Send in the Clones

Once upon a time only seagulls scavenged on rubbish tips. Then gypsies, travellers and the dirt poor discovered recycling. Old tyres, bits of lead, jam jars, old household items could be cleaned up and sold for a bit of ready cash. Now in the UK, “seagulls” scavenge in people’s bins and on rubbish tips for bank statements and documents that can be cloned and turned into a large amount of cash. Bulgaria is the current hot spot for cash drawn out on cloned cards. After it happened to several friends of mine, I went out last week and bought the current ‘must have’, a heavy duty cross shredder. The current lust-interest and I spent a whole evening of great hilarity shredding every bit of paper in sight. Next day I got home to find the shredder blocked, and spent about half an hour picking out the remnants of an old sock – hmmm… beginning to fall out of lust, methinks.