“A neighbour with a rather interesting history gave me a lift to town one night. On the way he sees his half brother who has an even darker history than my neighbour. Half brother asks for a lift to a house a few miles away, when asked why he was going there he simply replied that he was going there to shoot someone. I was in the back seat feeling rather uncomfortable but scared to ask to get out in case he turned on me.

Something that shocked me was how nonchalantly my neighbour told him that was no problem and he’d be glad to give him a lift. I’m sitting in the back wondering how many people have gone to prison for being in the wrong place at the wrong time just like I was.

Thankfully we dropped him off, he went his way and we went ours and he was arrested somehow before anything happened.

Northern Ireland was an interesting place back then.” – baconandeggsandbacon