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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR POLICE OFFICERS :-
AT A RECENT TRAINING COURSE IN WILTHSIRE, PROBATIONER CONSTABLES WERE
BEING ADVISED ON HOW TO DEAL WITH DANGEROUS DOGS, THEY WERE ADVISED,
IN COMPLETE SERIOUSNESS THAT AN ATTACKING ROTTWEILER COULD BE MADE TO
LOOSEN ITS GRIP BY INSERTING A HB PENCIL UP ITS BACKSIDE ........
I BET IT COULD !!!!!!!!!
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The speaker told of his adventure with a perilous bra constrictor.
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When the baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place
under a tap. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk it should be boiled.
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To repair damaged tablecloths, first lay the tablecloth flat, with the hole
uppermost.
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The nearest hotel is over five miles away in one direction and practically
twelve miles in the opposite direction.
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District Attorney F. T. Graham, of Bronsville, Texas, got himself sent to jail
for drunken driving this weekend. He became both prosecutor and defendant in a
court case that followed his arrest after his car hit a dividing strip in the
middle of a road last week.
When he was taken to police headquarters, Mr Graham signed a complaint against
himself. In a special hearing he pleaded guilty to driving whilst intoxicated
when his own charge against himself was read. He was fined $50 (L20 16s 8d)
and sentenced to ten days' imprisonment. In the accident, the two left tyres
of his car blew out, but he was unhurt.
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As a result of the incident many of the busts leaving Uxbridge Terminus are
being followed by police cars.
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THE TYPISTS' REPRODUCTION EQUIPMENT IS NOT TO BE INTERFERED WITH WITHOUT
THE PRIOR PERMISSION OF THE MANAGER
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First the headlines:-
A double celebration at RSGB HQ; the antarctic expedition is at the
South Pole; and the Kidderminster rally has been cancelled.
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An inquest is to be held at Cranbrook on Wednesday into
the death of a 28-year-old Michael Morris, who was found with
stab wounds at Paddock Wood on Friday night. Police said
they were satisfied there were no suspicious circumstances
attached to the man's death.
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A LETTER from the Ministry office asked: `Is it necessary for your
employees to climb a six-foot, glass-topped wall to get to work?'
Works manager Mr Terry Burrows though the question
amusing. So he replied: `The normal mode of entry for
employees is by using the springboard provided, bouncing
over the mill surround, climbing the outside of Dixon's (285
ft) chimney, and descending inside the chimney and entering
their place of work via the boiler house'. Mr Burrows, works
manager at the Robert Todd yarn-spinning mill at Carlisle,
ended his letter to the Department of Social Security: `Ask a
silly question . . .'
The letter was sourly received at the department's offices in
Carlisle. An official said: `Proper enquiries were instituted and
there was no need for anyone to be flippant.' The department's
query was over an injury claim by an employee who injured his
foot climbing the wall to get to work. The worker was taking a
short cut.
In Whitehall, the Department of Social Security said:
`Speaking generally, the success of such a claim would depend
on whether it was necessary for workers to climb the wall to
get to work, and whether such a practice was prohibited by the
firm. every case is judged on its merits.'
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HOUSEWIFE Mrs Rose C--- bought an ice cream gateau for tea at a village shop.
When she opened the box at home in Duxford, near Cambridge, SEX stared her in
the face - in large white letters across the top of the gateau.
Mrs C--- asked the makers, T. Wall and Sons for an explanation. They
apologised, gave her another gateau and told her that the letters had been put
there in a fit of pique by a worker who had been sacked.
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Sal Monella breaks out at Currie scare over EGG standard
A new graphics standard Enhanced Graphical Gain (EGG), which has
taken the US PC market by storm, has been condemned by a leading UK
technical analyst.
Ed Currie, technical standards manager at the Coddled Foundation
for Open Graphics Standards (OGS) told PC Week: 'UK users should be
careful before being enticed by the supposed benefits of replacing,
say VGA, with EGG. Already we've had reports from 15 corporates in
the City that have suffered major data losses after installing the
'softboiled driver' necessary to run EGG.
According to the Californian company, Santa Ortez Developments,
which developed it, upgrading to EGG allows any PC to display
graphics with a resolution of 1,312 x 1,312.
SOD's managing director, Sal Monella told PC Week: 'EGGs are
perfectly safe, I always use one. The extra high resolution is
acheived by using our proprietary Yardstick Optical Linear Kinetics
(YOLK) technology developed at the Haight-Ashbury Cellular, Kinetic
and Interactive National Growth research institute, a US government
establishment.'
He added: 'I'm sick of the computing establishment's cronies like
Ed Currie scaring people off our products.'
Currie's reaction when answering Monella's complaints was to add:
'All I can say to the UK corporates is don't put all your EGGs in
one basket.'
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Staff should empty the tea-pot and then stand upside down on the tea tray.
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Police disbelieve a naval stoker who says he is not dead.
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If you drive your car onto a policeman's foot - and don't remove it when he
asks you to, are you guilty of assault? Three High Court judges yesterday
disagreed on the answer to the question.
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A woman, hit in the chest by a stray bullet, was rushed to a Saigon hospital.
A nurse unclipped the woman's bra and - the bullet fell from its padding.
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Mrs Margaret Wilson abandoned her driving test in midstream yesterday. Her
examiner was in full agreement with the decision. After all, when you >are< in
mid-stream it's the only thing to do.
Fortunately they managed to attract the attention of a passing driver - Mr
Roger Goodman, who happened to be sailing up the River Wey at Guildford,
Surrey, at the same time. Mrs Wilson and the Ministry of Transport examiner, Mr
Victor Johnson, were sitting on top of the car - a Hillman Hunter belonging to
Mrs Wilson's husband - when the motor-cruiser hove into sight.
Mr Goodman, a local councillor, said yesterday: `I was flabbergasted. I came
round a bend and saw the car in the middle of the river with two people sitting
on the roof with two people sitting on the roof as it went down. I slowed down
and went alongside and my wife threw a lifebelt to the woman who said she
couldn't swim. We got her into the boat and the driving examiner crawlwd across
the roof. We took them across to the bank and the police had already arrived.'
Mrs Wilson had just turned sharp left into the ominously named Riverside
Road when things began to take a turn for the worse. `This was my fifth test
and it had been going much better than the previous four,' she said at her home
last night. `I'd just gone round the corner in first gear on full lock. I said
to myself: "I'm too close to the edge", and then I must have put my foot on the
accelerator instead of the brake because I went straight through the railings
into the river. The car started to sink. I had my window open and got onto the
seat and half out. The examiner opened his door and the water rushed in. Then
he got out of the window.'
Mr Johnson, a senior examiner, was sent home `in a state of shock'. But, in
accordance with proper procedure, he did manage to hang on to his briefcase and
clip-board during his flight to safety. Which was probably just as well. For a
Ministry of Transport official said: `As this was a terminated test, we cannot
say whether the lady passed or failer until the examiner makes his report.'
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One main event in London was Cruft's Dog Show. For two days dogs and dog-
owners from all over the country crowded the huge halls and galleries, barking
at one another in fierce competition.
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He said the printer had `read off the wrong line', but promised that
arrangements were already in hadn ot hvae tch netx editoin pirnted korrectly.
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73 John G6JPG @ GB7NNA
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