Reply to: See Swansea High Street and die.

[RichardCranium]

No just the graveyard of ambition then.

That is the exact phrase a lecturer at Swansea College used to describe the place to me a few years ago.

[RichardCranium]

you just wait...when I get back to Blighty I'll organise a CUK Myth Busters party.
Guests need to bring their own myths and proofs or otherwise and will get a slot during the evening to explain them.

That's OK. Since the quack put me on these hypertension tablets I have had no trouble getting to sleep at all, thanks.

[Pondlife]

Or at least that's what appears to have happened to some unfortunate lady this afternoon.

As I wandered out of High St. station, I noticed the defibrillator machine was missing.

By the time I'd got to the Grand Hotel I realised why.

There was some unfortuate lady flat on her back being given kiss of life & heart massage by combination of paramedics & coppers.

The usual gawpers were gathered.

From my later enquiries, she may have passed on.

No just the graveyard of ambition then.

[Olly]

I've heard about those parties. I am not convinced they actually happen

you just wait...when I get back to Blighty I'll organise a CUK Myth Busters party.
Guests need to bring their own myths and proofs or otherwise and will get a slot during the evening to explain them. Person at the end of night with most right gets to spend the the wee hours with my Llama

[EternalOptimist]

The parties I'm invited to, they talk about myth busters

I've heard about those parties. I am not convinced they actually happen

[Cliphead]

The parties I'm invited to, they talk about myth busters

Now that sounds like a party

[Olly]

The parties I'm invited to, they talk about myth busters

[shoes]

Wonder if she'd just bought a bag for life from the supermarket....?

Bummer if she had.

[Cliphead]

There yee go cliphead

linky

Thanks, different incident but I remember it as it was close to where I live.

The Partick incident where two dogs and the owner were killed was big news at the time. I got the story from my mate who actually was first on the scene being a beat cop at the time.

[minestrone]

There yee go cliphead

linky

[Cliphead]

You have a lot of faith in the law if you believe that one....

650V, human piss, very good conductivity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fbuR5Cu_I

woman in shoes holding a dog lead and 240v (is it?) ....myth busted.

Point of the story were the dog's names. Mildly amusing I suppose. Bet you're fun at parties

[Cliphead]

You have a lot of faith in the law if you believe that one....

650V, human piss, very good conductivity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fbuR5Cu_I

woman in shoes holding a dog lead and 240v (is it?) ....myth busted.

Got it wrong, was a dodgy bit of scaffolding that killed them. Several links on t'interweb but trying to find a newspaper link.

[minestrone]

You have a lot of faith in the law if you believe that one....

650V, human piss, very good conductivity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fbuR5Cu_I

woman in shoes holding a dog lead and 240v (is it?) ....myth busted.

I lived in Partick at the time and it is true.

[minestrone]

The good lady does not use doctor as a title on any identification as she says you get pestered on flights and stuff. With her name initial being high up the alphabet she will be picked out on the "look down the list and see if there is a doctor on board". Last time someone said "she does not look like a doctor", wrong wrong wrong move.

[Olly]

A few years ago in Glasgow a woman was walking her two dogs along the main road in Partick, inevitably one of the two dogs cocked a leg against a lampost.

The lampost had recently been repaired but was faulty and electrocuted the woman and both dogs. A mate of mine who was a cop was one of the first on the scene but despite his efforts and those of the ambulance crew the woman expired.

Getting details from nearby people who knew her it turned out the dogs were called Lucky and Sparky...

You have a lot of faith in the law if you believe that one....

650V, human piss, very good conductivity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fbuR5Cu_I

woman in shoes holding a dog lead and 240v (is it?) ....myth busted.