# This guy MUST be a SDMB member. And from the BBQ Pit. Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912 "2007-11-10T15:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/1 "2007-11-10T15:05:12Z")
The sarkiest SOB in all Scotland, and quite likely an SDMB Member. [http://www.newsdaily.com/Quirks/UPI-1-20071109-20060800-bc-britain-complaint.xml](http://www.newsdaily.com/Quirks/UPI-1-20071109-20060800-bc-britain-complaint.xml) > [@](#): > > Commenting about six “failed medical experiments (I think you call them youths)” kicking a ball near an iron gate, the unidentified resident e-mailed another unidentified person, asking that the recipient pass along the note to police “by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or Ouija board,” The Telegraph reported. He complainant’s said his efforts to contact police failed. > > The writer said he was concerned that the youths would begin playing with a discarded gas canister, noting they were likely “to blow up half the street and I’ve just finished decorating the kitchen.” > > When a community beat officer wrote back, the unnamed resident noted that a reply within 16 hours and 38 minutes “must be a personal record,” the British newspaper said. Scots Dopers–Fess up! Which one of you is it? 😃🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/2 "2007-11-10T18:41:21Z")
Didn’t a former member with the initials SBSO post something similar? Though I thought he was on the West coast. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/3 "2007-11-10T20:25:45Z")
If that guy isn’t a Doper he should be. I wonder if we can track him down? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/4 "2007-11-10T20:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] The sarkiest SOB in all Scotland, and quite likely an SDMB Member. [/QUOTE] So where is he: Sark or Scotland? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/5 "2007-11-10T22:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] So where is he: Sark or Scotland? 😉 [/QUOTE] Bear sark in Scotland! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/6 "2007-11-10T22:30:32Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Bear sark in Scotland! [/QUOTE] Maybe it’s Cutty Sark! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/7 "2007-11-11T00:06:54Z")
JOY! JOY! JOY! I just found a full reprinting of the exchange online. OG! We **must** recruit this freak of nature to the SDMB! Read it all, & laugh your @ss off– > **[Sarcastic Email To Police Becomes An Internet Hit](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sarcastic-email-to-police-becomes-an-internet-962316)** > > THE EMAIL was never meant to be seen in public. But its outpouring of frustration to police has struck a chord with thousands on the internet. > [@](#): > > Dear Sir/madam/ automated telephone answering service > > … > Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout the entire building. This game is now in its third week and as I am unsure how the scoring sytem works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon. > > \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> > One of them has found a saw and is setting about a discarded chair like a beaver on speed. > > \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> > I trust that when I take a clawhammer to the skull of one of these throwbacks you’ll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four-month head start before coming to arrest me. I have laughed this much in _years!_ 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/8 "2007-11-11T00:15:47Z")
If you can find out who this is, I will pay his first year’s membership fee, if he’s willing to join. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/9 "2007-11-11T00:20:09Z")
Ah, it brings a tear to me eye, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/10 "2007-11-11T01:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] If you can find out who this is, I will pay his first year’s membership fee, if he’s willing to join. [/QUOTE] According to the article, he doesn’t want people knowing who he is. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/11 "2007-11-11T01:42:30Z")
He was only able to get away with this because the British police don’t carry firearms, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/12 "2007-11-11T01:54:26Z")
Does anybody have the email address of the newspaper in his area? We could leave a message for him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/13 "2007-11-11T02:07:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] We could leave a message for him. [/QUOTE] How can we be certain we don’t get a poser? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/14 "2007-11-11T02:36:27Z")
Just go for it and let the chips fall where they may. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-must-be-a-sdmb-member-and-from-the-bbq-pit-newslink/425912/15 "2007-11-11T02:44:18Z")
Damn, he’s not single.