malumbu

Clock DVA - 4 hours

Great idea Huguenot - can you help by finding this bloke's address, or alternatively arrange a meeting point and we can all go round in a sort of 'Looking for Eric' way and reek revenge. I've been PM'd by another person who had his bike nicked, and found 'the same one' being advertised on Gumtree by the same number. Hopefully plod will do something now.

This one went on last night on Gumtree: 07578585479 i have a good as new carrera subway ux as in picture please call if interested thanks tony frame size large New lightweight 7005 T6 heat treated aluminium frame Tough and light Chro-Moly forks with eyelets for mudguards and rack SRAM SX4 shifters and X5 rear mech have 21 speeds and provide an intelligent blend of performance and value Tektro IO Mechanical Disc brakes feature dual pad adjustment Automatic pad angle adjustment via floating plates and high performance metal ceramic pad compound to provide reliable stopping power in all conditions The double wall alloy rims are fitted with Innova Kevlar lined X-Rated puncture resistant tyres Mudguard mounts for the easy installation of spray reducing mudguards Sturdy 26?? MTB wheels allowing the bike to cope with bumpy modern roads Low profile tyres to promote fast efficient cycling Puncture resistant tyres to minimise the risk of an untimely puncture ----------------------- The description sounds pretty comprehensive. Too comprehensive. It is taken straight from the Halfords web site. I've informed the cycling task force. If everyone on this site would phone up 'Tony' and tell him he is a scumbag then I'd sleep happy tonight.

I've just PM'd a few of you (Claire - your in-box is full) but I thought I'd check to see whether the person was still active. First hit on Google is this thread, so no doubt he will be around with a baseball bat. I assumed that he would have switched numbers by now but bloody hell, he is active again (as Peter or Johnny) as : gt zum1 2011 good as new Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north london ... 0 0 None None http://www.browserdefender.com/%s/getdomain/www.gumtree.com Reply to this ad or johnny on 07578585479. i have a excellent condition full working gt zum1 as good as new foor sale please call if interested thanks ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/gt-zum1-2011-good.../79718919 - Cachedspecialized sirrus elite Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north london ... 0 0 None None http://www.browserdefender.com/%s/getdomain/www.gumtree.com Reply to this ad or johnny on 07578585479. i have a excellent condition full ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/specialized-sirrus-elite/79825732carr era subway ux good as new Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north ... 0 0 None None http://www.browserdefender.com/%s/getdomain/www.gumtree.com Reply to this ad or 07578585479. i have a good as new carrera subway ux as ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/carrera-subway-ux-good-as.../79905823PINNACLE STRATUS 3.0 Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north london London 0 0 None None http://www.browserdefender.com/%s/getdomain/www.gumtree.com Reply to this ad or peter on 07578585479. I HAVE A GOOD AS NEW NO SCRACHES ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/pinnacle-stratus-30/79144800 - Cached

Seeing a guy with a hoodie, running with a bag over his shoulder, after midnight, the cops thought that I was a burglar. When they saw my age (28 or 29 at the time) and my ethnicity, they were quite surprised, expecting a young black man. Now this was over twenty years ago, when the Met were actually acknowledged as being institutionally racist. Maybe it is not like that nowadays but it still makes me (and friends both black and white) chuckle and reminds me of an unsuble Not the Nine O'clock News sketch. Odd link here: www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=169275.0

But I love a little airbrushing out of history!

They said, "ohh, we didn't realise that you were so old", and then refused to offer me a lift. But what do you think they actually thought? You will have to make a couple of assumptions about me, and an obvious one about plod. (of course they could have said that I was only 24 minutes(hours) from Tulse Hill)

In 1990 (aged well over 20) I'd been to a Stop the War bash at the Red Rose Club in Islington. Missed my last train to Sydenham and ended up in West Norwood. It was a winter's night and I had an orangy Gap hooded sweat shirt. I'd cleared a load of personal crap out of my desk draw at work and put it into a large Brixton Cycles dispatch cyclists bag. So I am too tight to get a cab so I'll jog the two miles or so home, with my hood up and the bag over my shoulder. I see a police metro coming the other way, and I think if they stop me I'll ask for a lift home. Low and behold they turn the car round and in deed stop and question me. I pull off the hood and the male and female cop (who look about 15) are quite astonished. What do you think they said?

At last someone has mentioned Cyrille. But who started the season in the same shot but was later removed?

Did anyone else hear the commentary on Radio 5 in the latter stages of the Wigan match, amazing stuff as both sides went full on for it and the commentators managed to get a great impression of this. It wont be half as good condensed into 10 minutes on MOTD tonight. Glad Simon picked up how fascinating the relegation battle is this year (much more interesting than winning the SPL, can't you guys use the thread that I started for you on this?). And when was the last time none of the prem relegation places were not decided until the last day? And who stayed up? Continuing on the SE London theme, why the Millwall reference at West Am (OK they may not like West Ham, but they don't like anyone!) and who has that sort of spare dosh to pay for a light plane (apart from David Gower).

