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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2013 20:22:47 GMT -1
I'm told that the WE's under attack by a bunch of apparently fearless guys who specialise in breaking into your house while you're IN. Particularly flats and mews(es) in Kelvinside and Dowanhill areas. You heard anything, Bormes? Burglaries are well down on previous years, I gather, and of course the risk's pretty tiny. But worth mentioning to folks anyway, specially if they live alone, just to take a wee bit extra care re locks/alarms etc. Couple of months back some bloke came up the path when I was in the garden picking up the leaves. He never saw me at first, when I asked who he was looking for he said a woman's first name. Asked him her second name, at which point he blustered like crazy and rapidly fecked off back down the path. He was that keen to be outta there, I don't think he even noticed me taking his photo on ma phone. Keep yer wits about ye, folks.
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Post by bormes on Dec 4, 2013 8:01:01 GMT -1
You are correct. Detection figures are at an all time high.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 22:24:55 GMT -1
It'd appear that some of our 'citizens' are taking full advantage of the lack of the polis helicopter this past week.
Hell mend them. I think they misunderestimate the way Glaswegians are feeling just now.
Breaking into folks homes while they're out is BAD. Breaking in while they're IN is something else entirely.
We're not having it. End of.
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Post by bormes on Dec 5, 2013 22:41:47 GMT -1
We have the RIGHT to defend ourselves as the courts recently have supported a number of people doing just that in their Houses. Let us hope this continues and no bleeding hearts have the law changed.
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Post by ozneil on Dec 5, 2013 23:21:52 GMT -1
Reading a long while ago of 2 yobs in England that broke into an 85 year old ex-soldier's house.
When the cops arrived he had them pinned in the corner with his old cavalry sabre which had been hung above his bed. He had heard them break in so had grabbed and gone to investigate & voila 2 frightened yobs and an old guy holding a bright sabre
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Post by bormes on Dec 6, 2013 8:06:30 GMT -1
OZ, I think that was Commander Turner and he lived in Buchanan Castle, in one of the houses converted from Hospital wards after WW2, it was one of the places Hesse was held in during the war after he landed at Eaglesham. Hesse had been good friends with the Duke of Montrose (Lord Graham) before the war so I suspect being held in the more convivial place of Buchanan Castle was better than a Prison of war camp!!
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Post by ozneil on Dec 6, 2013 18:57:32 GMT -1
Cant remember it was years ago and for eome reason got stuck in my memory's "little black book of useless information"
from same source. Family told me Hesse was trying to reach the Duke of Hamilton's place at Strathaven when he crashed and he spent his first night in captivity in Giffnock cop shop . I have no idea whether this right or wrong.
PS wheres Buchanan Castle? Our sec in Auckland was a friend of the Colquohouns (bet that is spelled wrong) daughter and spent holidays at their house/castle on Loch Lomond. Same place?
PPS on reflection I think Buchanan Castle was at Drymen. They had a great pub there from memory
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Post by bormes on Dec 6, 2013 23:59:26 GMT -1
Buchanan Castle is where we had our farm bought from the Duke of Montrose, Lord Graham!! The West Bank, the other side from us is where they live. Sir Alex Douglas Home is in their family.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2013 0:16:16 GMT -1
Cant remember it was years ago and for eome reason got stuck in my memory's "little black book of useless information" from same source. Family told me Hesse was trying to reach the Duke of Hamilton's place at Strathaven when he crashed and he spent his first night in captivity in Giffnock cop shop . I have no idea whether this right or wrong. PS wheres Buchanan Castle? Our sec in Auckland was a friend of the Colquohouns (bet that is spelled wrong) daughter and spent holidays at their house/castle on Loch Lomond. Same place? PPS on reflection I think Buchanan Castle was at Drymen. They had a great pub there from memory Buchanan Castle, as far as I know, is just inland from Loch Lomond where the newish golf course is, and a couple of miles as the craw flies from Drymen. Do you mean The Winnock, Oz? On Drymen Square. There's also another old drovers' inn there but I can't remember its name. Buchanans and Colquhouns are one and the same clan-wise. Owned most of what is now West Dunbartonshire.
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Post by bormes on Dec 7, 2013 0:32:53 GMT -1
Over the Drymen Bridge coming from Glasgow is the first left to Buchanan Castle and the Golf Course. The CLACHAN is probably the one you meant but there was the Plough, later called the Salmon Leap, the Buchanan Arms bit posher, the Winnock and the Pottery. The Duke of Montrose was a friend of Hesse and he supported Smith in Rhodesia when he declared Independence and he moved out there leaving family members to continue running his places. One of his relations was executed for treason by the English!
