Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Mark on August 17, 2010, 11:16:23 AM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/7949331/Graeme-Swann-caught-drink-driving-while-trying-to-rescue-cat.html :shify:
Even I have a few screwdrivers and a hammer at home :shify:
Please note: No & Silly questions will be counted together :evillaugh:
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Even I have a few screwdrivers and a hammer at home
So have I, but then we live in the real world and don't drive Porsches! But being useless is no excuse for driving over the limit, he could have called a taxi.
What puzzles me is why he was telling the police "It’s not for what you think, the screwdrivers aren’t for what you think" - what did he think they were... er... thinking?
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well he was only slightly over the limit so must have thought it ok but should have got a taxi.
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screwdrivers are used for weapons and to steal cars. If he had a receipt just for screwdrivers then his story could be true.
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I don't think for one minute he was out burgling or mugging but the cat under the floorboards just seems so far-fetched. I'm assuming he must live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours, friends or family anywhere nearby - although having said that, it was 3am. I'm sure he could have improvised - but then again, he probably wasn't thinking straight :-:
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as the old adage goes 'Truth is stranger than fiction'
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I have had a cat stuck under the floorboards. :P When Jenny was young she climbed down a hole behind the toilet and ended up under the floorboards in the spare room. It does make you panic hearing their little cries. :-[
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I thought this a bit of a tall story - although Covcat Abbie disappeared under the floor of her new home and stayed there quite happily for 10 days while her new owners (bless them) tore up the carpet in the hall and lived with a hole in the floor all that time. Abbie came up each night for her food and returned to her lair. So it could be true. What a useless lump of male though - no screwdrivers in the house!
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Even I have a screw driver, hammer and saw at home (I'm not allowed power tools! lol). But even if I didn't I would have gone and knocked on my next door neighbours door and then the next and the next before I got in the car and drove off to buy a screw driver!
Me thinks someone is telling porkies!
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I don't think for one minute he was out burgling or mugging but the cat under the floorboards just seems so far-fetched. I'm assuming he must live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours, friends or family anywhere nearby - although having said that, it was 3am. I'm sure he could have improvised - but then again, he probably wasn't thinking straight :-:
Where the hell do you buy screwdrivers at 3am ????
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Oh right just read the whole story and I know exactly where he was going to get screwdrivers (note to self ASDA in West Bridgford is 24 hours ;) ).
Surely if the police went to his house and saw the cat trapped under the floor then they can see his story is true.
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or just a receipt for screwdrivers, its not like he was making his way back from the pub
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I think it rings true to me but it would have made more sense for him to get a taxi to Asda! Esp as he'd come home in a taxi, but I suppose in the panic and heat of the moment I can understand jumping into the car for haste. Even I have a few screwdrivers around and I'm useless at DIY mind.
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zero limit needs to be enforced..he was only 3 over the 80mg per 100mg (83) just goes to show how precarious it can be when yoou drink thinkingits ok youve only had one beer...and yet it takes you over the limit......
as for moggy..how did it get there in the first place? :tired: