Crime and criminals

[Quiggs]

earlier this week a pensioner was drawing money out of an A.T.M. in Mostyn St.  ( Lloyd's ) I think, when the money was snatched from him, the perpetrator ran off, pursued by some bystanders and detained further up the road, whilst others phoned the Police. The Police retained the money for evidence.   

[Yorkie]

One piece of good advice is never use an ATM outside the building!

Personally I have never used an ATM and use my Credit Card for most of my purchases even for as little as a fiver.   I pay in full each month and at the end of each year the CC Company credit me with a sum equivalent to a percentage of all my purchases.   There is no card fee so it is win win!    ZXZ

[SDQ]

None of the ATMs I use are inside a building.
As far as using a credit card, some places charge a fee and some won't accept a credit card for very large purchases because of charges to them by the credit card company so that isn't a perfect system either.

[Yorkie]

None of the ATMs I use are inside a building.
As far as using a credit card, some places charge a fee and some won't accept a credit card for very large purchases because of charges to them by the credit card company so that isn't a perfect system either.

But, I do not use my CC if they charge, so still no cost.  When I last changed my car I paid the balance using my CC which not only gave me the CC Company cash back, but I also had the use of the capital for a few weeks in a savings account.  All the little bits of interest mount up!   

[SDQ]

I tried to buy a car from a VAG main dealer on my credit card & he said the company charged him too much for large transactions so he would only accept a fraction as a deposit & I had to pay the balance on my debit card. Mind you I had squeezed a very good deal out of him, maybe the card charges would have tipped the deal into a non-profit situation?

[DaveR]

A debit card transaction attracts a flat rate charge of around 20p for the retailer. A credit card transaction attracts a fee based on a percentage of the entire amount, can be 2% or more. Big difference!

[snowcap]

i know this may not be the right thread for what i have to say but the woman i am going to tell you about was scum to me. I was down at angel bay with my grandson and his nan on Friday morning hoping to get a sighting of the seals. We got there about 11ish and as i had never seen a seal in the wild at my ripe old age i was delighted to see 6 of them on the beach and another two in the water near by. To get a better look at them i got my grandson to go back to the car to get my binoculars. While he was away this moron of a young lady decided to take her two young lads, (about 6 and 7 ) down on to the beach so they could run around and chase the seals into the sea. I was raving and gave her an ear bashing so she called the boys back to her were they sat on the beach for 5 minutes and then decided to climb back up. By then Mrs. Snowcap had carmed me down as i was livid. should she be on the scum list or am i over reacting.

[Nemesis]

I would have done the same.-- Ranted at her that is !

[Jack]

There is a sign at the top of the cliff erected by Mostyn Estates kindly requesting that people do not go down on to that beach and not to disturb the seals.  I imagine the majority of people have heeded the notice but it only takes one idiot to spoil it for everyone else, one can only imagine that if she is that irresponsible as to let her feral children chase wild animals then she can't read either (probably a blessing she didn't have a dog too!).  This just illustrates the pressures on our wildlife from humans and urbanisation and as the population continues to increase these pressures are going to worsen squeezing our native wildlife to the periphery only being found in specialist nature reserves.

[snowcap]

she may have gotten hold of the sign in question to help her down the embankment, because that is were she made her decent, i thought they were just going down to get a little bit closer,

[Fester]

There is a pressing need to reduce the surplus human population.

[Yorkie]

There is a pressing need to reduce the surplus human population.

I take it that you are not volunteering?     L0L

[Fester]

In essence Yorkie, I have no more right to live than any other of the 7 billion humans that inhabit (infest??) this planet.

However, obviously I would rather a different process were adopted to sort the problem.

Firstly, cut down drastically on the number of NEW arrivals coming in to the world.

Secondly, despatch some of those who persistently cause serious or violent crime.

I'm volunteering for that job.

[DaveR]

Not the right topic for it..but think about the recent round of news regarding water shortages. With the population increasing, this is a problem that can only get worse. We see more and more new houses built all the time in the local area, all of them will need water for washing, cooking etc. No new reservoirs have been built or are planned to be built. How long before we are faced with water shortages locally? Surely it's only a matter of time.

[Ian]

Secondly, despatch some of those who persistently cause serious or violent crime

Tempting to start with this bloke, presumably?