Car vandalised last night.

[mercmonkey]

Well no time like the present as they say, and someone has to suggest a date
Howze about this evening say 9.00 or whatever? Perhaps Maldon can make it? May need to email him direct - don't know how this thing works otherwise.
If you want to leave it until next week thats fine also.

Time to give the old SEL some stick on the A120.
i'll put my mobile number on the user Cp if its not on already.

Cant do tonight sorry..... have other commitments

need a bit more notice if posssible, sometime next week perhaps

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Has Littlebrooklyn been kidding us with that photo??

Nope that is exactly what I look like, if you click on the link below you will see me at my son's wedding back in December

 

[shayes]

Cant do tonight sorry..... have other commitments

need a bit more notice if posssible, sometime next week perhaps

No probs Mate - will see if anyone else is interested - didn't mean to steal yur thread by the way, just thought someone has to bite the bullet and suggest a date.

Let you know if anyone contacts me and if not perhaps you will set the schedule for next week?

Regs.
Stuart

 

[shayes]

Nope that is exactly what I look like, if you click on the link below you will see me at my son's wedding back in December

Is that you prostrate on the floor?

Sorry MSN seems to have over complicated the system lately or my Grey matter is shrinking rapidly. Can't even make an advanced search these days?

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Is that you prostrate on the floor?

As you can see from this I was as sober as a judge :grin:

 

[shayes]

I had to double take, as I thought it was levitation just for a moment!

And a good time was obviously had by all!!

 

[philharve]

Tom

I'd like to add my sincerest condolences concerning the vandalism done to your car. With a little luck the paint may come off fairly easily. I had something similar done to my white Dolomite Sprint many years ago but as I had been using Mer as a polish, the black paint came off quite easily. The polish left a protective layer. After the paint was removed a faint 'shadow' was just discernable on the bonnet but after being left a few months to let the rain weather the stain, the shadow disappeared. No repainting was necessary.

I am a firm believer in security lighting triggered by PIR detectors. I also have an audible alarm to act as a deterent but it's really for my use so that I know when someone's on my property. I think the alarm is more of a deterrent than the lighting because it can alert the neighbours to possible trepassers.

If you are lucky enough to be able to park your vehicle on your own property then you should seriously consider protecting your vehicle with security lighting and/or alarms. If the b*st*rds got away with it once, you could find yourself targetted again.

Mercmonkey's solution of fitting security cameras is an interesting one which obviously paid off. I was considering something similar but I've been holding back until I could find a supply of good quality but cheap colour cameras for night use. Cameras don't annoy the neighbours and they keep the vandals guessing. If they believe their every move was being recorded, they might just think twice.

REGARDS Phil

 

[tom7035]

I was quite overwhelmed by your messages of sympathy! Thanks all. Good news however, took it to my preferred coachpainter today and left it with him while we did some business in the High St., then coffee. Picked it up after an hour and a half, good as new. Some thinners and a rag apparently and the wax coating underneath made it so easy he said, and NO CHARGE! My thanks once again to Willie Christie & Son, Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline. My faith in human nature is slowly returning.
If it was a 'personal' thing, I'm not sure why he should 'do' the 13 year-pld Merc which probably cost a lot less than his Fiesta, and yet leave the three-month old Citroen C4 alone sitting alongside?
I do have external lighting but unfortunately couldn't keep up with replacing the PIR units. That wireless camera mercmonkey mentions sounds worth considering.
Now, about bringing back the birch, mmm.........................
Cheers all, Tom.

 

[sidtrix]

Glad it was a quick & easy job... Dont know what pleasure people get out of doing such things!

 

[stu99]

You never used to see this kind of thing happen years ago and it really does make you wonder how kids are brought up these days.

This hits the nail on the head. Unfortunately, these kids are not "brought up" in any conventional sense but rather left to their own devices from a young age before finding surrogate parents in their own peer group.

In my view, disaffected youth constitute more of a problem to the quality of life in this country than any terrorist organization or inept government.

They'll be back so get the camera installed or motion-activated light

 

[television]

You never used to see this kind of thing happen years ago and it really does make you wonder how kids are brought up these days.[/QUOTE]







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HOW TRUE!!!!

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE



1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.



They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.



Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.





We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.





As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.



Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.



We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.



We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.



We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because



WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!



We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.





No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.



We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.





We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no pay TV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat

rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!



We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.





We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.



We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang

the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!





Footy and cricket had selections and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!





The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!





