This won't do much for the reputation of railway enthusiasts:
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=12950132
http://tinyurl.com/8zl5e

What a first class, jam spangled, ocean going plonker!

"Tom Cumming"  wrote:


> This won't do much for the reputation of railway enthusiasts


I'm intrigued as to what the 'trainspotting equipment' was. Is this
police-speak for a notebook and pencil?

Chris

>
> I'm intrigued as to what the 'trainspotting equipment' was. Is this
> police-speak for a notebook and pencil?
>

or a curled up cheese butty

"Chris Read"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Tom Cumming"  wrote:
>
>> This won't do much for the reputation of railway enthusiasts
>
> I'm intrigued as to what the 'trainspotting equipment' was. Is this
> police-speak for a notebook and pencil?
>


Isn't a notebook and pencil also "law-enforcement equipment"?

Tom Cumming wrote:

>http://tinyurl.com/8zl5e


Is anyone else here using Tesco Broadband, and not able to get this
page (or any other ThisIs website, for that matter) to load?

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On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:37:58 GMT, Neil Sunderland
 wrote:


>Is anyone else here using Tesco Broadband

Yes.

>, and not able to get this
>page (or any other ThisIs website, for that matter) to load?


I'm getting it OK.

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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:37:51 +0000 (UTC), "Chris Read"
 wrote:


>
>"Tom Cumming"  wrote:
>
>> This won't do much for the reputation of railway enthusiasts
>
>I'm intrigued as to what the 'trainspotting equipment' was. Is this
>police-speak for a notebook and pencil?
>

.... and a Thermos flask, suspicious-looking sandwich and in a few
cases maybe a tube of Valderma and a copy of Razzle ?
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On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:37:58 GMT, Neil Sunderland
 wrote:


>Tom Cumming wrote:
>>http://tinyurl.com/8zl5e
>
>Is anyone else here using Tesco Broadband, and not able to get this
>page (or any other ThisIs website, for that matter) to load?


http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=12950132
came up on the second attempt with F5 (Refresh). It seems to be a
common failing with ThisisMoney, that you can only get to view
discussion group pages at 1-minute intervals. In fact, I'm reading
this while I wait for the minute to pass.
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http://www.omnibussoc.org

1501 wrote:

> What a first class, jam spangled, ocean going plonker!


and if i maybe so bold, deaf as a post as well, given that most
if not all station tannoys remind passengers often about not
leaving their bags and luggage unattended. this guy has only
gotten what he deserved.

t.

On 5 Aug 2005 01:07:09 -0700, "Trevor" 
wrote:


>1501 wrote:
>> What a first class, jam spangled, ocean going plonker!
>
>and if i maybe so bold, deaf as a post as well, given that most
>if not all station tannoys remind passengers often about not
>leaving their bags and luggage unattended. this guy has only
>gotten what he deserved.
>
>t.

Come on,,   he is a spotter,   how many working brain cells do you
excpect him to have?

The bag was found at 5.50 am. Devon trainspotters are up early.

Kevin

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> The bag was found at 5.50 am. Devon trainspotters are up early.


There seems to have been plenty of unsubstantiated condemnation of an
unidentified individual on this newsgroup.

The news report states that the bag was found in an area where rubbish is
frequently thrown from the station.

Has anyone considered that *perhaps* the individual was a passenger on the
down midnight (due Plymouth 05:08) and that the bag had been stolen from the
train, the valuables removed and the unwanted items discarded? There are a
number of possibilities as to how this bag came to be where it was, it seems
unlikely from the location that it was just left by an absent-minded
spotter.

Neil Sunderland wrote:


> Is anyone else here using Tesco Broadband, and not able to get this
> page (or any other ThisIs website, for that matter) to load?


On NTL they've been down for several days, but have recently come 
back.

Probably just a 'plant' to give the authorities even more excuse for
banning trainspotters from stations.

> Probably just a 'plant' to give the authorities even more excuse for
> banning trainspotters from stations.


Yes, it must be part of that evil conspiracy.

>Neil Sunderland wrote:
>> Is anyone else here using Tesco Broadband, and not able to get this
>> page (or any other ThisIs website, for that matter) to load?


Tom Cumming wrote:

>On NTL they've been down for several days, but have recently come 
>back.


It's back for me now; apparently I needed to modify my Proxy settings,
which is odd because those sites loaded fine without them last week. 

