Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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Big_Dan said:
Article on our local BBC news yesterday explaining that our unsung heroes (4x4 response, pictured driving down a greenlane) are standing by to collect ballot boxes in the event of bad weather
Thank goodness.
Oh Lord - we've allegedly got fake websites pretending to be the other side, Russian interference, the last thing we need is Walts getting lost/stuck in the snow!Thank goodness.
Big_Dan said:
Article on our local BBC news yesterday explaining that our unsung heroes (4x4 response, pictured driving down a greenlane) are standing by to collect ballot boxes in the event of bad weather
Thank goodness.
Thank fThank goodness.
k, saving democracy now. They are the heroes we need not the ones we deserve.As for yellowjacks tale, I am calling massive Walt. The give away is the "weve got it under control thanks". If they genuinely searching for someone or something and a mountain biker fetched up surely the most obvious thing would be to ask them if they had seen it.
https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2...
This idiot is at it again. He was previously caught out telling any unsuspecting woman who would listen, he was former 1 Para, singing st dit’s about deeds of Derring-do in the sand pit. This time he’s doing likewise, dressed in fire brigade uniform, in the Wetherspoon’s in Salisbury, telling locals how he helped out during the Grenfell Tower fire incident ( and how he’s former 1 Para, obvs.) The problem is, he’s unemployed, and lives with his mum 
. Keep your eyes peeled, if you’re in that area.
This idiot is at it again. He was previously caught out telling any unsuspecting woman who would listen, he was former 1 Para, singing s
t dit’s about deeds of Derring-do in the sand pit. This time he’s doing likewise, dressed in fire brigade uniform, in the Wetherspoon’s in Salisbury, telling locals how he helped out during the Grenfell Tower fire incident ( and how he’s former 1 Para, obvs.) The problem is, he’s unemployed, and lives with his mum . Keep your eyes peeled, if you’re in that area.Scabutz said:
Big_Dan said:
Article on our local BBC news yesterday explaining that our unsung heroes (4x4 response, pictured driving down a greenlane) are standing by to collect ballot boxes in the event of bad weather
Thank goodness.
Thank fThank goodness.
k, saving democracy now. They are the heroes we need not the ones we deserve.As for yellowjacks tale, I am calling massive Walt. The give away is the "weve got it under control thanks". If they genuinely searching for someone or something and a mountain biker fetched up surely the most obvious thing would be to ask them if they had seen it.
ETA: a link to my bicycling activity... https://www.strava.com/activities/2926486970 ...including the best picture my camera managed of the torch beams of three of the searchers. And a point of order. I said 'mountain bike' because it was easier than explaining that I was out riding mountain bike trails and technical downhill runs on a late 1990s Cannondale "gravel bike" with drop handlebars, on which I'd already got into trouble once that evening, having to throw myself to the floor to avoid tumbling over the handlebars and down a steep part of the hillside. So the search activity wasn't the only reason I retreated from the Hill. Mostly it was to save myself from reckless ambition (which far outstrips my ability to handle a bike) while riding a bicycle largely unsuited to the type of riding I found myself doing. It's made me think, too, about the risks I take when I go out riding in the dark, and the burden I might put upon others if I got it wrong. I won't stop doing it, but I might tone down the challenges I take on...
For anyone remotely interested, the descent on which I "fell off" is called 'The Other Line'. I've managed it in 52 seconds (well short of the quickest recorded Strava time of 14 seconds) on a proper MTB, but last night I recorded a time of 3 minutes dead, and only 1m 22s of that was "moving time". Most of the non-moving time was spent picking myself up off the ground. The longer section, 'camels hump', incorporating the aforementioned section, took me 5m 50s, of which only 2m 34s was spent pedalling. The hills were too steep, the ground too wet, and the terrain too difficult to navigate in the dark on that bike, and pushing the bike up steep bits really sucks the life out of a ride, so I bailed out and headed home.
Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 12th December 15:04
yellowjack said:
There was a big gathering of these Response types last night on St Catherine's Hill, near Christchurch/Bournemouth.
I was heading up there on my mountain bike, and spotted several Wessex 4x4 Response vehicles, plus a police Transit van, with several people milling around in hi-vis. Then, driving away, was a Lowland Rescue Land Rover. No one seemed interested in me, so I made my way up onto the Hill and started riding around. Down on the north slope of the Hill I could see a three-man team searching with powerful torches, and on a nearby old rail bed/bridleway were a couple of vehicles with amber flashing lights.
As I came to realise that they might actually be engaged in the useful exercise of searching for a missing person, I decided to make my way off the Hill. I didn't want to be getting under anyone's feet, making a nuisance of myself, or blinding searchers with my front light. As I came off the Hill I saw that the number of vehicles had increased, and that a large bus-like "Search Control" vehicle was parked up, with an area around the back doors coned off and large urns dispensing hot drinks from trestle tables set up alongside the bus. I asked what was going on but no info was forthcoming other than "we've got it all under control, thanks" so I went home. I wouldn't have been much use to them anyway, dressed in my "silly cycling shoes" and with less than an hour's burn time left in my bike light. Besides which I'm new to the area, and could just as easily have become a casualty myself biking around an unfamiliar area in the dark.