I like this thread, and encourage others to join in and give their views on Malumbu. I think he should live and let live, and if this is the death of grass routes football then so be it. I also think his stories are self indulgent, and at times patronising. Finally he clearly should not be posting during the early hours or during the royal wedding. Judging by the tone of his postings he well may have a neglected family. You don't get this sort of debate allowed on SE23.com. The webmaster may have seen it as flippant and would have quickly deleted it and probably given Malumbu a red card. If of course he/she posted on SE23.com. Clearly Malumbu has a serious chip on his shoulder about our cousins on the overground.

Ouch.....

I like this thread. And to be fair I do like the name of many Scottish teams. Wasn't there a famous match where the commenator said 'they will be dancing in the streets of East Fife tonight' not realising that this was not a place. I have actually seen a scottish match as well, Celtic vs Forest in the UEFA cup in 83 (old school knockout competition, which was more interesting than most of the current European competions). I stood in the Jungle and did not utter a word all night, but apparently half smiled when Forest scored their two goals and when asked how long to go mouthed the answer.

I thought the main football focus thread would do, but well done in any case: http://rymanleague.goalrun.com/leagues?league_news_item&lid=256&did=2102&id=2755643 I'd heard this would be a home match, but there is nothing on the DHFC website, and according to the Ryman it is at Leatherhead. Of course I have to share a story and I am sure that I saw a more mighty Leatherhead play against the now sadly defunct BRFC in 75 in the FAT.

Could ManU field a team of pigs and still win the Prem? Will Liverpool actually ever win anything ever again? Who is the dullest northern team, Blackburn, Man C or Bolton?

I don't think Spurs will make the Champions league. Maybe Chelsea can catch Man U. Will Arsenal sign anyone. Can the Daggers stay up? How many points are QPR likely to get docked?

I think you deserve your own thread, and then we wont have to bother looking at it. Dundee United are a good team. Discuss.

I am surprised that no one picked up on my interesting history of football chants and 60s pop songs, my comment on psalms and football chants, and my links to modern day chants. Yet there is discussion on the most boring league in the world (SPL). Oh you win it this year, and we will win it next. What fun. Nor any discussion on who will get relegated from the Prem. Again far more interesting than the SPL. You could almost forgive our good friends North of the border for supporting Liverpool or ManU. Anyway, away from this nonsense. A pretty good day. Palace staying up, Walsall and Hereford probably staying up and a great result in the original top division derby (even if MoTD doesn't recognise this, and hid it away as the last match). Sadly the Lions wont probably be getting into the play offs, and the Robbins were neither here nor there. AFC in the play offs, Bromley safely mid table and Dulwich won 2-0 at Walton and Hersham69 to reach a respectable 5th, so also pretty decent outside the league. DU a good side. Hmmmm let me think about that. No I'll just go to bed.

I was in the tube following Pompey's dodgy victory in the semi-final against West Brom where Baros controlled the ball with his hand before setting up the only goal. So I said to this to a Pompey fan and he replied "who cares, we won". Which is always my answer to "we should have won". And that was also to some Baggies' fans in the Haringay Irish Club afterwards on Sat(note; two places where there are no pubs to drink afterwards in London, Spurs and Millwall. For different reasons I hasten to add). When I was in the church choir, we sang "I was glad" (Psalm 6, opening tune to Wills and Kate's big bash today"). But outside we would substitute the best result of the day "I was glad, glad when they said unto me, Birmingham City 0 Stoke City 3". Another good psalm is the 23rd, the Lord's my Shepherd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9xQnBEVVaQ&feature=related But for some balance after saying modern football songs are rubbish here is my fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBbfJcRQG6g&feature=related (couldn't find the into to this where they shout TJ TJ, and some guy is lifted onto the shoulders to start it off. And for some futher balance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hckgwh7ryU&feature=related Although a bit too professionally produced for my liking. And more importantly who is going down from the Prem?

I think it was a good result for Spurs. West Brom snuffed most of their attacks out and countered very well and could have nicked it at the end. Also West Brom should have been two nil up before the equaliser (not shown on MoTD). The arrogance of North Londoners eh? But I thought that there would be some interest in who was going down from the Prem. So to move onto the chants from the Kop. In a time when Liverpool was the centre of the new pop music, as groups were getting hold of American RnB due to the trade across the Atlantic, it was quite difficult to hear this on national radio due to the stuffy BBC, controls on what they could play (pop songs were often played by the BBC house orchestra as a condition of license) and no independent radio network. Pirates Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg, and that was about it. Discos were in their infancy. So where did you go and have a good sing song of the latest pop songs? The terraces! Even when I started to go in the early 70s it was great to hear pop songs and sing along to your own version "Oh Ally Ally, Ally, Ally Ally Ally Brown" (To son of my father my Chicory Tip, then top of the charts, and still used for new versions". My fave was the story of a foggy match at Anfield. There was a goal at the other end that the Kop did not see, so they chanted "Who scored the goal, who scored the goal, eh i adioh who scored the goal" The retort from the other end was "Hunt scored the goal Hunt scored the goal, eh i a...". And the reply was "thank you very much for the information, thank you very much thank you very very very much, thank you very much for the information" To the tune of thank you very much for the Aintree Iron" (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1840,00.html, not about Brian Epstein's sexuality after all!) the novelty song by the Scaffold. A golden age of terrace humour that we will sadly never see again. And I was too young to be there before anyone thinks that I am an ancient rather than old fart.

