madness on ebay

[Eck]

Have you ever went on ebay pissed and went on a mental spending spree?

[derby1884]

Aye, that I have, Eck.

I take it you have too, now
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[Jake]

Managed to resist doing this, a mate once did that and the following week he had a metal detector delivered and at first he didn't have a scooby why...

[Eck]

I have went mental sober but I know what it's like when people gamble drunk,something I have never done. I know the dangers.

Metal detector thing is a cracker.

[derby1884]

Well, I've always had a strange tolerance for alcohol - never been able to get really pished no matter how much I put down me.......but did get "merry" once and, having always had an interest in the Lizzie Borden axe-murder case of the late 19th century, ended up pressing the "Buy It Now" button to a pair of original newspapers from the Fall River , MA area from 1892.

Oh, sure, nice to have - but, ouch....could have got a pre-war Derby home for what I spent on them

PS - any takers? I'll gladly sell on!!
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[Eck]

She must have had some lawyer to get away with that one. DNA would have nailed her these days.

[derby1884]

Eck wrote:

She must have had some lawyer to get away with that one. DNA would have nailed her these days.

Ah well, there you go.........y'see, I've always been of the opinion that Lizzie arranged it all, opened doors etc - but it was her sister Emma wot yielded the axe on each occasion. Nobody could verify her whereabouts 10 miles away that day in Fairfield.

But hey what do I know - I'm still convinced Severin Klosowski was Jack the Ripper........and that's my REAL whodunnit interest

ps: only about 4% of Ripperologists agree with me - but that's the name of the game. Stand by your convictions!
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[derby1884]

Eck wrote:

She must have had some lawyer to get away with that one. DNA would have nailed her these days.

I should add that, indeed, she had the TOP lawyer of the day on her side (Andrew Jennings) who had loads of connections interstate and all the way to the Senate (and beyond?)
Even managed to make the evidence that she gave at the inquest (which was very black for her....ie the burnt dress and the purchase of poison) inadmissible at the actual criminal trial.

The house in which both murders took place is now a B&B - I'd love to spend a night or two there!
http://www.lizzie-borden.com/

OK - I'll shut up about the case now
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[Auchinleckian]

derby1884 wrote:

Eck wrote: She must have had some lawyer to get away with that one. DNA would have nailed her these days. I should add that, indeed, she had the TOP lawyer of the day on her side (Andrew Jennings) who had loads of connections interstate and all the way to the Senate (and beyond?) Even managed to make the evidence that she gave at the inquest (which was very black for her....ie the burnt dress and the purchase of poison) inadmissible at the actual criminal trial. The house in which both murders took place is now a B&B - I'd love to spend a night or two there! http://www.lizzie-borden.com/ OK - I'll shut up about the case now

You remind me of a good friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, who used to love sleeping in graveyeards wherever we went hitch hiking. Now he's permanently in one. Wonder if dead folk do irony?

[Poolec]

Eck wrote:

Have you ever went on ebay pissed and went on a mental spending spree?

Once used an ebay sniper site and meant to put in my maximum bid as £33.33 but missed the decimal point out. Didn't realise until after the auction, when the sniper site told me it had saved me over three grand, when I won it for about 20 quid.

Fortunately no-one else did the same and there was no shill bidding!

Won't do that again.

[blue50]

nearly bought "our house" and "baggy trousers" after a few drinks

[Jake]

Eck wrote:

I have went mental sober but I know what it's like when people gamble drunk,something I have never done. I know the dangers. Metal detector thing is a cracker.

He was guitarist in a death metal band at the time, the only explanation he could give, after I demanded one, was that he must have planned to take it onstage as a prop...

[Senior82]

In a word yes. Not spent any crazy amounts though but i've opened my mail after some three day benders and discovered programmes that I had no recollection of even buying.
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[Gorgie JT]

blue50 wrote:

nearly bought "our house" and "baggy trousers" after a few drinks

would be quite an "Embarrassment" if they turned up

[blue50]

It was suppose to be a joke......"madness on ebay"......

[MATT RUSH]

[
But hey what do I know - I'm still convinced Severin Klosowski was Jack the Ripper........and that's my REAL whodunnit interest

ps: only about 4% of Ripperologists agree with me - but that's the name of the game. Stand by your convictions![/quote]
I'll vote for Aaron Kosminski. Have you dismissed the Maybrick diary??

[derby1884]

MATT RUSH wrote:

[ But hey what do I know - I'm still convinced Severin Klosowski was Jack the Ripper........and that's my REAL whodunnit interest ps: only about 4% of Ripperologists agree with me - but that's the name of the game. Stand by your convictions!

I'll vote for Aaron Kosminski. Have you dismissed the Maybrick diary?? [/quote]

That diary was just too providential to be true. Anyway, of the handful of agreed eye-witness sightings of JTR (ie that grape seller) none of them match Maybrick (too old and not tall enough).

Not sure how Kosminski came to be a suspect - he was mad, yes, but no signs of psychopathy or even a danger to anyone other than himself. Poor devil used to eat and drink out of gutters in the street.

Biggest problem with Klosowski is his modus operandi - serial killers aren't supposed to switch from stabbing to poisoning and back again!

No one is even sure how many killings there were - anything between 4 and 8.

It's a good puzzle, though.
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