Ship-wrecked goods: Finders keepers?
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Memo to Moderator.
If this is truly a "Reactively Moderated" HYS how come my contribution did NOT even appear at all?
How come yet again the Moderator has CENSORED my views when they DO NOT CONFLICT with any of the HYS HOUSE RULES?
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tommi - I agree
I'm forever having my posts blocked on relatively moderated subjects.
Also, posts should not be withheld if they disagree with the subject. We all have opinions.
The last I knew we didn't live in a police state, so why won't they post my opinion? The house rules for 'rejecting' are ridiculous.
I freely admit to being homophobic - the act, in my opinion, is vile - It's MY opinion. There's no reason to block it. If other HYS readers object then they can say so
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I've just registered a new account with Ebay. I've already placed bids on items stolen from the beach, and intend to win every auction by placing bids JUST large enough to win - at the last moment. Then I'll mess about for 10 days or so with emails promising to pay etc, all from a new hotmail email address. I urge as many of you to do likewise - mess these thieves about!
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You lot shouldnt be on-line you should be down the beach scavaging through the left over crap with the other pikeys!
Steve L, SE3
You can say that living in a SE3 postcode,
pot, kettle, black - words ring any bell?
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!I've just registered a new account with Ebay. I've already placed bids on items stolen from the beach, and intend to win every auction by placing bids JUST large enough to win - at the last moment. Then I'll mess about for 10 days or so with emails promising to pay etc, all from a new hotmail email address. I urge as many of you to do likewise - mess these thieves about!
Karen White, York, United Kingdom "
...or you could get a life worth living.
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I can't believe the number of wa*kers posting here saying the stuff is insured so who cares?
Guess what the outcome of insurance claams is - higher premiums for everyone, not what I want to see thank you very much!
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Looting and pillaging?...a typical Anglo-Saxon pastime. Times seems not having changed mentalities for "the english"...Must be the inbreeding of some lowlifes still pretending to be in the middle ages.
Anybody decent and hardworking would've been at work yesterday or with their family at home. Others...would be on the beach...
Simply put...despicable greedy selfish behaviour. Typical yobbo culture...and it's the same ones again..!
Shame on you..
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So far in the last week, the UK has shown itself to be racist, selfish and immoral. Is this the sharing caring and tolerant country Gordon Brown was talking about? He should get out and take a peek once in a while!
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Why were people so keen to grab everything then?
By the way, moron is spelt M-O-R-O-N, not maroon.
So There, South of England, United Kingdom
Yes. Very amusing.
Well done sir. You've showed me up with a play on words. How grown up of you.
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""I think its more the fact that people don;t live near said beach, so are jealous of the scavengers. So they feign moral outrage.
Brentus Maximus, Liverpool, EUROPE ""
Lucky it didn't run aground off Liverpool then else by now the ship itself would be on Ebay....
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"For once no-one on here is ranting and blaming the whole thing on immigrants or George Bush!
The scavengers you see here are pure english country home-grown low lifes in all their glory.
..and I for one feel ashamed to be English for the second time this week.
AAARRR GGGHHH, Bristol"
AAARRR GGGHHH, or may i call you arg for short?
One small point to remember, If you are really trying to insult country folk you must always throw in the word "inbred" or even "banjo-players".
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Probably find some illegal immigrants in one of the containers.
The Labour government would keep them.
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OH woo hoo
silly you
would you say the same
if they nicked it off you?
poetic justice ???
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"To everyone who is going on about being ashamed: Get Real!! We all know the BBC only reports negatives, there is a lot to be proud of in Britain, just we don't see it!"
Steve Maguire, Manchester
That's so right. I was very proud to have got to work 5 minutes sooner than usual. The lousy BBC wasn't there to report this or my successful morning poopy at 10.30 also missed the headlines.
I pay my licence fee and I feel shortchanged.
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My morning dump was also a 100% success. The BBC wasn't there, but Fox News was. They reported my crap.
Looters are biased and I am tired of people sticking up for them. Cart the off to Gitmo - its all they deserve.
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"But I say go for it, finders keepers! Unless it's my stuff in which case give it back."
Neil Smith, Bath, United Kingdom
Neil, that is a cretinous mantra. You have just embarrassed yourself or not.
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"Finders keepers losers weepers. Anyone who says differently is just playing the politics of envy."
Alex Marshall, Prague, Czech Republic
It's amazing how much stuff the opportunist thief finds over the course of a week.
Are you an opportunist thief, Alex?
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"Originally the locals would have lured the ships onto the rocks to shipwreck them first, but alas that part of traditional westcountry is no more. Soon we will have no traditions left if the PC dogooders have their way."
Victoria Bracken, Devon, United Kingdom
Outlawing incest must have been a great blow as well.
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Yes! Let's get back to what we British do best - piracy, rum, sodomy, and the lash! We're a nation of islanders and sea adventurers - at least the people of Devon haven't bought into all this moralising crapola.
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Oh brentus maximus...that is the sort of comment we would expect from a scouser....theft is theft
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"I'm off to Devon this evening to nick some stuff from the beach.
