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As Houns allready said.. I'm down here in Cornwall doing a lot of walking on Holiday... Will keep an eye out at all times..
I had a thought last night that this might be some sick April fool on his part- if anyone remembers his "bout in prison" they'll know what I mean!
Good luck finding him guys.
The prison thing was purely because he was going to be without internet for a while so wouldn't be seen on STW or Mleh, but those that knew him knew where he was and could contact him. This is way different.
I dont know any of you guys but the sincerity and concern shown is amazing. When Sharki finally pops back up from wherever land he will be home amongst the best friends in the world 🙂
Yes, concerned & fingers crossed, we did 4 hours of walking/looking yest up the tox, felt a bit helpless tho.
This is really upsetting, he seems a really nice guy (bombers apart). I really hope he's OK.
Damn, just read this.
I really hope he turns up, having been on one of his crazy missions round the Q'
Sharki is a great guy. Made me feel super welcome when I moved to bridgewater. Our first ride together in the horizontal rain was something to remember.
I will keep an eye on this thread for more news. Very little I can do from the North East, except keep my fingers crossed.
Don't even know the guy, but keep opening this thread hoping to see a reply from him wondering what all the fuss is about..
Noticed people posting threads on other forums, thats a good idea to feel a little less helpless. Can anyone think of anymore outdoorsy type forums to post on? Particularly walking websites and regional stuff.
OK i have put up a link to this thread on the MTB-wales.com forum & also on the Bikecity.biz forum (mendips). not too sure what else to do.
Shane has also made it onto the Daily Mail alas not described very well
please place support comments for him
Why is Sharki considered to be a 'Vulnerable person'?
He seems pretty capable based on his various exploits on this and other forums.
Why has he been described as 'vulnerable person' - does this mean a drug history, clinical depression or medical problem? Not a criticism, but does this point to other avenues to explore? Samaritans? Local drug counsellors/drop in/day centres? A&E, Needle exchanges? Stress NOT CRITICISING. I am in S Wales until Monday 12 April am. I have a 4 wheel drive car, if I can help let me know, email in profile.
From my experience he's not very vulnerable either! I remember him telling me about his crash in Frog combe just as we went riding down full tilt on one of his "guided" rides. Fingers crossed he turns up fine and bewildered about what all the fuss is.
Unfortunately I'm too far away to really do anything useful.
I don't think it's right to discuss it even if it's true
For all we know there might have been some event in his personal life recently which has hit him hard. Could be anything, as above best leaving that alone.
Just support the guy please thats all I am asking for
[b]The only question is where is he[/b]
Sorry to raise it Chaps. From your tone there's more to the story. Like you said its not appropriate to discuss here. My mistake for raising it.
Lets find the dude.
1st time seen this post
i hope he pops up,fellow building buddie...
Sharki is no more vulnerable than Russell bloody Crowe! What the hell are those muppets at the Mail on about?
any news yet?
i've been watching this thread closely and can only say that i hope just as many people would be as concerned for my wellbeing as they are for you sharki, you must be quite a dude! come back to your friends and family soon!.
****.
Fingers crossed.
Heard today that he'd been found in N.Devon...
But that was quickly dismissed by a member of A/S Police..
Was supposed to be walking the SW coast path, but his car was found with his walking boots etc inside.
Have mates in Police who know Shane and they've promised to let me know as soon as anything is heard or seen of him..
Fingers crossed Guys.
My next door neighbour is in the climbing fraternity (he is the nutter who spent a week living on a cradle above Cheddar Gorge 2 or 3 years back if anyone remembers that) and have passed on the details and asked him to put something on the climbing forums.
I have only met Sharki a couple of times when out in the Quantocks, not ridden with him but he did show us some secret squirrel routes and he did seem a sound guy. I hope that he hasn't been found because he doesnt want to be found - yet.
