Another reason to stay North

[JawsOrca]

It's rough down here....

 

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/armed_police_hunt_for_beccles_gunman_for_a_second_day_1_4105106

 

Seriously though.. shocking news  .. Beccles is clearly very lovely and not what we expect.. let's hope it's a mistake or someone just being a bit stupid and no one gets hurt.. Good luck to the Fuzz. 

[Hylander]

Well I live and didn't know anything about it. The very worst that usually happens here is a bike goes missing. You are never more safe than in Beccles.

[Hylander]

Yesterday morning, officers responded to calls that a man armed with a gun had been seen in the town’s Smallgate area behind the NatWest bank.

It is not known at this stage if the incidents are connected.

 

 

On reading the newspaper report - I did chuckle at the fact that a man had been reported at the rear of the NatWest bank holding a pistol and they did not know if this was related to the incident.        Makes us locals sound like a load of gun toting renegades.    I wonder if he was also riding a mobility scooter and clutching his pension book.       

[JawsOrca]

Makes us locals sound like a load of gun toting renegades.    I wonder if he was also riding a mobility scooter and clutching his pension book.       

 

Come to think about it.. Beccles does look very similar to Sandford.. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Fuzz )

[dnks34]

Ive just driven by on my way home to the even rougher place known as Lowestoft, and Im happy to say I saw no gun wielding nutters, no police, no helicopters....nothing

[BroadScot]

I can just picture Monica in her Annie Oakley Outfit, strutting into the square in Beccles with her rootin tootin guns blazing! Yeeeehaaaa!!!    

 

 

Iain

[Gracie]

Monica, are you sure it wasn't Iain on Scoot? 

 

Grace

[BroadScot]

The hell it was (in finest John Wayne accent) Grace, Scoot has a proper seat, not a saddle! Yeeeeehaaaaaa!     

 

 

Iain.

[JennyMorgan]

Last bus is 3.30 p.m., no bingo hall, so what else are the locals expected to do?

[RayandCarole]

Mmm sounds like the Beccles to Geldeston mafia

Usually targeting unsuspecting northerners daring to try the southern broads

Dont come south folks to dangerous we southerners wouldnt dream of going beyond Beccles bridge.

Ray & Carole

[Oddfellow]

Unbelievably, one big family group from earlier this year were reported by the public for having a firearm and using it in a public place.

 

Indeed, the air rifle that they had taken on board was confiscated by police and given to a ranger for safe keeping who then dropped it into us on the day of their departure to repatirate it.

 

It seems that neither the rangers or the police were very pleased with our customers but our customers thought it was something of a joke. Personally, I think that they were damn lucky to get away without being charged.

 

Needless to say, firearms are not welcome on our boats.

[JennyMorgan]

Andy, what are you like, attracting such undesirables?

[dnks34]

a joke? Theres nothing funny about being shot in the face

[JennyMorgan]

It really does all happen in Beccles! Last night one of my daughters was in Beccles, standing in as controller at a friends taxi company. In the early hours someone took a potshot at one of the lady drivers. Thankfully no injuries but Beccles is beginning to sound like the Wild West, only it's out East.

[JawsOrca]

I just walked past a shop here. Peered through the window and it's a gun smiths.. it is proper country here lol..

[JennyMorgan]

I just walked past a shop here. Peered through the window and it's a gun smiths.. it is proper country here lol..

Tilneys, Mr Tilney often features as an 'expert' on Antiques Roadshow.

[CaptinDread]

I just walked past a shop here. Peered through the window and it's a gun smiths.. it is proper country here lol..

 

I've been in that gun shop, and no, it wasn't me in Beccles causing grief....

[JennyMorgan]

I've been in that gun shop, and no, it wasn't me in Beccles causing grief....

Me too, long time ago, old man Tilney used to have an amazingly well built daughter . . . . . . . . . .

[stumpy]

Mr. Tilney is (is he still with us?) a good old boy, back when I was allowed to make holes in pieces of paper he did some cracking work on one of my pistols.

[JennyMorgan]

Mr. Tilney is (is he still with us?) a good old boy, back when I was allowed to make holes in pieces of paper he did some cracking work on one of my pistols.

The son is, must be in his sixties. The old man, don't know but I'd be surprised if he is.