- Commit a burglary.
- Escape along a railway track....
- .... on a quad bike whose engine drowns out the sound approaching trains.....
- ...... in the middle of the night.
'They were just good lads. They just enjoy going out midnight racing in the dark down by the track and the fields around there.'Sounds like a plausible explanation to me, after all me and my friends like to go out visiting jewellers in fancy dress with replica guns, doesn't everyone have a hobby?
Update: In the circumstances it is horrible to laugh at someone's sincere expression of grief but can anyone keep a straight face when reading stuff like this?
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Some sharp dressed friends of the deceased there. Stretch pant trackie bottoms all-round.
At least none of them are wearing the stolen merchendise.
This story formed part of the Radio 2 news bulletin yesterday morning for about an hour and a half, but only the bare bones of the story - men, dark, quad bike, train, dead - and then was bumped for something else.
No mention of a robbery for the Beeb....
In fairness to the Beeb, The Mail story didn't mention any robbery when I read it earlier in the day either. I guess it "developed" as the police put two and two together. It kind of put the "poor lads only wanted to have some fun making a god awful din all night riding their bikes" type comments into some sort of perspective. Although if you're on a train line it's not inconceivable you might get mown down by a train at any hour. Doh!
In SE London/North Kent there seems to be a considerable overlap between the quad bike riding fraternity and the tarmac-your-drive-guv 'travelling' community.
It would appear from this report that a similar association may exist in South Wales.
There may truly be a 'global village'- at least where the white criminal underclass is concerned.
BR, the poor lads are not about to have fun any more.
"n SE London/North Kent there seems to be a considerable overlap between the quad bike riding fraternity and the tarmac-your-drive-guv 'travelling' community. "
And also the "coat stealing" community.
So sue British Rail for not putting up notices advising that riding quadbikes on the railway might be dangerous.
Good point, that's who the real culprit is. In fact I blame privatisiation.
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