Today I'm happy about......

[Bijou Bob]

Just walked into town and had a store detective chase and catch a shoplifter right in front of me. From Poundland. Tickled me.

[Gary the Enfield]

Just walked into town and had a store detective chase and catch a shoplifter right in front of me. From Poundland. Tickled me.

A store guard from Tescos near us chased after a woman who had stolen a bottle of Scotch. As he grabbed her jumper she slipped it up and over her head and carried on running, topless, across the car park.

Kept hold of the bottle too.

[Bruce Rioja]

Just walked into town and had a store detective chase and catch a shoplifter right in front of me. From Poundland. Tickled me.

See, this is what I don't understand about shoplifters - if you're going to do it then why nick items of tat from a pound shop? May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb etc.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just walked into town and had a store detective chase and catch a shoplifter right in front of me. From Poundland. Tickled me.

See, this is what I don't understand about shoplifters - if you're going to do it then why nick items of tat from a pound shop? May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb etc.

I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not, but during the riots in Liverpool I was witness to a mini-store being looted on Lodge Lane. During the looting a small number of looters had shopping trolleys which they were carefully filling like they were on a weekly shop. I witnessed one particular woman picking up packs and reading the small print and looking at the prices on them (prices were applied on small stick on labels in them days, not bar codes) before returning items to shelves and then placing other cheaper brands in her trolley. after the main orgy of looting had subsided it was of particular interest to me to see that all the marg tubs had gone but most of the butter was still there and that all the booze had gone apart from the top shelf half full of Champagne bottles. The other half of the shelf where the Cava had sat had been cleared out. Same with the cigs - all gone, but the cigars lay resplendently untouched.

[TANGODANCER]

Can bring a theft or two to mind. One, I saw a bloke nick a radio from a shop on Bradshawgate. I chased him (good citizen me) and nailed him round the back of the Alma. I got the full spiel about how he was on depression tablets and didn't know he'd done it etc.
Saw a bloke nick something from the Market Hall. Security on town centre shops must be organised because a few blokes appeared from nowhere and nailed him pretty quick.

Most blatant one was a handbag snatch in Malaga (nicking off tourists is pretty safe because they won't normally fly back for a court appearance because of the cost so the police let them off with a caution). Unfortunately, the snatcher picked a Spanish woman who screeched like a banshee at the top of her lungs. In seconds the thief disappeared under a load of onlookers who dived on him. Police were there inside two minutes and they sure weren't gentle with the thief. Odd thing was, he was about thirty, good looking and smartly dressed.

[Worthy4England]

Today I'm happy about spellchecker pointing out I'd missed a letter out of counting, that would have changed the whole context of the e-mail I was about to send.

[bwfcdan94]

I know where I used to go to school we had a Sainsbury's opposite, which of course was frequented by hundreds of kids at dinner time. As a result however thieving was a regular occurrence and it got so bad that students were banned for about 3 years, in my 6th form years however they scrapped the ban but as a precaution had police cars on standby in the nearby vicinity meaning that many a hilarious scene occurred throughout a school year, they usually went, likes this:

1. daft kid walks out of shop with chocolate bars stuffed in his pockets at which point alarm goes off
2. member of staff not necessarily the security guards tries and fails to catch up with him, as the daft kid in question charges across an A road (without looking) risking it all just for a couple of Fudge bars, which of course led to kids almost getting hit at 40 miles p/h on several occasions
3. kid gets across the road and walks back to school when just as he is about to enter the school gates a police car draws up alongside him and out steps two officers to arrests him

Given the Sainsbury's car park is raised a couple of feat above the A road it meant all of this could be seen while sat on the crash barrier in the car park.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Brilliant. A guy I used to work with was once booking his car in whilst showing off his knowledge of the phonetic alpahbet - "So that's X X-Ray, H Hotel and G......................................... Goat".

I recall reading in a novel someone spelling Beppo on the phone as "B for bdellium, E for Euphonium, P for philosophy, P for psychology, and O for the Muse of Fire."

