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gremlin wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:27 pm That'll learn 'em.

Fast forward to 2025, your local retail park has a set of stocks. Local miscreants, such as shoplifters, are placed in there from 10am-4pm to endure a bit of public ridicule and barracking.

Reckon that would be a better deterrent than what's currently on offer?
can you imagine the parents' reactions?
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Rockburner wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:37 pm
gremlin wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:27 pm That'll learn 'em.

Fast forward to 2025, your local retail park has a set of stocks. Local miscreants, such as shoplifters, are placed in there from 10am-4pm to endure a bit of public ridicule and barracking.

Reckon that would be a better deterrent than what's currently on offer?
can you imagine the parents' reactions?
They'll be next in...

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Rockburner wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:37 pm
gremlin wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:27 pm That'll learn 'em.

Fast forward to 2025, your local retail park has a set of stocks. Local miscreants, such as shoplifters, are placed in there from 10am-4pm to endure a bit of public ridicule and barracking.

Reckon that would be a better deterrent than what's currently on offer?
can you imagine the parents' reactions?
"Eee's a lovely boy. Wouldn't 'urt a fly"

15 minutes after the stocks are locked, there'd be Facebook flaming pitchforks would be out in force.
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Airfix kit and a bit of cotton.

Oldest trick in the book. :P
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there are literally hundreds of flight up and down Wensleydale I say it genuine
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rodbargee wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:17 pm there are literally hundreds of flight up and down Wensleydale I say it genuine
We used to camp (illegally) on the only lake in the Lake District and often got low flying aircraft passing during training.
Could almost see their faces 😉
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You can see the position of the sun, you can see the front of the hotel in shadow, but the Typhoon isn't in shadow?
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Plus the fact that's looks like a technical illustration of a Typhoon :lol:

Also with a plane flying past that low and close either the background or the plane should be blurred.

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The pilot is probably trying to read the sign on the barn roof.

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Yorick wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:01 pm
rodbargee wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:17 pm there are literally hundreds of flight up and down Wensleydale I say it genuine
We used to camp (illegally) on the only lake in the Lake District and often got low flying aircraft passing during training.
Could almost see their faces 😉
On the farm we had when I was a kid jets flew over what seemed like a lot less than the required 200 foot height.
I used to just about crap myself when it happened.

The farm was right on the edge of the Northern Fells area of the Wainrights and for almost two days a year its absolutely beautiful up there.
The rest of the time its pretty bleak.
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200 feet you say? I remember driving to Farley radio station looking out of my van window at an A10 flying along side me. He was at house rooftop height maybe (it was open fields).
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Ian wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:15 am an A10 flying along side me.

How fast were you driving? :o
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A pair of A10's visited RAF Finningley when I was a kid, they flew everywhere very low. The story was that the Septics couldn't navigate so they'd follow the roads and fly low enough to read the motorway road signs.
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Did any of the low fliers wave a sign at any of you?

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Me out walking the dog earlier today.
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Your dog can fly a plane?
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Border Collie. Smart breed, innit.
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gremlin wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 1:28 pm Screenshot_20250322_132759.jpg

Me out walking the dog earlier today.
Always worth watching. Turn sound up ;)
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