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Offline The Moan Ranger

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W-S-M Pier fire
« on: July 28, 2008, 10:20:52 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7528165.stm

Arson/Insurance job?  rubschin:  Or am I being typically conspiratorial?
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2008, 12:38:53 PM »
Must confess that was my first thought too.
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2008, 01:09:13 PM »
It is good to see that I am not alone (although I appear to be in the office today, but that is a different grump).

It's made to look better by the recent change of hands and all the supposed improvements that would result...
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2008, 01:16:20 PM »
They do claim to have spent a lot of money on it ~ but if they were running short of credit to finish the job now would be a good time for a claim.

I hear on the radio that the Fire Service are looking at an area where there were a number of deep fat fryers as being the probable start point of the fire. Leave a chip pan on, lock up and go home ....... blame temp summer staff for failing to close down the kitchen properly.  The "accelerant" (cooking oil) was already there so no smell of petrol whistle: ......... makes sense to me.
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2008, 04:14:28 PM »
"'Ere, Manny, I heard there was a fire at your warehouse last night!"

"Shhhhh. Tomorrow."  ;)
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2008, 06:12:18 PM »
I was a little suspicious of the guy they interviewed who said he'd been walking under the pier and saw the smoke but didnt think it was anything serious....
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2008, 06:35:17 PM »
It was Steve Fossett wot done it. OK?
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2008, 06:39:00 PM »
You sure, I'd heard it was Lord Lucan. Bugger rode off on Shergar afterwards.  whistle:
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2008, 06:59:44 PM »
I ate some of Shergar - so I know it was not he.

Elvis has been implicated too, but I think he was too busy in a chippy to do it.

A friend of mine will be investigating the ruins of WSM. He is an angel voiced Geordie git. No prisoners, the truth will out here if nowhere else.
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2008, 02:46:04 PM »
Seen elsewhere :-

This is almost as bad as that dreadful fire in a model village on the Isle of Wight....the flames could be seen 12 feet away.








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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2008, 02:49:12 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on July 29, 2008, 02:46:04 PM
Seen elsewhere :-

This is almost as bad as that dreadful fire in a model village on the Isle of Wight....the flames could be seen 12 feet away.








Hat, coat, door.

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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2008, 04:52:29 PM »
Lord Archer has apologised for starting the pier firom. Investigators have discivered that he was on the pier at the time and his pants, as long predicted, caught fire...  whistle:





This has now been classed as an arse-on-fire  whistle:
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2008, 05:36:21 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on August 04, 2008, 04:52:29 PM
Lord Archer has apologised for starting the pier firom. Investigators have discivered that he was on the pier at the time and his pants, as long predicted, caught fire...  whistle:


This has now been classed as an arse-on-fire  whistle:

Punt.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/nowshow.shtml
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2008, 05:37:43 PM »
That explains it, I was half asleep when I listened to the podcast over the weekend. Wasnt sure if I'd heard it somewhere.  redface:
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Re: W-S-M Pier fire
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2008, 07:16:11 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on August 04, 2008, 05:36:21 PM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on August 04, 2008, 04:52:29 PM
Lord Archer has apologised for starting the pier firom. Investigators have discivered that he was on the pier at the time and his pants, as long predicted, caught fire...  whistle:


This has now been classed as an arse-on-fire  whistle:

Punt.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/nowshow.shtml

Indeed the almost aptly named Mr Steve Punt.
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