[wigan white]

I know where I used to go to school we had a Sainsbury's opposite, which of course was frequented by hundreds of kids at dinner time. As a result however thieving was a regular occurrence and it got so bad that students were banned for about 3 years, in my 6th form years however they scrapped the ban but as a precaution had police cars on standby in the nearby vicinity meaning that many a hilarious scene occurred throughout a school year, they usually went, likes this:

1. daft kid walks out of shop with chocolate bars stuffed in his pockets at which point alarm goes off
2. member of staff not necessarily the security guards tries and fails to catch up with him, as the daft kid in question charges across an A road (without looking) risking it all just for a couple of Fudge bars, which of course led to kids almost getting hit at 40 miles p/h on several occasions
3. kid gets across the road and walks back to school when just as he is about to enter the school gates a police car draws up alongside him and out steps two officers to arrests him

Given the Sainsbury's car park is raised a couple of feat above the A road it meant all of this could be seen while sat on the crash barrier in the car park.

Not to question the authenticity of your story Dan, but how would chocolate bars set the alarm off???

[bwfcdan94]

I know where I used to go to school we had a Sainsbury's opposite, which of course was frequented by hundreds of kids at dinner time. As a result however thieving was a regular occurrence and it got so bad that students were banned for about 3 years, in my 6th form years however they scrapped the ban but as a precaution had police cars on standby in the nearby vicinity meaning that many a hilarious scene occurred throughout a school year, they usually went, likes this:

1. daft kid walks out of shop with chocolate bars stuffed in his pockets at which point alarm goes off
2. member of staff not necessarily the security guards tries and fails to catch up with him, as the daft kid in question charges across an A road (without looking) risking it all just for a couple of Fudge bars, which of course led to kids almost getting hit at 40 miles p/h on several occasions
3. kid gets across the road and walks back to school when just as he is about to enter the school gates a police car draws up alongside him and out steps two officers to arrests him

Given the Sainsbury's car park is raised a couple of feat above the A road it meant all of this could be seen while sat on the crash barrier in the car park.

Not to question the authenticity of your story Dan, but how would chocolate bars set the alarm off???

I don't know but the alarm went off more often then not, they may not have necessarily taken chocolate bars.

[Prufrock]

Finally got a music question right on Only Connect! Woooooo!

[Bruce Rioja]

Finally got a music question right on Only Connect! Woooooo!

Which was?

[TANGODANCER]

Won the jackpot on Pointless last night. (pretend of course). Got through the rounds (a couple by the skin of teeth then the final question was name somebody who scored a goal in....1953 Cup Final.
Yeahhhhhh. Bob Langton and Eric Bell. No use saying that Nat scored, too easy.Winner....

[Prufrock]

Finally got a music question right on Only Connect! Woooooo!

Which was?

Don't want to ruin it if people haven't seen it, but it's at 7mins30 here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ath-family" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pretty sure after 2, defo after 3.

[Bijou Bob]

The tenant is moving out of my house in Adlington. This one has kept the house nice and clean and not trashed it like the last one. It's not much, but not having to spend a grand on sorting the mess has made me happy tonight.

[Bijou Bob]

The tenant is moving out of my house in Adlington. This one has kept the house nice and clean and not trashed it like the last one. It's not much, but not having to spend a grand on sorting the mess has made me happy tonight.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Won the jackpot on Pointless last night. (pretend of course). Got through the rounds (a couple by the skin of teeth then the final question was name somebody who scored a goal in....1953 Cup Final.
Yeahhhhhh. Bob Langton and Eric Bell. No use saying that Nat scored, too easy.Winner....

Unfortunately there was Matthews and a Mortensen hat trick too.

[TANGODANCER]

Won the jackpot on Pointless last night. (pretend of course). Got through the rounds (a couple by the skin of teeth then the final question was name somebody who scored a goal in....1953 Cup Final.
Yeahhhhhh. Bob Langton and Eric Bell. No use saying that Nat scored, too easy.Winner....

Unfortunately there was Matthews and a Mortensen hat trick too.

Alright. Spoil my jackpot win then.

[Dujon]

The tenant is moving out of my house in Adlington. This one has kept the house nice and clean and not trashed it like the last one. It's not much, but not having to spend a grand on sorting the mess has made me happy tonight.

That's sad, Bob, unless you're about to move in yourself. It's a bit pot luck with tenants as best I can gather. A couple of mates rented out their properties when they were doing country work for a few years. As they tell it, it wasn't a happy experience. One says he broke even after much fettling and the other that he lost a fair amount of money repairing the place before he could move back in.

Good luck.

[Montreal Wanderer]

The tenant is moving out of my house in Adlington. This one has kept the house nice and clean and not trashed it like the last one. It's not much, but not having to spend a grand on sorting the mess has made me happy tonight.

Was this the one that sneaked a cat in?