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| Wife escapes bulldozer attack |
| 2004-02-06 |
| A man who locked his wife in a toilet and tried to knock it down with a digger is being hunted by police. It is believed Peter Rigden, 64, enticed his wife into the outside loo of their £1.2m Crawley Down home and then tried to bulldoze it. "Honey, can you go out to the loo and see if I left my glasses there? I’ll just wait for you on the dozer." His wife Gabrielle, 45, escaped with minor injuries before the toilet in Sandy Lane was knocked down. It is thought Mr Rigden then set fire to his barn containing gas cylinders which exploded. A car was also set alight and destroyed in the grounds of the house. Police officers and firefighters were called after Mr Rigden’s French wife rang them from a neighbours house at 1050 GMT on Thursday. French wife? Perhaps they were having a discussion on foreign policy that got out of hand. Neighbours described Mr Rigden as an "eccentric". As opposed to being "nuts"? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #16 We rented an eleven-room house in England when I was stationed at RAF Alconbury. There was indoor plumbing of course, but there was also a flush-toilet outdoor loo as well. That was for the gardener, the coal delivery people, and so forth to use, instead of coming into the house. The only disadvantage was that it wasn't heated. That meant that winter coal deliveries (and who needs a coal fire in the summer, even in England) were very quickly done. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-6 10:34:47 PM |
| #15 Ya' gotta give him one thing - the English are entertainingly eccentric. An American would have just shot her. A 1.2 million pound estate and they have an outdoor john? Guess it's not as much fun to be rich in England as here. Course, since his wife is French, she probably didn't notice anything unusual. (Sorry - have to get the obligatory Frog insult in where we can.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-2-6 10:29:52 PM |
| #14 Jeeze Louise! I spend 2 days away from RB up north at 25 below and come home to this? The Army of Steve is running amuk. Doc8404 has it right. The guy must have been a 64 year old charmer to get his wife into the loo. It almost was a St. Pancake moment. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-2-6 8:16:29 PM |
| #13 Can't add anything to this list of comments. LOL. You're all nuts, especially SH. Wait'll someone sets one of your headlines to music and sings it at a Karyoke party,SH. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-6 5:25:58 PM |
| #12 Thank you John. Remember paying for a Diamond is Forever. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-6 5:22:19 PM |
| #11 mmmmmm I wonder if she'd like a John Deere or a Kubota dozer....decisions...decisions.... |
| Posted by: dataman1 2004-2-6 2:08:53 PM |
| #10 Feb 14th is a week Saturday. Just a reminder. |
| Posted by: john 2004-2-6 1:26:26 PM |
| #9 Um. . . If you can afford a 1.2 M Pound home can't you also afford the extra shillings for indoor plumbing? "enticed his wife into the outside loo" !!?? I wouldn't be able to get my wife into an outhouse with a cattle prod. (and believe me, I've tried) Oh! Hi honey. . . |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-2-6 12:15:01 PM |
| #8 I have never felt that type of intense rage towards my wife, but felt nearly as much towards my wife's extended family on one occasion. I was attending their annual July 4th get together. The worst is always when the Karyoke started. First a 9 year old girl sang am incredibly bad rendition of a Shania Twain song that included some line about her having PMS, but that just made me nauseous. My anger peaked when her 8 year old brother took the Mike and began to belt out a non-melodic rendition of "She Thinks My Tractor is Sexy," an insufferable song to begin with that my wife and daughter are partial to. I took my youngest son for a ride on a skidoo to escape the madness. I know that had I, at that time, been in posession of keys to heavy machinery the stage/tent would have had to have been evacuated. I think someone should study the effect of that particular song in particular and Karyoke in general on workplace violence. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-6 11:29:10 AM |
| #7 Women. Can't live with 'em, can't bulldoze 'em. |
| Posted by: Unmutual 2004-2-6 11:24:19 AM |
| #6 If you have a 1.2 million Pound estate, you're definitely eccentric. If you were normal, or "brown", THEN you're nuts. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-2-6 10:54:01 AM |
| #5 P-P-P-Peter's c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me! |
| Posted by: BH 2004-2-6 10:47:57 AM |
| #4 Obviously the lunatic in question wasn't IDF trained. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-6 10:15:26 AM |
| #3 so she actually TRIED to get away from a bulldozer. had more sense than Rachel Corrie. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-2-6 10:11:09 AM |
| #2 Why do divorces cost so much? Because they are worth every penny. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-6 10:04:33 AM |
| #1 I don't condone it. But I underSTAND it. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-6 9:30:28 AM |