Rats

[rocker]

had the same problem with a pub in Tottenham, only it resulted in a fire!

Whaaaaaaaaa?

 

[DurhamSparky]

When I had the shop the little beggars kept eating the crisps

you had a shop!!???

 

[rocker]

Yea I had 2. I used to be a wine merchant and vinier. I thought everyone knew that......

 

[DurhamSparky]

oh yeah i forgot!! silly me! telepathic minds! what happened you drink your self bankrupt? or was the night you had the shotgun and bottle of wine the night the police and license chap popped round to a have a quick visit!

 

[Phil]

a rat from leeds in a nightclub!! what was her name!!? hehehehehe

it was a strip club too i don`t think it was as bad as some of the dancers

 

[jaresquire]

I heard it on the grapevine!

 

[rocker]

oh yeah i forgot!! silly me! telepathic minds! what happened you drink your self bankrupt? or was the night you had the shotgun and bottle of wine the night the police and license chap popped round to a have a quick visit!

Ha ha! Well I did drink a fair bit of the profits, but I saw the business going bad with the superarkets taking the mic etc. I had 2 franchises off Thresher which I set up as specialist wine shops which would have been fine, but there was a hell of a lot of pressure from them to turn into a budget booze style shop which would never take on the supermarkets, coupled with the fact that i got hauled through the courts on licence charges when one of my staff served Trading standards old-looking-teenagers (the fella was eighteen the day after the sting FFS) when I was 150 miles away at the time. So I had enough, flogged my franchises back to Thresher for far more than I paid for them, and a few years later the whole company wet bust. Ha ha nobs!

 

[DurhamSparky]

hahahaha!! you got stung...!

i remember been the cause of a local corner shop near loosing its license! i had fake id and The police happened to drive past as i walked out with 50 quids worth of booze! they stopped and asked me about it... i denied the ID and the daft owner behind counter got investigated for selling to 16 year old and also then got arrested for selling non duty Tabs!! hahahahaha!

 

[rocker]

lol I didn't lose me licence in the end, in fact I still have my peronal licence till 2014 I believe. I look pretty fat of it, mind!

We were pretty vigilant in the shops most of the time, but I understand the teenager's need to drink. I was 6'1" with a beard at 13, so I was pished for most of the time as I'm sure you can imagine....