Things that make you go "aw!"

[crackerjack]

A 72-year-old milkman who supplied cannabis to customers on his rounds to help ease their aches and pains was today given a suspended sentence.

Robert Holding, of Burnley in Lancashire, was sentenced at Burnley crown court for supplying and possessing the drug. The court heard that his wife has Alzheimer's disease and has recently moved into a care home, where he visits her every day. He was sentenced to 36 weeks on each count, suspended for a year.

Judge Beverley Lunt told him the sentence was "an act of mercy" in the light of his wife's illness. At an earlier hearing, Holding had admitted supplying cannabis resin between April and July 2008, and possessing cannabis with intent to supply on July 17 last year.

Sarah Statham, prosecuting, told the court that police uncovered his activities and raided his property when his wife and daughter were at home. During the raid, Holding arrived home in the Transit van he used for his milk round and officers found nearly 167g (6oz) of cannabis split into 15 separate packets in an egg crate in the vehicle.

Statham said the smallest amount the packets contained was 3g of the drug and the largest amount was 20g. She said the cannabis had an estimated street value of £450. Statham said that, during the course of an eight-minute police interview, the defendant was "extremely frank".

"He said he sold the cannabis to existing customers because they were old and had aches and pains," she said.

"He said he sold a 9oz [255g] bar about every three weeks and sold it for a relatively cheap value.

"He said that customers left him notes saying, for example, 'Can I have an ounce this week or can I have an eighth'."

Statham revealed that Holding sold an ounce for £30 or one-eighth for £4.10 to 17 customers. She said Holding, a motorcycle enthusiast, said he would never sell the drug to children. The court heard that Holding has been married for 53 years and has six children and 28 grandchildren.

Cheap too.

 

[baboon2004]

My g/f held a six-week-old panther this morning, and it tried to claw her face off.

Aww.

 

[crackerjack]

My g/f held a six-week-old panther this morning, and it tried to claw her face off.

Aww.

In my ideal world i would have a succession of tiger cubs frolicing round the place. Obviously they'd have to disappear before they were able to kill me.

 

[IdleRich]

"A 72-year-old milkman who supplied cannabis to customers on his rounds to help ease their aches and pains was today given a suspended sentence."

Kind of reminds me of when my brother's mate used to work as a night porter at this hotel. My insomniac brother used to go there and they would make themselves enormous sandwiches from the kitchen and drink all the booze and stuff (and play golf in the tiny garden). One time it was just turning to dawn and they were half-inching some bottles of vodka and the milk man turned up, Rob was all kind of "uh oh, caught red handed" but this turned out not to be the case. The milkman was in on it as well and they passed him the booze which was later delivered to their houses (he took a cut of course). They had quite a network going, he delivered booze to the all night garage as well and the guy there used to turn a blind eye in return when they robbed stuff from the shelves.
Quite a nice deal situation until the other night porter decided he'd had enough of merely shearing the sheep and decided to skin it alive by robbing ten grand out of the safe and doing a runner.

 

[swears]

Girls in huge nerd specs, also cardies that are way too big for them.

 

[nomadthethird]

Girls in huge nerd specs, also cardies that are way too big for them.

I have been thinking about getting some of those prescription lense-free ones from American Apparel, since my bf got glasses recently and everyone's always coming to him asking him questions, even reporters! Because he looks so smart.

 

[swears]

I wish my gf was shortsighted, haha. She has nicked most of my cardies, tho.

I have a big pair of thick-black framed glasses I like to wear if I'm not in contacts. I got clear prescription lenses put into a pair of fake Wayfarers.

What kind does yr bf have?

 

[nomadthethird]

He has "salt." brand, they're pretty standard I think in Brooklyn but he really really needs his, he can't see much without them. He used to wear contacts but he got sick of them irritating and scratching his eyes.

It would be so awful to really get those AA glasses and wear them even though I don't need them! What an asshole. I like these though:

http://store.americanapparel.net/woodstock.html


(Cardigans are absolutely the best thing going, I can't believe we don't have anything about them on the Clothing thread. I esp love the heathered ones from AA. My bf has the camel colored one that has two rows of buttons and I think I might steal it...)

 

[littlebird]

Quite a nice deal situation until the other night porter decided he'd had enough of merely shearing the sheep and decided to skin it alive by robbing ten grand out of the safe and doing a runner.

great story.

to bad the greed took over. seems that is always the case in those kind of situations.

i'd imagine they noticed the missing grand. did the hotel ever catch-on to the booze trade?

 

[littlebird]

It would be so awful to really get those AA glasses and wear them even though I don't need them! What an asshole. I like these though:

http://store.americanapparel.net/woodstock.html

i feel like i see at least a dozen girls around LA in those very glasses everyday; especially wating in the hallway outside of the casting agency, just outside the ad agency i work for's doors.

i agree, wholeheartedly, on cardigans. i believe i have a stolen one, or two, from past bf's in my closet. and a few second-hand from thrift shops (who knows whose bf's they were taken from, at the start).

 

[Mr. Tea]

I dunno, cardigans can work but it's easy to fall into the traps of affectedly-twee-looking (if female) or pseudo-nerdy hipster (if male).

 

[littlebird]

I dunno, cardigans can work but it's easy to fall into the traps of affectedly-twee-looking (if female) or pseudo-nerdy hipster (if male).

unless you are already a pseudo nerdy hipster female, or a twee male, eh?

 

[Mr. Tea]

unless you are already a pseudo nerdy hipster female, or a twee male, eh?

In which case you are clearly beyond all help.

 

[littlebird]

In which case you are clearly beyond all help.

completely.

 

[nomadthethird]

I dunno, cardigans can work but it's easy to fall into the traps of affectedly-twee-looking (if female) or pseudo-nerdy hipster (if male).

No, they're more hip-hop now.

I'm not talking about the grunge/indie type of cardigan look...

 

[swears]

I dunno, cardigans can work but it's easy to fall into the traps of affectedly-twee-looking (if female) or pseudo-nerdy hipster (if male).

I'm a pseudo-hipstery nerd. I love to nerd it up, look as geeky as possible.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Swears's role model:

 

[crackerjack]

The Kellogs boycott.

Stoners strike back

 

[IdleRich]

"i'd imagine they noticed the missing grand. did the hotel ever catch-on to the booze trade?"

I think they definitely knew that they were skimming some but didn't realise anything like the full extent of it. It's certainly true that when they had some new stocks they of stuff they wouldn't tell the night porters and would deliberately hide them in unusual places in the hotel which suggests to me a lack of trust - they would always be found though.