[Second Decay]

Pitchers Sports on Moss Street was always the place the I used to meet my mates before going to St Mirren games at Love Street, but does anyone recall an incident there from around 1983 or 1984 when some youths broke in to the store and threw footballs out of the window and were shooting them down with air-rifles? I have a vague recollection of this appearing on the front page of the Daily Record when I was at Primary School.

[Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes]

Second Decay, on 01 March 2010 - 13:57, said:

Pitchers Sports on Moss Street was always the place the I used to meet my mates before going to St Mirren games at Love Street, but does anyone recall an incident there from around 1983 or 1984 when some youths broke in to the store and threw footballs out of the window and were shooting them down with air-rifles? I have a vague recollection of this appearing on the front page of the Daily Record when I was at Primary School.

Yep, remember that. Think it was indeed 1984. It was something like they broke in one night and were still there when the plods turned up so it turned into a bit of a siege. The Indian restaurant across the road was, at the time, a bank (TSB I think) and afterwards you could see the sandstone of the building peppered with holes where they air-gun pellets had hit. It made national news, I'm sure. I heard it get a mention on Steve Wright in the afternoon anyway. Kids; waddya make of 'em, eh?

[The Sandman]

Second Decay, on 01 March 2010 - 13:57, said:

Pitchers Sports on Moss Street was always the place the I used to meet my mates before going to St Mirren games at Love Street, but does anyone recall an incident there from around 1983 or 1984 when some youths broke in to the store and threw footballs out of the window and were shooting them down with air-rifles? I have a vague recollection of this appearing on the front page of the Daily Record when I was at Primary School.

Air Rifles, my hole.....................................

It was shotguns, you can still see marks on the buildings opposite.........................


It was a family of nutters from a quaint little town that's now in East Renfrewshire, that were behind it...........................

This post has been edited by The Sandman: 01 March 2010 - 14:14

[Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes]

Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes, on 01 March 2010 - 14:12, said:

Yep, remember that. Think it was indeed 1984. It was something like they broke in one night and were still there when the plods turned up so it turned into a bit of a siege. The Indian restaurant across the road was, at the time, a bank (TSB I think) and afterwards you could see the sandstone of the building peppered with holes where they air-gun pellets had hit. It made national news, I'm sure. I heard it get a mention on Steve Wright in the afternoon anyway. Kids; waddya make of 'em, eh?

The Sandman, on 01 March 2010 - 14:12, said:

Air Rifles, my hole.....................................

It was shotguns, you can still see marks on the buildings opposite.........................


It was a family from a quaint little town that's now in East Renfrewshire, that were behind it...........................

Beat ye.

[The Sandman]

Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes, on 01 March 2010 - 14:14, said:

Beat ye.

With snide info, toothache.............................

[jimdickloyal]

Shots were also fired at the Police who attended. Some very long prison sentences handed out afterward!

[scottd]

jimdickloyal, on 01 March 2010 - 17:30, said:

Shots were also fired at the Police who attended. Some very long prison sentences handed out afterward!

Was that because they missed?

[bud72]

I remember Gordon Honeycombe reporting on it on tvam.

[santaponsasaint]

jimdickloyal, on 01 March 2010 - 17:30, said:

Shots were also fired at the Police who attended. Some very long prison sentences handed out afterward!

Was that cos they missed HHIBSS

[KennyS]

Were the police not holed up in the TV shop opposite (up hill from bank)??

[jimdickloyal]

KennyS, on 01 March 2010 - 21:25, said:

Were the police not holed up in the TV shop opposite (up hill from bank)??

That sounds quite likely

[Yflab]

They also escaped from the sheriff court and led the police in a car chase through the town.

[Yflab]

KennyS, on 01 March 2010 - 21:25, said:

Were the police not holed up in the TV shop opposite (up hill from bank)??

Robertson's was shot to f*ck - not the best hiding place by our boys in blue.

This post has been edited by Yflab: 02 March 2010 - 05:49

[The Sandman]

Yflab, on 02 March 2010 - 05:48, said:

Robertson's was shot to f*ck - not the best hiding place by our boys in blue.

Bryce's, where the scores used to be watched in the window apres Love St...........................

[jimdickloyal]

Yflab, on 02 March 2010 - 05:44, said:

They also escaped from the sheriff court and led the police in a car chase through the town.

They just don't make criminals like that anymore!

[lovestreet]

Remember it well...shotguns and all remember Bryce Curdy breaking a programme to switch to a news flash...used to shite myself everytime that happened in they days...always thought we were about to get the 4 minute warning!

[thepaisleypanda]

The Sandman, on 02 March 2010 - 14:13, said:

Bryce's, where the scores used to be watched in the window apres Love St...........................

Yip! Do you remember walking up Moss St after a game, & the classified results were on 23 tellies?

Then (more than once) some jobsworth woud deliberately turn them off to get rid of the 25 or so folk at the window?

(Vowed as a spotty 14 year old never to buy a tell from there - & never did!)

[shull]

lovestreet, on 02 March 2010 - 21:18, said:

Remember it well...shotguns and all remember Bryce Curdy breaking a programme to switch to a news flash...used to shite myself everytime that happened in they days...always thought we were about to get the 4 minute warning!

Did he own the telly Shop ?

[Second Decay]

shull, on 03 March 2010 - 00:11, said:

Did he own the telly Shop ?

James Bryce owned the telly shop however Bryce Curdy was fond of electrical devices!

[Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes]

santaponsasaint, on 01 March 2010 - 20:42, said:

Was that cos they missed HHIBSS

Being as I was in the hoose cos it was a school night (as in I had school the next day) then it would've been a bit difficult. Word has it, though, there was a ceasefire when they seen some bloke called gary stagerring down the street after kicking out time.

lovestreet, on 02 March 2010 - 21:18, said:

Remember it well...shotguns and all remember Bryce Curdy breaking a programme to switch to a news flash...used to shite myself everytime that happened in they days...always thought we were about to get the 4 minute warning!

Ah, the good old Four Minute Warning, eh? Them were the days!

Punters wouldnae know what that is now.