Full of shit
I came to know a bloke through my brother who was a bit of an odd sort. He was a loner, never worked a day in his life, and like re-constituting fireworks to make (VERY) bigger bangs without pretty colours.

Being in my teens and enjoying shooting etc myself, I was quite interested in his talk of guns and ballistics. I thought he was generally full of shit though, until...

I did my brother a favour of returning to this lad a length of chain and padlock that had been loaned (something to do with a motorbike) and received quite a surprise when turning into his street to find police vehicles and personnel of all descriptions, most notably a bomb disposal unit! I just knew it had to be him.

I shit you not, I've seen an armed seige (maybe post later) and there weren't as many police there as I seen here. They looked pretty nervous too.

It transpired later (I see him around occasionally and asked a few years later) that his scummy neighbours (it was a rather shitty area) had been running a catalogue scam with his address, intercepting the post and goods in the communal hallway of his block. A plain-clothed officer had knocked on his door in connection to that and had been told politely where to go while a pistol was pointed at his groin through the letterbox. Obviously armed response was then called in and they took his flat apart.

I can't honestly recall the list (it was substantial) of things they siezed from him, mostly handguns, and specifically his 'pride & joy' sniper rifle (he was especialy proud upon hearing an armed-response officer say "Here, some of these are better than ours!"). The bomb squad was allegedly called from Catterick army garrison when they discovered his stash of explosives. According to him (he may have exaggerated) the arsenal they found was large enough to arm a rampage of a proportion to make international headlines. I also know that most of his dodgy stuff was kept in various hidden/buried cache's in the surrounding countryside.

He and his flatmate/sidekick/apprentice didn't spend very much time at all in prison, which I found rather dubious. This was way before all the current terror scares though (90's). Whenever I speak to him these days, he spouts off about conspiracy theories involving government agencies and extra-terrestial beings, the illuminati etc. Generally I think he's just a layabout and full of shit.

I just realised I've thought that about him before. I was VERY wrong. Ooh fuck!


(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 13:07, Reply)