Local Facebook groups

[smithyithy]

We had our town carnival last weekend - they close off the high street, put up a big stage at one end with live music and entertainment, about a dozen food and drink stalls, dozen or so other stalls, stuff for kids, small fun fair, RBL and a couple of charity stands, then a procession through the high street with about 20 floats put together by all the local schools, nurseries, community groups etc plus a load of classic cars, classic tractors etc.

All organised and ran by volunteers, completely free to attend, no impact to anyone that doesn't want to, really, because all the shops are still open (and probably benefit from the extra footfall on the day), free parking is still available around the town, just not on the high street itself..

Vast majority of feedback was that it was a great day out, well organised, kept very tidy as the community litter pickers etc are always on the ball. Weather was great too, so you'd think people wouldn't really have anything to complain about......

[Spare tyre]

There’s a cat on a bungalow roof

Jenny is asking if anyone has a scanner to read the chip

Few minutes later, cat is off the roof

Phewwww

[Sheets Tabuer]

We had a dog out on it's own yesterday and someone suggested taking said dog to the vets to get it's chip scanned, bugger me at least 4 ladies offered their scanners.

Why are people buying pet scanners? do they keep them in their purse on the off chance they will find a cat corpse on the highway?

[blue_haddock]

Sheets Tabuer said:

We had a dog out on it's own yesterday and someone suggested taking said dog to the vets to get it's chip scanned, bugger me at least 4 ladies offered their scanners.

Why are people buying pet scanners? do they keep them in their purse on the off chance they will find a cat corpse on the highway?

On my local group they sems to potray themselves as white knights offering to scan any roaming or dead before several of their hun-bots reply "Shared TF3"

[Mammasaid]

blue_haddock said:

On my local group they sems to potray themselves as white knights offering to scan any roaming or dead before several of their hun-bots reply "Shared TF3"

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

[alisdairm]

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Brilliant. Well done.

I thought it was Shetland until I googled it.

[GliderRider]

alisdairm said:

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Brilliant. Well done.

I thought it was Shetland until I googled it.

[Spare tyre]

blue_haddock said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

We had a dog out on it's own yesterday and someone suggested taking said dog to the vets to get it's chip scanned, bugger me at least 4 ladies offered their scanners.

Why are people buying pet scanners? do they keep them in their purse on the off chance they will find a cat corpse on the highway?

On my local group they sems to potray themselves as white knights offering to scan any roaming or dead before several of their hun-bots reply "Shared TF3"

I get that you can scan the code, but presumably the blob of data it gives back needs to be looked up on a database somewhere. How do they get to that, can you buy a subscription, or do they ring a charity / there mate with the number and get the info. Seems a bit iffy to me

[Roofless Toothless]

How does that square against data protection legislation?

[Last Visit]

Mammasaid said:

blue_haddock said:

On my local group they sems to potray themselves as white knights offering to scan any roaming or dead before several of their hun-bots reply "Shared TF3"

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Full on laughed at that, very good

[Flumpo]

Roofless Toothless said:

How does that square against data protection legislation?

The cat/dog is the data controller and shouldn’t be letting anyone other than a vet read the chip/data as that’s not what the owner has allowed the cat/dog to do.

I suspect the cat/dog would be looking at a warning from the ICO at the very worst rather than anything serious. It’s not the biggest breach and they may not even get involved.

It will also depend if the cat/dog is registered as a business or organisation. If not I don’t think it covers this scenario.

[Castrol for a knave]

Spare tyre said:

blue_haddock said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

We had a dog out on it's own yesterday and someone suggested taking said dog to the vets to get it's chip scanned, bugger me at least 4 ladies offered their scanners.

Why are people buying pet scanners? do they keep them in their purse on the off chance they will find a cat corpse on the highway?

On my local group they sems to potray themselves as white knights offering to scan any roaming or dead before several of their hun-bots reply "Shared TF3"

I get that you can scan the code, but presumably the blob of data it gives back needs to be looked up on a database somewhere. How do they get to that, can you buy a subscription, or do they ring a charity / there mate with the number and get the info. Seems a bit iffy to me

It comes up with a code, which you subscribe to a database to get access to. A charity will confirm an address, but not the address, 'cos GDPR innit.

We use it as part of cat rescue (I always think of driving cats, to work, in moderate snow, in a mild Haldex 4x4 when I type that).

[JQ]

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

That is brilliant - apologies but i will be stealing that!!!

[John D.]

Flumpo said:

Roofless Toothless said:

How does that square against data protection legislation?

The cat/dog is the data controller and shouldn’t be letting anyone other than a vet read the chip/data as that’s not what the owner has allowed the cat/dog to do.

I suspect the cat/dog would be looking at a warning from the ICO at the very worst rather than anything serious. It’s not the biggest breach and they may not even get involved.

It will also depend if the cat/dog is registered as a business or organisation. If not I don’t think it covers this scenario.

This is like that thread about putting a camera on your cat.

[matchmaker]

alisdairm said:

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Brilliant. Well done.

I thought it was Shetland until I googled it.

Try "Shared ZE2 9LX"...

[wolfracesonic]

Sheets Tabuer said:

We had a dog out on it's own yesterday and someone suggested taking said dog to the vets to get it's chip scanned, bugger me at least 4 ladies offered their scanners.

Why are people buying pet scanners? do they keep them in their purse on the off chance they will find a cat corpse on the highway?

I carry a pet scanner as part of my EDC kit nowadays, along with kinetic recovery rope, defibrillator and some white tape to mark out an emergency helipad: only last week I had to use all four in the same incident, MOP were most impressed.

[CanAm]

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Subtle. .

[Fermit]

CanAm said:

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Subtle. .

Go on then, what am I missing?! It's obviously meant to read something amusing, but be buggered if I can figure it out.

[Scabutz]

Fermit said:

Go on then, what am I missing?! It's obviously meant to read something amusing, but be buggered if I can figure it out.

I had to Google it.

It's the postcode for a town in Scotland called ttt.

[Antony Moxey]

Fermit said:

CanAm said:

Mammasaid said:

You should put 'Shared KW17 2LN'

Subtle. .

Go on then, what am I missing?! It's obviously meant to read something amusing, but be buggered if I can figure it out.

A postcode?