Anyone waiting delivery of a new BMW?

Handy, that. I suppose all these old laws are well tried and tested for
centuries back.

Wreckers, away.

 

Fine with FF2.0.0.1 here, too.

 

Nah, if they're the ones I read about, they're full of wine.

Après-vous Alphonse.

--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Chassis number and details logged with Police.

Mark

 

50 to make 15 good ones? Thats nothing to do with the wreck either.

Mark

 

Fifty, according to the news report I just read[1]. All snaffled during
the night.

Hard to se what to do with one. BMW will have a record of the engine and
frame numbers, so registering one will be tricky. Best break for spares,
or build a new bike onto a crashed one.

[1] And 15 according to this thread. Hm.

 

The ones I saw pictured were bobbing about in the surf too readily to be
filled with wine. And a newspaper pic I saw was of a bod holding one in
his arms. He wasn't Charles Atlas, and the bung was out, so I have a
feeling that "wine casks" got translated as "casks of wine" in the news
reports.

 

They are.

I was pissing myself laughing today. My dep comes from down there, and
do you remember that timber ship that spilled all the decent timber onto
the shore a few years ago?

Strange how half the houses in the region got timber decks in their
gardens, or new sheds, immediately after.

Well, dep's Bruvver went down and loaded up his trailer. Went back down
to the shoreline with his mate, to collect just a couple more baulks of
timber to finish the job, got back....

....and some cnut had nicked his trailer.

 

I'd imagine recent model BMW V5Cs will be a sought after commodity on
ebay over the next few months.

 

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/73062659.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=3449EC56B79F1D423986F398A9C9DCDA

and

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/73062723.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=3449EC56B79F1D42C259006A40749C2C

show a couple of them disappearing


--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

 

Arr, yer not wroong:
http://www.francisfrith.com/pageloa...p&neg=87129&townid=I5&collectionid=10&start=1
"The sharp fangs of the Morte Slates have ripped through the hulls of
many vessels. Locals regarded wrecks as fair game, and often the
survivors were killed to prevent news of the sinking getting out. One
charming woman named Elizabeth Berry was reputed to have held sailors
under with a pitchfork until they drowned. "



There were tears before bedtime one day, when the token bimbo ran from
the admin office into the general office, waving a bit of paper and
crying "There's a ship aground at Mortehoe! There's a SHIP AGROUND at
Mortehoe!!!"

She was met with a lake (OK, a small sea) of bemused, blank faces with
the occasional raised eyebrow. Upon screaming that there was a ship
aground and we'd best bundle out and do something about it, she became
positively hysterical when to a man, we all shrugged and sniggered.

"People could be dying, you BASTARDS!" she howled. I was expecting
"Think of the CHILDREN!" next, but tragically, her prick was bubbled
as one of the lads cracked up. He bent double, snorting and cackling,
over his desk and she /strode/ across behind him and raised her hand,
either to give him a fourpenny one or bounce his head off the desk.
She was intercepted by a Senior EHO, who took her gently-but-firmly by
the arm and spoke quietly to her.

She coloured, by turns, red, white and green. Quite remarkable, as
she had no Italian in her (despite the best efforts of Donno the
office manager and Champ of that parish) but she did the tricolour
thing for a couple of minutes of stunned silence (except the sniggers)
before the waterworks started, she rotated on a 3" heel and tottered
off speedily towards the Ladies. Gales of laughter followed, and I
understand she didn't come out all afternoon, and it took her over a
week before she'd speak to any of us or enter the general office.

There's a pub, you see, in Mortehoe. It's called "The Ship Aground"
http://www.francisfrith.com/pageloa...p&neg=87130&townid=I5&collectionid=10&start=1
and they'd had a freezer fail and wanted somebody to come out and
write them a chitty for the insurance.

The bimbo lived less than five miles from that pub and had done for
about ten years, apparently. Takes all sorts ;-)

 

Apparently not so according to R4 this evening, salvagers could be
guilty of theft... Not quite sure why, or how the law stands here...
Some clever bod here can doubtless elucidate...

 

Ooh. Another dive site?

Won't be anyone needing owt fetching then...?

 

Priceless. Right up there in the league of "send three and four pence
were going to a dance" stories.

Can't top it. One of the business support young ladies at our place used
to be a lap dancer though (NO there are no photos).
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| Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 |
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Mike Barnard says...

Shsamelessly stolen from a forum I frequent:

"I think these events cause tragically ugly blots on the landscape that
ruin peoples' lives.

And that's just the BMW bikes washing up!"

Courtesy of Chesilboy.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Zoidberg

Eh? Battery fitted and charged? Bike ready to ride?

Is that how BMW shop them then?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

I reckon a half hour with a jet washer and they'de be useable.



--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Priceless )

 

Guilty if they hang onto the goods. They're allowed to remove them - to
a place of safety, to await the arrival of the owners.

Yeah, right.

I hear on the news tonight that the owners (or insurers) have sent
security guards to the beach. But how they intend to stop people will be
interesting, especially as the police (whose remit, I'd guess, far
exceeds that of some heavy in a shiny suit) know they can't stop people.

This is the law of wrecks - it's hundreds of years old, and if people
want to go down and remove stuff, they're allowed to.

They just have to give their details so they can be contacted to hand it
over, later. ;-)

 

Typo corrected

I've visited the factory at Spandau. The bikes are crated, with (IIRC)
the front wheel removed, and maybe one or two other parts rmoved and
stored in the crate, but yes, with battery fitted, charged and ready to
go.

All you'd need is the keys (which will be in the crate, too), and some
fuel, and a basic toolkit to bolt on the removed components.