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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 27 Jun 2010 16:21 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> typed >Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> gurgled happily, >sounding much like they were saying: > >> You find the oddest things in the side panels of Jag boots. A mate of >> mine discovered the cause of an intermittent rattle that had been >> bugging him - a couple of dozen 12-bore cartridges. He'd owned the car >> for a little while by that point and drove it around in his bike jacket >> with longish hair and beard on. Just the thing to get pulled in, really. >> "I didn't know they were there." >> "Yeah, right." > >I wonder... > >Hit a pothole a bit quick, and one gets bounced onto a screw thread or >something in just the wrong way... Very unlikely. Shotgun cartridges need a quite accurate, hard thump in the right place to do their thing. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Catman on 27 Jun 2010 16:56 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> > saying something like: > >> I have, in the garage, an old Jag toolkit that I liberated from the >> boot of my old XJ6. > > You find the oddest things in the side panels of Jag boots. A mate of > mine discovered the cause of an intermittent rattle that had been > bugging him - a couple of dozen 12-bore cartridges. He'd owned the car > for a little while by that point and drove it around in his bike jacket > with longish hair and beard on. Just the thing to get pulled in, really. > "I didn't know they were there." > "Yeah, right." Strict liability offence? -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 27 Jun 2010 17:17 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Catman <catman(a)rustcuore-sportivo.co.uk> saying something like: >> You find the oddest things in the side panels of Jag boots. A mate of >> mine discovered the cause of an intermittent rattle that had been >> bugging him - a couple of dozen 12-bore cartridges. He'd owned the car >> for a little while by that point and drove it around in his bike jacket >> with longish hair and beard on. Just the thing to get pulled in, really. >> "I didn't know they were there." >> "Yeah, right." > >Strict liability offence? It is now, afaik, I don't know if it was then (1992). I suggested just giving them to a shooter, but he handed them in to the cop shop, and no eyebrows were raised.
From: SIRPip on 28 Jun 2010 06:10 sweller wrote: > SIRPip wrote: > > > Game on. I'll drag it out and when you're going to be out and > > about, we'll see about coinciding, or URin > > Great stuff. It could go in the post and I could send you some money > - saves faffing around. Hang on, I'll weigh it. <exits, time passes> <shuffling and rattling, backstage> <enters, triumphant> 2Kg, give or take. <exits to website> <rattling in wings> <enters, crest drooping slightly> ?4.41 for a standard parcel, up to 2Kg. ?7.06 if it goes over that - but it shouldn't as I'd do a sheet of brown paper and a bit of parcel tape, it's a substantial case. What do you think? -- SIRPip : B12
From: sweller on 28 Jun 2010 12:24
SIRPip wrote: > ?4.41 for a standard parcel, up to 2Kg. ?7.06 if it goes over that - > but it shouldn't as I'd do a sheet of brown paper and a bit of parcel > tape, it's a substantial case. > > What do you think? No problem at the heavier end - drop me an email at pipbringsjoy@ my posting name .co.uk to discuss finance. -- Simon |