Stoph Schmitz
This seems to be a new line in scams. Ignore it or report it to your local police. Note the +4470 number which is high cost and diverts to somewhere unsavoury. Why don’t OFCOM ban the use of these numbers except by properly checked companies and individuals?
stoph Schmitz Our company is a trading firm specializing in repairs and retail distribution of electrical products within the United Kingdom and Wales.
We want to replace one of our Directors due to a problem he currently has with the Home office to save the company an embarrasment. If we are able to reach a meaningful agreement with you on your signifying your interest, I will then explain more to you.
This is all I can say for now but it is important that I mention that the Director stands a chance of being deported back to Rwanda from England and has agreed that he is willing to work out a deal whereby he will hand over his shares in the company through a mutual agreement to you, to be redeemed at a later stage and this is a legitimate transaction.
You will be compensated with 14 percent for management fees, kindly write back and I will provide further instructions. I am available via email or telephone: +44-7024045640 and fax: +44 844 774 5598 I will write you back on reading your email or recieving your call or fax.
Finally, please note that this must be concluded in a matter of weeks.
Yours Sincerely,
Charles Munyaneza
A Mallard with Twelve Ducklings
Mallards can have up to 13 ducklings, but I’ve never seen this many where I live.
There is no cat around here, but I hope the foxes don’t find them!
What a Waste of Money!
The Saville enquiry cost £200,000,000 and didn’t find anything that most right-thinking people didn’t really know. Read the statements of sensible politicians like say John Major, and they would probably have predicted the findings about ten years ago.
The population of Northern Ireland is just under 2,000,000 according to this report on the BBC. So that means the report cost about £100 for everybody there. Wouldn’t it have been better to have given the money directly to the people, especially as about 11% are pensioners?
We must move on and even some of the most controversial characters from the depth of the troubles have done so.
Take Glenn Barr He is still a controversial character to both the British and the Nationalists because of his involvement with the Ulster Defence Association and politics. Now though he has retired from active and conventional politics and devotes himself to community projects in Derry, often concerned with high unemployment.
This is also in his Wkipedia entry.
He has also worked closely with Paddy Harte, a former Irish Government minister, on promoting awareness of Irish Catholic participation in both World Wars.
I first saw Glenn Barr on a BBC Panorama program in the 1970s. Asked by the interviewer, what would happen if the British pulled out, he said that the Protestants and Catholics would probably fight for a couple of days and then realise they were all Irish and had a lot more in common. He was also asked if he had any regrets. He said that he couldn’t watch Derry City, as he wouldn’t be safe. I hope he can now!
In about 1980, I heard report on BBC Radio 4, about a guy called Paddy Docherty, who had found an abandoned coaster in Derry harbour. He was filling it with Irish cast-offs like hand sewing machines and was going to sail it to Ethiopia, where such would be appreciated. The trouble was that they couldn’t get the Deutz diesel engine repaired. So I sent him some money to help, as did aot of others. He sent me details of what he was doing and he was running the YTS in Derry. His major supporters were Robin Eames, Cardinal Daly and others I knew to be on the right side. His number two was Glenn Barr. Iremember, I phoned Paddy up and had the most enlightening hour with one of the real heroes of Northern Ireland. Years later, I met Jim Prior and he spoke appreciatively of Paddy.
Just thing what £200,000,000 would have done in the right hands in Northern Ireland, rather than in the hands of expensive lawyers.
I’d love to know what happened to the coaster.
Lowering the Drink Drive Limit
At the moment, I’m not allowed to drink because of the stroke, but I’m not sure that lowering the limit is the best way to improve road safety.
I’m always very careful when I drive and do most of my drinking at home anyway. I did once drive to an emergency on the stud in my Discovery on the tracks after drinking a couple of pints and it frightened me. Nowhere did I break the law, as I went nowhere near a public road. In the end, I more or less abandoned the car at the problem and walked home.
I think most people are sensible and do things to stay legal anyway. Ask any policeman and they will tell you that many of those who drink and drive are serial offenders and have been caught at least once. The lowering of the limit would not affect these people, as they are well over the existing limit.
But are we after the wrong cause of accidents. About a year ago, I was nearly involved in a very serious accident. Luckily, I was in the Jaguar and was able to steer out of the way andbrake safely. A guy about twenty had overtaken dangerously and driven straight into the car in front of me. It was just plain bad and reckless driving. He should have been prosecuted, but the police refused to turn up. We need more proper traffic police on the road, whereas they are being cut drastically.
On another point, if I want to go to the pub now, as I can’t drive and it’ three miles, it’s either walk or get a taxi. But there are no local taxis round here and I would have to pay for them to come from the nearest town. We need the rules on taxis to be relaxed, so that we get more affordable taxis in rural areas. This in itself would probably discourage people from drinking and driving.
We also have the most serious penalties for drinking and driving in Europe, although our limits are higher. Many people have lost their jobs because they have been convicted and have no way to get to work. In a big city, this would not be a problem, but here in rural Suffolk it is.
So perhaps, we should exanmine everything to make sure that we end up with less accidents on the roads and also provide sensible alteratives for those who can’t or shouldn’t drive.
Trouble at Court
On Monday, there was a serious incident at Cambridge County Court. C used to work there a lot.
What the idiot’s motives in trying to burn the place down are, are uncertain, but is it part of a general unhappiness at the way people are treated by the courts in areas such as divorce and child matters? C had many angry clients, who in many cases felt the law shouldn’t apply to them. Typical would be the man, who felt that his ex-wife didn’t deserve a penny from their failed marriage.
Will we see more incidents like this, as costs are cut from legal aid and court budgets, which will mean that people get more and more unhappy with the service they get? I hope not!
Onshore Oil Extraction in the UK
They’ve just talked about this on the BBC. I once discussed this with one of Britain’s foremost experts on natural resources. He told me that the most promising area was actually Surrey for oil, but they would meet lots of opposition. On the BBC they were talking about Dorset being very promising.
His solution to the opposition was very simple. For each barrel of oil or tonne of mineral ore, there should be a local extraction tax paid to the local authority. At present all goes to the Treasury to waste, but just imagine how an English county could be tranformed with the revenue, spent according to the needs of the local people. They would welcome the inconvenience and jobs, but on their environmental and contractual terms.
The Anonymous Widower 