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I'm really glad no one came into my apartment seeing me in a ski mask holding a Glock.
To clarify, just because a few have asked: this was a self-portrait. I was not pointing the gun at anyone. I have a wireless shutter remote that I was holding in my left hand to trigger the camera. The gun was unloaded (no magazine was even in the gun), and no one else was even home. It was pretty scary, though, pointing a gun at my 50D and 100L. The thought of shooting them makes kittens cry.
7/27/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Bristol Police on scene of bank robbery at TD Bank on Broad Street in Bristol Wednesday afternoon.
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911.
Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call. As the bank robbers leave the bank, they encountered the constables responding to the 911 call. The robbers immediately retreat back into the bank and barricade themselves with hostages.
Constables call for backup and the Tactical Response Unit quickly arrived on scene and established an inner perimeter. They are soon took over by the Special Tactics Unit.
The incident commander also arrive on scene and established a temporary command post and begin plans to resolve the situation peacefully.
To be continued...
Spanish collectors card by J.G. Viladot, Barcelona. The Marx Brothers in Go West (Edward Buzzell, 1940). The Spanish title was Los Hermanos Marx en el oeste.
The Marx Brothers was the name for a group of American-Jewish comedians from the first half of the 20th century who were actually brothers. Their career started in theatre, but they became world-famous through their films. They are known for their wild, anarchic and often surrealist humour. Their jokes consist of slapstick, but also puns and intelligent dialogue. With their rebellious jokes, they were the forerunners of generations of anti-sentimental comedians. Five brothers together formed The Marx Brothers, even though the five of them never actually performed at the same time: Harpo, Chico, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo.
The eldest brother, Chico (1887-1961) was born Leonard Marx. Manfred was actually the eldest, but he died as a child. Chico was the one who decided to make musical comedies with his other brothers. At the time, he had learnt an Italian accent to convince any anti-Semites in the neighbourhood that he was Italian and not a Jew. This accent, along with his talent as a piano player, became one of his trademarks. In the films, he usually fulfilled the role of a sly and shady con man, the confidant of Harpo, a confident pianist and the sceptical assistant of Groucho.
Harpo (1888-1964) was born Adolph and changed his name to Arthur in WWI because he found the name too German. As an actor, Harpo played the role of a mute, who never speaks but expresses himself through sign language, whistling and using his horn. Like a cross between a child and a wild beast, he sets everything in motion, harassing everyone, pulling the most peculiar things out of his coat (such as a candle burning on two sides, a coiled rope, a pin-up poster, etc.), and chasing women with his horn. His pseudonym "Harpo" was derived from the fact that he played the harp, for which there was a musical interlude in almost every film.
Groucho (1890-1977) was born Julius Henry Marx. His trademarks were his grin, thick cigar, waddling gait and sarcastic remarks, insults and puns. In the films, he was constantly trying to get money or women, talking everyone under the table with his witty and intelligent remarks. He was also a singer and some of his songs have become classics, such as 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady'.
Gummo (1892-1977) was born Milton and was the least-known Marx Brother. He was the one who first performed with Groucho, but before the big Broadway success came he had stopped acting. For years, he was his brother's manager.
Zeppo (1901-1979) was born Herbert Marx and was the youngest of the Marx Brothers. He took over the role of Gummo when the latter quit. Zeppo was the romantic declarer. Though he could take on more versatile roles, he was typecast as the most serious of the four.
The Marx Brothers were the five surviving sons of Sam and Minnie Marx. The family lived in Yorkville on New York's Upper East Side, a neighbourhood sandwiched between the Irish-German and Italian quarters. Their career already began at the beginning of the century in vaudeville shows, with which their maternal uncle, Al Shean, had already been successful. Groucho was the first to embark on a career on stage, but initially with very little success. Their mother and sister also appeared on stage with their sons at times. However, the focus soon shifted from music and singing with humorous segues to comedy with musical interludes. The different roles of musicians and comedians crystallised relatively early. While Chico developed the stereotype of the womaniser with an Italian accent who was always chasing the chicks, Groucho dropped his accent as a German during the First World War due to a lack of popularity. Harpo remained speechless on stage, as he had the greatest successes playing his jokes as a mime in a red or, in films, blond curly wig, or playing his grandmother's old harp. A classroom sketch in which Groucho tried to teach his brothers evolved into the comedy show 'I'll Say She Is which became their first success on Bradway and in England. This was followed by two more Broadway hits: 'The Cocoanuts' and 'Animal Crackers'. The Marx Brothers' shows became popular at a time when Hollywood was experiencing the transition from silent film to talkies. The brothers signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and thus launched their film career.
