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Discussion in 'Newcastle United' started by Dorty Dogbreath, May 22, 2020.

  1. Dr Nickilas Van Helsing

    Dr Nickilas Van Helsing Well-Known Member

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    hmmm yes no wonder they leave me
     
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  2. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Delivery driver turned up, we declined it. From what the driver told me this is very common. I think this is how it goes...someone orders a phone using their own dodgy email address and someone else's bank details, and delivers it to our address. My wife gets text from delivery company telling her item will be delivered...in this case the next day. Alarm bells ringing as nothing has been ordered. You try to stop delivery, often during lockdown the item isn't signed for and left on front step. Scumbag turns up later and pretends to be from delivery company to pick up parcel which was delivered by mistake. You think ok, I didn't order it, take it, thinking it is genuine courier. So, right now, I am waiting for this ****bag to show, that could be any time today.
     
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  3. Delusional Full Stop

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    Have you security cameras? To discreetly take a picture.

    Or can wife discreetly take picture and not of thumb.

    Police do have a point though re Faker seeking revenge so probably better not.
     
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  4. Dr Nickilas Van Helsing

    Dr Nickilas Van Helsing Well-Known Member

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    careful mate you might get chivved... dnt do anything you dnt need too

    :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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  5. haslam

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    You'd think they'd try and pick an empty property as during lock-down if it's empty one day it's empty the next. Then they could just turn up later and collect it from the doorstep. There's enough empty student housing and second homes around that it shouldn't have been too hard surely? Maybe that's just too much effort for them but you could try giving the scumbag advice on how to scam better.

    Tip: If you're ever trying to find empty houses just deliver brochures to houses and leave them hanging out the letterbox. The ones which still have them in a day or two later are probably safe.

    Take him under your wing!
     
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  6. Dr Nickilas Van Helsing

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    can we have a pic though ...
     
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  7. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Dont worry Captain...I am the one who chivs <Walter White> <laugh>
     
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  8. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Baseball bat > security cameras :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  9. cronemeister

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    I'd be camping out outside my front door waiting for the little scroat me like. Grab a pew and a few cans and your bat....sorted!
     
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  10. Dr Nickilas Van Helsing

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    ok well if you need rid of a body give me a shout
     
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  11. Dr Nickilas Van Helsing

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    too obvious ... they know the risk they will be looking for that
     
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  12. GeordieHalfbreed

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    Personally, I’d put the bat away.

    You have the right to use reasonable force to defend yourself, but having a weapon prepared will **** you over. However if, say, your golf clubs are by the door - I assume they are there as you were planning to play today - you’d be within your rights to grab one if threatened. If you are in fear of your life, you can use reasonable force to defend yourself- what you deem to be reasonable at the time, taking into account the level of threat perceived.

    Preparing a bat is asking for a charge of assault and battery.

    If the thief is a Mackem, throw “racially aggravated” into the mix.

     
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  13. Dorty Dogbreath

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    The scroat hasn't showed, presumably put off by the array of weapons I am standing outside of the front door with <laugh> I think its about time Inspector Dorts was on the case.. :police:
     
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  14. Dorty Dogbreath

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    I'm looking at everything that moves past my house with suspicion...vehicles or people. A white van with some kind of writing on it pulled in round the corner just now. I ran round to confront the driver, bat in hand...ffs my eyesight is getting worse. It was an ambulance <doh>
     
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    How do the delivery people know your wife's mobile number?
     
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    <laugh>


    Just commenting so I get a notification on how this goes.
     
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    News Headlines

    three pizza delivery drivers found with head injuries round the back garages of Dorty Drive Newcastle
    a local resident has said to be in shock , saying "nothing like this happens around here before
    she commented further "I was sitting in my house waiting and wondering where my 30 minute pizza delivery or your pizza for free delivery was, the pizza company kept saying he was on his way"
     
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  18. Ghostinthehouse

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    Just take the phone, then you can ring me.

    Smash their legs failing that, and don't worry about being locked up, just plead senility.
     
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  19. haslam

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    I feel sorry for his wife. She just wanted a new phone, arranged for it to be delivered while he was out playing golf as the cost was too much, lied under pressure, and now her husband - after already notifying the police - is sat by the door threatening to skin the local pets with a can opener.
     
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    Just remove your false teeth and soil yourself, otherwise change nothing. You've got this.
     
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