The Never Ending Story

[turboplanner]

21 hours ago, Captain said:

.... the perch due to their advanced age, and those that remain find that their pensions no longer support flying all the way to WA against the wind, so they now .....

......go to Tocumwal.  It's central to NSW, SA, Vic and after a short over-water flight, hopefully without a drenching, Tas.

With Turbo's Planning activities he'd learnt about "Revenge Strips" If someone lived off the end of a lane and wanted to be sure no one could extend the lane and build dog facilities or a motel, he bought one metre of the lane. So when developers swaggered in and bought 250 hectares of the end of the lane, they would find two fences erected across the lane with daffodils freshly planted between. Turbo was offered over $1 million for one once. At Tocumwal, Turbo had been quietly buying up laneways and RS's as they're called in the business until one day he owned the access from the airfield to the Tocumwal Golf Club. In this way the flyinees could walk the Tocumwal Golf Club Resort (a motel owned by the Cooks Tour Stops Ltd conglomerate). From there it was a short walk to the huge Tocumwal Club with three hat meals. It was at the TGCR one night that Turbo, weary from a day's business which had started in Mildura, saw a dark grey, plain, Ford Falcon glide in and park outside a room. Two men with smart grey suits and guns on their hips got out and walked over to the Club. Turbo gave it 10 minutes and walked over being careful to sit in the opposite corner of the dining room. When, an hour later, he went to his room, someone had bashed in the windscreen of the Falcon.  Turbo believes it was .....................

[Captain]

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

When, an hour later, he went to his room, someone had bashed in the windscreen of the Falcon.  Turbo believes it was .....

.... someone who, for the NES, we shall call "Brent", and he had a penchant for telling other NESers that he was a pistol packing tough guy.

 

Except that there was always a wet spot near his holster, where the bung leaked on the top of his newest water pistol.

 

For the purposes of anonymity around Tocumwal, Turbo wore a hood and decided to investigate further, so he took his personally monogrammed set of Alan-Keys and he approached the falcon from behind (NTTIAWWT, but never let him do that if you are having a coffee or similar recreational pursuit with him) where he explored the .......