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- disrupter, on 09/03/2008, -1/+53Sex can wait! I want to be an engineer.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+39this will make a good movie
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+30I guess we found the guy to replace Harrison ford.
- barstegry, on 09/03/2008, -0/+29Why didn't he build a bridge... some engineer...pttth..
- darkhero, on 09/03/2008, -0/+29The company he works for Carnegie Minerals, is a thief and has been robbing many west African countries for years. There was a documentary on Google video a while back before it has taken down for copyright.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+18This is the kind of stuff we Captain Morgan drinkers can pull off.
- PabloMac, on 09/03/2008, -1/+15He used his mettle instead.
- CycloneTH, on 09/03/2008, -0/+13Obviously he didn't have enough metal.
- CycloneTH, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8Well played, good sir.
- XFDRaven, on 09/03/2008, -1/+7Even if the corporation is doing illegal activities, it would be better to expel the actors of the company from the country but instead they demand half a million USD for bail. It sounds to me like a ***** Nigerian scam from a different part of the colossal mess known as Africa.
- CycloneTH, on 09/03/2008, -2/+7"The father-of-three, originally from Plymouth in Devon, was detained on February 18 after authorities in the West African country accused him and his employers, Carnegie Minerals, of commercially mining titanium"
...What? - ndseifi, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Not the greatest day to be a member of the Gambian police force.
- URnotheonly1, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5yup the staff in my engineering firm is capable of this. every one of them
- Kenzan, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5"He has known Mr Northfield for 20 years and worked in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea."
I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
Stay thirsty, my friends. - Naieve, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6In other news, Gambian Officials cannot figure out why foreign companies don't want to do business there.
- memper, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4uranium, titanium and iron.
You forgot some of it. - arjie, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4He is he is he is he is he is an engineer
He can he can he can he can demolish forty beers - tonich03, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4DON'T ***** WITH ENGINEERS
- svendm, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4He wasn't being held indefinitely. And his actions validated the actions of the Gambians. He was being held, and his passport taken, out of concern that he'd flee the country. Which he DID.
Whether there are concerns about the Gambian legal system is an issue for the British Embassy in the Gambia. It doesn't give the guy the right to take the law into his own hands. If he was doing business in their country, he has to follow their laws and procedure. If those laws and procedures are injust, in our view, then that's a political issue that needs to be addressed at the diplomatic level. That's how the world works.
I honestly don't know whether he was guilty or not - it would appear to be a genuine legal issue whether the additional minerals they were exporting were significant enough or not to be included in their mining license.
There's every reason to be doubtful about how it's portrayed in the Telegraph. It's a staunchly conservative paper, and one which once _gave an award_ to the perpetrator of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (one of Britain's worst colonial atrocities ever). So there's no surprise in the fact that they're portraying it to his advantage. - Dotcommer, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4Man, thats bad ass. I mean, what a story to tell your friends, loved ones, and your grand children years from now you know?
- codyman, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4That's it... I'm canceling my Gambian Vacation
- jawagas, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Alec Guiness would have built a bridge
- kmss1, on 09/03/2008, -2/+4If true, the guy has some seriously 'grande cajones'. It really will make an interesting movie
- PeanutCheeseBar, on 09/03/2008, -2/+4SPAH SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!
- rinote, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2FTA: "At one point, his 4X4 suffered a puncture on a hazardous road through the bush and he had to swim across a flood-swollen, crocodile infested river with his clothes in a bucket."
Straight out of a movie. - stopsucking, on 09/03/2008, -3/+5That is just awesome. Definitely reads like it will be a movie.
- Buttercup, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Got a little ex-army Captain in ya?
- 2oonhed, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2.....and as he struggled out of the water on the steep river bank, a wiggling piranha with it's teeth firmly embedded into his ass was still trying to get a good bite from him. And just then, a large poisonous snake opts to rapidly slither away through the weeds rather than strike. And the tribesmen from the nearby village were still throwing near misses with their spears & firing rifles from other side of the river, which left him very little time to remove the piranha from his ass......
cut to wide shot of sylvan glade and zoom in on the man as he runs through it, a free man.
Then cut to a lovely patio in merry ol England, all guests are wearing white, champagne is tasted, (with pinkies out, of course), a game of cricket goes on in the background,
When asked if he had a "bit o trouble in Gambia", he says, "oh, quite.....quite".
the end - URnotheonly1, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3Ya, I agree, hope he didn't pee in the water
- MonoDede, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2RTFA. Idiot.
- GeorgeStone2, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Gordon freeman?
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -2/+3bamf
- frequentFlyer, on 09/03/2008, -6/+7I hope he wore a condom when he swam across that river. There are little bugs that swim up the urethra and cause all kinds of havoc and require a nice plunging/injection into said urethra.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Not sure who's burying you since you're mostly right: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2551/can- ...
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 09/03/2008, -2/+3British mining criminal evades Gambian authorities. Carnegie Minerals begins spin campaign with press releases to BBC and Telegraph. (I am just sayin, maybe)
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Rescue Dawn anyone???
- Andrwmorph, on 09/03/2008, -5/+6Africa is the world's crapper.
- ThatGeek, on 09/03/2008, -2/+3Whether carnegie minerals was wrong or right isnt the point here. What Gambia did was wrong. They held him indefinitely without a real trial. Then they just threw him on house arrest and took his passport. They never even had a real trial to see if he was guilty. Maybe he did do these economic crimes thing, but the fact is is that Gambia handled it wrong
- inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1How many Gambian's swim across the Channel, or up the river Thames to get in here? I know none, they simply fly into Heathrow and get a warm welcome.
- keyforce, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1When in rome...
- diggsterrrr, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Holy crap, this is a genuine ripping tale! Once again, an Englishman outwits, outfights and just plain outPLUCKSs a bunch of darkie foreigners!
The only thing that could make it better was if the other guys were AMERICANS. - Dotcommer, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Oh Antonio... you are the only one who understands me...
- 2oonhed, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1I hate it when that happens. It's worse the having the nipples nibbled off by piranhas.
- zazzalicious, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Kwai?
- Bigzz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Those were the droids I was looking for...
- ortucis, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Unless you are a pro Digger, then you tell that story to that blow-up life size ultra mega Antonio Banderas love doll.
- darwinwins, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1it's not gambia. it's THE Gambia.THE. the "the" is officially part of its proper name. weird, yes, but it's true.
- Observer001, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I wish there was something I can do to this comment string stronger than just digging it. Excavate?
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