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Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 82 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 16-09-2013 21:08 Post subject: A mysterious cry for help.. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-24109124
Bridge of Allan 'cry for help' search stood down
The area being searched was in steep woodland above Bridge of Allan
A search and rescue operation near an old copper mine has been stood down after finding no trace of a woman reportedly heard calling for help.
It had been launched in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, following fears that a woman may have fallen.
Police officers, the local mountain rescue team and specialist search dogs were involved.
A dog walker had earlier said she heard a woman calling for help, but could not identify where it was coming from.
The area being searched was in steep woodland above the town known as Mine Woods, and is close to the Allan Water and the town's golf club.
More than 20 officers from the Forth Valley Division of Police Scotland, a specialist police dog and handler from Fife Division, the Ochils Mountain Rescue Team and volunteers from the Search and Rescue Dogs Association were all involved in the search. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-09-2013 22:04 Post subject: |
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I'm setting off now!
On second thoughts, it's a long way to go* and this lamb will be perfect in ten minutes.
I'll delete this if she is real and dies or something. 
*One of the earliest Grand Guignol scripts explored the idea of the telephone as an instrument of torture: a man could hear the attack on his wife but could do nothing to assist. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 00:20 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | On second thoughts, it's a long way to go* and this lamb will be perfect in ten minutes. |
It doesn't take that long to sacrifice one. |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 07:44 Post subject: |
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| JamesWhitehead wrote: | | ... a man could hear the attack on his wife but could do nothing to assist. |
I'm sure he could give directions. "Leave the seat up, squeeze the tube from the middle, oh and son't replace the lid. In the kitchen you can leave the milk out and some pans in the half-filled sink. If you need any more assistance I'll be right here." |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 17:43 Post subject: |
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| Are there any sheep (or lambs) in the vicinity of these supposed cries for help? Because I once noticed when out in the countryside a "baaa!" or "meeeh!" can sound like "Help!". |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3925 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 18:17 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | ...Because I once noticed when out in the countryside a "baaa!" or "meeeh!" can sound like "Help!". |
So, you found yourself in a postion in which you heard sheep shouting for help?
At this point I'm going to suggest we should draw a discrete veil over the episode in question. |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 880 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 20:05 Post subject: |
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Mystery solved...
| Quote: | Mountain rescue and 20 cops search for woman in mineshaft.. then find it was a dog walker heard calling for pet called YELP
17 Sep 2013 08:04 A MAJOR search near a mineshaft above Bridge of Allan was called off after it emerged that a woman had been in the area with a mutt called Yelp.
A DOG walker sparked a major search and rescue operation by calling out for her pet – named YELP.
Police feared a woman had fallen down a former copper mine after a report of a female apparently crying out for help near the old shaft.
Twenty officers, many with police dogs, along with a team of three mountain rescue workers, began scouring the hills and woods above Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, at about 8am yesterday.
But the search was called off hours later after it emerged that a woman had been in the area with a mutt called Yelp.
It’s thought another dog walker mistook her shouts for the dog as “Help”.
Police Inspector Pat Scroggie said yesterday afternoon: “We are treating the search as precautionary.
“We have teams searching the hills accompanied with search dogs.
“We are very well versed in this type of thing. We are carrying out systematic searches of all sections of the hill.
“We arrived at around 8am and we will carry out the search till 5pm. We have spoken to a dog walker who was on the hill this morning with their dog, which was called Yelp.”
Inspector Graham Capes added: “We received a report from a regular dog walker that she had heard a woman’s voice calling for help but could not identify where it was coming from.”
Due to the difficult terrain, police requested specialist assistance and a dog and handler unit from Fife Division, the Ochils Mountain Rescue Team and volunteers from the Search and Rescue Dogs Association were called to help search the area close to the local golf club.
Amanda Reid, 54, who was walking her dog in the area, said: “There is a very large police presence, they seem to be carrying out a big search. Hopefully no one is hurt.”
The long disused mine was worked intermittently from the 16th century and at one time, copper from it was used in the mint at Stirling Castle.
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dog-walker-sparks-major-search-2278292 |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1305 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 22:34 Post subject: |
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In related non-news ... Somewhere pet owners who've missed this story are out walking their beloved Rabe, Skroomey, Boleeze, Nerder, etc., etc.
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-09-2013 20:01 Post subject: |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | So, you found yourself in a postion in which you heard sheep shouting for help?
At this point I'm going to suggest we should draw a discrete veil over the episode in question. |
No, n-n-no, the sheep was calling "Baa!", it wasn't calling help at all, it just sounded like "Help!" I was nowhere near the animal, officer.
Anyway, they should have called the dog "Woof" instead of "Yelp", that would be far more sensible. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 18-09-2013 20:39 Post subject: |
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| EnolaGaia wrote: | In related non-news ... Somewhere pet owners who've missed this story are out walking their beloved Rabe, Skroomey, Boleeze, Nerder, etc., etc.
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1106 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 07:42 Post subject: |
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| I wanted to call our Welsh Terrier Dai Bark (a play on bach) but my wife wouldn't have it - she said she wasn't going to be in the park shouting out either 'Dai' or 'Bark'. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3925 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 08:59 Post subject: |
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I'm thinking
Shergar....SHERGAR...come here boy!
bellowed through the morning mist might set tongues wagging. |
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