And its legal! I think some Jade perfume might be a good idea and some bits for my brothers Honda."
Theresa Greene, Reading, Berks.
Totally biased... what kink of pinko-spart upbringing is responsible for this?
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Yes! Let's get back to what we British do best - piracy, rum, sodomy, and the lash! We're a nation of islanders and sea adventurers - at least the people of Devon haven't bought into all this moralising crapola.
Shaman Williams
hahaha! Totally agree!
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Plundering ? Good for them ? What a load of crap. These people are looters, thiefs, criminals. In line with other countries they should be shot on site.
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OK, so I'm a thief - done the high street shops as well as peoples stuff.
Honestly - what's wrong with nicking stuff? It's there fault for not looking after it. You cant blame me for that. Someone esle would take it anyway.
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Scumbags the lot of them but hey we should expect nothing less from our society today!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Reactively Moderated" again! But, for how long!?
Three times today I've had my comments banned & I don't know why as I certainly wasn't abusive or disrespectful, but then, BBC Moderators are so shallow that they CENSOR anything they fancy no matter what the HYS 'Rules'.
Summary of my points: If your neighbour's belongings, a royal mail lorry mass of parcels & post, a plane's passengers' luggage ended up strewn around after a bad incident NOBODY DECENT would accept it's ok to HELP YOURSELF!
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Excuse me "Annia Valainistima" on what grounds do you make the suggestion that it is right to steal???
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"Michael Jamieson " said:
Why doesn't the BBC just start a thread called "Do you hate chavs?" and then all you hand-wringing, PC middleclass nitwits can just launch into it without having to negotiate the annoying preamble about beach-pirates and Big Brother."
Anyone else get the feeling that the person above was also probably one who thought it was right to be above the law during the fuel strike, when thousands of arrogant 'the law don't apply to me' types blocked our roads?
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Anyone else get the feeling that the person above was also probably one who thought it was right to be above the law during the fuel strike, when thousands of arrogant 'the law don't apply to me' types blocked our roads?
Listento Boycs
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm a card-carrying Greenie who cycles to work. You're the one on the side of an unscrupulous cargo company that sends unseaworthy vessels out to pollute our coastline.
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How could these sweet and charming intellects possibly be hated? Look at their contribution to life!
[Lambretta150]
And your contribution, apart from mis-informed, arrogant and pretentious drivel, is...?
Long way to fall off that pedestal, matey
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Come on, give these people a break. They live in Devon for God's sake. If you take away the perk of being able to loot the odd ship-wreck they are only left with windsurfing.
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Devon must have the highest crime rate in the UK right now. Please, people of Devon... if I should visit next summer please do NOT remove my hub caps!
David Charnley, Liverpool
Sure you've still got some, Dave from Liverpool?
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Those Devonians are rank amateurs. The Cornish would have cleaned up completely within 24 hours.
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Theiving Scumbag B--t-rds
Theiving Scumbag B--t-rds
Theiving Scumbag B--t-rds
Theiving Scumbag B--t-rds
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Are you having a laugh Right Wing what about working hard?
widuran Bertram, Letchworth, United Kingdom
Greetings Widuram,
Your statement, coming as it does from a Local Council worker, made us all laugh heartily in the office.
As ever, we on the democratic Right wish to thank you for your posts - best comedy on the net.
Regards
Righty Right Wing
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The police can't stop you. The only thing they can do is to deter you which thank god isn't working, looks like the ship is going to be there a while, with a lot more salvage to come.
Take what you can, never give it back, arrrr.
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Get over it people, no-one is breaking the law so who cares, there are far worse things happening to really get that upset by a few opportunist people grabbing some freebies. I don't care that much about the owners of the goods, they're all insured and s**te happens. I am more concerned about the huge container ship off my local coast line spilling tonnes of oil into the sea, yet all you can do is moan about stuff being nicked off the beach!
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""Quote: I do however question your morals. I also question the fact that did you not have anything else to do this week (job?)?
Jamie M, England"
Do you work 7 days a week. I am a nurse and I don't. Sometimes I work 6 days, other weeks 5 days, but I am entitled to days off just like anyone else! Especially as I often work 12 hour shifts.
Michele Pearce"
Methinks this entrepreneurial, punctilliously law-abding, lady with the lamp is iust a tad too good to be true???
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"Methinks this entrepreneurial, punctilliously law-abding, lady with the lamp is iust a tad too good to be true???"
Looks like my hours and I'm a nurse too. That is normal nurse shift hours.
Obviously you have things cushy? 9-5 mon to fri perhaps?
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's**te happens.'
[footysurfrat], Devon, United Kingdom
Is that what the midwife said to your parents?
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"Methinks this entrepreneurial, punctilliously law-abding, lady with the lamp is iust a tad too good to be true???"
Looks like my hours and I'm a nurse too. That is normal nurse shift hours.
Obviously you have things cushy? 9-5 mon to fri perhaps?
Gill smyth, Westcountry"
No I'm a nurse too - and like all nurses I just happen to have a couple of lorries and
a working knowledge of salvage law.
Think you've been had chaps.
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If this disaster been also a great loss of human lives and dead bodies washed up on the beach these same scum would have no problem going through their pockets.