The last two Broadway shows of The Marx Brothers became their first films, The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey, 1929) and Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, 1930). Their next film was Money Business (Norman Z. McLeod, 1931). Between 1932 and 1933, a total of 26 episodes of the radio show 'Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel' were made, with Groucho voicing the lawyer Waldorf T. Flywheel and Chico voicing his sidekick Emmanuel Ravelli. The first three episodes were broadcast under the title 'Beagle, Shyster & Beagle'. The title was then changed after a New York lawyer named "Beagle" threatened to sue. Some of the dialogue from the radio broadcasts was later used in the Marx Brothers films. Their most successful film of the early period was Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932), a satire on the American college system. But Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), generally considered their masterpiece, had much less success. It marked their break with Paramount. Zeppo, who always played serious roles, stopped making films after this. The Marx Brothers' first five films are generally considered their best, expressing their surrealist and anarchic humour in its purest form. The three remaining brothers moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and changed the formula of their subsequent films. Their remaining films were given romantic plots and serious musical interludes, often intended as resting points between the often hilarious comic sketches. In A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935), a satire on the opera world, the brothers help two young singers in love. The film was very successful and was followed by the equally popular A Day at the Races (Sam Wood, 1937), where they kicked up a fuss at a race track. Several less memorable films followed until 1941. After the war, two more films A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo, 1946) and Love Happy (David Miller, 1949) followed to pay off Chico's gambling debts. This was followed by the mediocre film The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957), and a television special The Incredible Jewel Robbery (1959). These productions were already interludes, while each brother had already picked up a career of his own. Chico and Harpo continued on stage and Groucho had started a career as a radio and television entertainer. With his television and radio show 'You Bet Your Life', he became one of the most popular show hosts of the 1950s in the USA. The first episodes of the show were still broadcast live, as was customary at the time. But because Groucho's unbridled wordplay caused headaches for those in charge of the show, they deviated from this for later episodes and the programme was broadcast as a recording. He also wrote a number of books. Gummo and Zeppo ran a theatre agency together. A final film project planned for 1960, starring the Marx Brothers once again and directed by Billy Wilder, did not materialise due to Chico's poor health. It was to be an anti-war satire in the style of Duck Soup. Even Groucho, who at the time was no longer very interested in further Marx Brothers films, is said to have been enthusiastic about the project because he considered Billy Wilder to be one of the best directors.
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I have already posted this same MOC on Lego Ideas.
The TV show Gotham on Fox is about Gotham City before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. The scene this Lego Creation shows is from episode 17: Red Hood. It shows how the Red Hood gang has robbed a bank, and Detective Gordon and Harvey Bullock are trying to stop them.
I created minifigures versions of many important characters in Gotham. The minifigures not on the black stand are Detective Gordon, Harvey Bullock, a civilian, The Red Hood, and a member of the Red Hood gang. On the black stand, from left to right, the minifigures are Bruce Wayne (Batman), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin), Edward Nygma (The Riddler), Victor Zsasz, Johnathan Crane (The Scarecrow), and Jerome (The Joker?).
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Continuing my recent theme of uploading railway images to Flickr on the anniversary of the day they were caught on camera. In the early hours of 7th April 1987, 87008 pauses at Carlisle whilst sacks of mail are unloaded from a Glasgow bound TPO.
Carlisle used to be a good spot to spend the night armed with camera & tripod as most freights used to stop for a crew change. Of course back in the 1987 there were still several mail / TPOs & a handful of Anglo - Scottish sleeper trains.
Other noteable events taking place on this day in history were:-
1739 English highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged in York for murdering an inn-keeper.
1936 Butlins opened its first family holiday camp at Skegness.
1968 British world motor-racing champion Jim Clark died in a crash at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany.
1997 The 150th Grand National (cancelled on the 5th) due to bomb threats by the IRA, was held for the first time ever on a Monday, with the organisers offering free admission. Some 20,000 people had been left stranded over the weekend, as their cars and coaches were locked in the course.
“Armed carjackings, assaults, robbery, shootings and serious sexual offences, including rape, are common in Papua” says the Foreign Office travel advice to travelers!
The papua tourism office has a hard work convincing more people like me to come to PNG!
Once a year takes place in Mount Hagen the biggest tribal meeting, called a singsing.
The “Men bilong pait” (the Warriors) ,the” pipels” (the women), and the “pikinini” (the children) are all here. Hundreds of papus are preparing themselves for the Singsing. It’s in open air, but you feel like being backstage in the latest fashion show in Milano or Paris as men paint their faces in red,yellow,white,black, women take grass to make skirts or kilts and cover their bodies with clay, mud, or even pigs fat!
Old wise men are building the giant headdresses made of eagle, parrot and bird of paradise feathers. Each feather is packed in newspaper, to protect them from insects. It will take hours…
Some warriors wear also marsupial jaws as necklaces! “If you do not have jaws, you can put dogs teeth, it works too” they tell me!
Bones, shells, pigs tusks, or twigs are put in the noses. I meet a Highlands warrior who has gave up the traditional shell that he used to put in his nose, and now uses an electrical meter!
Papu like to put a modern touch in their jewels or decorations, as we like to put some tribal stuff in our so called designed houses!
Now it’s time for parade. All the tribes are marching. It’s a mix of sounds and sights, not a love parade, rather a war parade!
The Mount Hagen festival was launched by the Australian colonial governor in 1964, to promote peace in the country.So…The warriors simulate fights! But the stone axes, the arrows, the shields, the spears, the bludgeons are real! There won’t be any violence during the festival, but everyday, tribal fights still take place, with guns instead of axes, and people die…
You can hear war songs, drums, and the tribes start to march in circle, in column, or in line .
The tribes keep on dancing until sundown, and have to listen to an endless speech from a local political while the few tourists go back to their hotels, stoned by the loudspeakers noise!
