I don't know if i'm just going crazy or what but iv'e always kind of noticed these shops that never have anyone inside it or are never open. I don't mean shops that only do it online so the physical shop is where the items are stored before selling but i mean... In my small town we have a "clothing" shop which nobody has ever seen anyone inside since it opened in the 90's, the door is always locked and there is no furniture inside.
We also have 3 British heart foundation shops. 2 of which are actually used and one has cameras all around the outside which turn to look at you when you walk past (again, no furniture other than a big iron door and the door hasn't been opened in so long that there are actual cobwebs in the lock.) Also there are apparently only 2 British heart foundation shops in my town so idk what the 3rd one is about.
They are only the shops but iv'e also noticed the vans (i live in rural Derbyshire so there are alot of small farmy type businesses around here who drive around in vans) and most of these vans i know who the owners are because everyone knows everyone around here. Sometimes you find a van just parked in the middle of nowhere or outside some abandoned building and printed on the van will be some company that ive never heard of with a phone number.
I'm so used to these mysterious vans that i always call the number and every (and i really do mean every) time i call, the number does not exist. I then search up the number because i'm a very nosey person but the number does not exist and has never existed. I then search up the company name and again, it dosen't exist.
Now the weirdest thing about them is that sometimes by looking at the number plate you can see it's the same van but compared to last week, theres a completely different company on the van. And then other times if you search up the number plate, the number plate does not exist.
it originally started out as me simply being a nosey bugger but now i just have so many questions. P.S sorry for any bad grammar, i've just never been good at writing and the picture is unrelated it's just a cool picture of a squirrel that i caught a few months ago. But has anyone else noticed this?
Where the fuck is "Derbyshire"? There's no such place. You can't just go inventing places like this. Are you in some sort of Brigadoon situation where you live in an invisible town?
Thanks, OP, I'm definitely going to induce schizophrenia by calling the numbers on random plumbers' vans. I probably should have known it would end like this.
Consider reporting it anonymously (IE offline) to either the police or the home office (depending on how hard you want to larp about spies and shit).
>>460754 >Sometimes you find a van just parked in the middle of nowhere or outside some abandoned building and printed on the van will be some company that ive never heard of with a phone number.
I occasionally see vans with removable, magnetic signage, assumably to evade parking fines. I flip the signs upside down whenever I find them.
I went into a small independent burger place near my work today. I last went there a little under two months ago. All the staff are completely different people. I immediately thought of this thread.
>>460763 >I occasionally see vans with removable, magnetic signage, assumably to evade parking fines.
I don't know why they think removable, magnetic signage will stop anyone reading their number plate.
>>460769 I notice this regularly with one of the corner shops near me. I only go in about once a month but so far I've had a Romanian immigrant, a group of women, some buff Turkish blokes and now bearded English hipsters. The layout and products don't change, just the people.
There's a burger van on the way to work with a name like Big Boy or Large Lad, possibly even Big Lad but I like to think there is some alliteration there. Anyway, I have noticed that there is always a bulky man working there but it is never the same bulky man. It's a rotation of large lads.
I've just remembered that episode of The Cook Report about hot dog stands and burger vans, which was surely the inspiration for that Jam monologue about rogue street sausage vendors.
>>460927 Found an episode on "computer porn" (being sold on floppies), where they show us how they targeted underage users with this thing that absolutely definitely happened.
Somebody from the village where my mum grew up got done for child porn a few years ago. I don't know all the details, but I think from what people were saying, he was involved in creating it and selling it on the dark web. Fucking wrongun. Good thing they got him.
