Daily Wail fails again

[ricardian]

It has been reported that an RAF private (sic) used JPA to fiddle thousands of pounds. Having read tales of woe concerning JPA I'm amazed that he managed to get JPA to do anything useful!
Daily Mail report (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6673903/RAF-private-St-Athan-Wales-steals-100-000-help-teenagers.html)

[Pontius Navigator]

I like his uniform. I knew the RAF trousers were pants but those !

Among the lavish purchases made with the money from the first hack were a £1,990 pair of Christian Louboutin shoes, a £435 Balmain top, a £740 Kurt Geiger shoes

Given the crap he is wearing on duty these were obviously for his off duty wear.

[Bob Viking]

From what little I know about fashion I would suggest the shoes were not for his own use. Unless Loboutin make men’s shoes as well.

BV

[tucumseh]

Presumably the National Cyber Security Centre will now recruit him.

[NutLoose]

At least he spent the monies on some sensible stuff and not a house for his ducks, it appears they are all at it.. Err isn't that an air cadet uniform?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6677187/Grenadier-Guards-charged-robbery.html

[Training Risky]

If he is a serving Airman then why is the trial in crown court and not a CM??

[Tankertrashnav]

At least he spent the monies on some sensible stuff and not a house for his ducks, it appears they are all at it

Funny how everyone remembers the duck house, which was in fact a disallowed claim where no offence was involved, but nobody remembers the four MPs (all Labour incidentally) who were tried, convicted and imprisoned for false accounting.

[chevvron]

At least he spent the monies on some sensible stuff and not a house for his ducks, it appears they are all at it.. Err isn't that an air cadet uniform?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6677187/Grenadier-Guards-charged-robbery.html
The cap badge definitely looks like ATC as the CCF wore an RAF cap badge.

[BEagle]

Sod the cap badge and fashion comments - if this alleged thief is convicted for effectively stealing from his colleagues, I hope that the sentence will be long and harsh.

[MATELO]

From what little I know about fashion I would suggest the shoes were not for his own use. Unless Loboutin make men’s shoes as well.

BV
Louboutin does make some fantastic mens shoes, however, they make some ghastly ones too.

[Pontius Navigator]

From what little I know about fashion I would suggest the shoes were not for his own use. Unless Loboutin make men’s shoes as well.

BV
Not for one moment was I suggesting men's shoes😂

[mopardave]

At least he spent the monies on some sensible stuff and not a house for his ducks, it appears they are all at it.. Err isn't that an air cadet uniform?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6677187/Grenadier-Guards-charged-robbery.html

Trio? Oh well, just goes to show there are three kinds of people in this world.....those that can count and those that can't.

[Pontius Navigator]

I see the DT says he was an ex army lance corporal. Clearly the Daily Fail saw St Athan and joined up all the dots.

[Chris Kebab]

Louboutin does make some fantastic mens shoes, however, they make some ghastly ones too.
Pah, I bet none of them has got a compass in the heel and an animal track on the tread....

[teeteringhead]

I've told this tale before, but mention of "theft from a comrade" brings it back to mind again.....

... at the risk of thread drift, that reminds me of a tale told by an erstwhile colleague, a Para officer.

When a young subaltern, he had decided to carry out a no-notice block/barrack inspection of his troop. He was not put off by his wise SNCO i/c firmly trying to tell him that it would not be a good idea that night.

During the inspection, he discovered one poor trooper, sat by his bed, with his hand firmly affixed to his bedside locker - with a commando-style knife through the palm!

SNCO i/c: "Theft from a comrade Sir, he won't do it again!" Good to know that BEags would approve.......

[Warmtoast]

Character in post #1 has a Linkedlin account and this among other things states: he was a soldier in the British Army from May 2011 to July 2016 in Cardiff.

[langleybaston]

Hitherto I was sure that the RAF had privates.

[Tankertrashnav]

It did. Before the introduction of the rank of aircraftman in 1919, the basic ranks in non-technical trades were private first and second class

Or did you mean something else?.

[Ascend Charlie]

Private Parts and his mate Corporal Punishment.

[teeteringhead]

Major Rhode-Ahead

General Strike

[rcsa]

And their RN counterparts, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy....

[ExAscoteer]

Urban Myth.

No such characters ever existed in Captain Pugwash.

The Cabin Boy was Tom, the Seamen were Barnabas (replaced by Jonah in the later series) and Willy.

[langleybaston]

It did. Before the introduction of the rank of aircraftman in 1919, the basic ranks in non-technical trades were private first and second class

Or did you mean something else?.

Thank you ....yes I knew, and it also served as a mildly smutty attempt at humour.

[jayteeto]

Wasn’t Roger replaced by Tom a few years in? I distinctly remember Staines, also replaced ??????

[ExAscoteer]

Nope. It's an Urban Myth that was originally published in the Guardian in 1991.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/captain-pugwash-double-meanings/

[Tankertrashnav]

I distinctly remember Staines, also replaced ??????

A serious point arises from a fairly trivial and rather silly matter here. In recent years some quite famous people have being going to prison on the strength of what people "distinctly remember" about events 30, 40 50 years ago. People's memories are notoriously faulty (I know mine is) as is jayteeto's apparently!

Thank you ....yes I knew, and it also served as a mildly smutty attempt at humour.

I rather thought that was it ;)

[TBM-Legend]

Heard at the guard house - Guard challenges a man in civvies who replies "Wing Commander Cuming"! Guard - "Thanks mate, I'll keep an eye out for him!"....followed by a 'bring your hat' with the guard commander!

[rcsa]

A serious point arises from a fairly trivial and rather silly matter here. In recent years some quite famous people have being going to prison on the strength of what people "distinctly remember" about events 30, 40 50 years ago. People's memories are notoriously faulty (I know mine is) as is jayteeto's apparently!

..which is precisely why, before asserting that Staines, Bates and Roger were shipmates of Captain Pugwash, I asked Mr Google for an opinion. He noted, as others have done above, that there were no such characters on Cap'n P's foredeck. And that in fact, after The Sunday Correspondent (and The Guardian) claimed otherwise, author John Ryan successfully sued both papers.

[RAFEngO74to09]

Color remake from the 1970s - only B&W when I was a kid in the early 1960s - and not even any TV at all for BAOR brats !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzVjsu9XvM