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Hard to get a good photograph of a moving train. It's missing some parts, unfortunately.
Did my best to reassemble this beautiful piece of work by eoh1 and dazer seen on a Kansas City Southern de México train in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I filled up the bird feeders this morning. This chap was quickly on the scene. The feeder on the right is truly squirrel proof, much to his annoyance, I'm sure.
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911.
Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call. As the bank robbers leave the bank, they encountered the constables responding to the 911 call. The robbers immediately retreat back into the bank and barricade themselves with hostages.
Constables call for backup and the Tactical Response Unit quickly arrived on scene and established an inner perimeter. They are soon took over by the Special Tactics Unit.
The incident commander also arrive on scene and established a temporary command post and begin plans to resolve the situation peacefully.
To be continued...
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911. Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call.
Will the police able to catch the robbers?
To be continued...
It's been while since I have done a police theme scene. Hope you enjoy.
Click here for full size view. Polaroid 600 SE, 127mm. Fuji FP-3000B instant film.
Crime scene investigation of a robbery at 3:30 am.
See the Hereios of We’re Here! star in Western movies today!
The first western, and the film responsible for establishing that moving pictures could be a commercially successful medium, was The Great Train Robbery in 1903.
The original movie still of Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, which I savaged for today’s theme, can be seen here:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGreat_train_robbery_Bar...
By Edwin S. Porter (The Kobal Collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The following interesting info is from this website: www.filmsite.org/grea.html
The film was originally advertised as "a faithful duplication of the genuine 'Hold Ups' made famous by various outlaw bands in the far West." The plot was inspired by a true event that occurred on August 29, 1900, when four members of George Leroy Parker's (Butch Cassidy) 'Hole in the Wall' gang halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks toward Table Rock, Wyoming. The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.
The film used a number of innovative techniques, many of them for the first time, including parallel editing, minor camera movement, location shooting and less stage-bound camera placement. Jump-cuts or cross-cuts were a new, sophisticated editing technique, showing two separate lines of action or events happening continuously at identical times but in different places.
Recently I have been inspired by a lot of other builder's futuristic/apocalyptic Mocs. Ended up being one of my favorite Mocs I've done.
To Entice a Thief
A Prologue:
“I’m so glad you gave up your life of crime!”
She said to me as we danced, a wicked little smile creeping up upon her face.
It was a signal to me that she was ready to leave the reception...and that she was feeling amorous.
“Brilliant”. I thought as I let my eyes drift down to soak in the enticement of her sparkling necklace, before crafting an answer in character.
“Yes, and I owe it all to you and your lovely friends for being here this evening to help me rehabilitate.”
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The Enticing Tale Unfolds:
We were attending a black-tie reception that evening to celebrate the re-opening of a local theatre that had undergone a 2-year refurbishing, the first in almost 75 years of its 300-year existence.
I was in a full black tux with a green cummerbund.
My wife Ginny was wearing a slick thin satin sheath gown, short scalloped sleeved shoulders with a cowled neckline. It was dyed a vivid shade of emerald green which set off nicely, both her let down long ginger hair and mesmerizing green eyes.
My wife’s jewellery was also quite mesmerizing.
Long dangling rhinestone earrings that flowed and shimmered from her ears and dangled playfully in and out of her hair whenever she flung her head back.
Her nearly 45-millimeter wide necklace was also set with rhinestones, hanging down just below her gowns’ cowled neckline, where it sparkled alluringly as it moved against the luxurious green satin. She was also wearing her favorite rhinestone bracelet around her right wrist. The bracelet was a right cracker. The outer strands are made up of 1 carat round stones with a full 3-carat pear-shaped collection of “ice” set in the surrounding middle strand. She also, in addition to her wedding rings, was wearing an emerald diamond cocktail ring on her right index finger.
The posh reception had been a lot of fun, I really enjoy drinking and hanging with Ginny’s mates. A collection of artists of varying talents, including her fellow local actors and actresses.
We had been sharing a table with two other couples. Ginny’s fellow actor friend Tad and his wife Mareid, along with our married friends Heather and Merrick.
Tad and Merrick were in stiff tuxes like mine. Tad was wearing a black cummerbund, while Merrick wore a shiny dark blue vest with his.
Reserved Mareid was wearing a black velvet v necked dress.
Her jewels consisted of a diamond journey necklace with matching earrings. Alsong with her wedding rings she wore a small diamond pinkie ring.
Jovial Heather had poured her petite figure into a repurposed bridesmaid A-line taffeta gown of shiny sapphire blue with short white satin gloves on her hands.
She wore a dazzling necklace of blue sapphire stones surrounded by rhinestone diamonds. A large center stone dangled just above her snugly held cleavage with a series of smaller stones going up either side of the silver chain. Earrings and a bracelet had been added that matched her necklace. Along with her wedding rings, she sports a brace of matching blue sapphire cocktail rings.
As the evening, and the drinking wore on, our conversation became more lively, running through a myriad of topics before touching on the upcoming theatre production Tad, Mareid and Ginny were preparing for. A mystery play entitled “Shear the Black Sheep” by David Dodge.
It was Heather, while thoughtfully fingering her necklace, who chirped in about Dodge’s novel “To Catch a Thief.”
As we all looked at her, I studied her pretty attire, thinking that she would have fit right in with the story.
“Hell, we all would .” I thought eyeing Ginny and the rest of our table mates.
Ginny caught me eyeballing her and smirked as she dipped her head down to adjust her bracelet, her earrings doing their thing.
Heather reached over and gently laid her fingers over Ginny’s handsome bracelet, gently fingering it as she spoke further.
“That is such a pretty bracelet Ginny...”
Heather lifted her eyes up from it and looked around the table at us.”
“I remember hearing that David Dodge wrote his story after a jewel thief had broken into the French villa next store. As the dinner guests were gathered for a cocktail party on the terrace in front, the thief broke into the back and looted the master and guest bedrooms of valuables. “
“How awful!” Mareid spoke with a shudder.
Heather comfortingly placed her hand on Mareid’s bare arm. Her eyes wide as she ran wild with the thought.
“It was, darling, but at least he didn’t get any of the jewels the ladies like us were wearing at the party.”
“Unless they had chosen not to wear any...” I thought but kept it to myself as Heather went on talking to Mareid...
“And just think! The thief may have been there previously as a guest, how else did he know what jewels were there for the taking if he had not seen the ladies wearing theirs out ?”
“Was he ever caught I wonder ?” Questioned Merrick with a wink at me.
“I don’t believe so, got away clean away with all them lovely jewels he nicked,” Heather admitted, as both she and Mareid squirmed a bit in their seats.
Ginny meanwhile was not squirming but was giving me a meaningful look over after catching me in the act of doing the same to her.
I was, I’ll admit, also squirming a bit at Heather's remarks, so I decided to pipe in with...
“So Heather dear, ever wonder, if he had been there previously, as a guest, what would have been going through his mind as he mingled? Better yet, say he was here in our midsts tonight, if we were to pretend the jewels you ladies are wearing were real?”
“Mine are!” Said unimaginative Mareid with a bit of worry in her voice.
Tad chuckled. “ So they are darling, but any jewel thief worth his salt would also be salivating over the pretty baubles that Heather and Ginny are so winningly sporting this evening.”
Merrick chimed in...
“Spoken like a true thief laddie. And he would also be wanting a dance so he could have a closer look over of their sparklers.”
He stood up and offered a hand to his wife.
“Shall we, my dear?”
Heather gleefully rose and the pair went off to the dance floor. Closely followed by the rest of our table.
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Once this new series of long dances were over we all cheerfully headed back to our tables.
Without sitting, Tad and Mareid informed us they were calling it an early evening, having promised to have the babysitter (their young niece Veriety) home early.
We said our goodbyes and after they left, Merrick and I seated our ladies, then headed in the opposite direction to the bar for another round of drinks.
Returning to our table we saw that the girls were embroiled in a deep conversation, which they ended up on our approach, looking up at us like the cats who had gotten the canaries.
We served the pretty ladies their drinks, and after taking a rather unladylike slurp of her’s, Heather looked at Merrick and me with questioning eyes before asking, with a rather horsey dry throated tone of voice...
“Now then, what were you lads thinking as we danced?”
“A...bout?” Asked Merrick teasing, for he believes we both knew, but wanted her to come out with it.
“ Our jewels, sillies. Were you coveting them, thinking of ways to steal them from us? Inquiring minds want to know?”
With an astounding expression, I asked.
“Heather Luv, are you calling your husband snd I jewel thieves?!”
Both Heather and Ginny chortled as Heather said cheerfully...
“Well, reformed thieves then, you’ve given up a life of crime, but, you know, you can take the boy out of the city, but not the city out of the boy. So let’s have it, each of you have to say something, that’s my challenge...”
“And no coping out of it either you two. I know you have imaginations. Especially you, she finished, drilling her blue eyes into mine...”
Merrick gave me a nudge. “I think your first mate.”
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I took a long sip of my bourbon, whilst gathering my thoughts. I freely eyed Ginny, then Heather up and down for effect. Their pretty dresses would have been noticed first, followed by the thief eyeing their expensive appearing jewels. This is going to be easy I thought, before starting in, pausing in-between thoughts for further effect.
“I was a jewel thief who was taken under wing by a wealthy socialite who felt it was her duty to reform me. As part of this task, she has brought me here surrounded by ladies in fancy jewels, to teach me how to overcome my desires.”
“I would have selected out a promising lady, Ginny here, and asked for a dance.”
“I would then have started out dancing at a modest distance to get the full picture. Then I would have asked if she knew who the tart in the blue taffeta dress and sapphires was?”
“Hey, that’s not very nice!” Heather scolded me, as we all laughed.
I continued, reaching over and fingering my wife’s bracelet.
“Then as Ginny looked over at you Heather. I would have had a window opened to closely study her earrings and necklace, then as she looked back over to me I would lift her right-hand and have her swirl around in a circle as I gave the same attention to her bracket and ring. Then I would again talk about the pretty lady in blue, I had I kindly called a tart, finding out where she(and her jewels ) were spending the evening. “
“Hah”! Said Heather triumphantly. “So you are not reformed, and I am not surprised you would prefer your wife’s jewels over my own. They are very pretty “
I shook my head no.... as I reached over and stroked my fingers along Heather’s necklace.
“Of course I am not reformed, and I would be very interested in the jewels you both are wearing.”
“So I would then maneuver Ginny close to Merrick, and tapping him on the shoulder as to change partners.”
“Then I would repeat my performance on You. Looking over this necklace your flaunting, calling out to be nicked, and as I study it, asking where your friend the redhead was staying. “
I finished up with...
“As we finished the dance and had gone back to the table I would make an excuse to leave. Then as you two ladies were enjoying your evening here, I would be breaking into your bedrooms, stealing your jewels.”
“Devious ...I like it, “ Heather said with a delicious shudder before turning he attention to Merrick and challenging...
“Your turn my love...”
Yes, I would love to hear it also...” My Ginny said with encouragement.
Merrick, a bit red-faced, began. And I was pleasantly pleased that he had obviously been giving it some thought.
“Well, I um, would wait until you were alone during the evening and come up to offer dance, or to put my name on your dance card. Then as we danced I would say how pretty your dress was and how lovely your jewels were. Then as you told me about your dress and jewellery I would listen and watch. I would think how dazzling you looked wearing them, and that it would be a shame I had to steal them. I would keep an eye on you the rest of the evening, follow you home, and as you slept take them from you.”
Heather sighed deeply, then asked.
“Would you watch me make sure I was sleeping before starting?”
Merrick nodded, “That and to make sure you were not still wearing any of them.”
“Nice Merrick!” I thought to myself as his wife pretty much was now swooning.
I was watching Heather as Merrick was spinning his tale. I could tell she was more than thrilled at what he was saying, becoming even more turned on about her view of the jewel thief subject she had broached.
But I knew that poor clueless Merrick was missing that point over his wife’s yearning desire for him to at least try acting out upon the theme. He had told his story and that to him appeared to be the end of his Wife’s challenge.
Pity, for it was all ever so obvious that Heather was into this. Albeit alcohol may have also been a driving factor.
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It was all finally winding down, when, as we again were dancing, Ginny, had come up with her thief remark that I mention at the beginning of this tale.
As the dance ended I looked my wife lovingly in her eyes with a look in mine that told her I was up to something.
“Let’s do it properly,” I said, nodding towards the table where we had been sitting, watching as Heather was being reseated by Merrick after they had left the dance floor ahead of us.
You girls go to the loo while I have a chat with Merrick.
“Game on...” Ginny said with joyful conviction.
And so it was that some twenty minutes later, and another round of drinks, found us back on the dance floor.
But this time around I was with Heather and Merrick was dancing with Ginny.
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As we danced I talked to Heather in a low, conspiracy-laden tone of voice.
“You know Heather, you sometimes need to tease someone into wanting to steal your jewels, spell it out what you think he would do. Like Ginny and I are going to do before leaving. “
“Oooh, what’s going to happen ?” She asked with deep interest:
“You’ll see soon enough, Ginny is going to play the character of another lady here this evening. The one your husband is dancing with. That will be our game. You need to focus on yours. Speaking of which..”
“Yes?” Asked Heather with deep curiosity.
I tapped her on the nose... then lifted her necklace going into my character...
“Remember, coming from a reformed thief, your jewels are far safer in your room than to trust some mischievous bugger of a weasel-faced hotel desk clerk to lock them up for you in a hotel safes vault.”
Ohh my, Heather really liked me saying that, for she had no clue to its meaning, but believed heart and soul that Merrick would!
Then she went into her character...
“I am so glad you are looking out for me and my jewels. Here I have been foolishly listening to hotel clerks and letting them put my pretties in the hotel safe.”
Placing a hand on either side of her face I lifting her silky hair up to properly view her dangling earrings, before answering Heather in the voice of my character...
“Best not to take chances. Make sure you keep all your jewelry with you in your suite this evening.”
Heather giggled...
“ Oh, I had not thought of that. What a brilliant suggestion. You are truly my knight in shining armor!”
With that, she gave me a peck on the chin...
I chuckled before breaking character to give pretty Heather some further instructions...
“Now listen, we are going to switch partners soon, this is what you need to do with Merrick.
As I maneuvered my pretty partner over towards her husband and my wife, I explained the role she would play for the remaining 30 minutes till midnight, at which time the reception was officially over. If she played it right, further adventures awaited her at home afterwards!
I had finished my advice by the time we reached them.
I had one hand holding around Heather’s silken-covered waist, the other was holding her hand. I let go of her hand and tapped Merrick on the shoulder.
“Change partners?” I questioned as he looked me in the eye.
Merrick looked at Ginny,
“Do you mind?”
He said to her, and with the manner had said that I knew that Ginny had been successful in bringing Merrick up to speed on playing his wife’s game.
“I would love to.”
Ginny said and still dancing to the music, we, in turn, switched our partners.
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I took Ginny up in my arms, she felt like heaven as my fingers slipped around the satin waistline of her green gown.
“I’m so glad you gave up your life of crime!”
She said to me with that wicked little smile of hers lighting up her face.
I smiled back...
“Yes, and I owe it all to the efforts of my benefactor and her lovely friends., like you. So glad you all have faith in me.”
Meanwhile, I was working my fingers carefully up the backside of her scintillating gown.
Ginny sighed happily...
“ I will admit I had some reservations over my friend bringing a thief here. What if you had found all these jewels we are wearing too much of a temptation?
My fingers had finally made it up to her ‘diamond’ necklaces’ clasp as I answered soothingly...
“That's why she told all of her friends to wear their best jewelry tonight. To test me. I am so glad you listened to her. I feel no strong desires to steal jewels any more.”
Ginny smiled at me...
“I’m glad, for I do so love wearing my diamonds out. And no worries, I totally trust you around them...”
With that Ginny lay her head down lovingly upon my shoulder as I looked around. No one was paying us any heed. Except Heather, who was was snuggled into Merrick, with an eye open upon us.
Ginny and I danced in that position for some time before I made my move and began to work open the ‘diamond’ necklace’s jeweled clasp.
On cue, Ginny said into my shoulder.
“I can tell you are having a lovely time this evening.”
I looked into Ginnys face, her swinging earrings giving off a frenzied sparkle.
“Oh, I am Lass, that I most certainly am having a lovely time. I am thoroughly enjoying dancing with pretty ladies like yourself. And may add that your earrings are something special.”
Ginny raised her head smiling at me...which now made my job a lot easier.
“Thank you, that means a lot to me. But they are heavy, and I'm afraid that I have a bad habit of taking them off, then leaving them behind at the table...”
I was smiling, listening intently to her, while my fingers finally managing to unclasp her necklace, letting the ends hang freely down before I made a lying comment...
“No worries luv if I were to see you do that, I would point it out to you.”
She sighed, then happily snuggled back into my chest.
“ I knew you were reformed, and saying what you just did proves it.”
My hand at her waist gripped in harder as she snuggled in closer. With her hot figure pressing into mine, my free hand was busy working her shimmery ‘diamonds’ free from around her satin gown’s cowled neckline.
“You truly have no idea how much I am appreciating this trust you are giving me tonight.” I murmured while I worked on reliving her of the ‘diamonds’ she was so obtainabley wearing.
And then it smoothly came away easy peasy, and I found myself in full possession of her diamonds. I quickly whisked it over her satin-clad shoulder and secreted it away inside my pocket.
Ginny pulled away, smiling up into my face, her eyes searching into mine as she fully played her role of the rich social worker’s wealthy friend, who agreed that thieves just needed to be shown trust to be let back into society.
And what better way to show your trust in a thief, than by taking the him to a dress-up with your jewel-laden friends of course?
I smiled back at her.
Then looking over at Heather, elegant in her blue gown and quite shimmering collection of sapphires, her eyes wide open over seeing what my ‘thief’ had been up to...
I asked...
And your friend Heather? Is she still staying at the Seville Hotel this evening?
“Oh yes, but without her husband, the poor thing is going to be all alone this evening.”
“Poor thing,” I said full-heartedly agreeing, with wicked intent.
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As we gathered back at our table Heather (and Merrick) kept quiet about Ginny's missing necklace. But I could tell Heather was bursting over it, for it was both exciting to her and killing her at the same time to keep mum over.
But she stayed in her character.
As did we all.
We stayed at our table finishing up our drinks and making small talk, as we waiting for the stroke of Midnight before leaving.
At one point I saw Ginny lean over to Heather, and pointing over at Merrick who was standing next to me as we chatted with one of our mates from the dart league, mouth in a whisper ...
“ Be careful Lass, I don’t trust that one. “
Heather smiled, eating it up, whispered back..,
“No worries, I know what I’m doing...”
Ginny, after running her fingers along the length of her earrings, began to straighten her bracelet, continued...
“I’m sure you do Luv, I have every bit of faith in your abilities.”
Heather chortled back, unable to keep a straight face as she eyed the now necklace bare cowled neckline of Ginny’s shiny green gown, whilst playing with the sapphires still dangling down the front of hers. She said to Ginny...
“And I am so glad you have been so successful in having your thief give up his errant jewelry stealing ways, my darling ...”
Both girls began giggling uncontrollably. As Merrick and I turned to watch.
Soon after, the remaining quests were nicely shown the door to leave.
As we stood by our autos, Ginny and Heather hugged as Merrick and I firmly shook hands with each other, and I added a slap on the back.
Then Ginny hugged and kissed Merrick goodbye as Heather did the same for me.
As she perkily enveloped me in a hug, Heather whispered a thank you, then scolded that she was a little shocked finding my thief had not also nicked her fancy necklace as we danced...
“Wish I had, Raincheck then?” I whispered playfully back.
That made her smile winningly at me.
“Rain check it is.” she agreed, before reaching up to reward me with a quick kiss goodbye.
We then went out separate ways.
Heather off to teasingly entertain her ‘reformed’ jewel thief, later to lose her jewels as she “fell asleep” wearing them in her ‘hotel’ room...
Ginny was off to take a stroll in the woods behind our cottage, where no one but her ‘reformed’ thief knew the mischief that would befall her there.
And as I started the engine, seeing Heather’s necklace dangling down with a shimmer as she was being helped inside her car by Merrick, I knew there was another chapter to tonight's story waiting in the wings...
One where a lady resplendent in a blue gown and sparkling sapphires, would be destined to have a fateful dance with a jewel coveting thief.
And as we talked about it much later, Ginny said she would be game to playing a dress up part in that chapter also!
Fini.
And a thank you to David Dodge for telling someone the story behind the scenes of his.
Washington State Patrol and Marysville Police Department assisting with a armed robbery call at a bank. The subject's vehicle was later located by a WSP trooper (pictured) where the K-9 was trying to track down the subject, but were unable to locate the subject. The subject is still in large. There was another bank robbery last week within the same area, but it is unknown if both are related.
A clever way of preventing crime: ban theft and robbery! But the big-bereted (or is it big-nosed) villain does not look too afraid.
Buddhist stupa
This trail was created by Mrs Albertina Choules in the woods local to her remote home.
She was tragically murdered and set alight in 2016 during a robbery attempt on her home.
News item - www.thesun.co.uk/news/1403130/albertina-choulesfirst-imag...
For photos of the full trail is my album ... flic.kr/s/aHBqjAuyDU
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The great train robbery" Well today 08/23/2021 & 8/24/2021 the Atlantic Coast Line Locomotive No. 1504 was placed on flatbed semi's to leave the area its only really known as home Jacksonville Florida. Just one more piece of railroad history this town could really not care about. Sure its going to be restored for U.S. Sugar Corp.'s historic Sugar Express tourist train attraction. And one more piece of Railroad history in Jax/Fl will be lost forever. So I say Goodbye to the Atlantic Coast Line Locomotive No. 1504.
This isnt just your regular neighborhood liquor store, this a location where three murders and a robbery took place in June of 1966 and American boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was wrongfully accused and convicted of murder. He served 27 years of three life sentences before being released as a free man.
This place is located in my hometown of Paterson, NJ on the corner of Lafayette St. and was once called Lafayette Bar & Grill. I recently drove by knowing the story of that fateful night to find out that the old sign had been taken down and the bar was changed into a liquor store. The story is deep, there was a book written by Carter which was named "The sixteenth Round," a song written by Bob Dylan called "Hurricane" and a feature film by Norman Jewison in 1999 that starred Denzel Washington who played Carter.
Bio:
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937) is a former American middleweight boxer, who competed from 1961 through 1966. Carter, along with John Artis, was convicted twice for the murder of three people which occurred at a bar in June 1966 in his hometown Paterson, New Jersey. He was later released after serving twenty years of three life sentences when a federal judge overturned his conviction.
Boxing career:
Total fights 40
Wins 27
Wins by KO 19
Losses 12
Draws 1
No contests 0
Carter is a member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.
Carter now lives in Toronto, Ontario, and was executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) from 1993 until 2005. Carter publicly resigned from AIDWYC when the prosecutor of Canadian Guy Paul Morin, a wrongfully convicted man, was promoted to a judgeship and AIDWYC declined to support Carter's protest of the appointment. In 1996 Carter, then 60, was arrested when Toronto police mistakenly identified him as a suspect in his forties believed to have sold drugs to an undercover officer. He was released after the police realized their error. Carter now works as a motivational speaker. On October 14, 2005, he received two honorary Doctorates of Law, one from York University (Toronto, Canada) and one from Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), in recognition of his work with AIDWYC and the Innocence Project.
This is just another small part of the great history of Paterson, NJ.......
Captured this ant stealing the larvae from the eggs.
The ant is only about 3/8 inch long.
Have a great weekend!
The trip isn't over until EVERYONE gets paid!
I was in the train car telling Niccy she should be out on the platform when she said the tour guide had said to keep your eyes open around milepost 20, so I headed back out to the platform. I'd just got back outside when the "Bad Guys" came bursting out of the brush and tearing up the train tracks. I wasn't prepared at all so I fired of a couple of quick shots and this was the best of the bunch.
The train comes to a stop and the "Bad Guys" come onboard to rob everyone of their hard earned cash.
When they got out to the platform they explained that this was a robbery and everyone was expected to be handing over some loot. When they got to me they said "Your money or your life..." I fired back at them with "I'm married. I don't have any money or a life", as I put a donation in their hat. They all started laughing and said they understood completely.
I'm not sure what's up with the 1/250 since I'd been shooting at 1/500 because the train was moving. Maybe I had the camera set in P Mode for some reason?
Something I forgot to add was that for your "contribution" to their cause these guys would pose for a picture with you. One of the guys looked at my camera and said "I dunno if I could operate that or not". I told him "I'll gladly pay you not to operate it"!
One night, the falcon princess is startled awake. What is happening? "No movement!" hisses a voice. Through her eyelashes, the princess sees two green shadows. One is in the broken window, the other is prowling through her room. With the broken peg of the window, the treasure chest is broken open. In a large green chest, she sees all her gold disappearing ...
Will she? Or is it wiser to stay put anyway?
An entry for Lowlugs MMMM 2024
it was so tricky to catch these events as they happened so fast! (so not great shots)
basically a puffin would fly in from fishing out at sea with his catch for his baby in his burrow
and the black headed gulls would mob him to try and steal his fish!
on the whole they did seem to fail as the puffins were really fast diving into their burrows and it did make you wonder whether it would just be easier for the gulls to go out fishing themselves!
but every now and then they did manage to steal a meal – like the ones in the last shots below
hope everyone has a great weekend!
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
Best viewed Original size.
Split headcode box 40126 stabled with 25158 and Class 55 "Deltic" 55008 "The Green Howard" on York TMD - 21/07/1980.
40126 (as D326) was the train engine involved in the Great Train Robbery in 1963.
© 2013 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparancy; photographed by the late David R Vickers.
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Hi! This is my entry for a MOCpages contest,
'The Ultimate LEGO(R) Contest!' by I me. The round 1 category which I've chosen is: battle, a battle for anything.
About the MOC: This is a part of a modern city (in 2030) and some sly criminals are attempting to break into a small bank to steal a bunch of money. They're prepared cause they are equiped with rifles, knives, guns and a grapple canon. The boss of this operation has arrived on his ATV and thinks that everything is going well... but the army knows how to stop them. They've sent a few highly trained soldiers, together with my sigfig which looks like me when I'm 32 years old on the right of this picture (in 2030), to finish this crime...
I had to wait like 2 or 3 weeks to receive my ordered bricks because I didn't have enough of those 2 X 2 tiles in medium stone grey.
Thanks for watching and take a look at the other pictures to see what's inside the buildings!
A travesty of Justice
We are looking for the name (Melody?) and hopefully a photo of a somewhat obscure actress of the early silent film era. She apparently was the victim of a jewel robbery that occurred in her suite in New York City. Her story may have been used to inspire the cover from the Snappy Detective Stories July 1934 issue. We have not been able to find a copy and were wondering if any of the stories matched the cover illustration, and if any actual names were given.
She may have been the Lover (Wife?) of a wealthy, influential New York City Business man. One weekend, while he was out of town, she left his South Hampton mansion and went out partying to New York City for the weekend. During that time, she reported to police that she had been robbed in her penthouse suite by a masked burglar to the tune of 75,000 worth of jewelry... In what may have been a rather cruel twist of injustice, an elevator valet with a Juvenile criminal background was arrested for the crime, tried without any real evidence, convicted and put in prison. Years later He died under mysterious circumstances while still incarcerated in a New York Prison. The Ladies jewelry was never reported recovered.
The above info was, told to us by an old vaudeville magician who had performed with a young lady whose stage name of Melody was all he could remember. She eventually became a silent era ‘B’ actress under a name he could not recall. He thought she may have had a minor role as an actress appearing in the 1911 silent film version of the Poseidon Adventure.
Rumor had it that her apartment was never “burglarized” and that she made up the story to prevent the insanely jealous influential Businessman she was involved with from finding out the truth.
But then we came across another story gathered from article that appears to have been derived from some surviving pages (with no cover) out of an old pulp detective magazine of the prohibition era, Real Detective Tales. The ladies name was given as Melinda Victoria Scott se Hamot, but it may not have been her real name. If anyone knows what issue and year the below story derived from that article may have been published we would greatly appreciate it.
According to this article, Melinda was a silent film actress who had married a well to do gentleman and was known for the lavish jewelry she would show off. This lady had had been wearing some of her expensive jewelry while out on the town in N.Y.C. On this particular evening (sometime during the 1920’s) Melinda was being chaperoned for the evening by a male with a rather dubious background. This man was said to be a well-known City “raker”, a handsomely roguish man with a well-known reputation for escorting wealthy married ladies, as well as a reputation with the police as having connections with the underworld orchestrating burglaries. His given name was not mentioned. After attending a show and a couple of nightclubs, he insisted that Ms. Hamot go with him to a local underground gambling joint for a few (then illegal) drinks.
Late that evening (or early morning), a group of masked hoodlums held up the speakeasys’ patrons. It was believed that they were mainly after the money being gambled. But not only did they take all the money, but they also made the richly attired ladies present hand over all their jewels. Including those being worn by, we believe, our mystery women who supposedly was being robbed in her apartment at the same time.
Two weeks later the Actress’s male escort, throat slit, was found floating in the Hudson River.
Since some of the male patrons in attendance were in the governments’ employ, Tammany Hall took over the investigation and apparently hushed up the whole incident. The full story never made it to the local newspapers, although supposedly the New Yorker Magazine had some questions (could not find any reference) No crime was reported, no one was arrested, nor any of the property ever “reportedly” recovered. This was the gist of the article that we were able to read in the surviving pages of the old magazine.
We have been searching in the New York Times, but have failed to turn up any related story to the speakeasy hold up. Although we did find a few similar stories about women being bound and robbed of their jewels, but no exact matches to the penthouse robbery so far.
We strongly believe, based on the vaudevillian’s description of the lady and her mannerisms, that the Penthouse robbery victim, and the speakeasy robbery victim was one and the same Lady. We also think that there never was a penthouse robbery, and the jewels that the elevator valet was accused of stealing were actually relinquished to one of the thugs that held up the gambling joint. The main clue we don’t have is a name for the Lady. This would at least give us a starting point to investigate our theory.
If anyone out could shed some lights on this little mystery, especially the pulp detective magazines listed above, we would greatly appreciate it.
As a sidelight, the gambling joint’s robbery was closely reflected in the casino robbery scene from the movie” Uptown Saturday Night” Coincidence or not?