NTL (VM) staff involved in 'Cash for Crash' scam. - Page 2

joglynne · 02-04-2010, 16:31

The fact that these guys were NTL employees is, IMHO, totally irrelevant as they would have done the same thing no mater who they had been employed by. They would just have used any vehicle that they happened to have had handy.

I'm sorry Garry but you have just posted one too many of this type of thread/post for me to bother reading your posts in future.

Gary L · 02-04-2010, 16:42

Oh dear. I don't know what to say. I think I might go and kill myself.

TheDaddy · 02-04-2010, 16:55

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Originally Posted by Gary L

Oh dear. I don't know what to say. I think I might go and kill myself.

No need Papa Smurf has already requested that we shoot the messenger, so a firing squad is being assembled as we speak, trouble is there was no shortage of volunteers so we are having to draw straws for it, usually it's the other way round and we have to force people to do it but hey ho. Just a couple of questions though will you be avaliable at dawn and will you require things like blindfolds and last requests, I cancelled the priest btw, given your previous posts didn't think it really appropriate.

papa smurf · 02-04-2010, 16:57

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

No need Papa Smurf has already requested that we shoot the messenger, so a firing squad is being assembled as we speak, trouble is there was no shortage of volunteers so we are having to draw straws for it, usually it's the other way round and we have to force people to do it but hey ho. Just a couple of questions though will you be avaliable at dawn and will you require things like blindfolds and last requests, I cancelled the priest btw, given your previous posts didn't think it really appropriate.

oh no he didn't.

TheDaddy · 02-04-2010, 17:02

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

oh no he didn't.

Yes he did kicks papa in the shin

papa smurf · 02-04-2010, 17:04

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Yes he did kicks papa in the shin

oh yes i remember now
out with his giblets

Sirius · 02-04-2010, 17:13

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Originally Posted by Paul M

Title changed, move to current affairs. This has nothing directly to do with VM.

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Wrong.

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Originally Posted by Gary L

Oh dear. I don't know what to say. I think I might go and kill myself.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

No need Papa Smurf has already requested that we shoot the messenger, so a firing squad is being assembled as we speak, trouble is there was no shortage of volunteers so we are having to draw straws for it, usually it's the other way round and we have to force people to do it but hey ho. Just a couple of questions though will you be avaliable at dawn and will you require things like blindfolds and last requests, I cancelled the priest btw, given your previous posts didn't think it really appropriate.

Can i buy my way in to the squad

Jon T · 02-04-2010, 17:30

Problem is your way of implying that NTL/VM, or whatever you want to call them(it doesn't matter), were in some way linked to this as a company. In all fairness this is, in all likelyhood not true.

A number of NTL/VM employees just happened to be involved in the scam. But that's quite easily explained by what I shall call the "Dave-Steve" theory: Dave and Steve both work at NTL/VM, Dave get's to know about this via another theory that i'll call "the bloke in the pub", Dave then tells Steve, he also tells a whole load more Steve's, some of them that for NTL/VM, some of them don't. The original Steve also does the same.

Point being, who they work for is immaterial, it's the fact that people who work together will talk about stuff other than work, including things that may not be above board. The employer can't exactly control that!

02-04-2010, 17:57

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Originally Posted by Jon T

Problem is your way of implying that NTL/VM, or whatever you want to call them(it doesn't matter), were in some way linked to this as a company. In all fairness this is, in all likelyhood not true.

A number of NTL/VM employees just happened to be involved in the scam. But that's quite easily explained by what I shall call the "Dave-Steve" theory: Dave and Steve both work at NTL/VM, Dave get's to know about this via another theory that i'll call "the bloke in the pub", Dave then tells Steve, he also tells a whole load more Steve's, some of them that for NTL/VM, some of them don't. The original Steve also does the same.

Point being, who they work for is immaterial, it's the fact that people who work together will talk about stuff other than work, including things that may not be above board. The employer can't exactly control that!

good point ,no need to bring vm or ntl into the discussion imo after all we don't here about the employer every time someone commits a crime

papa smurf · 02-04-2010, 18:27

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Originally Posted by martyh

good point ,no need to bring vm or ntl into the discussion imo after all we don't here about the employer every time someone commits a crime

its on the vm website so they brought themselves into it

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/ne...cash_for_crash

Gary L · 02-04-2010, 18:28

That's just being silly saying that we don't need to know who they work for.

or is it that we don't want to hear that they work for VM when it's a crime, but we don't mind hearing that they work for VM if they saved granny or something?

it's a VM forum. of course if there's a story out there that involves employees we'll both post and read them here probably. either in the news or current affairs section.

Escapee · 02-04-2010, 18:59

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Originally Posted by Jon T

Problem is your way of implying that NTL/VM, or whatever you want to call them(it doesn't matter), were in some way linked to this as a company. In all fairness this is, in all likelyhood not true.

A number of NTL/VM employees just happened to be involved in the scam. But that's quite easily explained by what I shall call the "Dave-Steve" theory: Dave and Steve both work at NTL/VM, Dave get's to know about this via another theory that i'll call "the bloke in the pub", Dave then tells Steve, he also tells a whole load more Steve's, some of them that for NTL/VM, some of them don't. The original Steve also does the same.

Point being, who they work for is immaterial, it's the fact that people who work together will talk about stuff other than work, including things that may not be above board. The employer can't exactly control that!

The article says they crashed their company cars into other vehicles, so ntl/VM whoever their employer was at the time is involved. (Or were these guys contractors)

Peter_ · 02-04-2010, 19:27

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

its on the vm website so they brought themselves into it

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/ne...cash_for_crash

It is on many more websites and they all state that they were NTL staff at the time which was well before Virginmedia even existed click here to view them

I personally did not like the way it was insidiously posted as a side swipe at Virginmedia staff who had nothing whatsoever to do with this crime.

As we can now see from the majority of posters this thread did not go the way that Gary hoped and intended it to go, and for that I applaud those posters.

Raistlin · 02-04-2010, 19:28

Ok ... enough now please ...

How about we discuss the story rather than any particular individual's motives for posting it.

Peter_ · 02-04-2010, 19:29

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Originally Posted by Escapee

The article says they crashed their company cars into other vehicles, so ntl/VM whoever their employer was at the time is involved. (Or were these guys contractors)

They were NTL not Virginmedia staff and as I said above Gary wanted a diifferent reaction than he has received as this did not follow the route he expected.