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Property market in Dundee booms : increase in cash sales likely

"Ten flats in Dundee owned by a convicted drug dealer are to be sold off with the proceeds going into the public purse." BBC News Online, July 1st, 2006

The estate agent handling the sale of ten flats pre-enjoyed by a Dundee drug dealer is already reporting strong interest in the seized properties. Malcolm Missives of Hooses ’r’ Us in the City of Despondency has received cash offers for the flats.

"We had a gentleman in the other day, accompanied by two large business associates looking to buy the flats as a business investment." Carrying a Tesco's bag full of fifty pound notes, the enquirer was keen to conclude a sale as soon as possible, because he saw the flats as ideal components for a distribution network for handling the sale of certain comestible items he wished to make available to Dundee’s community.

On being told by Mr Missives that The Crown Office was not set up to facilitate the transfer of seized properties simply on the receipt of cash lightly dusted with Columbian marching powder, the customer merely sighed and dug his hand into the bag of money saying : "OK then fanny baws, how much is this going to cost me?"

Despite being an estate agent, Mr Missives continued to insist to the customer that cash deals were not acceptable. At this point, the customer’s two business associates forcefully intervened.

Speaking earlier today from his hospital bed at Ninewells, Mr Missives told the JT : "Mmm, ung, arghh, mmm." thereby demonstrating that it is difficult to talk when your jaws are wired together.

It is thought that Hooses ‘r’ Us is now under new management, although staff at the agency, two large gentlemen who seem strangely familiar, refused to comment preferring instead to merely slap baseball bats metronomically into their palms while staring meaningfully.

At that point,your editor made his excuses and ran.

Inside: Note to grammarians : Yeh, I know all the tenses in the story are screwed up but I was in a bit of a hurry to get out of Dundee.
July 2006

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