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One of my early jobs was as a milkman; I was only 20 at the time and a skinny little runt to boot. On one of the estates there was a bully who had a local reputation and I had to deliver milk in his back-garden, as he didn't like it left at the front door. I had no issues with that (or him) until the day came when the back-garden was locked so I left it at the front door. The next day he came out and fronted me over this and very intimidating too. I told him why the change and he told me I should have knocked so I said I would in future. Still unhappy he continued to rant and rave and I just took this one the chin and reported it when I got back to the yard... the other guys weren't at all happy when they heard it (knowning his reputation) and 'immediately' sent a crew of 5 geezers to his house to (shall we say) have a word... the bully never spoke to me again and when I did see him and said "good morning" he politely responded the same. I don't believe the lads touched him (I wasn't there btw) but when they got back to the yard they said "he won't worry you again".... they were right!
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Aspro are you Pat Mustard?
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Pat Mustard?
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Pat Mustard got blown up!
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Hide in the dark near his home armed with a piece of 4 by 2, when he comes home hit him back of the head with it , when he turns round hit him in the face , wont bother you again
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can't see any soloution other than moving house, yeah it's drastic but if this thug is making their lives so unhappy I can't see any other option.
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move house ffs and if you have a similar problem there do you move again and again and again ?
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there is 2 sides to every story --
what if your "mate" is a total knob? who doesn't like abit of music or a party from time to time and clearly is**ing off the neighbour with all the complaining and being a bit.ch. just a thought. |
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No idea what you're talking about but in my experience most people who act 'ard and far from it... it's usually all talk, although I wouldn't trust that rule 100%. Only on a few occasions have I found myself in a position where I've had to stand up to a bully and suprisingly neither of them went against me; in fact on one occasion I lost it with one of them and nutted him; I thought I was going to get mashed but he just walked away after that.
The funny thing about this story is the foreman came up to me and told me that I should be instantly sacked for it but he'd managed to calm the other guy down enough, not to let it go any further. He went on to say... "but off the record.... Nice one!" :D Several years later I heard him refer to me as a "bit of a nutter" (pardon the pun) but anyone who's met me will know I'm not like that at all... I just lost it on this one occasion where usually I'd try to resolve the issue. The guy was much bigger than me and had he the balls to actually fight he probably would have knocked me into the middle of next week with just one punch. He played on his size and from what I hear he still does but underneath he wasn't a fighter at all... something I am forever grateful for! |
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Just a joke aspro Pat Mustard was the milkman on Father Ted.
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ahhh, never watched it
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You should do comedy genius.
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I did watch one episode but it didn't appeal to me at all so never bothered again
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Not really helping the guy that :)
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Torture his cat.
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Two real options
Do something Do nothing. If its do something then its Fight or Flight If flight is not an option that leaves fight. So legal fight or illegal. If legal is expensive and doesnt really work what does that leave. So how far do you want to go with this illegal fight. Plenty of options already mentioned. |
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Saw Hollow was posting earlier. Wondered what happened so ttt
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Richard LL 14 Jun 10:48
can't see any soloution other than moving house, yeah it's drastic but if this thug is making their lives so unhappy I can't see any other option. completely agree. you don't want to antagonise a dikkhead particularly if the wife is scared as she wont dare to be alone in the house anyway its unfortunate but the keyboard warriors won't help here. |
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ffs, I've been reading an old thread for the last 15 mins.
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same here lol
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not a bad ttt though tober'.
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lol
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sorry :^0
Hollow may be on soon , just posted on Horse Forum |
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ok, will be interesting to see if it's been resoved.
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l*
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what does ttt mean?
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hope to frig his mate didnt move just cos of some fecking gobshyte acting the big man.
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Evening all.
A sad end unfortunately. Several attempts were made to get police involved, who just kept saying that until something happened there was nothing they could do. (incidently, there is a new initiative apparantly that is a bit like drug house busts. If enough neighbours anonymously sign a police form about anti social behaviour from one household, the police can raid and board up that house! Never happened!) In the end they just upped and left. Left the house to be repossesed, took kids out of school, left his job and moved away from the area completely to stay with family. Talked a few times on the phone since, but it's a raw subject so don't know the full details.I know he's retraining to be a plasterer, so i guess he's dealing with things as well as possible. All in all, a real life example of the crass world we live in. |
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:(
Shame , pity the people who moved in. |
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Sometimes makes me hang my head in shame Tobe. When he left, the 1st thing we thought was 'oh well at least they're out of that situation'. Didn't really think of the rest of the street or the new owners. Its one of them, turn a blind eye cos it doesn't affect me things. Maybe i'm no better than the bully in that way, but as my wife said, it's not our battle!
Now back to searching for that lay price post ;) |
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Depressing really that decent people had no option but to move away, sounds like they must be worse off altogether from a financial perspective too. The children might be relieved though , must have been frightening for them in particular. Though the experience won't improve their outlook on life. :(
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at least he could go back now and batter the cnut if he wanted and he wouldnt know where to find him.
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how did this fred survive the purge? last post was 15 june, thought everything pre-july had been zapped?
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If his wife is so worried u need to get a direct line to the police station for her ,just incase this bloke
does infact attack her ..what area do these people live in ,is it a rough area ,why has he singled this lady out ? as mental as he is there must be a reason he has picked on her ,do they live next door to him ? |
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they don't anymore Case as they moved away in the end
GVL, Thats only on Football ( 6 months i think? ) and Horses( 4 months) Chit Chat threads can still be retreived from Sep 2006 |
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tell her to go to the station and tell them she wants a panic button installed ,if you keep on
the police will have to take some sort of action ,even if its just an occasional ,drive by to re assure the other residents .. |
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from Hollow's post bottom of the previous page sounds like Police were useless
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slow psychological torture would be the way to deal with it a la the twits.
Add a small circle of wood to his chair legs every day for a year he'll think he's getting shorter when his feet dont touch the ground. So you can then tie him to some helium balloons to stretch him back to size. cut the strings and he'll fly up and away and never be seen again. Simple really. don't know why no one thought of this before. |
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the twits!! class book! :)
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Wait until bully boy leaves house....
A strategically well hidden fish wrapped in newspaper will take a good length of time to rot down completely Bit of meat in an air vent etc. You get the gist. |