Turkish Barbers

Really_here said:
You may well be right but it's yet another example of the police 'not having the the resources' , bit like the current shoplifting epedemic isn't it? Yet they have the resources to send large teams to a pub that has some dolls on display or to arrest a perfectly average couple for criticising a school on a whatsapp group. There's no shortage of resources when huge numbers of police vehicles descend on a road traffic accident or close a whole motorway when one lane would probably suffice. I think it's often a question of using the recources effectively. We need a similar approach to New York's zero 'tolerance' in the 90's. Where I live in Oldham there are cars parked dangerously day in, day out. I can think of one shop where there is a parked car completely blocking the pavement on a regular basis forcing people in wheelchairs or with prams to walk along a busy main road on the wrong side of steel barriers. The shop is right next to a set of traffic lights and on more than one occasion I've seen police cars waiting at the lights less than two feet from the illegally parked car and not one of them has been arsed to tell the owner to move it. Sorry to ramble but I'm fed up reading daily about our publicly funded organisations complaing about a lack of resources. I do have some sympathy for the police when it comes to repeat offenders but of course we can't put all the people who should be off the streets because of a 'lack of resources' can we? There are common sense solutions to most things but we don't do common sense in this country any more do we?
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Sounds like you’d enjoy the states. Stop reading the daily mail and go for a pint.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Do i normally disagree with you?

Regardless. My whole point is that people that think ‘most’ ‘turkish’ barbers arent fronts, like the million takeaways and the sweet/desert shops that pop, are just naive

I know a retired detective , he said when he finished in the force ten years ago, 80% of indian restaurants were money launderings
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No you don't but can't remember the last time someone actually said they agreed with me. I know of at least one bank branch that has closed despite being mega busy that has closed to avoid money laundering.
 
johnny crossan said:
not just barbers are a growing problem it seems
www.bbc.co.uk

The illegal cigarettes trade in the UK signals a deeper problem

Some black market cigarettes have been found to contain dead flies and asbestos. But the trade nods to a wider issue, a BBC investigation has found.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Who would have thought a huge tax on a product would lead to a massive market for illegal versions? And who would have thought that the high street being on its arse for 15 years would lead to businesses turning to dodgy ways to make money?
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Who would have thought a huge tax on a product would lead to a massive market for illegal versions? And who would have thought that the high street being on its arse for 15 years would lead to businesses turning to dodgy ways to make money?
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This is happening in many places and the clear interconnections with organized crime are very worrying - as is the inability of the police and trading standards to stop it.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Who would have thought a huge tax on a product would lead to a massive market for illegal versions? And who would have thought that the high street being on its arse for 15 years would lead to businesses turning to dodgy ways to make money?
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Not rocket science is it.
Now when will the pensioners and dla claimers i know who go on a trip 6/7 times per annum and bring back and sell bacca and fags be getting a knock?
 
Noticed a couple of this type of shop jump up in my locale recently.
One of them genuinely seems to do some trade on 'candy' whilst the other seems to stock Dove bath creams, pot noodles and vapes and no one is ever seen in it. And the obnoxious lighting is a step too far for me. Every time I walk past I get a migraine and covet them Oppenheimer sunglasses...

Right about so many high streets. Even the more salubrious areas are dull as fuck, have Buddlejas growing from the rood and weeds at the entrance. If you're lucky a decent coffee shop otherwise the dullest of cafes ad nauseum.

I know these places should cater for many who live in them but here doesn't seem to be anyone involved in planning.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Who would have thought a huge tax on a product would lead to a massive market for illegal versions? And who would have thought that the high street being on its arse for 15 years would lead to businesses turning to dodgy ways to make money?
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Everyone but the politicians and the police it seems:-)
 
Really_here said:
No you don't but can't remember the last time someone actually said they agreed with me. I know of at least one bank branch that has closed despite being mega busy that has closed to avoid money laundering.
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so do I. probably the same one.
 
It's amazing how reporters can walk down a high street and catch loads of criminals, same at Calais I guess and most local boozers bars and clubs.
 
Last year a new kebab/pizza shop opened up in our high street. After about 3 months it had been only actually open 2 days. So at the end of the financial year I had a scan on companies house to find it's initial 1st term trading resulted in profits of £167,000
 
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