The previous post came from a conversation with my recent G/N visitor, Who comes from Sth Afica, ----------------- A big thanks for the help and company from David and Jenny, ------------and his stories he was telling me of how tight you have to lock it all up over there or you lose it, Makes you really apprecatiet this country and the ease we have in travvelling from place to place, Even here I have frequently gone to bed leaving the everything open and unlocked, even including the car with the keys in it Again thanks to Palebushman
Socialising again !!!!!!!
how the hell do I work on the bus you ask??
Cruising Granny said
04:46 PM Apr 17, 2009
You've been very lucky so far. I strongly recommend you stop pushing your luck, and lock up.
Campers and parkers motto - "look, lock leave."
It's an unfortunate fact of life in Oz that things are always as they seem.
JRH said
04:54 PM Apr 17, 2009
mike and Judy wrote:
The previous post came from a conversation with my recent G/N visitor, Who comes from Sth Afica, ----------------- A big thanks for the help and company from David and Jenny, ------------and his stories he was telling me of how tight you have to lock it all up over there or you lose it, Makes you really apprecatiet this country and the ease we have in travvelling from place to place, Even here I have frequently gone to bed leaving the everything open and unlocked, even including the car with the keys in it Again thanks to Palebushman
Socialising again !!!!!!!
how the hell do I work on the bus you ask??
In the 1950's I lived in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, now of course Zimbabwe, we never locked anything up, not even the car out the front of the house, never lost a thing. Used to leave my push bike leaning against the fence, was always there in the morning. Wouldn't even consider it today, there or here in OZ.
The world has changed and definitely not for the better. John
dave06 said
05:27 PM Apr 17, 2009
they still dont lock them up john, makes it easier and quicker to get out of the house when they come to kill you and take away the farm
Basil Faulty said
05:36 PM Apr 17, 2009
I'ts a fact of life these days. Mates daughter had her seatbelt slashed, dragged out of her Beamer thrown on the road at a set of lights the lowlifes just jumped in and drove off. Dosen't happen often and there is no real way of preventing this sort of thing unless you lock the doors once you get in.
Lack of respect for the property of others is endemic in society today. And when they get caught if ever they always get off becuase they had a tough time as a child and it's apparenty quiter justifiable to screw someone elses life if you have been screwd with.
JRH said
05:44 PM Apr 17, 2009
dave06 wrote:
they still dont lock them up john, makes it easier and quicker to get out of the house when they come to kill you and take away the farm
Nail on the head old son, nail on the head. My sisters friends were murdered on their farm just outside Bulawayo a few years ago, the murdering mongrels just set fire to the house and burned them in it. The doors and windows were locked and barred from the inside and they simply could not get out. The world we live in.
dave06 said
06:54 PM Apr 17, 2009
hell sorry John didnt mean to shoot so close to home, I've just been watching a bit on the news, absolutely terrible
you're right Basil, they just take what they want and there is no consequences even when they are caught
Roostertales said
07:42 PM Apr 17, 2009
Hey Mike -Yeah I luv the sentiment -it's great to be so free and feel so safe ... It is a risk though sad but true ... but I do it as much as I can too. Just love the feeling of freedom it gives me
Mike
Wombat 280 said
08:13 PM Apr 17, 2009
There's a roundabout on the southern end of Taree in NSW where the local lowlifes wait and when a car comes along (normally pick ones with women driving or in the passengers seat) one will walk off the curb to make the vehicle slow as you are half way around another will rip open the passenger door and grab your purse or anything on the seat . Mate lost his laptop via this method. By the time you pull up it's all over red rover and into the weeds they have gone. If you gave chase, when you return the vehicle is ransacked or gone completely. It's a lock and load situation
JRH said
02:52 PM Apr 18, 2009
dave06 wrote:
hell sorry John didnt mean to shoot so close to home, I've just been watching a bit on the news, absolutely terrible
you're right Basil, they just take what they want and there is no consequences even when they are caught
Dave no need for apologies old son, if I were still sensitive about the affair I would not have mentioned it and you were not to know what had happened anyway.
There are atrocities going on in the world everyday that we never get to hear about and I still cannot work out whether I am thankful for my ignorance or not.
-- Edited by JRH on Saturday 18th of April 2009 03:11:12 PM
The previous post came from a conversation with my recent G/N visitor, Who comes from Sth Afica, ----------------- A big thanks for the help and company from David and Jenny, ------------and his stories he was telling me of how tight you have to lock it all up over there or you lose it,
Makes you really apprecatiet this country and the ease we have in travvelling from place to place,
Even here I have frequently gone to bed leaving the everything open and unlocked, even including the car with the keys in it
Again thanks to Palebushman
Socialising again !!!!!!!
how the hell do I work on the bus you ask??
The world has changed and definitely not for the better.
John
Lack of respect for the property of others is endemic in society today. And when they get caught if ever they always get off becuase they had a tough time as a child and it's apparenty quiter justifiable to screw someone elses life if you have been screwd with.
There are atrocities going on in the world everyday that we never get to hear about and I still cannot work out whether I am thankful for my ignorance or not.
-- Edited by JRH on Saturday 18th of April 2009 03:11:12 PM