It's a salutary tail for us all. Keeping beavers as pets is most dangerous as they will chew through your power cords at will, leaving you in danger of electrocution as happened to this poor bugger.
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I was out for my morning walk today and stopped at a crossing in Finchley. This dude went and stood right next to me and he wasn't wearing a mask. As he walked away from me I read on the back of his hi viz vest 'Barnet Covid Monitoring Team.'
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This brings to mind a tale I was told, by a forestry industry source that I know well and trust, of when the Govt. were trying to deal with the foot and mouth epidemic. Someone was given the task of procuring material to use for building pyres to burn carcasses. They had two goes at it before they gave the job to someone who knew how to tie their shoelaces up. The first attempt involved the purchase of a large quantity of reclaimed doors. Unfortunately, it transpired that they were fireproof ones. The second attempt resulted in the procurement of a monster sized pile of railway sleepers. Well, that was a stroke of genius. Except that the idiot didn't know that railway sleepers are almost all made of concrete nowadays. They do still use wood for the sections of track where there are points. Apparently though, the word 'wood' was never mentioned.
I think it's probably just my age that fools people into thinking I'm a grown-up.
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>From Desk Of Antony J. Blinken USA Secretary of State Refund Payment Committee Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.
Good Day,
This letter is written in order to change your life from today. Please note that this letter came to you as a result of information received from our monitoring network regarding so much payments which you sent through Western Union and Money Gram to Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and some other part of the World without receiving any payment to your name, further investigation reveals that you have lost hope towards receiving your payment after being deceived so many times.
Following the on going re-branding of USA policies, the Federal Government of USA have directed our committee to compensate/refund the sum of $6,500,000 to you through payment by ATM CARD being one of the most convenient means of receiving payment World Wide, Bank to Bank Transfer. We wish to inform you that the members of Refund Payment Committee are honorable men of Great Repute and integrity who have served the Government of USA in different capacities.
we also wish to inform you that the Committee members were appointed by our respected President Joe Biden to pay 250 million Dollars to the listed beneficiaries that have lost their money to the scammer and have not yet receive their total sum.
Contact Mr.Robert Thomas of the Refund Payment Committee, he will guide you on how your payment will be release to you. Please let him know that this letter is from Antony J. Blinken Secretary of State. His Contact Details:
Name: Mr.Robert Thomas Email: mrrobert.thomas@mail.ru
In order for you to receive your payment this week, you are advice to contact Mr.Robert Thomas on his email and make sure you ANSWERS to the Questions below.
(1) Your Full Name (2) Your Direct telephone. Fax Number ( if any) (3) How Many Months Or Years in which You Have Been Expecting your Payment (4) The Place you sent Money Last whether Nigeria or London,Malaysia,Benin Republic etc (5) The Last Amount of Money You sent indicating What Month and Year
>From Antony J. Blinken USA Secretary of State Refund Payment Committee
Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.
We all know I'm not American, so I was a tad suspicious of it. My suspicions were aroused further when I looked at the email's header.
How effin' lazy is that? If you're going to try to scam me at least put the work in lads.
From USA Secretary Anthony J - They forgot "Blinken" and he seems to have emigrated to Australia while retaining his job. Subject - Stop contacting fake spammers. I can only conclude that they wish me to contact real spammers from now on. Reply To - Robert Thomas, with a Russian email address. Recipients - Some dodgy email list, sourced from Australia. Not even a cursory attempt has been made to cover up the origin.
Now, admittedly, the spelling and punctuation could be American, but I think I'm going to pass, and call bullshit on this one.
Whatever happened to all those nice, friendly, Nigerian princes?
I didn't use to need the internet, my wife knew everything.