Thanks again for the advice. It has not turned up again on Gumtree. I did get some correspondence from the Cycle Task Force which I am happy to share below as it is general. I did also get a letter the day after from the cops saying that they were not investigating it further. Hello - I give you a lead. Hello - the place is covered with CCTV. I will pick my own fight with the Met. Interestingly their advice about checking it out myslef was "some people do get their bikes back". Obviously other people get into intimidating situations. Please do follow this thread to the end where I give the relevant ads on Gumtree. I will also PM those of you who kindly said that they will make enquiries. ---------------- again I'm sorry about the lack of communication between units. We are ain a very difficult position at the moment, where I have a team of 28 officers covering the entire Met Police area, which leaves us very busy with requests for assistance. In answer to your questions, I cannot give a definitive answer, but only offer my opinion based on my experiences gained from working on this unit so far: 1. Buyers of bikes range from cyclists looking for a bargain to people who buy bikes with a view to sell them on again. All of which seem to be oblivious to the fact that a bike being sold at a low price could suggest it is stolen. A point that we are working to publicise, as often we intercept sales after bikes have changed hands numerous times - the person in possession of the bike will often lose the bike and the money they paid for it when it is seized by police. 2. The length of time varies - sometimes bike are listed and sold within hours of being stolen. In other cases it can bve weeks or even months before appearing on internet sites for sale. 3. The seller could have been spooked, but to ask specific questions about a bike for sale is normal, then again each 'seller' is different so it is hard to say in this case. ----- Ads on Gumtree. Please do enquire about whether they have an extra large racing bike, and if you get any info pm me or share here if it is of wider interest. These are ads in the public domain so I see no problems in sharing them with the local community: ? ribble excellent condition Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north london ... Reply to this ad or paul on 07578585479. i have a excellent condition ribble racer for sale as shown in picture only ?150 please call if interested thanks ... [for tall man] www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/ribble-excellent-condition/76985604 ? b.twin sport 3 (good as new) Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north ... Reply to this ad or john on 07578585479. i have a good as new b.twin sport 3 ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/btwin-sport-3-good-as-new/76957502 ? b twin front and back carbon Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north ... Reply to this ad or john on 07578585479. i have a brand new b twin as shown ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/b-twin-front-and-back.../76845285 - Cached ? bianchi nirone 7 Bikes, & Bicycles for Sale north london London Reply to this ad or john on 07578585479. i have a good condition bianchi ... www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/bianchi-nirone-7/76791118 - Cached ----------------------------------- THERE IS A PATERN HERE! THIS IS DODGY!! Many thanks Malumbu

Good result yesterday for Spurs, they just managed to hang on. Well done Harry. The water polo at the Bridge was particularly entertaining (sadly MoTD cut most of this out). Just need Palace to beat the dirty Leeds and it will be a good (long) weekend. So who is for the chop from the Prem - Grauniad thinks Blackpool, Blackburn and the Hammers. I think that the Arsenal are safe. And can anyone tell me who started the chant based on Depeche Mode 'Just can't get enough'?

I've not checked this thead, but surely no one in East Dulwich reads the 'Daily Hate'. With all the Grauniads there is no room for any other paper in the newsagents.

Remember, Rooney is not the Messiah. He is simply a very naughty boy.

Too late to offer advice but would like to share my views in any case. Firstly that the Stansted Express isn't (an express sevice), and is a rip off. Unlike Gatwick, and to a lesser extent Heathrow, where there is plenty of reasonable competition for rail services (and undergound), you just have the one rail service calling itself an express but averaging under 60mph and using the same tracks as the stopping service (so can get caught up by slow trains). And then on bank hols and Sundays when many people fly they put on less trains. So going back ten years, I have a less silly o'clock flight. Get to Liverpool Street at 4.50 with my very young daughter to catch the first train. Place is almost in the dark, no announcements or signs, and we and dejected passengers wait 40 minutes for the first train (5.00). So it leaves half an hour late, with twice the number on board, but trundles all the way to the airport. We miss our flights by five minutes, partially because the train is so croweded we can't get off quickly. I complain to be told that we should have left earlier (this was the first train). I point out that there was no information and that if we had known, hang the expense, would have jumped into a black cab. After going to some passenger committee thing got some dosh off Stansted Express, but after that never again. Golden rules, don't fly Ryanair but if you do select a Luton departure. If flying budget always try and go from Gatwick. I'll share my stories about Ryanair and Stansted airport another time. Oh, some practical advice, splash out on a cheap B&B that will run you to the airport in the morning.