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    Police helicopters and air ambulances are part of the scenery here. Just about every day one or the other thunders about overhead at low level.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Police helicopters and air ambulances are part of the scenery here. Just about every day one or the other thunders about overhead at low level.
    Sounds idyllic
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Sounds idyllic
    Oh it is. What with the constant smells of blocked drains, frying onions and wafts of curry in the local air, plus all the rubbish in the streets and settees, fridges and old beds dumped here and there, it all adds to the character of the area. Not to mention all the unemployed 'yoofs' mooching about, looking into cars for stuff to steal and hanging about in quiet corners to smoke their drugs, then of course, at night there are the prostitutes in doorways and on corners in the high street. It's a real charmer of an environment. Nothing that a box of grenades and a flame thrower couldn't deal with though.
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    Sounds a lot like where I lived in Liverpool in the 'Eighties. The cops had 2 choppers equipped with Nitesun searchilights and they would quite often use them to re-enact scenes from 'Apocolypse Now' right over our house at 3 in the morning. It's a lot more gentrified nowadays.
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    Don't know whether there is any connection with the interest on surveillance or just coincidence but we live under one of the main London/USA flight paths so we are 'always' hearing and seeing big jets heading north-ish, very high, contrail height. Whilst idly watching one of these the other day I noticed a totally silent, very slim, silver aircraft with very long but thin wings which had vertical wing tips moving in a very straight line south east-ish. The wings were so slim that it was only the fact that the sun was reflecting on the wing tips that made me realise it actually had wings, hence my greater interest. My guess would be a glider but I've never seen one so high or so big (length and wing span) proceeding so steadily on it's way. Gliders are not unusual in our area so I do have many images to compare it with.
    Had it not been that I was looking at something else I would not have noticed it. If they can keep something like that in the air for long periods covert observation becomes much more covert.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Oh it is. What with the constant smells of blocked drains, frying onions and wafts of curry in the local air, plus all the rubbish in the streets and settees, fridges and old beds dumped here and there, it all adds to the character of the area. Not to mention all the unemployed 'yoofs' mooching about, looking into cars for stuff to steal and hanging about in quiet corners to smoke their drugs, then of course, at night there are the prostitutes in doorways and on corners in the high street. It's a real charmer of an environment. Nothing that a box of grenades and a flame thrower couldn't deal with though.
    Lol! Those sort of vermin need drowning at birth.

    Anyway, I honestly don't know how you deal with living amongst that sort of shit though, Geoff... Thank heavens for the clean streets, fresh air and beautiful rural surroundings of North Wales, is all I can say!!

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    Yes, I tend to spot that sort of thing myself. I've no doubt there are high altitude surveillance aircraft in use. Who by and watching whom, who knows? They tend to have very wide wingspans with slim high aspect ratio wing shapes. As per the old American U2 spyplane, which I believe is still in use here and there, 60 years on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol! Those sort of vermin need putting down at birth.

    Anyway, I honestly don't know how you deal with living amongst that sort of shit though, Geoff... Thank heavens for the clean streets, fresh air and beautiful rural surroundings of North Wales, is all I can say!!

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    Ha. Just now caught a couple of scumbags dumping an old mattress by my house. They weren't happy when I advanced on them snapping photos and they claimed "everybody else does it". A mention of calling the police had them sticking the offending article back in the van and on their way. They didn't like being called 'useless fucking bastards' either.
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    Lol - sounds rather eventful round your way!

    I'd have followed the scumbags home, in order to find out where they lived, and then later dumped the matress right outside their door, although not before soaking it with pish first!! Brainless no-life wasters like that need taught a proper lesson - and one they'll not forget

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