[kj] late report from the Forum

[Brian Whitehead]

Makes you wonder why the police couldn't do the detective work you did.
When I got kicked have to death by a group of hoodies and left in the gutter
the police couldn't give a toss.
Let us know what, if anything, happens to the little ba$%*rds.

Brian.

2008/10/14 Darren A. Peace <dpeace at bigfoot.com>


>  Heh! Interesting story about the car business.

>

>

>

> Break-in happened in Reading. Police were useless, and would only have been

> interested if there was an eyeball stuck on the broken glass, so they could

> have put out an APB on a pikey with an eyepatch. However, I used to live in

> Reading and have a lot of friends there. I established that a business

> adjoining the car park I used had IR CCTV, and got them to dig out the

> footage – I saw the little bastards going in through my passenger window.

> Would have been about during "Eighties", I reckon, from the timecode on the

> tape. Anyway, as luck would have it, one of my teacher friends recognised

> one of them from the tape, and I went round to his house. Confronted him (he

> was about 20), and said that I was only interested in the whereabouts of my

> wallet. Obviously I'd cancelled all the cards, but there were a couple of

> pictures by, and photos of, my children that I wanted back. Said that I'd

> let it go if he told me what had happened to the wallet, and he told me

> whereabouts he'd tossed it (in an overgrown verge near Tescos).

>

>

>

> I went and found it, got the (slightly waterlogged) pictures, and then

> shopped the little bastard to the police with my evidence.

>

>

>

> May not have been ethically sound, but felt very satisfying!

>

>

>

> Back on topic, I thought that the second night was inferior to the first –

> at the start, I felt that we were getting the Friday gig in reverse, and I

> still couldn't hear Geordie clearly. And I have to admit that I was hoping

> to hear Millennium and (especially) Mathematics. Still, it was tremendous

> stuff, and was only slightly disappointing in view of how superb the Friday

> gig was. Am I the only person to have wondered why BPF was playing the drum

> part to "Butcher" for "Whiteout"? In any case, it's been a long time since

> I've heard this band so vicious and at the top of their game. I really can't

> wait for the new album, despite not thinking much of "Timewave". I'm sure

> the studio version will knock me out.

>

>

>

> I spent a while at the merchandise kiosk, and managed to come away without

> realising that they were selling the Duende disc! Dozy bastard. Still, got a

> pope shirt to replace the white one I used to have that was nicked by an

> ex-girlfriend, so that was good.

>

>

>

> I would have made it to the pub first if it hadn't been for a football

> match in Reading that delayed me for 2 hours. Perhaps next time – it'd be

> good to put faces to names, I reckon.

>

>

>

> Darren

>

> Hungerford, UK

>

>

>

> *From:* gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

> *On Behalf Of *jpwhkj at aol.com

> *Sent:* 13 October 2008 22:15

> *To:* gathering at misera.net

>

> *Subject:* Re: [kj] late report from the Forum

>

>

>

> They were probably the twats who trashed Darren's car.

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: TB <partyslammer at socal.rr.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net

> >

> Sent: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:15

> Subject: Re: [kj] late report from the Forum

>

> "Phil Tofield" wrote:

>

> (snip)

>

> > Train journey home was a nightmare! A group of lads got on and started

> > picking on the bloke sat opposite me (cos he was fat!). Would have

> turned

> > really nasty if it wasn't for the timely intervention of a guard who >

> kicked

> > the troublemakers off. Just after that was over, a woman got on and sat >

> down

> > opposite me. She looked ill. She had a tissue in her hand with which she

> > was

> > constantly wiping her nose. Five minutes into the journey she leaned

> over

> > and puked all over the seat next to her. Then she stood up, presumably

> to

> > try to get to the toilet, and proceeded to projectile vomit around the >

> whole

> > carriage. The poor bloke sat next to me took a full load all down his >

> front.

> > Luckily she missed me, but she still managed to infect me and I had to >

> take

> > the following week off work.

>

> Jesus Christ, that sounds like something right outta a zombie flick like

> "Planet Terror!"

>

> You don't have any lingering taste for brains, do ya?

>

> T.B.

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