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Police patrol as dozens descend on beach ("free" BMW bikes - see pics)
The Telegraph ^
| Last Updated: 3:58pm GMT 22/01/2007
| By Paul Eccleston
Posted on 01/22/2007 11:23:36 AM PST by alnitak
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Free stuff. Can't beat it.
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:23:39 AM PST
by
alnitak
To: alnitak
To: alnitak
Yikes!
My new big flat-screen TV was in one of those containers!
To: TexasCajun
Don't worry, it looks good on my wall!
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:28:27 AM PST
by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: alnitak
how would one register a motorcycle found on the beach?
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:29:42 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: alnitak
The insurance company is going to be PISSED!
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:29:48 AM PST
by
miliantnutcase
("If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -ichabod1)
To: alnitak
The motorcycle in the pic is an R1200, not a K1200.
To: alnitak
One thing for sure!
There is no alcohol in those barrels!!
I know how you hooligans are.
To: alnitak
Let them touch those things for once.
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:31:55 AM PST
by
steveo
(ADVERTISEMENT)
To: alnitak
There were also . . . nappies, dog food and expensive hand cream.That's some funky kind of party.
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:33:55 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Who am I and why am I here?)
To: alnitak
The Times has some more pics.
Beachcombers collect car parts from Branscombe beach, as stricken ship Napoli is surrounded by salvage boats. Dozens of people swarmed over the beach exploring the contents of the containers (Barry Batchelor/PA)
Containers carrying dangerous materials such as battery acid and perfume have come off the stricken cargo ship (Barry Batchelor/PA)
Various items of cosmetics litter the beach (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)>
People carry away bags of nappies (aka diapers) from the beach in front of the wrecked ship (Stephen Hird/Reuters)
You're carrying your bag of nappies off the beach and you think you're having a good day....until you are overtaken by the guy on the BMW!
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:35:13 AM PST
by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: camle
how would one register a motorcycle found on the beach? Flotsam salvage
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:37:32 AM PST
by
frithguild
(The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
To: alnitak
Has Ireland gone into mourning yet?.........
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:38:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: alnitak
Reminds me of one of the principles to live ones life - If it's free, I'll take two.
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:44:19 AM PST
by
SengirV
To: miliantnutcase
The insurance company is going to be PISSED! Maybe, but salvage law is salvage law.
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posted on
01/22/2007 11:51:08 AM PST
by
Junior
(Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
To: frithguild
I didn't know you could do that.
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posted on
01/22/2007 12:00:41 PM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: SengirV
OK. Free punch-in-the-neck over here.
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posted on
01/22/2007 12:03:29 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: alnitak
Ok folks let's not get too excited.
All these items are flotsam and under British law belong to the owners. These people are no better than theives and looters.
To: AppyPappy
Interesting stripe on the Coast Guard vessel...
To: alnitak
I remember finding a book at the library about "salvage" operations along the British coasts during the centuries. For some communities, a shipwreck was manna from heaven, and there were rules - never written down, but always enforced - about who could take what, and when it could be taken (for example, the ship had to be abandoned - no crew on board).
Of course, there were always stories - always denied - of crews being murdered to allow locals to "salvage" the wrecks.
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posted on
01/22/2007 12:11:48 PM PST
by
Fudd
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