If they had been starving and stricken in poverty I could understand but most of these people have mobile phones, Sky TV, beer and drug money, nice cars, game consoles etc.
They are plain greedy and dishonest and an embarressment.
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BLEET BLEET BLEET!! I'M SO MORAL AND YOU ARE EVIL!
WAKE UP PEOPLE, IF THIS HAPPENED ON A MOTORWAY OR A RAILTRACK, NO, SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD’NT BE DOING THIS, BECAUSE THAT IS ILLEGAL!
BUT LIKE IT OR NOT THIS IS LEGAL AND UNLESS YOU PLAN TO ACTIVELY PROTEST TO CHANGE THE LAW STOP YOUR MOANING.
ALLL I’VE READ HERE IS PEOPLE WHINGING ABOUT RIGHTS, THE SALVAGERS HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SALVAGE!!
"YOUR ALL MONSTERS!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GET A LIFE
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But since it's just the poor you snobs are abusing, I guess that somehow makes it acceptable.
maroon machine, london, United Kingdom
Racism refers to a race. so-called 'chavs' are not a race other than part of the human race. Therefore to call them what they are is not racism. I wouldn't have used the word chav, anyway, rather, 'thief' springs to mind.
And just because one is poor does not mean one has to resort to stealing - it's still wrong.
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"As for the chav vs racist comments, racism is unjustified because it's attacking someone soley on the random fact of who they happen to be. Chavs get ridiculed for what they do - their conscious and deliberate actions define them as part of that group, and because those actions are mostly negative they are a fair target for ridicule and insult.
[ForceCrag],"
Interesting theory. But is being born stupid to stupid parents any more your fault than being born black??
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"Interesting theory. But is being born stupid to stupid parents any more your fault than being born black??
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom "
What is the "fault" with being born black?
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Interesting theory. But is being born stupid to stupid parents any more your fault than being born black??
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
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People are not born 'stupid' - however some people are born who are less able to learn (learning difficulties).
His theory was correct - the people who go to the beach are 'chavs', or scabs.
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i had a post removed that breached human rights =(
i do like chavs really.
sta-...HUG a hoodie. <3
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I'd really love someone on here who is happy using the word 'chav' to tell me what their definition is
[bongoshire],
The Chav (Homo Slouchus) is a semi-vertibrate, distinctive for its slumped posture.
A pack animal, its behaviour is characterised by random violence and habitual intoxication.
Rudimentary attempts at communication are punctuated by snarling, swearing and incessant spitting.
The species are prolific breeders but have no parenting skills. They abandon their young at birth
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"Interesting theory. But is being born stupid to stupid parents any more your fault than being born black??
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom "
What is the "fault" with being born black?
[Seegji], Basingstoke, United Kingdom"
Seegji old man, they hypothesis is that a person cannot help being born stupid anymore than he can help being born black - please try to keep up....
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'Failing this, I have the number of a good counsellor who will help you get over it one day at a time.'
Woo Hoo, Europe
Why doesn't it suprise me that you'd have the number of a counsellor close to hand?
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Actually the British are uniformly law abiding, which is why we have never had a revolution.
Thats correct, but judging by the strength of feeling on most of these HYS's, maybe it is about time we did.
The only people in the country who seem to oppose my views in general are the government. How the hell do they keep getting voted in when no one likes what they do.
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If we have a revolution, can we get drunk at the same time? That'd be a proper British revolution then.
Also, can it wait until next weekend? I have plans this weekend that are incompatible with a revolution.
I have one final request. The leader has to be referred to as 'Captain' and must dress like a pirate at all times. Failure to adhere to this rule results in a new revolution.
Oh and Mr Max - Why in the blue hell was she not doing anything about it!? I doubt she was for real; most likely an actress hired in a vain attempt to stop people from looting.
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Simple - they like the Tories even less. It is an established fact that elections are not "won" by one party - they are lost by the other.
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
True, The is no real difference between the Tories and new labour, what we need is a party that represents the views of the people and until we get one we are no closer to a democracy than Iraq was before the war.
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True, The is no real difference between the Tories and new labour, what we need is a party that represents the views of the people and until we get one we are no closer to a democracy than Iraq was before the war.
[neworldorder], Withernsea, United Kingdom
The thing is parties that say they represent the real views of the people, whether they are of the left or right usually end up with corpses hanging from lampposts and the rule of gun. Our form of government is not perfect but it is ok
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The only people in the country who seem to oppose my views in general are the government. How the hell do they keep getting voted in when no one likes what they do.
[neworldorder], Withernsea, United Kingdom
Ah that would be because the rightwhinging contributors to HYS are not necessarily representative of the general public.
People who have been taking goods washed ashore from the container ship MSC Napoli have been accused of "crass greed".
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said scavengers on Branscombe beach in Devon were making the clean-up more difficult.
Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, if people try to conceal or keep goods they are breaking the law. The ship-wrecked items still belong to the original owners.
Are people who take goods just making the situation worse? Have you taken anything from the beach? If so, why did you think it was yours to take? Do you live in the area? Send us your views and experiences.
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