Frank Corti & Lady Rosemary Griffin
I suspect that everyone of you has read the story of 72 year old ex-Royal Engineer Frank Corti who delt out a proper old fashioned bulldog thrashing to thieving pondlife...
A burglar who broke into a house and threatened a pensioner with a knife got more than he bargained for when the victim turned out to be a retired boxer who left him bruised and bleeding
The only bit missing from this little tale is a truly happy ending whereby our hero having beaten his assailant senseless (& taken his time doing so) then produces his old service Webley & proceeds to save the taxpayer an aweful lot of money
OK, so so far so good but I am afraid that you might want to move anything breakable out of reach before you continue over the fold & I tell you news concerning Lady Rosemary Griffin who is a life long friend of my outlaws, the Old Salthorse having served with her late husband but before we go there, I will set the scene for you.
Lady Griffin was married to Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, a former Third Sea Lord
Born in 1920, Sir Anthony entered the Navy in 1934 through the traditional route of a Dartmouth cadetship. During the Second World War he was on board the SS Britannia, on his way to join the destroyer Hereward, when it was sunk by a German raider off Freetown.
In 1943, Griffin was appointed First Lieutenant of the destroyer Talybont, after which he specialised in navigation. After the war he attended the navigation school HMS Dryad, and in 1952 took up a senior position at the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment. Two years later he joined the carrier Eagle. His two year service included the Anglo-French expedition to regain the Suez Canal in 1956. Ensuing promotions led to a career at the Admiralty, interspersed with activity at sea.
In 1971 Sir Anthony was appointed Controller of the Navy and Third Sea Lord, a position he held for five years. At the age of 70 he was awarded a Royal Humane Society Award for Bravery after diving into the Thames in a vain effort to save a young Jamaican
Lady Griffin was married to Sir Anthony in 1943 while she was serving as a Leading Wren stationed at Devonport. Her brother had been lost at sea when HMS Barham was sunk in November 1941
Now if everything breakable is out of reach, you can go on...
Lady Rosemary Griffin had just opened her front door when she was violently pushed to the floor. She then had two rings ripped from her fingers by a robber. The 88-year-old's left leg was broken in two places in the fall and doctors at St Richards Hospital, Chichester, have had to insert two metal pins into her leg, but say she is recovering well
Thankfully she is of a generation that will make a fully recovery but although two scumbags have been arrested & charged, one is already out on bail after appearing at Chichester Magistrates' Court
& some people wonder why I keep half a dozen shotguns in Larry Land Rover - if it were down to your humble correspondent & mores the shame it isn't, I & five friends would be lined up with these two bindfolded & tied to posts ready for recieve a bit of no.9 shot justise. & why use no.9 shot ...? Because you wouldn't want to slaughter 'em with the first volley, you'd want to take it in turns at methodically shooting them to pieces
Comments
I volunteer to be one of those 5.
Absolutely disgusting, where has respect gone in this world? I'm 22 and feel like an island amongst my peers.
Good people are getting few and far between.
Posted by: Conrad | July 1, 2009 11:12 PM
Book me a place on the line.
And forget the blindfolds, they don't deserve them.
Posted by: MovingRight | July 1, 2009 11:36 PM
What contemptible cowards. Not worth the expenditure of shot. Being pitchforked to death would be about right.
Posted by: Bomber Harris | July 2, 2009 12:38 AM
On out side of the pond this assault would classify as one with intent to kill. The perpetrators would not be out on bail. Pity the UK dumped the gallows. Public hangings are very effective and have some measure of deterrence and justice built in.
Posted by: Terrapod | July 2, 2009 1:44 AM
Well I heard from Kim who heard from Doc Russia that man filled with bird shot is not out of the woods when he hits the emergency room. You can remove the close to the surface shot and obvious bleeders, but you can't go digging for all of them just because they show up on X-ray. So you hang a bag on them and wait and watch. Sometimes they die from semi-internal bleeding.
