Oh my giddy aunt... The BBC have also quoted "The police have indicated that this has become a growing problem in the region with perpetrators going so far as to gas their proposed victims through the air conditioning units before breaking in."
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Whole thing is a load of tosh until proven (that's PROVEN) otherwise. It seems the police have not actually issued any factual statement. This is just another example of why I gave up reading newspapers when they stopped including fish and chips with them.
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Another GLARING example of the TOTAL GUFF the media churn out...
Yet, I see thread after thread after thread started here on Fun based on an article in a "newspaper" or a media "report".
Why, only yesterday, I read that the whole Aussie cricket team had been bowled out for 60 runs before lunch on the first day of the 4th Ashes Test at Nottingham... another example of media exaggeration surely?
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Yet, I see thread after thread after thread started here on Fun based on an article in a "newspaper" or a media "report".
Why, only yesterday, I read that the whole Aussie cricket team had been bowled out for 60 runs before lunch on the first day of the 4th Ashes Test at Nottingham... another example of media exaggeration surely?
JJ
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Yup me too!BBC has now picked up the "story" on their website. I have sent them a link to the Link Removed
But it is nice to have a mid-summer gassing thread isn't it. Like seeing an old friend again.
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I don't see a upside for the french in reporting the gassing it will just hinder there tourist trade
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Where the air come from then
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These gassing stories serve a very useful purpose.
They remind us never to believe what we read in the papers.
That's unfair, the date is normally correct.
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never!! the papers are not allowed to make things upRight, Jenson say's they were not gassed. it seems to be the media who have invented it, what a surprise!
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The BBC have updated their website...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33814823
Hugh Schofield, BBC News
There has been an awful lot of rumour about sleeping gas burglaries in France, but precious little hard evidence.
A number of doubts spring to mind: What gas do they use? In what quantities? How do they ensure it will be effective in the right parts of the house? And through the air-conditioning system? Really?
In the camping-car community, there have been persistent claims about burglars using sleeping gas.
On chat-lines, holiday-makers share their experiences and ask about ways to protect themselves.
But again - no-one has ever appeared in court charged with gassing and stealing. No police-officer is on the record.
Who knows? Maybe Jenson Button was indeed the target of a gas-and-steal.
The head of a security firm I spoke with in St Tropez says he has never heard of an actual case of a sleeping gas burglary. "I don't believe in it at all," is what he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33814823
Hugh Schofield, BBC News
There has been an awful lot of rumour about sleeping gas burglaries in France, but precious little hard evidence.
A number of doubts spring to mind: What gas do they use? In what quantities? How do they ensure it will be effective in the right parts of the house? And through the air-conditioning system? Really?
In the camping-car community, there have been persistent claims about burglars using sleeping gas.
On chat-lines, holiday-makers share their experiences and ask about ways to protect themselves.
But again - no-one has ever appeared in court charged with gassing and stealing. No police-officer is on the record.
Who knows? Maybe Jenson Button was indeed the target of a gas-and-steal.
The head of a security firm I spoke with in St Tropez says he has never heard of an actual case of a sleeping gas burglary. "I don't believe in it at all," is what he said.
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Havnt read any of this thread yet, I'm saving it for later, when I'm really down and need cheering up, like 3am.
I just love a long gassing thread.
I just love a long gassing thread.
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That's interesting, I emailed the BBC this morning telling them it was a load of tosh - I suspect a few others did as well!
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Yep me too. And Jaws. So they got at least 3 of us!
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I sent Jenson's girlfriend a few questions by text and she replied "I'd have to be gassed to do those sorts of things with you, you pervert"!
Worth a try tho
Worth a try tho
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The Jeremy Vine show today is discussing JBs aledged attack.
I'm waiting for it to appear on their facebook page so I can post the link to the anathema/ anethis / 'doctors who knock people out ' statement
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These gassing stories serve a very useful purpose.
They remind us never to believe what we read in the papers.
And to stay somewhere relatively safe and lock up properly
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Wouldn't expect him to have a boiler though eh ?
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On BBC News at One, they've just wheeled out the chief of
The Royal College of Anaesthetists to basically say it's a load of guff on camera
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Yep, just watched itOn BBC News at One, they've just wheeled out the chief of
The Royal College of Anaesthetists to basically say it's a load of guff on camera
No doubt someone will still argue the toss !
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I can add a first hand account that gassing is real!
The other night we were pitched up near Lake Trasimeno is Italy. Anyway, long story short, we were sitting outside sipping our evening drinks, when a tugger pulled in displaying Irish plates, and they pitched right next to us.
After they had faffed about for a couple of hours setting up, we introduced ourselves, and got chatting. We had a couple of drinks and then turned in (as far as I remember).
Anyway, the next morning we woke up, the van was in a state of total disarray, it looked as if every clothes cupboard had been opened. Our bed was not correctly made up! The habitation door was wide open. Obviously we had been gassed. Both my wife and I had monster headaches, and my daughter appears to have suffered some effects. She keeps asking whether I will be singing and swearing tonight?
Anyway, the only things that appear to be missing is half a bottle of Isle of Jura single malt, a bottle of gin and all the ice cubes in our fridge, so could be worse.
The other night we were pitched up near Lake Trasimeno is Italy. Anyway, long story short, we were sitting outside sipping our evening drinks, when a tugger pulled in displaying Irish plates, and they pitched right next to us.
After they had faffed about for a couple of hours setting up, we introduced ourselves, and got chatting. We had a couple of drinks and then turned in (as far as I remember).
Anyway, the next morning we woke up, the van was in a state of total disarray, it looked as if every clothes cupboard had been opened. Our bed was not correctly made up! The habitation door was wide open. Obviously we had been gassed. Both my wife and I had monster headaches, and my daughter appears to have suffered some effects. She keeps asking whether I will be singing and swearing tonight?
Anyway, the only things that appear to be missing is half a bottle of Isle of Jura single malt, a bottle of gin and all the ice cubes in our fridge, so could be worse.
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Sky News states that Jenson Button and girlfriend were gassed and robbed in their villa in the South of France. Further on in the bulletin it goes on to state that it was possible that they were not gassed. An interview with a Doctor representing The Royal College of Anaesthetists, stated that it would not be possible gas anybody by pumping gas through air conditioning system as the gas would then not be sufficiently concentrated and you would need "lorry loads". Nor would it be possible gas anyone in a tent/caravan/motorhome.
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Yes we know the police use it as an excuse for doing nothing.
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Only a bottle and a half to get in that state?
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Only a bottle and a half to get in that state?
You're a cheap date!
it was the ice cubes what done it
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