An ice axe in July!!



[email protected] said...
> > Dont forget Anthony Walker.

>
> Yes.
>
> His mother comes across as one superb woman.
>

She certainly does. I doubt very much that I'd be as calm and forgiving
were it one of my children. Were I wearing a hat I'd remove it in her
honour. Truly Gee Walker is a wonderful lady.
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[email protected] said...
> I am pleased to note they're young lads. I hope a *lot* of the inmates
> take a fancy to them.
>

Oh yes. Definitely. I don't approve of a lot of things, but those two
deserve everything they get and I will back to the hilt those who mete
it out.
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:03:00 -0000, "Gordon Burns"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Don't think they were ever intended to be used on
>the real stuff, so what is a scouse scally doing with one of these in the
>first place? I would hazard a guess that he didn't buy the thing.


The pair of them were off to burgle hotels in North Wales.
 
Gordon Burns wrote:
> Local telly up here showed a picture of a "similar" axe to that used. It was
> one of those Grivel anniversary wooden ones, supplied in a presentation box,
> and costing about £100. Don't think they were ever intended to be used on
> the real stuff...


Nitpick. My Stubai Aschenbrenner, bought thirty-odd years ago, and
looking like one of the ones lower down on this page

http://nirayama.com/~suwabe/Pickel/Stubai/S3.htm

i.e this one

http://nirayama.com/~suwabe/Pickel/Stubai/stb_a8a1.jpg

is definitely intended for the real stuff, and has been so used and done
the job . . .
 
sandy saunders wrote:

>> Seriously, we could be heading for a problem here. Something Must Be
>> Done about these evil weapons that can easily be bought by anyone, and
>> the mountain ignorant will be claiming that there is no use for them
>> in Britain, by which they mean the bottom right corner of England.

>
>Wow ... old on a minute about the bottom right corner and us southerners!
>Not being a climber as such, although I do own an iceaxe for winter
>mountains, but apparently there can be some excellent 'ice climbing' done on
>the white chalk cliffs around the Dover coastline. Reliable informed by the
>staff in Pegler's Mountaineering shop in Arundel.


And demonstrated in that barmy BBC ad where Garry Rhodes climbed up to
tell a picnicker (camper?) not to cut the basil but to tear it.
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[email protected] wrote:

>Paul Rooney wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:17:04 GMT, [email protected] (Richard Webb)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Thank goodness these scumbags will be getting theirs tomorrow.


>> They'll be eating chocolate pudding for the next 15 or 20 years.
>> Anthony was at my daughter's college. I'm now having a drink to him.

>
>Well over twenty years. Amen to that.


I read in one of the rags that the judge had taken pity on them and
given them shorter sentences because of their low intelligence! Mutter
mutter foam foam! What is this county coming to.
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Alan Dicey wrote:

>Gordon Burns wrote:
>> Local telly up here showed a picture of a "similar" axe to that used. It was
>> one of those Grivel anniversary wooden ones, supplied in a presentation box,
>> and costing about £100. Don't think they were ever intended to be used on
>> the real stuff...

>
>Nitpick. My Stubai Aschenbrenner, bought thirty-odd years ago, and
>looking like one of the ones lower down on this page
>
>http://nirayama.com/~suwabe/Pickel/Stubai/S3.htm
>
>i.e this one
>
>http://nirayama.com/~suwabe/Pickel/Stubai/stb_a8a1.jpg
>
>is definitely intended for the real stuff, and has been so used and done
>the job . . .


Of course they can be used on the white stuff. It's just that being
made of wood the shafts can't be type tested and thus they dont get a
CE mark proving they are fit for purpose.

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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:05:25 +0000, Phil Cook burbled:

> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Paul Rooney wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:17:04 GMT, [email protected] (Richard Webb)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Thank goodness these scumbags will be getting theirs tomorrow.

>
>>> They'll be eating chocolate pudding for the next 15 or 20 years.
>>> Anthony was at my daughter's college. I'm now having a drink to him.

>>
>>Well over twenty years. Amen to that.

>
> I read in one of the rags that the judge had taken pity on them and given
> them shorter sentences because of their low intelligence! Mutter mutter
> foam foam! What is this county coming to.



Oh - I hope not! They were obviously intelligent enough to be able to sell
the stuff that they nick so they should be able to realise that killing
people is wrong. I vote for just 5 years - at their own expense - they can
carry on repaying it on 10% APR credit terms for the rest of their lives...
;-)

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mick wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:05:25 +0000, Phil Cook burbled:


>>>Well over twenty years. Amen to that.

>>
>> I read in one of the rags that the judge had taken pity on them and given
>> them shorter sentences because of their low intelligence! Mutter mutter
>> foam foam! What is this county coming to.

>
>Oh - I hope not! They were obviously intelligent enough to be able to sell
>the stuff that they nick so they should be able to realise that killing
>people is wrong.


It might have been a slant put on the reporting by The Metro. The
Grauniad (sic) has things rather differently.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1656038,00.html?gusrc=rss
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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the wonderful
person Gordon <[email protected]> said
>Gordon Burns <[email protected]> wrote
>>Local telly up here showed a picture of a "similar" axe to that used. It was
>>one of those Grivel anniversary wooden ones, supplied in a presentation box,
>>and costing about £100. Don't think they were ever intended to be used on
>>the real stuff, so what is a scouse scally doing with one of these in the
>>first place? I would hazard a guess that he didn't buy the thing.
>>

>He was a career burglar, specialising in stores according to the news.


What sort of country are we running when we have the concept of 'career
burglar'??

