Dog Thieves Update?

[Emerald Fox]

Just being a nosey so-and-so, what happened with the 2 plastic boats going up the northern Oxford, suspicious characters and accused of stealing dogs' eyes? There was a lot of 'tracking' going on - have I missed the thread? Was just wondering if they turned around and are headed South again, as we may need to arm (by remote control) our torpedoes (yes, they're not bow thrusters as you were all thinking, but launch tubes).

 

The only stalking I've done before is following Romanian gypsies round Helsinki and Paris to see how they operate.

[TaffyRon]

Sick bastards who steal someones pets

[NickF]

Just being a nosey so-and-so, what happened with the 2 plastic boats going up the northern Oxford, suspicious characters and accused of stealing dogs' eyes? There was a lot of 'tracking' going on - have I missed the thread? Was just wondering if they turned around and are headed South again, as we may need to arm (by remote control) our torpedoes (yes, they're not bow thrusters as you were all thinking, but launch tubes).

 

The only stalking I've done before is following Romanian gypsies round Helsinki and Paris to see how they operate.

It'll have to be torpedoes, the limpet mines won't work on a tupperware boat!

[Emerald Fox]

Yes indeedy, but why did the reports all of a sudden stop? Or have they continued somewhere (the reports I mean)?

[junior]

Yes indeedy, but why did the reports all of a sudden stop? Or have they continued somewhere (the reports I mean)?

Maybe nobody has seen them.

[Mac of Cygnet]

accused of stealing dogs' eyes

 

????????????????

[bottle]

Maybe there is no one to see them, I know we are wide spread but there may just be a stretch of canal that is not covered by forum members.

[NickF]

 

????????????????

I think the eye bit was a reference to the picture of my dog on page 1 of the original topic.

 

http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=71845&hl=

[MtB]

It's still odd, the way four people a day were reporting their progress on here then NOTHING for almost a week

 

MtB

[Loafer]

Maybe someone has given them some concrete wellies?

[Delta9]

maybe it turned out they were't thieves, just scruffy looking.

[cuthound]

Perhaps they have sunk without a trace?

[bassplayer]

Maybe they made it to the tidal Trent....

[MtB]

maybe it turned out they were't thieves, just scruffy looking.

 

Quite possibly true but in what way does this explain the absence of recent sightings?

 

MtB

[Naughty Cal]

 

Quite possibly true but in what way does this explain the absence of recent sightings?

 

MtB

They have had a wash?

[NickF]

They have had a wash?

Surely they would have to come past you to get to the wash!

[Naughty Cal]

Surely they would have to come past you to get to the wash!

No. They are safe on that score for a few months

[Kendal]

IIRC they were last reported at Hillmorton locks on 27th November, so could well be stuck at the top of the Athersone flight (stoppage until the 14th) or perhaps wandered off up the Ashby.

 

One of the boats wasn't called The Rosemary was it?

 

Twas way up in Brummagem so I do hear say,
A boat by the name of the Rosemary lay.
She was clothed up and painted in traditional style,
But she hadn't carried for a very long while.

Fol-de-rol, fol-de-ri-do, sing fol-de-rol-day,
It's the song they're all singing down Brummagem way.

Along came a boatman, the old boat to see,
Says he 'Here's a craft that is useful to me.
I'll load her with coal and for London I'll steer',
Said the boatman to the owner, 'If I take her from here'.

The owner said 'Yes' and the boatman 'Okay'
And into the cabin he went straightaway.
He lit up the stove, cleared cobwebs and mould,
And polished the brass 'til it shone like fine gold.

He sang as he laboured far into the night,
Got up in the morning before it was light.
(He) put the rusty blowlamp on the cylinder head,
'Tis a fine day for boating', the old boatman said.

He primed up the engine, a prayer in his heart,
(And) kicked on the flywheel to see if she'd start;
With a bang like the sound of a ten-pounder gun
The aged old Bolinder started to run.

He cast off the fore-end (and) at the counter he stood,
As the Rosemary shook herself free of the mud.
With tears in his eyes says the boatman 'We may
Get right down to Coventry for the end of the day.'

He was seen up at Curdworth by the old tunnel's mouth
He motored to Fazeley and then he turned south
He spoke to the keeper at Atherstone Top
But he never made it to Hawkesbury Stop

Some talk of deep holes in the Coventry's bed
And some say he went up the Ashby instead
There are stories and theories but for all that they say
Neither boat nor the boatmen has been seen to this day

On dark stormy nights round the fall of the year,
If the beat of a Bolinder distant you hear,
It's not Clayton's Stour, the Youmea or Tay;
It's the ghost of the boatman and the old Rosemary.

 

Edit to add: please excuse the inclusion of the ditty if you've seen it before

Edited December 4, 2014 by Kendal

[Athy]

No, I haven't seen it before and I enjoyed it, thank you.

[BruceinSanity]

IIRC they were last reported at Hillmorton locks on 27th November, so could well be stuck at the top of the Athersone flight (stoppage until the 14th) or perhaps wandered off up the Ashby.

 

One of the boats wasn't called The Rosemary was it?

 

snip

 

Edit to add: please excuse the inclusion of the ditty if you've seen it before

There are a couple of recordings of this brilliant song about, one by Jeff and Benny and one, of the original shorter version, by Pumpkin Pie.

[KENDA]

I believe we passed them on their way towards Coventry Basin on Monday as we headed back to Sutton Stop. As there are not many boats that way I guess no other forum member has seen them.

[David Mack]

There are a couple of recordings of this brilliant song about, one by Jeff and Benny and one, of the original shorter version, by Pumpkin Pie.

Its also on the 1974 LP The Bold Navigators, which features Jon Raven, John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris, Gary & Vera Aspey, Brian Peters & Ian Woods.

[matty40s]

shame if they didn't know which way to turn at Hawkesbury, there's a big sign on the junction, maybe it was dark when they passed through there.

[Emerald Fox]

Delta9 - is that James Dreyfuss? (he of The Thin Blue Line)

[Delta9]

Delta9 - is that James Dreyfuss? (he of The Thin Blue Line)

It's Charlie Day (of 'it's always sunny in Philadelphia')