If it was a real search & rescue job, or even a training exercise, then I applaud them, as it was an unpleasant night to be out there. But a couple of pretty "Walty" things stood out for me. There was a Mercedes Benz 4x4 (but not a G-Wagen) parked up when I first spotted their gathering. All amber pulsing LEDs left going while it was parked, unattended. Great stuff if the vehicle is presenting some kind of hazard to other road users, but not so necessary if it is parked in a residential street between the heating engineer's Transit van and Cliff and Irene's Kia Picanto. Just turn the bloody things off. The other one was a Frontera (I think) with dayglo stickers on the side windows that appeared to be a 'callsign' - #WE515, or something similar.
Anyway, it left me a little torn between mocking this 4x4 Response mob, and applauding them for their voluntary acts of service to the the community. Mostly, though, if there genuinely was someone lost out in the rapidly descending darkness on a cold wet evening, in difficult terrain, then I hope the volunteers doing the searching found them swiftly and recovered them to safety.
I would have taken photos for the thread, but it didn't seem the right thing to do in the (potential) circumstances, and anyway, the camera on my phone is very poor at taking low light pictures. And at least none of those present tried to marshal me or control my movements.
Not excusing the Walting, but it appears to be a genuine search.I was heading up there on my mountain bike, and spotted several Wessex 4x4 Response vehicles, plus a police Transit van, with several people milling around in hi-vis. Then, driving away, was a Lowland Rescue Land Rover. No one seemed interested in me, so I made my way up onto the Hill and started riding around. Down on the north slope of the Hill I could see a three-man team searching with powerful torches, and on a nearby old rail bed/bridleway were a couple of vehicles with amber flashing lights.
As I came to realise that they might actually be engaged in the useful exercise of searching for a missing person, I decided to make my way off the Hill. I didn't want to be getting under anyone's feet, making a nuisance of myself, or blinding searchers with my front light. As I came off the Hill I saw that the number of vehicles had increased, and that a large bus-like "Search Control" vehicle was parked up, with an area around the back doors coned off and large urns dispensing hot drinks from trestle tables set up alongside the bus. I asked what was going on but no info was forthcoming other than "we've got it all under control, thanks" so I went home. I wouldn't have been much use to them anyway, dressed in my "silly cycling shoes" and with less than an hour's burn time left in my bike light. Besides which I'm new to the area, and could just as easily have become a casualty myself biking around an unfamiliar area in the dark.
If it was a real search & rescue job, or even a training exercise, then I applaud them, as it was an unpleasant night to be out there. But a couple of pretty "Walty" things stood out for me. There was a Mercedes Benz 4x4 (but not a G-Wagen) parked up when I first spotted their gathering. All amber pulsing LEDs left going while it was parked, unattended. Great stuff if the vehicle is presenting some kind of hazard to other road users, but not so necessary if it is parked in a residential street between the heating engineer's Transit van and Cliff and Irene's Kia Picanto. Just turn the bloody things off. The other one was a Frontera (I think) with dayglo stickers on the side windows that appeared to be a 'callsign' - #WE515, or something similar.
Anyway, it left me a little torn between mocking this 4x4 Response mob, and applauding them for their voluntary acts of service to the the community. Mostly, though, if there genuinely was someone lost out in the rapidly descending darkness on a cold wet evening, in difficult terrain, then I hope the volunteers doing the searching found them swiftly and recovered them to safety.
I would have taken photos for the thread, but it didn't seem the right thing to do in the (potential) circumstances, and anyway, the camera on my phone is very poor at taking low light pictures. And at least none of those present tried to marshal me or control my movements.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18094057.se...
Still a bit odd they didn't ask you if you'd seen anything. Being on a bike you'd have covered a decent area so might have noticed something, wouldn't have hurt them to spend 30 seconds asking if you'd noticed anything out of the ordinary?
Zetec-S said:
Not excusing the Walting, but it appears to be a genuine search.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18094057.se...
Still a bit odd they didn't ask you if you'd seen anything. Being on a bike you'd have covered a decent area so might have noticed something, wouldn't have hurt them to spend 30 seconds asking if you'd noticed anything out of the ordinary?
Well that sounds like a sad tale. I truly hope they find her. As it happened I'd seen only one other person up there anyway, a woman in a white puffa jacket walking a small white dog coming off the Hill as i went up. I can't speak for the person who spoke to me, but possibly they didn't realise I'd been up on the Hill? I'd come off the Hill itself about half a mile from where the vehicles were parked, using an exit gate I wasn't previously aware of, and came through the residential estate. So perhaps they thought I was riding past on the road and dismissed the possibility that I'd been on the Hill at all? Who knows, in the end, why someone makes a decision about asking a passer-by about an incident? https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18094057.se...
Still a bit odd they didn't ask you if you'd seen anything. Being on a bike you'd have covered a decent area so might have noticed something, wouldn't have hurt them to spend 30 seconds asking if you'd noticed anything out of the ordinary?
