slightly off topic, but i feel a worthy rant.
the biggest tightwad i can currently think of is, in fact, a crackhead ALLEGEDLY by the name of Martin Betteridge. from the reading area.

rather than work for a living, he gets council accommodation for nothing. he also gets fed,. and looked after by the nanny fuckin state we live in that rewards indolence and punishes hard work.

rather than buy things he wants, he steals them for free!
yesterday, he managed to acquire a rather nice charge stove bike, a much loved one at that, by the simple expedient of cutting a lock and riding off into the sunset... alas being as i'm now reduced to mere shoes, i was less swift than he, and alas, being bereft of free will and a pair of bollocks, the multitude of shoppers who watched me hammer after him screaming 'stop that guy!' failed in their civic duty to try and assist in the apprehending of an offender. so now, this waste of organs has grabbed himself a bargain!
the police, of course, despite having a name, and no doubt an address, have promptly done.. absolutely nothing.

so yeah

off topic, but a tightwad nonetheless.

it galls me all the more to know my taxes are allowing this idiot to be mollycoddled by the government, while i continue to put in 12 hour shifts supporting vital emergency services, and have to pay lots of my money for the privilege of keeping the remainder.

outfuckingstanding.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:07, 4 replies)

Buy some heroin
some really good stuff. Cook it up and prepare a syringe full - use the whole bag in one go. Nice and strong. Befriend him. Get him drunk, whatever. Now inject him and watch him OD. Clean up your fingerprints and any other evidence as best you can. Maybe set fire to his house - a lit fag near the body should do it with some combustible material. You've seen CSI. Make sure you werent seen going in or leaving. Wait. Job done.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:19, closed)

but then i'd be worse than him
sure i'd like to see him catch a beating. sure, if i'd caught him regardless of outcome yesterday, i would have administered the kind of beating that made the rodney king incident look like horseplay. (not that it would have doneme any good- criminal record would lose me my job AND freedom- damn sight more than the price of the bike) but at the end of the day, he stole an inanimate object, and much as it galls me, i don't think it warrants terminating him.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:27, closed)

i know
but its fun. Thrill of the act. Waiting to get caught. Sleepless nights. Its all win.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:48, closed)

Another thought...
Find where he lives.
Get bike back.
Wedge his fingers into the spokes, push his face against the gears.
And start to try to ride the bike, snapping his fingers, and causing him some nice facial injuries
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:04, closed)