This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!





The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.



We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!





And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!



You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.





And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.



Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!



That was the way that I was brought up (no comments please)

Malcolm



















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[mercmonkey]

I was looking for that email....

but I couldnt find it

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Yeah that's a very good post Malcolm and so true too. It's also how I was brought up

I actually think we are better off for having been brought up like that. I don't think it's healthy for kids to sit indoors all the time in front of their playstations stuffing their faces with junk food.

I really do believe a lot of the problems with kids today is excacerbated by all the crap they put in their bodies and all the violent games they play/films they watch.

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Yeah that's a very good post Malcolm and so true too. It's also how I was brought up

I actually think we are better off for having been brought up like that. I don't think it's healthy for kids to sit indoors all the time in front of their playstations stuffing their faces with junk food.

I really do believe a lot of the problems with kids today is exacerbated by all the crap they put in their bodies and all the violent games they play/films they watch.

 

[tom7035]

And, after all the hurdles TV describes above, armed with the discipline we learned in primary school we sailed through National Service (on just over £1.50p a week), learned that men COULD work as a team, that a colleague could be senior but never BETTER, dealt with the 'Dear Johns' without contemplating suicide, and most of all IMO learned that freedom is priceless.
Come back please Bill Haley and your Comets!

 

[SJMaxson]

AF, don't start me on the teaching front*, Our 15 year old son was late a few times, was reported tous in a letter so I told the school to come down on hime like a ton of bricks. They actually THANKED me for being supportive of their PROPOSAL to give him a detention of ten minutes or so. <snip>

So the school have had to **** about with letters and discussions, when the Teacher should have done the job on the spot without any further reference.

*that is not a slight on any member of the Teaching profession, how you do that job beats me - I have every admiration.

I didn't take your post as a slight on the teaching profession.

However, can I put your situation into the School's context?

When schools contact parents, nine times out of ten (in many schools, if not all), parents support the actions of their children over those of the School. Put a student in detention, and they often say "My parents won't let you".

The proposed government reforms may seem common sense - but they will be welcomed by teachers. At the moment, it seems that students have all the rights and yet have no responsibilities. Its about time that teachers gained a few rights. Education is vital - but students spend only 5 hours a day, five days a week, 40 weeks a year, in front of teachers. The rest of the time, education is done through socialisation, learning by example, and parenting.

Rant over!

 

[maldon]

A fair and valid point. Without wishing to rob the thread....

"My parents won't let you" - OK, sonny - prove it.

Schools should have the right to make a reasoned judgement* and, wher practicable, impose spot detention.

Like I say, I lean right.

*Unless parents opt out.

 

[davebox]

A fair and valid point. Without wishing to rob the thread....

"My parents won't let you" - OK, sonny - prove it.

Schools should have the right to make a reasoned judgement* and, wher practicable, impose spot detention.

Like I say, I lean right.

*Unless parents opt out.

SHOULD! but DO NOT. The problem with the system is that we molly coddle the kids, give them money to stay at home when they leave school and in general teach them that if you want something, take it. TIME TO WAKE UP.
I like many others do not work my b*ll's off so that scum can come along and practice football against my front door, break my windows and dent my car, I think it's time that our government realised that we need to be able to protect ourselves and not have to worry about being sued because the local yob falls over the bucket that we forgot to put away after cleaning our well earned cars, you know the one that's on our drives, up against the wall where we left it in case we drove over it. If our local yob wishes to vandalise, steal and in general make a nuisance - First of all, cut his beer money, then make him sweep the roads (and if he falls on the crisp packet his mate dropped earlier that's his problem). If he does not sweep the roads cut his money to nothing and give him the chance to carry on sweeping the roads or get nothing.
ARRRR -
Medication time again - sorry folks, just get wound up.

 

[littlebrooklyn]

I think we need to get rid of this pathetic goverment and bring back someone like Maggie

After all do we really want a country governed by Dubya's puppet (who also happens to be married to the joker, go look at pics of Cherie )

Send all the immigrants back to where they come from, maybe even block up the channel tunnel

I for one am sick of all the politally correct crap we have to endure these days.

 

[johnnycapone]

Where does the term "illegal immigrant" come from? If they are immigrants I suppose that is OK. But if they are illegal why dont we just f**k them off back to where they came from? As for bringing back Maggie dont you think that is taking things a little too far Brooklyn!!!!!!!! Channel tunnel hmmmmmm great piece of engineering, but why to france?