laurenceb Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Three-teenage-vandals-stuck-in-lift-they-broke-20131128172453.htm Laurence Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Poetic justice indeed. It reminds me of the pre-mobile phone days when the majority of us relied on coin operated phones in red phone boxes. One of the local yobs decided to smash up the box on our estate. Ripped out the phone handset then set to work smashing the windows. Unfortunately for him he cut his arm on the broken glass. By the time an ambulance could be sent for the idiot was semi-conscious through blood loss. A prime candidate for a Darwin award. It may seem odd to younger readers that people used to walk the streets without staring at a mobile phone or carrying a cup of coffee, or both. Those red telephone boxes that are disappearing from the streets used to have a telephone in them. You may not believe this but the idea was the a user could put money into a slot in a box and the phone started working for a set amount of time. Hardly anyone had a telephone in their home, what was the point? You only had to walk a quarter mile or so to the phone box, they were very convenient. Ask your grandparents about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 I read somewhere there's now an app that will locate your nearest payphone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Pay....phone? What's that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Pay....phone? What's that? Very useful in our village if your mobile's a Vodaphone one.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/5/newsid_3070000/3070819.stm Whilst I'm old enough to have grown up without a mobile phone stuck to my ear, I don't remember Button A and Button B though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 A "talking to" and a letter to their parents? If that's the punishment now for vandalism... Transportation at least, surely? Call it payback for giving us Neighbours and Home And Away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 I have to admit I was a little suprised that the paper didnt have an interview with the parents full of complaints about how long it took to get the little darlings out. Laurence Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 Horsetan of this parish will never run out of clients.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Wandering off topic slightly... When I first started work at Sutton station (early-mid 80s), a teenager managed to cut his hands and legs on some razor wire. He had scaled the wall separating Platform 1 from the pub on the street above wanting to avoid paying his fare. Next day, his thug of a father turned up at the station and punched one of the ticket collectors. Obviously, in thug's tiny mind, that was some kind of payback for what had happened to his son. Bad move. Ticket collector was Pat Mulholland, a gentle giant if ever there was one. Hands the size of hams, like something from a cartoon... Pat didn't even blink when he was punched, but I do remember when Pat punched the guy back, he was down and out for a full 15 minutes. Pat just dragged him out of the way and carried on checking tickets. Now that's poetic justice... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Horsetan of this parish will never run out of clients.......... *folds arms, sits back and waits* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 Pay....phone? What's that? It's what you used to wee into in the olden days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfsup Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Very useful in our village if your mobile's a Vodaphone one.. Or just anywhere these days! Anyway, Payphone - I thought I apparently already do that with Vodafone! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Thinking back to the old days, I wonder how little I spent on phonecalls in a year compared with standing charges today on a Mobile. Phoning for midwife 1962 tuppence. Again in 1963 threepence (once I found a box that wasn't vandalised)...I seem to remember the phone had gone all modern with direct dialling costing 3d. Just read the OP's link. Antisocial behaviour letters to parents? Is that all? No criminal damage court? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 There is no mention of who pays the bill for the engineer's call out and police time wasted. Perhaps if the parents were hit in the pocket their little darlings would behave better. Just re-read this, who am I kidding? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Button B is what you had to press to call the police. I pressed it once and three coppers came out... Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 My view is reflected by other posts above, "a letter sent to the parents" and a tweet, ffs, the parents should be billed for the engineers call out at the least and ban the kids from the shopping centre/shop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I was allowed to travel into and around Central London, on my own, from the age of nine. I was expected to catch a train back home before five o'clock. Three conditions: I had to memorise our telephone number (66 25755), know how to use a payphone and, if I hadn't rung home, return four unused pennies when I arrived back. As you would expect, I did a circuit of the termini: Liverpool Street (1), Kings Cross, St Pancras, Euston (2) and Waterloo. (1) soon dropped - end of steam (2) soon dropped - rebuilding work Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Colin Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 30, 2013 What a shame they were only stuck in the lift for one hour........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 When I was living in a tower block in one of the less popular parts of Edinburgh, we had trouble with somebody urinating in the lift - the culprit, as far as I know, was never caught. Another problem (perhaps linked to the urine) was that the lift electrics failed regularly. When this happened with me on board, I wasn't too worried about being stuck - the caretaker was efficient and prompt to answer the alarm. What did worry me was that I had been hurrying home in urgent need of the toilet, and if the chap had been a few minutes longer in arriving, the door might have opened to me standing shame-faced in a pool of piddle while the caretaker pointed an accusing finger: "Ah-ha! It was you all the time!" If ever I acquire a police record, I want it to be for something more glamorous than peeing in a public place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted December 1, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2013 Would they be better pursuing it as a Civil Case for the full costs, rather than the Criminal courts arbitrary figure plucked out of the air (as it appears in the local papers "scales of Justice" column anyway)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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