Contact info and "All quiet on the western front".

[orkamedies]

My AOL internet thing at home is very unreliable at the moment so i have put my works email on my profile page.
If you need to email me please use that one.

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[speedlime]

Poor Ork! We missed you at Thanksgiving-- I hope things get better soon.

[orkamedies]

Well slowly but surely we are making progress, fingers crossed thus far i have had no more call outs in the dead of night.
It looks pretty clear that the people involved either work for us or at least chat to them in the pub or more likely have worked here in the past.
One who stands out is Sammy who was recently seen with serious burn marks all up one side of his face/body.
The little bag head had tried to rob copper power line form a live sub station; unfortunately he just got burned badly and not killed.
So everyone in the village now knows that a lot of extra security has been put up and i have made it clear that i am going NOWHERE over the Christmas period and i shall be here waiting to dispense the seasons greetings on any unwanted visitors.

[speedlime]

Yipes-- that's no fun way to spend a Christmas, standing guard over the scrapyard with a maglite! We'll just have to send you some bizarre presents to cheer you up. I was at Ikea last week and they had a bin full of PLUSH WEASELS. I just love that phrase, 'bin full of weasels!' And you KNOW I bought one to keep our ferret company-- would you like a weasel, too?

Your problems at the scrap yard are reminding me of similar things going on in the States-- rising metal prices, particularly copper, mean there's been a rash of thieves breaking into houses to rip off the copper plumbing. People fucking SUCK.

OH BIN 'O' WEASELS...

[orkamedies]

That phrase is great, it could mean so many things....

Ha so you refuse to talk lower him into the bin full of weasels!!!!!

OR

Let the fun begin open the bin of weasels...

Sorry IMP of the perverse moment there, back to normal'(ish) now.

A plush weasel would be lovely and it can keep my ferret company and help to anoy Dritz...

Yes people do indeed suck greatly some poor sods down south recently woke up to a strong smell of gas, to find that the tiny bit of copper pipe outside there house that brings the mains gas supply in had been hacksawed of by scum bags.

[iron__monger]

Crank heads around here looking for cash were smart enough to try to recycle several dozen plaques they had stolen from a grave yard.. i wonder how they thought they would get away with that!? There was another case were a restaurant had plumbing outside the building and thieves stole the copper pipes for scrap, putting them out of business until it was fixed naturally. High metal prices are bad all around... unless I suppose you owned allot of scrap metal before prices went up. Sounds like you just need a big ol' mean junk yard dawg.

I miss Kim.

[orkamedies]

Oh dear the mind truly boggles at the stupidity of some people.
Apparently a WW1 bronze memorial statue was stolen from Lincoln way recently.
It's all over the papers so who in their right mind will buy it as scrap is beyond me, but if they did they should be shut down.
A recent employee of ours have totally gone of the rails and is a complete druggie now. He was seen trying to weigh in some scrap at a local merchants yard and he had really bad burn marks on him.
These were from his failed attempt to steal copper cable from a live electricity sub station!!!
Pity if didn't kill him.

We used to have a lovely "big ol' mean junk yard dawg" she was called Kim.
I think when my new house is completed i may well see about getting another dog again.
Don't know what my cat will make of it all though..

Re: I miss Kim.

[iron__monger]

Yes, stealing live electrical wires is always a bad idea. I heard of some guys stealing wires to a large water pump got a lethal lesson in electricity. When they disconnected the juice to the pump the back flow turned the pump into a generator and fried them. Yes folks natural selection is still alive and well, just maybe a little groggy.