now that if you swear at me again..."
Caller: "You'll put the phone down on me and I can die..."
Communications operator: "What is the problem right now?"
Caller: "I'm in agony and I've took all the painkillers I can... and nobody cares..."
Communications operator: "Well, have you rang your doctor?"
Caller: "(Sigh!) You ring your doctor they put you through to the NHS and then you get..."
Communications operator: "Right, so tell me something if you've got a medical problem why are you calling the police?"
Caller: "Because I would like to go to sleep and I don't want to take Zopiclone because they give you a bloody hangover..."
Communications operator: "Yeah, but..."
Caller: "I don't want to drink. I've been dry over a year. I'm celebrating but I actually ripped my back yesterday and I might have ME..."
Communications operator: "Right, Madam it's five minutes to four in the morning..."
Caller: "I know what time it is..."
Communications operator: "Right, so why?..."
Caller: "I'm just trying to get some help!"
Communications operator: "Alright, I'm sorry..."
Caller: "My doctor's told me I'm anaemic I've got to take more valium..."
Communications operator: "Alright, I'm cutting you off."
******************************
Communications operator: "Hello... what's the emergency?"
Caller: "My emergency is that I've come to pick up my money at the Portland Square Social Security office."
Communications operator: "Yes."
Caller: "Nobody wants to pay me up and I must have payment cos they gave me a book last week. The post office took the book off of me."
Communications operator: "Right... I'm afraid that's not a police matter sir you're going to have to sort it out with the people that are doing the payments or the post office."
Caller: "When I came into the office this morning there were two policemen there, they didn't even stop to find out what was going on they've gone about their business and I can't live without payment mate."
Communications operator: "Yes... I appreciate that but it's not a police..."
Caller: "Well if you appreciate that then send ..."
Communications operator: "No I'm sorry... if you are insistent upon seeing a policeman you'll have to go into your local station... Okay? We're not attending to come and see you about a dispute over whether or not you are entitled to civic..."
Caller: "Thank you very much."
******************************
Communications operator: "Thank you, hello, you're through to the police..."
Caller: "With very sore feet. Could you put me through to Southmead Police Station please?"
Communications operator: "I can't..."
Caller: "I'm very angry..."
Communications operator: "But listen sir you dialled 999 you need to tell me what your emergency is."
Caller: "There's no emergency except that there are no buses in Crow Lane..."
Communications operator: "Are you phoning 999 to report there are no buses in Crow Lane?"
Caller: "Exactly. Exactly. Because the police are doing bugger all about this. All this aggro that's going on. I'm a visitor here."
Communications operator: "Excuse me sir I can't take a complaint about no bus services on 999..."
Caller: "Well would you put me through to Southmead Police Station?"
Communications operator: "I will give you the correct number for you to dial sir."
Caller: "That's lovely."
Communications operator: "Unfortunately I cannot transfer on this terminal I'm on."
Caller: "No but that's fine you give me the number."
Communications operator: "The recorded message is coming up now sir... okay?"
Caller: "Thank you."
******************************
Police: "Police Emergency."
Caller: "Hello Sir, it's not an emergency I'm stuck on something for college my love and if I don't get this right I might not pass my exams my darling."
Police: "Hang on a minute, You are on an emergency line, you realise that don't you?"
Caller: "I know but..."
Police: "You want me to help you with your college homework?"
Caller: "No not college homework, my love, it's a questionnaire form."
Police: "What sort of questionnaire?
Caller: "I want to know what year the internet first came out I can't remember."
Police: "What year the internet came out on?"
Caller: "Yes please sir"
Caller: "Yes I'm doing something for my slimming and my dietician helps me loose weight."
Police: "What year the internet was formed!?!"
Caller: "Yes please sir"
Police: "I'm sorry I can't answer your question. We are very very busy tonight"
Caller: "You couldn't tell me a rough guess could please my darling?"
Police: "No, there are other ways of finding out, your local library, asking a friend. 999 calls are purely for emergency calls only."
Caller: "I knows that my darling."
