PAUL DUTTON

[PUX]

Hi guys i happen to be lookin through this months lro when wot do i see one of my pics from the halloween howler of my friend andrew membery in his white 90 200tdi soft top on salisbury plains by the public warning sign, now normally i would be quite pleased but then i realized that infact the picture has been sent in by a mr paul dutton (does anyone know this fellow!!!) if so do u think its right that he has claimed this photo as his own when clearly it is me that has taken it and i have not entered the compitition for a prize, so if u are reading this mr dutton next time u could at least ask my permission to enter one of my photos or should u just take ur own!!!!!! fell free to pm me !!!!

[Baby_Rhino]

contract LRO. If u can prove you took the photo then you own it and it cannot be published without your permission.

[Edge]

Yeah write to LRO and declare MR.DUTTON as a fraud, hopefully LRO will expose him in one of their write=ups.

[PUX]

Yeah write to LRO and declare MR.DUTTON as a fraud, hopefully LRO will expose him in one of their write=ups.

guys i dont want to do that just rather paul would contact me and explain before i go bonkers lol  

[Edge]

PUX you are right, give the guy chance to explain. Did he win the prize in LRO????

[PUX]

PUX you are right, give the guy chance to explain. Did he win the prize in LRO????

no he did not mate but still its not the point if he had done then i would defo not be happy lol

[Wanderer]

Didn't Paul organise the Halloween bash?
I'd have thought the best idea would be to take it up privately with Paul. After all it's not unknown for the wrong people to be attributed with a picture.

[sparkes]

If this is the Paul I know then in no way would he ever consider doing anything like that.

So consider this

Was someone stood near you taking a pic at the same time?
Could the picture have been sent in by Paul and LRO negated to mention that he pointed out it was someone elses pic.?

[Wanderer]

I've got to say that I agree Sparkes.

Maybe there's an innocent explanation.

[Thrasher]

Topple must have sent pics and article, and they got confused????

[Wanderer]

It's not unheard of.........

[Topple]

Looks like everyone is accusing me before getting the facts.

Pux - perhaps you should have pm'd me so we could discuss sensibly, without getting loads of stupid comments from others.

If I remember correctly you thoroughly enjoyed the event.

As everyone, that attended the Halloween Bash, which I organised, at great personal expense in time and money will recall.

LRO and Specialist Leisure donated prizes for the event, on two conditions;

1. All the cars displayed the relevent stickers.
2. I sent in photos after the event, together with a write up of the event.

I sent an article kindly written by waney mifes to the afformentioned companies.

I also sent in some photos of the event, the majority taken by me, there was one off the forum(the picture in question, which I thought was most apt for the event) which, if memory serves me right I did ask permission to copy and send.

Apologies, if I didn't ask permission - I thought I did, so this was an innocent mistake.

I certainly did not claim that it was me in the photo, I'm not on a ego trip like some people.

I have copied here (at the end) the email I sent to LRO

Lets draw a close to this topic and 'take offline' if you want to persue further.

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Hello John,
 
Firstly on behalf of the Mud Club, thank you for you generosity in providing a prize for our recent event. One of the members has provided a write up on the event, which will give you an adea of what we got up to, you may also wish to pulish it !
 
I've also attached some photos from the event.
 
Thanks once again.
 
 
Regards
 
Paul
 
 
 
Mud Club Halloween Bash 21st-23rd October 2005


Stonehenge, 60 mad people, dressed as witches, ghouls & ghosts, not unusual you might think, However this was to be a weekend with a difference!

We met at Stonehenge touring & caravan park, a nice friendly, and family run Caravan Park. Most of us arrived late afternoon / early evening to set up camp, have a couple of beers and get to know each other. One member, who shall remain nameless, decided that they’d try to get a quick bit of off roading in, in the pitch black, on a live firing range, towing a caravan, apparently the gps went a bit wrong and they arrived at 1am to a bit of good natured banter and a much needed coffee.

