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| Anonymous |
 Posted: 24-01-2005 20:24 Post subject: |
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A proper Urban Myth growing up that we can study!
I'm all exited now  |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 20:27 Post subject: |
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| fluffle wrote: | i think it might be true. my flatmate works in Alum Rock and her colleague claims she got bitten.
she was in a pub, and this bloke came up and said "i'm going to kidnap you." She said that he wouldn't get a ransom, and he said "no, i'm just going to kidnap you and ravish you all weekend." she told him to go away and he bit her on the arm. then he bit her friend on the cheek. |
Ofcorse I don't mean to say anything about you as a person Fluffle but...it's a bit FOAF isn't it? |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 20:36 Post subject: |
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| Mal Function wrote: | Greets
there is also the lileihood that some lost souls might try doing "copycat" bitings? (or maybe there's a vampire news network sending out messages "go to birmingham -the people are very tasty"?) 
mal |
reminds me of this:
http://www.steveniles.com/thirtydays/ |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 20:45 Post subject: |
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| Alistair P wrote: | Try again...
WILL NO ONE SAVE US FROM THESE EVIL VAMPIRE HORDES? |
you must be getting a sore through from all that paniced shouting.
Want a strepsil? |
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fluffle9 Great Old One Joined: 01 May 2004 Total posts: 979 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Age: 27 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 21:25 Post subject: |
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| The Virgin Queen wrote: | | Ofcorse I don't mean to say anything about you as a person Fluffle but...it's a bit FOAF isn't it? |
oh yes, especially for you lot on here, but that doesn't mean i can't think it could be true.
it seems to have been judged as an urban legend largely from the fact that nobody has gone to the police or hospital claiming to have been bitten. but personally if a strange bloke came up and bit me, i don't think i'd bother going to casualty or telling the cops unless he bit pretty hard (and the report of a woman with a "chunk" taken out of her hand was probably an exaggeration). |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 21:34 Post subject: |
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| fluffle wrote: | oh yes, especially for you lot on here, but that doesn't mean i can't think it could be true.
it seems to have been judged as an urban legend largely from the fact that nobody has gone to the police or hospital claiming to have been bitten. but personally if a strange bloke came up and bit me, i don't think i'd bother going to casualty or telling the cops unless he bit pretty hard (and the report of a woman with a "chunk" taken out of her hand was probably an exaggeration). |
I'd tend to think that if the skin had been broken most people would go to the hospital - I know i would. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 24-01-2005 21:36 Post subject: |
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| ...ofcorse it could still be true (I am a Fortean afterall ) |
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| boynamedsue Che Guevara to a disco beat
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| Posted: 25-01-2005 13:32 Post subject: |
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| The Virgin Queen wrote: | | ...ofcorse it could still be true (I am a Fortean afterall ) |
Hmmmm....
It's not just that noone has reported it to the police or hospitals... surely the local papers would have stories saying "I was bitten by by the vampire" if it were true. |
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| AlistairP3 Great Old One Joined: 10 Sep 2001 Total posts: 159 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-01-2005 16:29 Post subject: |
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| Ooooh. Strepsil! Fankoo. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 25-01-2005 17:44 Post subject: |
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| Alistair P wrote: | | Ooooh. Strepsil! Fankoo. |
don't mension it.
Now rest your voice up for thge rest of the day.  |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 28-01-2005 04:24 Post subject: |
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| Has there been anything related to the incident(s) on the letters pages' of the relevant newspapers? |
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| skitster loyal servant of QueenMab Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Total posts: 131 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 28-01-2005 16:06 Post subject: |
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| swamp fink wrote: | | Has there been anything related to the incident(s) on the letters pages' of the relevant newspapers? |
Oh! Good shout! That's often where the debate over these things rage. It'll need a local person to check the papers out as the letters page rarely make it on to 'teh interweb'.
Which, considering the lunacy one usual sees in your average local paper's letters page, is a crying shame.
Brummies! Please help! |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 01-02-2005 02:35 Post subject: |
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Better than that...
A friend of mine who works on the 'Birmingham Evening Mail' assures me that members of the public have been calling the 'paper with stories along the lines of "A friend of mine was attacked and had their arm bitten off at the elbow!"
He also claims that the news editor invented the whole thing on a slow news day. Make of that what you will. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 03-02-2005 06:54 Post subject: |
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I live and work in Birmingham and have not heard a dickie-bird (English colloquialism for you yanks out there) about any of this, how long ago did the original incident happen ?.
I suspect the perpetrator is one of our 'care in the community' friends, or thinking about it, he could just be a regular Brummie out on the tiles.
[/quote]I'd tend to think that if the skin had been broken most people would go to the hospital - I know i would.
A Vet may be more use with a Brummie bite |
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| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4086 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 03-02-2005 11:56 Post subject: |
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| Infidel wrote: |
I suspect the perpetrator is one of our 'care in the community' friends, or thinking about it, he could just be a regular Brummie out on the tiles.
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I would say it is more likely the latter myself.
As has been pointed out previously, an incident may have occured where a person was bitten in a street fracas.
I have no doubt that the papers have embroidered the truth. There are plenty of reports from the UK and elsewhere, where fights or attacks have happened and people have been bitten. You hear tales of ears partially being bitten off in drunken fights. This I know in one instance to be true as one of my close relatives was required to appear as a witness in court after watching such a fight inside a chip shop!
Also as I have mentioned before, I work in the community in and around Birmingham.
No advisory reports from the City Council or West Mids Police have been forwarded to us giving us the heads up that there is a dangerous person on the loose attacking people randomly. |
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