Police: "Please don't call us on something like this again."
Caller: "You couldn't tell me roughly what year?"
Police: "I can not tell you, I have to take other 999 calls so I am going to terminate the call."
******************************
Communications operator: "Police Emergency..."
Caller: "Hello... I know this is gonna sound stupid but a pigeon's been run over... and I've got no money to phone the RSPCA or anything..."
Communications operator: "Right... so you're ringing police emergency line..."
Caller: "Well, I've just been told..."
Communications operator: "...which is for life and death about a pigeon which has been run over?"
Caller: "Well, I've just been told to phone you by the operator..."
Communications operator: "Right... Madam I'm going to put you on another line which will give you a number to call. I'm not prepared to deal with your enquiry on this line... just one moment..."
******************************
Communications operator: "Hello police"
Caller: "My wife's left me two salmon sandwiches which was left over from last night... and I'm a sat in the chair here and she's out there decorating. She won't put any food on or anything for anybody, I don't know what...."
Communications operator: "I'm sorry but I really can't take this. It's not an emergency because your wife won't give you anything to eat."
******************************
Communications operator: "Thank you go ahead please..."
Caller: "Hello..."
Communications operator: "What's the emergency please?"
Caller: "The emergency is... I am at Lockleaze... and I would like to get home..."
Communications operator: "We're not a taxi service sir..."
Caller: "I know, I know, I know, but I am in a bit of a mess in so far as I cannot get a..."
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The former partner of Shannon Matthews' mother has been jailed for downloading images of child sex abuse. But he only received 20 weeks
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I hope someone is waiting for him with a baseball bat.Baz wrote:And he will be out within 10. How ridiculous!
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I'll volunteer to be that "someone".
I'd take great pleasure in kicking his fucking head in...
(sorry, that wasn't very ladylike was it?)
I'd take great pleasure in kicking his fucking head in...
(sorry, that wasn't very ladylike was it?)
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A Swiss man has become the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing.
Yves Rossy landed safely after the 22-mile (35.4 km) flight from Calais to Dover, which had been twice postponed this week because of bad weather.
The former military pilot took less than 10 minutes to complete the crossing and parachute to the ground.
The 49-year-old flew on a plane to more than 8,200ft (2,500m), ignited jets on a wing on his back, and jumped out.
Mr Rossy had hoped to reach speeds of 125mph.
It felt "great, really great", said Mr Rossy: "I only have one word, thank you, to all the people who did it with me."
He said weather conditions on Friday had been perfect and his success signalled "big potential" for people to fly "a little bit like a bird" in the future.
Known as "Fusionman," he was aiming to follow the route taken by French airman Louis Blériot 99 years ago when he became the first person to fly across the English Channel in a plane.
In Dover, Mr Rossy flew past South Foreland lighthouse - which the building's manager Simon Ovenden said Blériot used as a target during his pioneering flight - and looped onlookers before landing in a field.
"It's a remarkable achievement, we saw the climax of his attempt as he came down to earth with his parachute. It's been an exciting afternoon," said Geoff Clark, a 54-year-old spectator from Chatham, in Kent.
Mark Dale, the senior technical officer for the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, described Rossy's flight as a "fabulous stunt".
In an interview earlier this week, Mr Rossy said: "If I calculate everything right, I will land in Dover. But if I get it wrong, I take a bath."
The flight was broadcast live for the National Geographic Channel. Its producer, Kathryn Liptrott, told the BBC Mr Rossy was fearless.
"When we've talked to him and asked him are you worried about risk his quote consistently is: I'm not worried about risk, I manage risk.
"He flew Mirage fighters for the Swiss army, he now flies an Airbus. And in his sort of heart he's a pilot and a parachutist and what they do is manage risk."
The longest flight he had previously taken lasted 10 minutes.
The wing had no rudder or tail fin, so Mr Rossy had to steer it using his head and back.
As well as a helmet and parachute, he wore a special suit to protect him from the four kerosene-burning turbines mounted just centimetres from him on the wing.
Source and video.
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