Raking Through My Shrubbery!

[craft1948]

Today's excitement..............elderly couple in a Corsa pull up outside my house, and a white van pulls up behind them.
Old chap gets out of Corsa and starts to take photos of the white van on his mobile.
Extremely large young man gets out of van, grabs mobile off old man, throws it away and it bounces off my front window, he gets back in the van and buggers off sharpish.
The couple from the car then start looking around in next door's garden (next door is empty). Went out and told them I think his phone is somewhere in my shrubbery and invited them to firkle around, found his phone in bits. Very upset man said he wanted the phone to show to the police, apparently the van man had been tailgating him for about a mile shouting that he'd cut him up at a junction in the next village.
I gave the old chap a piece of paper I'd written the van's reg number on................result!

[weecalf]

Sound like summit out you've been framed .was the old gents phone on pay and throw No damage to the shrubbery I hope . Heard of water ,pleb,and various gates but tail that's a new one

[jno]

good for you, good samaritan.

Must say I did wonder from the title if this was going to be a question about getting a Brazilian.

[pixie373]

Well done. What a bully!

[SlackAlice]

firkle what a word, conjures up lots of images.

[daffy654]

Me and eldest daughter were rooting about in shrubbery today, we were trying to catch a frog to remove it from the reach of my cats. Not as exciting or interesting as your reason but it gave us a good giggle. :)

[craft1948]

I was quite shocked when the phone hit the window (the dog hid behind me)

[craft1948]

I can't find a definition for 'firkle' but I'm not the only person who uses the word..............

http://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=251156

[mikey4444]

What a good citizen you are crafty. Something similar happened to me last November. An idiot got out of his car and threatened me with a baseball bat. This happened in a cul-de-sac in a modern housing estate in broad daylight and nobody came to my rescue at all. He fled when he could see that I was calling 999 and then the Police took 35 mins to attend !

All the time I was leaning on the horn of my Fiesta, with the engine running but still nobody came out of all the houses just a few feet away. Very frightening experience made worse by the complete lack of action by the residents of the houses and the blo*dy Police.

[craft1948]

lol were all nosey round here mikey, within a couple of minutes 3 of my neighbours were helping him find his phone and 1 asked if they wanted a cup of tea.
Quite a few of us note down reg numbers of cars if we've never seen them parked around here before.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah craft, we're a close of curtain twitchers too,
I often photo digitally cars I havent seen before

ever since I saw one, open a gas meter and search unsuccessfully for a door key --- bailiff we thought since the next week the occupiers did a runner on a Sunday afternoon and the week after THAT the other neighbours cat had babies (also photographed)

[Barmaid]

That's not nosy, that's being security conscious and naturally inquisitive. I regularly take down the numbers of odd cars or report strange happenings or ask people what the hell they think they are doing.

Although I draw the line at injecting them with truth serum and tying them to a chair.

[Peter Pedant]

very good barmaid

I think you are almost court-ready now

[petal54]

I'm half expecting a fine,fro yesterday,went to town to collect O/H,used to live there,but drove around like a plonker,stpooed on 'the box',not sure why,then wondered why folks were beeping.took a few seconds to realise why! what a pill beam,put it down to the heat & old age

[flump1]

Yay I hope the stranger rooting round in your bush finds justice. Nice one Craft.

[cupid04]

And his phone!!

[Svejk]

Great stuff. I'll always picture you as Miss Marple now.
Careful who you invite to firkle in your bush, though. ;)