Still, comms is one of the Black Arts :-)

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"Martin WY"  wrote in message 
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> On 5 Aug 2005 01:07:09 -0700, "Trevor" 
> wrote:
>
>>1501 wrote:
>>> What a first class, jam spangled, ocean going plonker!
>>
>>and if i maybe so bold, deaf as a post as well, given that most
>>if not all station tannoys remind passengers often about not
>>leaving their bags and luggage unattended. this guy has only
>>gotten what he deserved.
>>
>>t.
> Come on,,   he is a spotter,   how many working brain cells do you
> excpect him to have?


'excpect'

People who live in glass houses...

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Andrew Yarnwood wrote:

> > Probably just a 'plant' to give the authorities even more excuse for
> > banning trainspotters from stations.
>
> Yes, it must be part of that evil conspiracy.


I dont see why it is evil, just common sense. It gives those who are
tasked with security at stations something less to distract them. There
are many instances on various forums that describe how enthusiasts have
been ushered from platforms for doing nothing other than photography or
number collecting, so I dont see why it is a conspiracy either, just
'company' policy.

You want evil conspiracy?

This is evil conspiracy:-


 By Jason Leopold

  © 2005 Jason Leopold

  Scandal-plagued Halliburton -- the oil services company once headed
by Vice President Cheney -- sold an Iranian oil development company key
components for a nuclear reactor, say Halliburton sources with intimate
knowledge into both companies' business dealings.

  Halliburton was secretly working at the time with one of  Iran's
top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and sold
the  components in April to the official's oil development company, the
sources said.

  Just last week, a National Security Council report said Iran was a
decade away from acquiring a nuclear bomb.  That time frame could
arguably have been significantly longer if Halliburton, whose miltary
unit just reported a 284 percent increase in its second quarter profits
due to its Iraq reconstruction contracts, was not actively providing
the Iranian government with the means to build a nuclear weapon.

  With Iran's new hardline government now firmly in place, Iranian
officials have rounded up relatives and close business associates of
Iran's former President and defeated mullah presidential candidate
Hashemi Rafsanjani, alleging the men were involved in widespread
corruption of Iran's oil industry, specifically tied to the country's
business dealings with Halliburton.

  On July 27, one of Iran's many state countrolled news agencies, FARS,
an 'information' arm of the Islamic judiciary, announced the arrest of
several of the executives of the Oriental Oil Kish Company, which is
owned by Rafsanjani's children and other relatives.

  "They were brought up on charges of economic corruption," according
to a report posted on the Iran Press News website.  "Following the
necessary investigations by the judiciary's bailiffs, with warrants
from the public prosecutor's office (mainly mullahs who only dole out
Islamic jurisprudence), the case of economic corruption and
malfeasance, certain of the authorities of Oriental Kish Oil Company
have been arrested and under questioning.  The head of the board of
directors was also among those detained."

  Now comes word that Halliburton, which has a long history of flouting
U.S. law by conducting business with countries the Bush administration
said has ties to terrorism, was working with Cyrus Nasseri, vice
chairman of the board of directors of Oriental Oil  Kish, one of
Iran's largest private oil companies, on oil and natural gas
development projects in Tehran.  Nasseri is also a key member of
Iran's nuclear development team and has been negotiating Iran's
nuclear development issues with the European Union and at the
International Atomic Energy Agency.

  "Nasseri, a senior Iranian diplomat negotiating with Europe over
Iran's controversial nuclear program is at the heart of deals with U.S.
energy companies to develop the country's oil industry," the
Financial Times reported.

  "A reliable source stated that, given the parameters, the
close-knit cooperation and association of one of the key members of the
regime's nuclear negotiation team with Halliburton can be an alarm bell
which will necessarily instigate the dynamics of the members of the
regimes' negotiating committee," according to the Iran Press News
story.

  Oriental Oil Kish is registerd in the United Kingdom and Dubai.

crazy_horse_12002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:


> Andrew Yarnwood wrote:
> > > Probably just a 'plant' to give the authorities even more excuse for
> > > banning trainspotters from stations.
> >
> > Yes, it must be part of that evil conspiracy.
> 
> I dont see why it is evil, just common sense. It gives those who are
> tasked with security at stations something less to distract them. There
> are many instances on various forums that describe how enthusiasts have
> been ushered from platforms for doing nothing other than photography or
> number collecting, so I dont see why it is a conspiracy either, just
> 'company' policy.


I was being sarcastic! A few trainspotters/enthusiasts seem to think
there is an evil conspiracy to oppress them.