17 December - Becoming Peter Craske
When
BiB wanders well off topic there is usually an attempt to contrive an obscure link back to Bexley Council but
yesterday’s OT ramble became far too long. The plan was to steer the story around to Batman Craske.
Batman is not a character with whom I am familiar, probably the wrong generation
or something and when I bought one of the films at random several years ago I didn’t much like it.
I think it may have been ‘The Dark Knight’ and in retrospect it was probably not
very clever to watch one film from the middle of a long running franchise, so when
last month Amazon
listed the first four of the ‘modern’ series for £22 complete with new Dolby Atmos soundtracks I succumbed.
Having watched the first of them I think I understand how Batman became what he is
although I must have missed the bit on how he gained his supernatural powers.
I can’t see myself becoming a Batman fan; never once have I been tempted to wear a
T-shirt bearing any sort of slogan let alone
go to a fan convention but thatְ’s because I have probably always led a boring
existence. Would it be a pictorial pun too far to say ‘all power to the elbows of those who do’?
Some people take their obsessions far too far, like the sender of the following two batty emails. Please excuse the language…
Wed 17/10/2012 10:15
Name: Bruce Wayne
Email: bruce.wayne@gothamcity.com
Comments: Hi Malcolm,
What the fuck is this site about ay? Why don’t you get a life and go out on
the razz and get laid you 40 year old virgin, you mother fucker cock sucker.
Wed 17/10/2012 11:56
Name: Robin
Email: robin@gotham.co.uk
Comments: GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously you need to get out more mate.
Alright no one likes the Council but they’re here to do a job. You don’t
actually have a clue about most of what you are saying - It’s all just rants
without any evidence to back things up.
In summary:
Get a life, move out from your mum’s house, get a job, get laid, stop being a prick.
Like everything on the Internet, messages can be traced. Not something one can normally be bothered to do
but in this case I made an exception. The source IP address, 62.189.157.68, was one of a
block of 64 owned by Parsons Brinkerhoff who among other
things offers consultancy services on road design etc. The IT manager at Parsons
Brinkerhoff accepted my server logs as proof that the messages came from his
offices and thought it was more than likely that a visitor had used a mobile
device at their premises.
From there the source was all guesswork. Councillor Craske who was Cabinet
Member for roads at the time
denied that he had placed a contract with Parsons Brinkerhoff despite
the company issuing a Press Release (PDF) four months earlier which said
otherwise. Bexley Council issued their own Press Release too which was at
http://www.bexley.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7279&p=0 but that link has long since gone.