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espelli Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't see the exact date (as I was driving at the time!) But it was > either Saturday or Sunday at 12 something. Sorry I can't be more helpful. No, that's fine, thanks. I'd been wondering what motivated it. In my belief, the police don't usually bother with such things unless they feel there's a strong need. I remember, for example, as a commuter, seeing such a notice turn up on Waterloo Bridge a month or so after an accident, and wondering what had happened (perhaps someone died?) to merit its appearance then. For whatever reason, it's probably a good thing that the police are getting involved in the analysis process. All accident statistics are collected and can be collated (there are web pages available, for example, showing the locations of all accidents involving cyclist). So perhaps the question of Barry Road is reaching the desk of the appropriate managers in both the police and the council. Contacting local councillors or police liaison would be a good way of helping nudge any such process along.

espelli Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a yellow "Traffic Incident" board there now What's the date of the incident it refers to?

Bandy, Dandy, Handy, Mandy, Nandy, Pandy, Randy, Sandy, ..... zzz zzzz

This account seems considered enough to be credible. http://www.slaw.ca/2009/07/24/are-user-photos-being-scraped-for-ads-on-facebook/

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get a dog! That will sort the bully out ;-) Any truth in the rumour that a local entrepreneur is arranging a fixture matching Insane Tabby with Feral Giant Rabbit? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,171011,page=1

I just have nightmares that I'll one day have to take a 185 bus, that it'll turn out to be Nigel's, and I'll be left with mental scars that will affect me for the rest of my life.

piglet Wrote on 28/2/09: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sorry but I have to disagree that Nigel is a > nice person. He is a bully and gets a kick out of > intimidating passengers. Why does he have a > bicycle chain tied around the door to the driver's > cab? Why does he have to sound the emergency siren > everytime he passes another 185 bus en route? > > Val Shawcross is currently investigating my > complaint about this dreadful driver. He should > have been sacked years ago. Has she responded?

Does anyone know how secure they are? If park benches can disappear http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,304831 ...

piglet Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am identifying the driver in question so that > others can be made aware of the bully in > question. So what do we do then, if we personally come across, maybe for the first time, a person we believe to be the person referred to in some or all of the (more or less anonymous) postings here?

Maybe 'Notify your local e-forum' should appear in an unofficial list of 'guidelines'. http://entertaining.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_dangers_of_sky_lanterns. And it would at least give us all a chance to have a look.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The SE22 forum was set up by someone who set up > identical forums for just about every post code in > the area. Whereas Cf eg, http://www.claphamforum.co.uk/, http://www.primrosehillforum.co.uk/, ..., or spend five minutes on the Nominet whois server. :)

daizie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Im a bit worried they may do something next time. I > reported it any way. To the police?

I spoke too soon. Just seen three ?youngish sparrowhawks in the DH grounds. There's also a young fox that seems to have made it its patch. Regularly just sits in the open, washing and preening itself, or just observing, in between spells of sniffing around and investigating the place.

> Can anyone provide a definite reason for TV > reception problems in East Dulwich? Have you asked your neighbours how they fare?

If one chooses random telephone numbers, one must expect that some of them will belong to TPS subscribers, and be able and willing to screen them out. The company is responsible for the systems it uses. PS: if the company was truly doing market research, rather than selling, that is in any case _not_ covered by the TPS.

Speasking of which, no signs this year of the sparrowhawks that perched on Dulwich Hospital last year. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,141521,145498#msg-145498

halicon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get the train to Tulse Hill, then change for East > Dulwich there. Journey times 28-36'. All available at http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/pj/jp

Are there no reports from our agents in adjoining streets?

I don't think I've ever eaten carrot cake.

TarahC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As an update, all the post boxes are 5:30pm > unfortunately, even the one on the outside of the > sorting office on Silvester Rd. However, they do > pin point a 7:30pm box in Vauxhall. Which, on googling for "SW8 last collection", also turns up in this resource at SW8 5 http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/?pc1=SW8 I see it also lists several late ones in SE1.

antijen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.nextleft.org/2009/04/did-police-break-law-at-bishopsgate.html That's useful on the Austin Lords judgement. > I wonder what the outcome will be this time. Indeed. For those who want to drill down into the detail, para.51 of the preceding Court of Appeal judgement http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/989.html sets out the key findings of fact in the lower court (QBD) that the Commissioner of Police was relying on: the references in square brackets are to the paragraphs of the QBD judgement http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2005/480.html. It'll be interesting to compare and contrast the claimed circumstances of Austin and G20.

HAL9000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ISTR, that the post box on the corner of Tintagel > Crescent and Grove Vale (just north of the LL > roundabout) had a 6:30pm last collection. I have > used this box on many occasions in the past but do > not know whether its last collection is still the > same today. Good Luck. My memory is that it changed to 5.30. Could be wrong, but I think it would be useful to have a positive confirmation of any later time. Best hope in SE22 imo would be to check whether any 5.30 collection has actually taken place. They can be late, by even 15+ minutes, sometimes.

You're right, barty. I suspected he didn't know my birth time and place, so didn't give it much credence. Had I done so, I'd probably have moved even further south.

When I moved here from North London, I noticed that Russell Grant's astrology column in the local paper here was the same as the one in the Hackney Gazette the previous week. It's clearly all a lot more complex and mysterious than people imagine.

But if you don't know events are unrelated, you're not justified in calling them random, says a statistical hard-liner. I don't rule out there being more than one group of muggers, but my money would certainly be on there being some commonality, given the geographical, temporal, and maybe methodological similarities. I also think it would be useful to act as if there may be some more events of the same type. Taking note of perceived patterns is at the heart of good science and problem solving anyway. Some people's perceptions and inferences may be better than others, but don't throw the baby out with the dirty bath water. If you reactively adopt a random-until-definitively-proved-otherwise approach, you may take longer to reach useful outcomes than you might otherwise have done.