But hey? I'm just some Walt who made to whole scenario up. Right?
yellowjack said:
Well that sounds like a sad tale. I truly hope they find her. As it happened I'd seen only one other person up there anyway, a woman in a white puffa jacket walking a small white dog coming off the Hill as i went up. I can't speak for the person who spoke to me, but possibly they didn't realise I'd been up on the Hill? I'd come off the Hill itself about half a mile from where the vehicles were parked, using an exit gate I wasn't previously aware of, and came through the residential estate. So perhaps they thought I was riding past on the road and dismissed the possibility that I'd been on the Hill at all? Who knows, in the end, why someone makes a decision about asking a passer-by about an incident?
But hey? I'm just some Walt who made to whole scenario up. Right?
Off topic but the route you took is pretty similar to the route I’d walk the dog a few years ago when I lived in the area. Can’t remember it in much detail but the descent you mention, I’m not surprised you came off bearing in mind the weather we’ve had recently. Fair play for even attempting it, not sure I would have been so brave But hey? I'm just some Walt who made to whole scenario up. Right?
Zetec-S said:
Off topic but the route you took is pretty similar to the route I’d walk the dog a few years ago when I lived in the area. Can’t remember it in much detail but the descent you mention, I’m not surprised you came off bearing in mind the weather we’ve had recently. Fair play for even attempting it, not sure I would have been so brave
That. Yeah. I'm kind of an idiot like that. I often attempt things on the bike "because I can" not "because it seems sensible". Some other Strava cyclist had ridden it a few days ago so I thought "how bad can it be?" I'd previously ridden it in July, just the once, and slowly then. Attempting it in the dark, on the "wrong" bike, and after some shocking weather was not my finest hour. Which was why I ended up throwing myself to the floor on my left to avoid tumbling over the trail edge on my right. But by that time I was half way down the hill, so "I might as well go on as go back". Right? I really ought to go and ride it on a more suitable bike, in daylight, in dry conditions a few times before attempting such stupidity again. Last night's ride wasn't much safer though, despite sticking mainly to cycle paths, parks, and quiet streets. Insane taxi drivers trying to overtake me into the face of an oncoming Transit van? Yup, that happened. And an angry Zafira driver treating me to a long blast of the horn for having the temerity to cycle in a bicycle lane, wearing reflective clothing, and lit in excess of the requirements for bicycles as stated in RVLRs. I'm tempted to believe that throwing myself off steep hills, in unfamiliar woodland, in the dark is a far safer pastime, really...GOATever said:
https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2...
This idiot is at it again. He was previously caught out telling any unsuspecting woman who would listen, he was former 1 Para, singing st dit’s about deeds of Derring-do in the sand pit. This time he’s doing likewise, dressed in fire brigade uniform, in the Wetherspoon’s in Salisbury, telling locals how he helped out during the Grenfell Tower fire incident ( and how he’s former 1 Para, obvs.) The problem is, he’s unemployed, and lives with his mum . Keep your eyes peeled, if you’re in that area.
Proper walting, but my favourite line, from the Sun article quoted on the webpage is "Rachel Burton, a 36-year-old grandma, said Dall arrived to meet her at Brighton station in full Para uniform."This idiot is at it again. He was previously caught out telling any unsuspecting woman who would listen, he was former 1 Para, singing s
t dit’s about deeds of Derring-do in the sand pit. This time he’s doing likewise, dressed in fire brigade uniform, in the Wetherspoon’s in Salisbury, telling locals how he helped out during the Grenfell Tower fire incident ( and how he’s former 1 Para, obvs.) The problem is, he’s unemployed, and lives with his mum . Keep your eyes peeled, if you’re in that area.It seems the US has a serious problem with Walts too judging by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ya5rOeZb8&fe...
Video is a funeral escort motorbike guy who is a wannabe cop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ya5rOeZb8&fe...
Video is a funeral escort motorbike guy who is a wannabe cop.
bluezedd said:
It seems the US has a serious problem with Walts too judging by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ya5rOeZb8&fe...
Video is a funeral escort motorbike guy who is a wannabe cop.
A nonce too, sounded like one as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ya5rOeZb8&fe...
Video is a funeral escort motorbike guy who is a wannabe cop.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/fl...
edit lots of Walts of that channel.
Edited by Thesprucegoose on Thursday 9th January 17:40
BossHogg said:
Or getting asked what the training centre COs dog is called or your room number, I just made it up! 
my best/worst was to be asked what REME stood for.I was then corrected and told to repeat the true meaning, which of course is 'Royal Engineers Made Easy'
No points for guessing which cap badge the full screw in charge belonged to.
Crossflow Kid said:
deadtom said:
my best/worst was to be asked what REME stood for.
I was then corrected and told to repeat the true meaning, which of course is:
Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually.I was then corrected and told to repeat the true meaning, which of course is:
Digga said:
Crossflow Kid said:
deadtom said:
my best/worst was to be asked what REME stood for.
I was then corrected and told to repeat the true meaning, which of course is:
Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually.I was then corrected and told to repeat the true meaning, which of course is:
ds to then 
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