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| mnementh:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 17, 2022, 07:12:22 pm ---Philips CRAPacitors are also very common in Fluke equipment and are to be shot on sight without trial. >:D --- End quote --- Absolutely not! They shall be condemned to death by electrocution with extreme prejudice. :-DD mnem using as high and inverse a voltage as one can muster! >:D |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 04:59:43 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 17, 2022, 04:47:31 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 04:43:57 pm --- --- Quote from: factory on July 17, 2022, 01:04:01 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 17, 2022, 10:53:41 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 10:15:32 am --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 17, 2022, 09:29:13 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 09:10:09 am ---Ok on way back from hamfest now. That absolute turd arrived at 08:30 and emptied it again >:( Did manage to grab a manky tek 465, a solartron 7150, some 10 turn pots, TO18 heat sinks and a book to sell. And I still have change from £25 :-DD --- End quote --- Is the turd a dealer? --- End quote --- Yes. Same one I mentioned to you last time. He waltzed off with a pile of kit and left the trash for everyone else. Turns up as a seller but doesn't set up, goes round and empties everything off and that's it. --- End quote --- There are no rules around this? In any case, if he's a known quantity and you can learn what vehicle he uses, it should be possible to run interference and stop him from getting there early, if you can organise a few people for joint action. --- End quote --- Do they just leave straight after, or do they eventually set up their stall? I guess the organisers shouldn't let them in early if they arrive with nothing to sell. :-- David --- End quote --- Or of course, they could just make a rule that nobody buys/sells anything until the fest is officially open to the members and public, but that would scupper BD's plans as well :-DD --- End quote --- Having rules and enforcing rules are orthogonal.:( But you knew that. --- End quote --- Well, what I thought I knew was, BD getting there early, convincing the organizers to let him in early so that he can beat the turd, perhaps his hyper miling style of driving cost him precious moments today :-// --- End quote --- Some hamfests where I've sold stuff have an explicit "no trading before door open for public" rule. It is ignored, and I don't see how it can reasonably be enforced on the day. My best suggestion would be to warn hamfest organisers that there is such an individual, along the lines of "you may like to keep an eye on a trader driving a green Ferrari, and see whether he stays around until the end". Then next year the organisers might decline to book him again. Very imperfect, of course. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 17, 2022, 07:26:04 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 06:52:32 pm ---Well, that is what I was told by a serving police officer, who was on duty at the time and was attending an incident when that actually happened to me a neighbour who was being a right entitled idiot because he had his family had 5 vehicles to park >:D --- End quote --- Relying on a serving police officer as a reliable, accurate source of legal knowledge is perhaps not the best course of action, especially as what they tell you is usually dictated by "What should I say to get this plonk arrested/out of my hair as quickly as possible?". The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 actually requires a person who isn't "a constable" to have a better knowledge of what is and isn't a criminal offence and what kind it is than "a constable" to effect a lawful arrest (section 24 versus section 24A arrests). It's damning when the law formally expects a layman to be better legally educated than a policeman. :) --- End quote --- mnem does this mean a knowledgeable citizen can effect a citizen's arrest on a ignorant police officer and make it stick...? :o |
| Zenith:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 06:52:32 pm ---Well, that is what I was told by a serving police officer, who was on duty at the time and was attending an incident when that actually happened to me a neighbour who was being a right entitled idiot because he had his family had 5 vehicles to park >:D --- End quote --- There's a difference between unlawful and illegal. If someone parks a car on your driveway without your permission, you could sue them as a civil matter. But, who wants to to go to the expense and risk of raising a lawsuit over a car parked on the driveway of a private house for an evening, and attempt to assess damages? |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: Zenith on July 17, 2022, 07:37:36 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 06:52:32 pm ---Well, that is what I was told by a serving police officer, who was on duty at the time and was attending an incident when that actually happened to me a neighbour who was being a right entitled idiot because he had his family had 5 vehicles to park >:D --- End quote --- There's a difference between unlawful and illegal. If someone parks a car on your driveway without your permission, you could sue them as a civil matter. But, who wants to to go to the expense and risk of raising a lawsuit over a car parked on the driveway of a private house for an evening, and attempt to assess damages? --- End quote --- No you tow it out onto the road with your Land Rover and phone the police and tell them it has been abandoned. Have some experience with that :-DD |
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