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A Criminal Lodger Moves In with a couple against their wishes thanks to a crazy court decision. Unbelievable? You better believe it. Here’s the story…

A convicted criminal lodger moves in to the home of a married couple totally against their wishes after he’d falsely given their address in court as his own home.

Shane Sims, a 19 year old convicted felon, has spent the last few days living in the home of Brenda and Robert Cole following his sentence of a week’s curfew for breaching a supervision order. Well that might be just fine except the couple claim the first they knew about it was when Sims, who is a friend of their daughter (some friend), moved in to their house on Thursday. As the criminal lodger moves in, he was followed by security contractors who installed a box in one of the bedrooms to monitor his movements with an ankle tag. Nice.

Mrs Cole who is 47, said:

“It’s turned our lives upside down.

“He’s taken over the whole place. He sprawls across the sofa and he’s always in the bathroom when you need it.

“It’s an absolute disgrace. They’ve let a criminal come into our home and there is nothing we can do about it.

“How can he get away with giving false details? Can crooks pick anywhere they like and just move in? Who needs to break into a house when the courts will do it all for you?

“When the men turned up and installed the tag box, I thought it was some kind of a joke. I told them there had been a mistake but they just said it wasn’t their problem.”

A criminal lodger moves in without the consent of the couple who’s home has been disrupted in every sense. Can you believe it?

It can only happen in crazy politically correct Britain!

Ha! I am so glad I no longer live in that lunatic country and have to suffer it’s crap weather and crazy mixed up laws where a criminal lodger moves in to your home and there’s nothing you can do to stop him.

Terry Didcott

Ok, this post is taken from one I saw on my travels and applies to the US mail system, but it is just as relevant in the UK, or anywhere else for that matter!

Junk Mail Help:

When you get “ads” enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these “ads” with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those “pre-approved” letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage “IF” and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney’s (60 minutes) ideas:

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn’t get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn’t on anything you send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let’s let them know what it’s like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they’re paying for it…Twice! Let’s help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that’s why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !

If enough people jump on the bandwagon follow these tips, it will annoy (and cost) the companies sending out this garbage so much that they might think twice about doing it in the future!

Terry Didcott

PS: Alexa today: 1,423,598

I came across this great nugget to information just now. It’s probably not new, but it made me smile and is relevant to any English speaking country!

Andy Rooney Tips for Handling Telemarketers Three Little Words That Work !!

(1)The three little words are: “Hold On, Please…” Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s “beep-beep-beep” tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a “real” sales person to call back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.

Well oh dear me, what an awful shame not to have your name in their blasted system any longer!

Terry Didcott

-Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

-Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough?

-Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

-Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

-Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

-Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

-Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

-Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

-Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?

-If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

-Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

-Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

-Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

-Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

-Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

-How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

-When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It’s all right?”

Well, it isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, “That hurt, you stupid moron?”

-Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling ff the table you always manage to knock something else over?

-In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer hen we complained about the heat?

-How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

-And……
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is uffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best riends –if they’re okay, then it’s you!!