The week in pictures. 11/3/17

BBC Pictures

Why would you live in Mosul 
 even if you were born there, Move away, live in the desert or woods but dont put up with that crap.

You don't have to go to Mosul to get a scene like that,,, early one Saturday morning I get a call at home, one of our trucks has been involved in an accident and the police want a responsible person from the company to attend the scene, this normally means it's a fatality and charges are gonna be dished out...

I get to the scene, it's a wide road in a built up area cars parked each side of the road, the road goes over a railway bridge then down hill, as I come over the bridge I'm faced with a scene like the picture, a cop stops me at the crest of the hill/bridge saying roads closed, I explain why I'm there, he says park your car up here it's a sheet of ice down there ??? I'd driven a fair distance to get there and there wasn't a drop of frost or ice anywhere,,, anyways I get down to the scene of accident, roads like an ice rink,,, I approach the two cops handling  the incident and explain who I am, cop says to me don't worry we witnessed everything it's not your drivers fault ??? There's eight parked cars mangled, three were write offs,,, cop explains, we're walking up the road cos we couldn't keep our footing on the pavement due to the ice, your driver comes over the crest of the hill/bridge, sees us, touches his brakes and loses control,,, truck initially hit five cars on the left hand side of the road ripping the roofs off three of them with the corner of the trucks body and piling all five of them in to each other, then truck shot across the road and had another go at three on that side...

I'm surrounded by their owners, some in pyjamas, took me hours swapping insurance details and getting the butt of their anger, two of the cars with their roofs torn off belonged to the same couple, the femails car was only four days old, she was in tears,,, but that was just the start of it...

A week or so later my phone starts ringing and ringing and ringing, our insurance company is denying responsibility and this is all the car owners on to me,,, I don't understand this as all of them were in bed and their cars were parked up when our truck had a go at them,,, I phone our insurance company as I cannot understand why they ain't paying out, it's explained to me for them to pay out our driver has to be at fault and that he has two very good eye witnesses (the cops) that say he wasn't... I'm told they will have to claim their own insurance if they are full comp, or sue personally if third party, which was what happened in all cases with either the individuls or their insurance company sue us to get their money back,,, and who dealt with and settled these claims,,, our insurance company,,, why the feck not just pay out in the first place...

45000 I think is enough to revolt against the Islamic State that are there, sorry but about time the people effected started saying enough instead of taking the "our brothers" point of view.

Don't think most of them are taking ISIS view Kev. They have been cowered into submission. Guy in UN ( ex MP can't remember his name) said that they are afraid that up to one third of all the males over 12 years of age ( of the original Mosul inhabitants ) have been killed. The rest are being used as a human shield much like Saddam did in Iraq a few years back. It's a repeat of guerrilla tactics all over the world. That's how a relative few can control so many. Bit like saying the jews could have overrun the concentration guards. They could have but simple survival becomes the name of the game.

a point where you need to revolt though

I also do not just mean the Muslims that live there, all Muslims, especially ones with weaponary and power should be removing these dicks that are making the rest of the world hate all muslims before it is too late. Before someone reports me I aint being feckin' racist yer prick, look about you, the hate for Muslims is growing very quick, there are many good ones the whole of the muslim community need to stop and adjust and say feck you ISIS and all you radicals, we want to live in this world with peace and happiness not this constant fight and hatred.