Were I in charge, we'd have 'burglar', 'repeat offender with one hand',
and 'corpse'. Much cheaper all round.

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The message <[email protected]>
from Phil Cook <[email protected]> contains these words:

> >Well over twenty years. Amen to that.


> I read in one of the rags that the judge had taken pity on them and
> given them shorter sentences because of their low intelligence! Mutter
> mutter foam foam! What is this county coming to.


I thought that the Judge was obliged to take their youth into account.
Strangely that aspect of the law hasn't followed the voting age
downwards.

Anyway AFAIK at least with life sentences the minimum term means
precisely that and they won't be even considered for parole until that
has expired.

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In article <[email protected]>, Phil Cook
<[email protected]> writes
>sandy saunders wrote:
>
>>> Seriously, we could be heading for a problem here. Something Must Be
>>> Done about these evil weapons that can easily be bought by anyone, and
>>> the mountain ignorant will be claiming that there is no use for them
>>> in Britain, by which they mean the bottom right corner of England.

>>
>>Wow ... old on a minute about the bottom right corner and us southerners!
>>Not being a climber as such, although I do own an iceaxe for winter
>>mountains, but apparently there can be some excellent 'ice climbing' done on
>>the white chalk cliffs around the Dover coastline. Reliable informed by the
>>staff in Pegler's Mountaineering shop in Arundel.

>
>And demonstrated in that barmy BBC ad where Garry Rhodes climbed up to
>tell a picnicker (camper?) not to cut the basil but to tear it.


Are you sure Phil? I thought he told him NOT to ***** his sausages.

I watch these educational adverts with enthusiasm.:)
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> And demonstrated in that barmy BBC ad where Garry Rhodes climbed up to
> tell a picnicker (camper?) not to cut the basil but to tear it.


Didn't see it but sounds rather 'different'.

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W. D. Grey wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>, Phil Cook
><[email protected]> writes
>>sandy saunders wrote:


>>>... apparently there can be some excellent 'ice climbing' done on
>>>the white chalk cliffs around the Dover coastline.

>>
>>And demonstrated in that barmy BBC ad where Garry Rhodes climbed up to
>>tell a picnicker (camper?) not to cut the basil but to tear it.

>
>Are you sure Phil? I thought he told him NOT to ***** his sausages.


Yeah now you mention it...

Deffo sausages. What would a camper be doing with basil anyway? So who
was it telling somebody not to cut the basil?
>
>I watch these educational adverts with enthusiasm.:)


I just fast forward through all of them now I have a PVR :)

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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:09:16 +0000, Phil Cook
<[email protected]> wrote:

>What would a camper be doing with basil anyway?


The two lads I met in Wester Ross took a whole range of herbs on their
backpacking trips into the wild, plus a smoker for the fish. And a few
litres of whisky! They reckoned they had to have luxuries to make the
midges bearable.
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"Richard Webb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:08:57 -0000, "Gordon Burns"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I live near Liverpool, and when going in at night, especially in winter, I
>>wish that I could carry mine. Unfortunately plod would prefer to arrest
>>rather than protect me!

>
>
> Seriously, we could be heading for a problem here. Something Must Be
> Done about these evil weapons that can easily be bought by anyone, and
> the mountain ignorant will be claiming that there is no use for them
> in Britain, by which they mean the bottom right corner of England.
>


Now some other groups might get an inkling of how decent law-abiding
shooters feel...
 
> "Richard Webb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:08:57 -0000, "Gordon Burns"
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I live near Liverpool, and when going in at night, especially in winter, I
>>>wish that I could carry mine. Unfortunately plod would prefer to arrest
>>>rather than protect me!

>>
>>
>>Seriously, we could be heading for a problem here. Something Must Be
>>Done about these evil weapons that can easily be bought by anyone, and
>>the mountain ignorant will be claiming that there is no use for them
>>in Britain, by which they mean the bottom right corner of England.
>>

>

and they'd be right??



druidh
 
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:16:23 +0000, GSV Three Minds in a Can
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Were I in charge, we'd have 'burglar', 'repeat offender with one hand',
>and 'corpse'. Much cheaper all round.


How un PC can one get? Perhaps we have the punishment system we can
afford? I think I have a social conscience but having lost some close
ones recently I do feel that society could well do without some who
remain.

I just happened across this in my flit through today's postings, a
couple of thoughts crossed my mind, these two stole from hotels and
were planning a jaunt to Wales, perhaps they had been there before in
Winter? The other was that two of my climbing group, both good rock
hoppers, paid a visit to Aviemore in 1970, they returned with some
swag which they couldn't have afforded to pay for, my first sight of a
down duvet jacket, I never ventured out with them again.

Oh and wet fishes for the recovery wee thing, I hope you haven't been
driven off again.

AJH
 
Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
wonderful person AJH <[email protected]> said
>On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:16:23 +0000, GSV Three Minds in a Can
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>Were I in charge, we'd have 'burglar', 'repeat offender with one hand',
>>and 'corpse'. Much cheaper all round.

>
>How un PC can one get?


Most PC-ness is covert code for 'claptrap', IMO.

> Perhaps we have the punishment system we can
>afford?


We have the number in prison we can afford, maybe. Those two jerks are
gong to cost us 40 years at about 100k a year .. £4m. Just to preserve 2
'career burglars' for posterity, or in case 'they didn't do it after all
gov'. I can think of lots better uses for £4m.

> I think I have a social conscience but having lost some close
>ones recently I do feel that society could well do without some who
>remain.


Indeed.

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