Still the mud club had arrived, a motley crew driving land rovers, range rovers & discos met early the following morning. After being joined by more of the local mud clubbers we had a quick briefing. We were given our prize donors LRO & Specialist Leisure stickers, 18 grid references of which we needed to answers questions on 12 and be back before 5 pm so as not to incur penalty points. We were also told about the army exercise running across the plain and advised to avoid the danger area,

We then split up, some choosing to just go for it & heading for a grid reference, others choosing to go back & carefully plot all the grid references before choosing where they wanted to go. It was a very well thought out day, with clues for the adults & children as well as things to collect along the way, for example a thistle, a star or planet and a hole!!! . This helped to keeps the kids amused and interested in what was going on .We chose to plot our route, trying to avoid tanks and the live firing, some clues seemed to go remarkably close to the danger line & we ran into a few army vehicle (not literally)

The lanes were perfect, because we could all pick our own routes, we had no congestion on the lanes & everyone we met had a smile on their face. Everyone helped each other out, whether by helping with the grid reference points (008xxx is about 10 miles different to 088xxx or helping when someone forgets to check their vehicle correctly (Thanks Chris, for not laughing when our wheel fell off) He just helped to put it back on again, meaning both cars were late back & we incurred 5 penalty point each. but at least we had fun. Some of the question were baffling & you had to really look at the environment around you, we spent at least 10 minutes looking for how many bolts holding a shovel up, you’d look for a shovel, but no it was a picture of a shovel bolted to a post, or what colour is the tank & how many courses? Being near to army bases you’d think tank course, but no the bright spark that thought up this clue was talking about a water tank & the course of bricks holding it up. The scoring didn’t really come into it, it was just great to get on some lanes with a mixture of surfaces & get muddy.

The early evening saw the children all change into fancy dress for a quick game of trick or treat around the tents and caravans, led by the grim reaper. This gave our judges the chance to do the marking & the adults chance to get into fancy dress for the evening in the local pub.

When we arrived the place was packed, the food was gorgeous & we were made very welcome. After eating, prizes were given for the best fancy dress, boys, girls & adults. And also the main sponsors prizes, a year subscription to LRO & a special edition hi lift jack from Specialist leisure these were won by Steve Gadd and Chris Ward for the most points obtained during the day’s treasure hunt. The evening rolled on with a pub quiz & a photo quiz, have you tried to identify parts on an out of focus picture, only showing part of the object, quiz master you need to get out more, By the way what vehicle was it??? Gradually as the night wore on we all drifted away, it had been a long day.

The following day, after a chat, coffee & a promise to meet up again, we all went our separate ways, tired, but happy.

Me I learnt that you never forget how to read a map & all those years in the scout & guides weren’t wasted I could still read a map & be as accurate as my mates GPS.

Thanks to those who arranged it & also to our sponsors for the weekend it was great & just how off roading needs to be shown to those who don’t understand us, Obeying Glass rules, but having fun and showing the next generation how to do it without wrecking our environment.

[Thrasher]

Paul,

I think we have a case of "forum name" vs "real name" here. Thanks for clearing it up :)

[PUX]

got it in one i was not lookin for a fight i did not know the name and yea i did enjoy the weekend which i thankyou for so as said i did not no ur real name  :oops:  which im sorry for and im sure if it was someone else they would have reacted in the same way!! (im only human i think!!) so if i have upset ya then im sorry and if i knew it was u in the first place topple then yes i would have pmed u!!!  :oops:  so once again sorry fella.

[Topple]

No worries.

Now lets get on with the important things in life - getting muddy in Land Rovers

P

[PUX]

No worries.

Now lets get on with the important things in life - getting muddy in Land Rovers

P

i wish i could everytime i go to get it muddy something comes up        :lol:

[dew1911]

No worries.

Now lets get on with the important things in life - getting muddy in Land Rovers

P

i wish i could everytime i go to get it muddy something comes up        :lol:

You need to use the proper protection then :lol: