Forum Members' Adventures!

[pete9012S]

Hi All!
Was just wondering..

If any of any of our esteemed members anywhere in the world ever had their own REAL LIFE adventures??

Perhaps solved a mystery,or helped our hard working boys in blue to arrest foreign 'rough talking'criminals,recovered stolen property,hidden treasure etc??

[Enikyoga]

In fact, as I was growing up, I was fascinated by The Secret Seven and had even contemplated acquiring some of their techniques in trying to route some criminals in my neighborhood. However, the plan never materialized as the plans were overtaken by some momentous events....
Stephen I.

[George@Kirrin]

I have had heaps of Blyton style adventures.

I've caught kidnappers, chased poachers, stopped burglars and car thieves, been undercover, followed shop lifters... The list goes on...

I lie in wait for people, watching and listening...

Bet then of course, unlike the five and the seven etc, I have the paperwork to do after!

[Kiki's new mam]

Oooh, sounds interesting, tell us more!


Leila.

[Moonraker]

But have you had a bunch of interfering kids doing the leg work for you?

[George@Kirrin]

But have you had a bunch of interfering kids doing the leg work for you?

Heh, got me thinking now...

Think the closest I've got was having a bloke with kids yell encouragement to me when on a foot chase "Go on love, he's just round the corner" he yelled as I sprinted past like a gazelle or rather ran past red in the face and puffing like a train! Just in time to see a pair of legs disappear over a 6ft fence

[Moonraker]

Think the closest I've got was having a bloke with kids yell encouragement to me when on a foot chase "Go on love, he's just round the corner" he yelled as I sprinted past like a gazelle or rather ran past red in the face and puffing like a train! Just in time to see a pair of legs disappear over a 6ft fence

What a nightmare job being a postman must be, Zoe!

[Tony Summerfield]

A small contribution from me:-

I was grilled by the KGB in a small town in Russia that was off limits to foreigners.

I was arrested in East Berlin for having entered East Germany illegally.

Needless to say on both occasions the 'Iron Curtain' was still firmly in place.

[manzanita]

I did have the temporary "Mystery of The Appearing Garbage" complete with clues obtained from digging through the rubbish but it seems to have stopped for the time being!

[Anita Bensoussane]

I was grilled by the KGB in a small town in Russia that was off limits to foreigners.

I was arrested in East Berlin for having entered East Germany illegally.

Needless to say on both occasions the 'Iron Curtain' was still firmly in place.

Crumbs - hope you managed to get free without having to resort to using the "newspaper under the door (or curtain! )" trick!

[Tony Summerfield]

Crumbs - hope you managed to get free without having to resort to using the "newspaper under the door (or curtain! )" trick!

I never got the chance as I wasn't locked up!

In the first instance they spoke no English, so they brought in a local teacher to translate. She sat in front of me and they sat behind me and fired off questions - I was told to face the front! A senior police officer who spoke quite good English was driven down from Moscow (200 miles!) and he tore them off a strip. As a foreigner they should not have been questioning me and I got treated with kid gloves after that. I was taken back to Moscow and put into a five star hotel.

Language was also a problem in the second instance and they gave up questioning me and deported me instead! I was taken to the then famous Checkpoint Charlie which was manned by the Americans and I was pushed through into West Berlin.

[Wayne Pyer]

I was once in Paris doing publicity photos for 'allo 'allo, when I was suddenly surrounded by Gendames armed with machine guns.

They thought we were nazis and unfortunately, none spoke French well enough to explain that we were actors playing in a wartime comedy.

That got a little hairy for a while.

Wayne.

[Timmy254]

My best friend lived in an old villa. We spent hours searching the garden and the house and we even found a secret passage that led from the cellar to the barn in the garden!
We were 10 years old and wanted to be like the Famous Five but of course, nothing really exciting happened so we had to pretend and invent our own adventures. Once we shadowed a neighbour, because we thought he behaved very suspiciously! Kids!

[Anita Bensoussane]

My best friend lived in an old villa. We spent hours searching the garden and the house and we even found a secret passage that led from the cellar to the barn in the garden!

Ooh - that sounds fun! I used to dream of finding a secret passage. As a child I would tap the walls of our house to see if they sounded hollow, and even measured a built-in cupboard to see if there was any possibility of it having a false back! The fact that our house was a modern bungalow didn't stop me hoping.

My sister and I once shadowed a man, but we obviously weren't very good at it because he turned round and told us to stop being silly!

Tony and Wayne, it sounds as if you've both had some hair-raising adventures!

[Dick Kirrin]

I've never found a secret passage in my life, but I had the oppurtunity to find a secret drawer in an old chest. It was so trilling trying to open it and wondering what might be in it. In the end, there was nothing but air inside. It was cool to find out how to open it anyway. I'd love to buy that chest, but it's been in the family of the woman owning it for generations, so no luck there.

Other "adventures" with police or customs people? Well, I have relations living in Israel, and I used to visit them several times. It was always a nightmare going through all the checks and controls at the German airports. In Israel on the way back, it was soo easy. We just said that we'd been visiting relatives and they waved us through.
There was one very nasty scence, however. When driving through the Eastern part of Jerusalem in an Israeli-registered hire car we encountered some boys who thought it a nice passtime to throw stones at cars passing by. It was close, but we made it thank God.

Cheers

Dick Kirrin