Pop Corn alert - Gassing! (1 Viewer)

[Ninovan]

Just saw an item on BBC South News, seems like a truck driver working for a local transport firm was parked up overnight on an industrial estate in Walsall, and woke up in the morning feeling rough, head ache, etc., to find his trailer curtains had been slashed & his load of........wait for it........ gas meters had been stolen . Reckons he was gassed while asleep, probably through cab heating vents. Police apparently think its credible. Not just French motorway aires then, don't park up on English industrial estates. Nothing about Rolexes Or £2000 cash though

 

[Badknee]

Sorry boss, id had a few tinnies and slept through the whole blag,
oh no, hang on........... I must have been gassed.

 

[hilldweller]

gas meters had been stolen .

"Pssssssssssssssssssst, want a brand new gas meter, good price, not got many left".

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[Minxy]

Who the heck would want a load of gas meters???? There's a funny smell about this one ...

 

[pappajohn]

Woke up in the morning and thought........ Oh f-ck.....slept right through it, quick....need an excuse for the boss.
Gassed, that'll do.

 

[EX51SSS]

The Funsters on here have the brand new up to date dictionary.
Gullible isn't in it.

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[Bailey58]

Justice will be metered out!

 

[BobtheBass]

If they were smart meters they will find their own way back home.

 

[Don Quixote]

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[Just smiffy]

Well at least they knew how much gas to meter in the cab.....

 

[tofo]

Who the heck would want a load of gas meters???? There's a funny smell about this one ...

They used to get stolen overnight from outside meter boxes.
As an emergency we put a card meter in ,while the consumer had a conversation with their gas company
Who investigated to make sure The occupants
Didn’t remove it ,if you get my drift

Some premises had two meters 1 the assigned card/credit meter
And a weekend meter
Unfortunately we recorded meter serial no’s on every visit
And we worked 24/7/365 days a year as a company

 

[EX51SSS]

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[Dilbert]

Seen this just now on TVs news .i would have thought the driver have been given a blood test etc not allowed to drive off without medical advice .one easy cut along the trailer curtain with a Stanley knife wouldn't make much noise anyway.west midlands is a dodgy area to park up at the best of times. It's a wonder they didn't drain the fuel tank as well

 

[Northernraider]

I bet he's glad he wasn't carrying electric meters


That could have been a shocking result

 

[Vanderek]

Did I miss the show ?...

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[Mr Chrysalis]

The Funsters on here have the brand new up to date dictionary.
Gullible isn't in it.

Where can I get one. Is it on Amazon?

 

[EX51SSS]

Where can I get one. Is it on Amazon?

 

[Jonno1103]

What a load of tosh just like the mythical gassings in France and Spain of a few years ago.

It's impossible to feed the amount of ether, chloroform or any other anesthetic through blowers, windows and doors without the owners knowledge even if they were sleeping.

Ether is very smelly and not particularly powerful plus it's very irritating to the throat and nasal passages when inhaled. It will cause the potential victim(s) to cough and maybe even vomit. It takes a good deal of time for the human body to reach an unconscious state even when it administered directly to the face on a cloth and the concentration required for it to be used as a spray in enclosed space is enormous. The smell also hangs around for days and would be obvious.

Even the more modern volatile anesthetic agents would need to be delivered in tanker loads and need to be applied by a compressor. They are also prohibitively expensive.

Lets also remember that any anesthetic is extremely dangerous which is why when they administered in hospitals patients are constantly supervised and attended to by trained personnel. Left unsupervised there is a very real danger of death due airway obstruction specifically as the tongue will fall back causing a blockage.

If there was a safe, odourless, potent, cheap anaesthetic available to thieves for this purpose you can guarantee that the medical profession would be using it.

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[Cliffdale]

You're all talking bolleaux! one of my farts after an Indian meal night out would knock out a donkey at a range of 100 yards!

 

[suavecarve]

You're all talking bolleaux! one of my farts after an Indian meal night out would knock out a donkey at a range of 100 yards!

But it might take out a dog at 50 yards.
Which gets me thinking.....How far for a 5 foot female 50 years of age and 10 stone ? Just out of interest.

 

[Bailey58]

What a load of tosh just like the mythical gassings in France and Spain of a few years ago.

It's impossible to feed the amount of ether, chloroform or any other anesthetic through blowers, windows and doors without the owners knowledge even if they were sleeping.

Ether is very smelly and not particularly powerful plus it's very irritating to the throat and nasal passages when inhaled. It will cause the potential victim(s) to cough and maybe even vomit. It takes a good deal of time for the human body to reach an unconscious state even when it administered directly to the face on a cloth and the concentration required for it to be used as a spray in enclosed space is enormous. The smell also hangs around for days and would be obvious.

Even the more modern volatile anesthetic agents would need to be delivered in tanker loads and need to be applied by a compressor. They are also prohibitively expensive.

Lets also remember that any anesthetic is extremely dangerous which is why when they administered in hospitals patients are constantly supervised and attended to by trained personnel. Left unsupervised there is a very real danger of death due airway obstruction specifically as the tongue will fall back causing a blockage.

If there was a safe, odourless, potent, cheap anaesthetic available to thieves for this purpose you can guarantee that the medical profession would be using it.

to Fun. New members are excused for sensible replies to such threads.

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[Jonno1103]

You're all talking bolleaux! one of my farts after an Indian meal night out would knock out a donkey at a range of 100 yards!

I'll see your Indian and raise you Newcastle Brown for the ultimate Duvet hover.

 

[Cliffdale]

I'll see your Indian and raise you Newcastle Brown for the ultimate Duvet hover.

You're bluffing, ill burn you with

My trump card

 

[Jonno1103]

Now i'll play my joker...

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[TerryL]

Joking aside, theft from parked trailers is dead easy - my nephew lost a whole load whilst parked up on a service area taking his break in the cab. The police believe another curtain trailer pulled up alongside, a quick slash with a Stanley knife, 15 mins work and away. He never heard a thing - lost his job unfortunately.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

You would be surprised what goes out the door when thieves strike. They stole one of our trailers from the yard and it was found at Maidstone two day later, EMPTY, The load? It had a full load of airliner tyres that were going back for remoulding. Seems a bit stupid but they were actually worth a load of money on the black market for remoulding as the cores were worth so much, Airlines are obviously not as honest as you would think, trying to save money on the essentials They were mostly 747 main wheel tyres. Big and heavy so stolen to order.

 

[Nicepix]

to Fun. New members are excused for sensible replies to such threads.

Excused for making a sensible reply. But not for passing a report by The Royal College of Anaesthetists off as his own work

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[soreeyes]

Would depend on how many and value ? £750 here

 

[Jonno1103]

Excused for making a sensible reply. But not for passing a report by The Royal College of Anaesthetists off as his own work

Would you like my Royal College membership number or the address of the Hospital I work in?

I could have quite easily copied it word for word, in fact the original document is six pages long with only a quarter of page 2 available for public viewing. It goes on to talk about Glutaraldehyde, Isoflurane and Nitrous Oxide amongst others, the latter being far easier to come by.

Well done for finding it as most have never bothered hence the reason it's still being discussed.