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Post by ozneil on Dec 7, 2013 1:20:25 GMT -1
Over the Drymen Bridge coming from Glasgow is the first left to Buchanan Castle and the Golf Course. The CLACHAN is probably the one you meant but there was the Plough, later called the Salmon Leap, the Buchanan Arms bit posher, the Winnock and the Pottery. The Duke of Montrose was a friend of Hesse and he supported Smith in Rhodesia when he declared Independence and he moved out there leaving family members to continue running his places. One of his relations was executed for treason by the English! It was an old whitewashed pub no idea of name now Was the Salmon Leap owned by a guy called Gibson?
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Post by notanimby on Dec 7, 2013 8:58:23 GMT -1
Over the Drymen Bridge coming from Glasgow is the first left to Buchanan Castle and the Golf Course. The CLACHAN is probably the one you meant but there was the Plough, later called the Salmon Leap, the Buchanan Arms bit posher, the Winnock and the Pottery. T he Duke of Montrose was a friend of Hesse and he supported Smith in Rhodesia when he declared Independence and he moved out there leaving family members to continue running his places. One of his relations was executed for treason by the English! No' very good at choosing friends - was he? They say you can judge someone by the company he keeps
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Post by bormes on Dec 7, 2013 10:04:54 GMT -1
Standing on it's own on the right going up the hill from Glasgow direction was a white washed Pub, the Salmon Leap owned by Eric John. Regarding Ian Smith, he was certainly not a Mugabe the country was beautiful wealthy and had laws adhered to, it is now a typical corrupt African shit hole. Even SA with Mandela was on edge, he kept the worst from happening. Right now even in J'oburg the Nigerians run prostitution, drugs and most criminal activity and with typical African corruption have close ties with senior police so that their businesses are interrupted as little as possible. What makes me smile is the Africans think the Asians are corrupt!! Actually it is that the Asians will work WITH each other whereas the Africans all want to be WABenzy, or chiefs so do never work together too long!!
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Post by notanimby on Dec 7, 2013 17:24:48 GMT -1
Standing on it's own on the right going up the hill from Glasgow direction was a white washed Pub, the Salmon Leap owned by Eric John. Regarding Ian Smith, he was certainly not a Mugabe the country was beautiful wealthy and had laws adhered to, it is now a typical corrupt African shit hole. Even SA with Mandela was on edge, he kept the worst from happening. Right now even in J'oburg the Nigerians run prostitution, drugs and most criminal activity and with typical African corruption have close ties with senior police so that their businesses are interrupted as little as possible. What makes me smile is the Africans think the Asians are corrupt!! Actually it is that the Asians will work WITH each other whereas the Africans all want to be WABenzy, or chiefs so do never work together too long!! Even under Mugabe, Zimbabwe prospered, it was later that he became a deranged megalomaniac. It was still the breadbasket of Africa until he instigated his land grab, claiming it was a redistribution but in reality it was a bribe to his illiterate supporters. Then when they took over the farms, they failed miserably because they hadn't a clue. Meanwhile Mugabe and co were grabbing the real wealth. A friend of mine is married to a "white farmer" from Zimbabwe, they left and moved to New Zealand. On a slightly different note, I've friends who source, buy and manufacture goods, mainly electronic across the globe, currently China is the place to be. But Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, even more especially the Commonwealth countries like Zimbabwe, Zambia et al have the resources to become the worlds manufacturing powerhouse that China is today, not only that but they have the natural resources on their doorstep too. But alas no one in their right mind would touch it with a barge-pole as its not worth the effort due to tribalism, internecine strife and madmen. The former colonial powers didn't help in the slightest
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Post by ozneil on Dec 7, 2013 20:00:34 GMT -1
Just wondered about the Pub I worked on a pub in East Kilbride called the Salmon Leap owned by a bloke called Gibson
Looking at Google Earth I think the pub I went to was the Wannock but Im certain that was not the name , something Arms sticks in my mind
We are getting horrific stories about conditions in RSA & Zimbabwe from migrants arriving here.
Our electronics are mostly from China, Japan and South Korea with a fair sprinkling from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and USA. Stuff from Europe is generally much dearer and of no better quality.
Quick look round Our washing machine, fridge and cook top are Oz, oven Thailand ,TVs Singapore & South Korea, PVRS China and Indonesia, Laptop Japan, Ipad China, PCS locally built by son out of Chinese parts, Cars one built in Japan other a Toyota Australian built.
I dealt a lot with Asian people and have had no more problems with them than I have had with anyone else. Best guy I ever met was the Bishop of the Taoist Church (They left Hong Kong on take over and split to Vancouver & Sydney) . We built their complex in Sydney. He was great to deal with great sense of humour and bags of common sense. He had been head of Hong Kong Stock exchange before in his own words "got religion"
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