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I know that pub, used to drink there occasionally. Iirc, the flat roof of it was left behind when the tenement building above it was demolished (you see a few buildings in Glasgow like that). The roof was never designed (if designed isn't too strong a word) to take the downdraft of an emergency landing of a flaring-out chopper (and that's asssuming the pilot had any choice in the matter). I suspect engine failure, followed by a desperate attempt to keep the thing fluttering at all and get it down on the street. He was so close to managing that - what a bugger.
I see the usual journalistic bollocks were being spouted; like an attempt at landing on the pub roof - for god's sake, no sane pilot would ever attempt that, at night, in a crowded city environment, with all the invisible cables strung everywhere, never mind the likely casualty figures.
I doubt if any of the people in there were anyone I knew - it was thirty years ago. I certainly hope not, but my commiserations and sympathies go to the victims and their relatives. Such unexpected and unlikely events are a total shock, in every way.

Also, it raises a real question that's been bugging me for years - why on earth are polis choppers allowed to fly over inhabited areas (and especially cities) at night? Makes no sense to me, as it's well known in aviation that the helicopter is nothing more than a flying accident waiting to happen.

... but I know whale meat again, some sunny day...

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Or, a simple explanation of where your money went...

Now, that's more like it, cactusjack

Nah; by the time the radioactive water seeping out of the crippled plant reaches the shores of China, it will be hardly noticeable. You'd probably be in more danger from eating shellfish plucked from the Irish Sea.

Finally got to use my refund from FT tonight - a moment of disbelief and pissed-offed-ness ensued when two of the gift certs came up as expired and I was 'WTF'? Anyway, the others hadn't expired and all told they totalled what FT owed me, so that's all right in the end.
So, I shall continue to do business with them, after all. Although quite why they couldn't have stuck to their promise in the first place, I don't know. I suspect trouble arose when it was handled by two or three different people, each with their own interpretation of events and attitudes to them.

Often I get a feeling about it if it's going to be a hard cold one, but I can't say I have that yet.
Of course, it might be one of the years I don't get that feeling and it happens anyway, so there y'go.