I found this mugging
I was out walking one afternoon and come across a right palava. Some thugs were mugging a kid who was sprawled across the floor. I came over calling for help and they legged it, leaving this kid on the floor and these two servers next to him. He must've been taking them somewhere and was spotted; it's well known around here for people to be mugged for their shoes, let alone two computers. So there was no-one about to call for help, so I helped up the poor kid and got him and his hardware back to me shack.
I got him rested and after while he comes around. Apparently he knew me from around here (some rumours or bollocks about me causing some trouble a while back) and was happy that I found him when I did. He was more happy to see that I'd retreived the servers too, but one of them seemed to have taken a knock during the attempted mugging. I knew a few things about them, so I offered to see if I could clean it up. We managed to power one up and he got an email message on the server from this woman client, asking for some help on a job as long as he could get there as quick as possible; it was cash-in-hand so it was a priority. I'm into I.T. a bit myself, so I though "anything for a hobble" and offered to give him a lift. He'd had a rough day so he was happy for the offer. We loaded up the car and sped off towards town.
As we get just outside the city-centre we get unexpectedly stopped by the police as a routine stop. "Oh ffs" I think to myself as I go through all the reasons why they'd pull me over. The kid's looking at me nervously too, as if I'd done something wrong. I mean I'm just giving him a lift, he's the one going for the hobble. The copper asks for ID, so I wave it off telling him I don't need to produce me details for 7 days. Before him or the kid can mutter anything, I can't be arsed to waste our time here so I tell him straight "These aren't the droids you're looking for" and pull off, ready to find my hobble. Seemed to work, we were not followed for a while.
Got a nice hobble with her, although the life insurance policy didn't cover for saber-related deaths. I was gutted, literally.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:58, 3 replies)

This story would probably make sense to me
if I knew what the fuck "going for the hobble" meant
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 17:47, closed)

working off the books so to speak
bah, never mind :(
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 18:01, closed)

Fantastic
OK, so I also have no idea what "hobble" means (apart from the meaning of walking with difficulty) - but I appreciated the story :)
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 19:32, closed)