Posted by: toad | July 2, 2009 4:31 AM
"Well I heard from Kim who heard from Doc Russia that man filled with bird shot is not out of the woods when he hits the emergency room. You can remove the close to the surface shot and obvious bleeders, but you can't go digging for all of them just because they show up on X-ray. So you hang a bag on them and wait and watch. Sometimes they die from semi-internal bleeding."
Better still, infection and kidney failure.But I would agree that the pitchfork option is a good one. My solution would be to take the scum to the prison where Charles Bronson is kept, and to promise Bronson all the food, booze, drugs and girls he wants for a week in return for disposing of this trash.I'm sure he could think of something appropriate.
Posted by: Frank | July 2, 2009 10:16 AM
I too like the pitchfork option, having loaded and swung a few bales of hay in the past.
However, shooting is a soldier's death. Hanging is for traitors and murderers.
Scum like these should be buried alive: execution and disposal all in one.
Posted by: Jeff Wood | July 2, 2009 11:18 AM
Jesus, Frank, what did Bronson do to you to deserve that? You got a Death Wish or somethin'?
Is it possible you're thinking about Manson. Frankly I've never seen the two mixed up before.
Posted by: comatus | July 2, 2009 1:44 PM
Bronson's a British career criminal who took the name in honour of the great man. He's a fun loving criminal who won't be released from gaol because he keeps on trying to escape, taking prison officers hostage, that sort of thing, but he's a hard man, and would no doubt sort out scum like these two given the chance.
Posted by: John K | July 2, 2009 2:01 PM
One word: flaying.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | July 2, 2009 2:42 PM
I wish her a speedy recovery and that the perps who did this will be brought to justice. I am speechless over this; not just the crime and the beating she endured, but her gender and age.
Posted by: Cricket | July 2, 2009 4:03 PM
Nothing gets me more riled than abuse of the weak: children, the elderly, animals.
Let the punishment fit the crime ... execution by being knocked to the floor. Properly done, this could take days.
Posted by: Bob K | July 2, 2009 5:35 PM
Bayonet practice targets.
Get something useful out of them.
Posted by: Kristopher | July 2, 2009 6:19 PM
I'm with Cricket on this one. Death by knocking to the ground is a fantastic idea. We could take it in shifts.
Posted by: Nigel H | July 2, 2009 11:11 PM
Well, let's all pause and take a deep breath, here. We can't have it all.
Knocking to the ground causes bruises, which damages the skin, but flaying would still be possible. You'd get some interesting colour patterns.
Bayonet practice is an excellent idea, but it ruins the pelt. Flaying would be worthless.
Birdshot target practice is right out, unless you want to forego the pleasure of flaying.
Seems to me that flaying is the obstacle here.
Okay, how about knocking to the ground for a few days, followed by slow shotgun execution?
Can we vote on this?
Posted by: Kim du Toit | July 3, 2009 12:07 AM
I vote for towing behind a land rover for a while, then they would understand the terror of having no control in a life threatening situation, however without this fine ladys courage they would be too panicked to run fast enough, shame.
Posted by: chris Edwards | July 3, 2009 12:39 AM
This, increasingly, is the sort of discussion gentlemen should engage in. Preferably in a club, over a drink or two. Then, action.
Pity we are all so scattered, but at least we have the Interweb.
Posted by: Jeff Wood | July 3, 2009 11:12 AM
I vote for towing behind a land rover for a while, then they would understand the terror of having no control in a life threatening situation
My limited experience with Land Rovers has, thus far, proven this to be entirely true. They can be terrifying.
Posted by: Slim Toonunn | July 3, 2009 4:44 PM
No, I don't think y'all are scared as much as you are frustrated with the system, and being the law-abiding gents that you are, are sending Clear Messages as to what needs to be done and what red-blooded, true gentlemen would do to avenge a lady and tell other perps there is more of the same should they try their bullying tactics again.
I am for flaying, after they get the beating they gave to her.
Posted by: Cricket | July 4, 2009 12:58 AM
'scattered.' My bad. Do forgive...four hours of studying does that to me. Would Mr. Free Market please delete that comment, or edit it suitably?
Thanks.
Posted by: Cricket | July 4, 2009 1:00 AM