Unleash The Nade Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 One of my uncles has a horrendous criminal record If I remember correctly , its Lady In Red by Chris De Burgh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YassinMoutaouakil Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My old maths teacher is up in court for historic sex offences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unleash The Nade Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My old maths teacher is up in court for historic sex offences. Did he commit them in 69? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Both (mostly Greenock. Sadly) When I lived there I think just about everyone I knew was friends with someone who could get access to almost any drug you cared to consider. Probably a few who could get yellow bentines, triple sod or clarkey cat. I assumed that when the shipyards closed, drug dealing became Inverclydes main source of employment behind T-Mobile and TSC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I've got a few tenuous paedophile connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 When I lived there I think just about everyone I knew was friends with someone who could get access to almost any drug you cared to consider. Probably a few who could get yellow bentines, triple sod or clarkey cat. I assumed that when the shipyards closed, drug dealing became Inverclydes main source of employment behind T-Mobile and TSC. I did find it weird when I moved to Glasgow, and even London, how much more difficult it is to get drugs and folk talking about how scarce certain types of drugs were. Cheaper in Greenock as well. f**k knows what it was cut with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My brother-in-law started a jewellery making business in Panama with seed money from his father, Frank in the 70s. Frank was Sicilian , owned the Panamanian equivalent of BT and was strongly rumoured to be "connected". Anyway, my brother-in-law started his business making high end jewellery and was doing quite well. So well in fact he decided to take a gamble and relocate to an island called Contadora, home to millionaires, billionaires and the like - a great place to sell luxury goods. Anyway, he spent every penny on the new outlet and business was good until, two months after opening, the Shah of Iran arrived on the island having fled the Iranian Revolution. Suddenly there were guys wandering around with machine guns and armoured cars patrolling the streets. Overnight, business dried up as all the rich folk left the island. My brother-in-law was facing ruin and had to explain to his father why he couldn't keep up the repayments. A week later, a guy walked into the store and said "My employer has heard of your situation and feels he has played a part in it. In recompense, he would like to purchase all of your stock". He wrote out a six figure cheque there and then. There's "connected" and there's "connected enough to put the squeeze on fugitive heads of state" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I once worked with a guy who was subsequently jailed for raping an eight year old girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLANCY2KTID Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My Mother always used to say that we were related to the last person hanged in Scotland for sheep stealing. Not found any proof of that. Fairly sure that kind of fable might have been a running joke with a certain generation. My dad was always told that his great grandfather was deported from Ireland for sheep rustling when he asked about family tree. And, again, no evidence can be found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My second cousin (from Drumchaple), tried to sell me dope at his grandmothers funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeboy Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I can 100% guarantee that every single poster on here knows a drug dealer, whether they know that the person is a drug dealer, is inconsequential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My aul fella did time for knocking off a jewelers and my step dad was done for stealing from a bakers (cue much mirth as he was fat). So I had a good grounding if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I can 100% guarantee that every single poster on here knows a drug dealer, whether they know that the person is a drug dealer, is inconsequential. It's the David law. As for me? Absolutely no comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLip69 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Ran a pub in South Manchester for a few years, got to know several of the local mobs, Maguires, Noonans, Brodericks, etc. However in the hairdressers across the road was a gay guy who did my wife's hair and was a good friend of my daughter. He drank in the pub regularly and was a riot, as camp as can be and a laugh a minute. His arrest a few years back for molesting young boys he babysat was a shock, especially as the mother of one of those victims was another regular who was often in the pub with the beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainspotter Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I'm friends with a few drug dealers which is handy. And also friends with a few coppers. I tend to not mix those two for social gatherings. For a few years in the mid-90s, I stayed in a small rural village. At the local golf club it wasn't unknown for the village bobby and the village drug dealer to be drawn in the same three-ball for the Sunday medal. The (now ex) village bobby may be known to some on here, having previously played professional football for a club I'm not particularly fond of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YassinMoutaouakil Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 A few years back, a guy I worked with befriended a guy that gave him a cigarette at a bus stop, the guy told us he was due in court for assault, fair enough we thought, we all went out for a pint, a week later we were sitting in my mates flat, they went out for ciggies and I was on my own, a brick got launched through the window, just missing me. My mate got a new flat a month later, then the same thing happened again, we didn't see the guy for about a month after that. I picked up the paper a few days later, and this guy was in it. Not in court for assault, but for fiddling with young girls. Hence the window breaking incidents. I was fucking shitting myself in case anyone attacked me after they had seen me hanging about with this guy. If my mate and I had known, we would have never even had spoken to the disgusting p***k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcat1990 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Paul Ferris once bought my girlfriend a drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 A guy from my year in school is doing 20 years in the Dominican Republic for drug smuggling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 A worrying amount of beasts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish's Passenger Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I worked with Donald Mackenzie, the banker who defrauded RBS for £21m. I think it is the largest fraud case ever in Scotland. Don't know if they ever found all the cash so he is probably sunning himself somewhere exotic now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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