As a teenager I was a bit of a tearaway. Got in with the wrong crowd etc. Anyway, one of the crowd was a bit of a nutjob back then. For instance, think we were 16 at the time, another mate of ours took us in his car to go meet some lasses. My nutjob mate decided at 40mph to pull the handbrake. Luckily, the car just jerked violently side to side and skidded into a grass verge and against a tree. We were fine, thankfully. Nobody had much to do with him after that, plus he was later sent down for a year for some assault. . I never came across him again until I went fishing 2 years ago with a few mates on Carlton pond. We were on our way over the pitfield to get some beers, and nutjob was there on a quad. We exchanged pleasantries, and he told me he was a different bloke at 27 year old, had a home, car and job etc. And off he went. A few weeks later he pulled up alongside me in a 4x4, as I walked up Wakey Road. Asked if I wanted a lift. I declined, made some random excuse, and off he went. . This lad was a teller of tall tales as young uns. He once told us that Michael Jackson stopped off at his house as a 9 year old, after playing the Arena, purely to use the toilet. Another time, he said he drove a Go-Kart out of the track, got away from the pursuing police cars, until crashing into a field. Where he was set upon by police dogs, but luckily he'd got a load of pork chops in his pocket and gave them to the dogs allowing him to scarper. I won't tell you the alien story, I'll get to the point of my story.. . The day after I declined that offer of a lift, Martin Fieldhouse (that was/is his name) went into the home of a family and shot a bloke dead, who was in bed with his partner and child. Apparently. To say I was taken aback when reading about this yesterday, would be an understatement. And, he's the second of my ex "mates" from my youth who has murdered someone. Crazy world.
We all know someone who likes telling tales, a bloke at work with us told us his Uncle was the Captain of the QE2, he also had a scuffle with Pete Doherty in Ibiza after Doherty caught him chatting up Kate Moss, he also knocked the smoke out of Britain's most wanted man in Blackpool resulting in him becoming a big time drugs and arms dealer for a gang in Manchester, he also smoked 5 bouncers in Livingstone by picking up a barrel style table and throwing it at them. The best 1 was after his Mrs left him and he told everyone he was up on a assault charge after he had battered his ex's new bloke and cousin and was looking at 3 years bird. Turned out he'd gone down been the hard man and been on the receiving end.
Funny has different meanings. I clearly meant funny as in strange. Should probably have used the word strange. But I'm a bit funny. . The alien story. He was in bed as a young lad, when he noticed bright lights at the window. He opened the curtains and there was a UFO. It fired a laser beam at him, but he grabbed a mirror and deflected it thus killing the UFO/Alien or whatever. We used to ask him questions, like, was the window open? And, what happened to the UFO debris or dead alien? His stock answer was "dunt believe me then" . Hope his cell mate for the next 30 years enjoys tall tales.
Mate of mine reckoned he was on a bus going through Hoyle mill, when it was stopped by the anti-terrorist squad. There was only him and an old woman on the bus, and the were both made to lay on the floor. Because the old woman couldn't get down on the floor, they put a bag over her head and dragged her off the bus. Then it carried on, on it's journey to lundwood. Oh and he's nearly been sacked from his job several times because 'he's from lundwood' so he says he keeps getting accused of stealing.
Looks like you might be right. "Throughout the last 18 months Fieldhouse has shown no regret. In fact, he's concocted conspiracy theories that the majority of the witnesses had lied to get him into trouble
