Bloody hell..I've got hundreds this week
Same mate who I was with when we found the 'wanking den' also found a stupid amount of cash from a very well known robbery - about 500k.

He had to hand it in though - it wasn't that he was fearful of the police, more of having his legs broken when the, ahem, owner of the said cash realised it was missing and tracked down the new 'owner', if you will.

Another friend of mine (and this was more recently) is from ye olde Eastern blok, and is here (quite legally) and working as a freelance gardener. This, despite the fact that he is in fact a virtuoso voilinist and quite well known in his home country, he was voted third best in a national poll ("If I liked playing the bloody thing, I would have been first", he once told me).

There used to be a huge derilict house near where I used to live, beautiful it was, despite it's obvious need for someone with more money and/or talent than I to bring it back to it's former glory.

It had been empty for years, and maybe the owner had forseen this current, ahem, slump coming and last year decided to have it done up and sell it.

My friend got the job of sorting out the, not inconsiderably sized, garden.

It was big job.

Nothing had been done in this garden for well over 20 years.

After about 4 days of slashing down brambles and stinging nettles, he came across a metal hatch.

No, this is not a 'Lost' piss-take - this actually did happen and didn't cause an Island to move. Pity really, the UK could do with being moved a bit further south at the moment.

Anyway, he and his gardening mate eventually managed to prize the hatch open and guess what?

It was an old WWII bomb shelter.

Inside were guns, grenades, cans of soup and other assorted stashery.

The bomb squad had to come down to take away some of the stuff safely, and the tins of soup etc... were taken by the imperial war museum.

Nice find I thought.
(dchurch bah, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 15:37, 2 replies)

sounds like...
...he may have found an Auxiliary Unit base.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Units
( The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 2:03, closed)

quite likely
as it was right on the coast. On a clear day, you can see France.
(dchurch bah, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 18:00, closed)