[The-Local] OK, I signed up. Now what?

[andrew uprichard]

Mark:  GREAT stories !

My brother (the wild one) bought an old 911 Porsche back in the 1970s.  He was so proud, he drove it up to  the local pub to show it off.  A few minutes later, two armed and masked gunmen broke in and shouted "There's a bomb in the car park!  You have five minutes!" (The IRA bombed a LOT of pubs).

Everyone ran away from the car park, but my brother, not wanting his Porsche to get damaged, ran into the car park, got into his car and hit the gas.

After the bomb went off the police were questioning bystanders and one not only remembered the Porsche, but had recorded the license plate.

As my brother tells the story (much better than I do) the Belfast police in those days didn't exactly knock on the front door.  He awoke to a crash as his front door gave way and was unceremoniously  dragged from his bed and cuffed.  Took a bit of 'splaining at the local police station, but they eventually let him go.

Andrew

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From: The-local <the-local-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Mark J Bradakis via The-local
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 1:50 PM
To: the-local at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [The-Local] OK, I signed up. Now what?

On 5/11/20 11:02 AM, andrew uprichard via The-local wrote:
>
> Mark suggested we sign up for “the local”.
>
> He said it was a site for stuff which didn’t exactly fit into any 
> other forum, but I still need an idea of what y’all talk about.
>
> Given there are millions of us (ok, maybe a dozen on this list) stuck 
> at home during a pandemic, there must be a topic which interests us.
>
You're close, there are actually 15 subscribers.  Not very many, sad to say.

> Want me to tell you about the time I was doing house calls in Belfast 
> (in the days when doctors did house calls) and the IRA “borrowed” my 
> car to go shoot someone?
>

Reminds me of two incidents.

One night I come home and there's this car sort of, but not quite parked in my driveway.  I park on the street, go in the house and call the police station, thinking maybe they'll come round and give the jerk a ticket, maybe even tow it away.  I'm telling the woman who answered about the car, she's sounding like she's perturbed because I interrupted her fingernail filing or some such.  I give the facts, blah blah blah white Lincoln - and all of a sudden she got REAL interested.  And within
20 - 30 seconds there were 3 -4 patrol cars at my house.  Seems this white Lincoln was reported as the vehicle in a drive by shooting at an apartment building about a block or two away.  And indeed, the back seat floor was littered with brass casings.

The second incident was a few years back when I was working a job doing auto parts delivery. The drivers would hang out waiting for shops to order parts, then zoom off and deliver them.  It was a slow afternoon, we were all there just killing time. Herman gets a call on his cell phone from the Salt Lake City police.  It seems that before he headed into work that morning, his neighbor asked him if he could borrow Herman's old station wagon to "run some errands" later.  The guy was out of work, obviously having financial issues, so Herman felt sorry for him and gave him the keys.  Turns out the "errand" he had in mind was robbing a bank in the neighborhood, witnesses saw Herman's car, got the plate number and easily traced the car to Herman.  And obviously it wasn't Herman who robbed the bank.

Ain't life grand?

Stay healthy,

mjb.


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