Hey Sharki I'm going on holiday tomorrow and if you haven't shown yourself by then and I have to wait for 2 weeks to find out I'm gonna be 👿
Go on come back soon.
camon dude , i need some advice on my orange i built, like er how to ride it, fingers and both willys crossed matey.get in touch .
sharki, we need to meet for beers still.
happy vibes
I'm not particularly good at this sort of thing, so will just send out some good vibes and kind thoughts to hope he's alright and all being well, just needed some time out.
jt
From Jo Ward on the [i]Find Sharki[/i] Facebook page posted at around 11PM Tuesday evening....
[b]Jo Ward [/b]POLICE UPDATE: It would seem that Shane was definately in Watchet on Saturday night the 3rd April. He spoke to 2 x officers on the Esplanade and told them that he had plans to do the coastal walk travelling 'light'. He was going to rely on the good nature of people to give him work in exchange for food and possibly ...a bed. He said he would also try to feed himself snaring animals and off the land. If he can't get a bed he was going to sleep rough. This does sound like Shane - a little off the wall. [b]He has been downgraded to not high risk but police in Devon & Cornwall have been informed and they are going to carry on looking for him in order to speak with him. [/b]I am still a bit worried but glad that he has been spoken to. Please keep texting him so that if he does turn on his phone he will know that we all care. Jo x
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He was due to fit a bathroom at Jam bo's on Wednesday so let's hope that he's hung a sharp left off the coast path, gone cross country and turns up at Jam bo's tomorrow with a tub of tile grout, a mastic gun, a rucksack full of laundry and a sheepish grin.....
Fingers crossed...
He's done quite well out of the appeal photos - at least no one's supplied the press with ones where he looks half asleep, or is in fancy dress. 🙂
Perhaps if we start putting less complimentary shots up, he'll re-appear sharpish...
sounds more promising. if he does show up here in the next couple of days he's getting a slap/hug.
As said on Facebook. I'll put the word out accross all the National Trust countryside properties today so the wardens can keep an eye out...They will be out on the coast most days and own a third of Devon and Cornwall coastline.
I can't get Facebook at work so if someone could email us a photograph that I could forward on that would be great please to simon.hill1@nationaltrust.org.uk.
And if he gets all the way to Salcombe then that slap/hug are gonna be ten fold...
He's going to get such a b*llocking from him Mum when he surfaces! 😆
ygm
page 19 in the Sun paper.
I hope he turns up ok. I arranged to go riding with him this w/e and my offer of lunch at the Plough has sent him scurrying off in the opposite direction.
Get in touch. We all miss you!!!
He's done quite well out of the appeal photos - at least no one's supplied the press with ones where he looks half asleep, or is in fancy dress.
Perhaps if we start putting less complimentary shots up, he'll re-appear sharpish...
What, like this you mean?
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... I feel a bit sick ...
There was no need for the thong picture, you can't even see his face. 🙂
fortunately i only have my memory and imagination for those pics, blocked by work.
page 7 of [url= http://www.cycleeverywear.co.uk/ezine/ ]this[/url] is much better.
I've been following this thread from the start , don't know the bloke but hope he turns up safe soon . fingers crossed. jamesy
Chipps - 'fancy dress' yeah well, call it what you will! 😉 I remember in the autumn, he was showing us around the Q's over a weekend, on the second morning he turns up, with fancy camera and proceeded to show us the pics from a party the night before - he was wearing GOLD HOTPANTS ONLY in all of them! (I don't think we'll be able to embarrass him somehow)
As a lot of the posts on here I don't know the fella but seeing his name on lots of threads and no doubt chatted at some point over the years I still feel worried about the fact no one has heard anything. Not sure what to say really but felt I had to type something.
Get in Touch with someone Sharki......
I've only just seen this. I've never met him, but he always seems like a great bloke, he was lovely to me when we had to cancel our planned trip down to the Qs.
Hope he turns up safe soon.
Only met him a few times but from what i know of him, which is not much, he's really great lad.
Hopefully he's coast path walking and turns up at Si's stinking like a badger with a bag full of washing ready to eat him out of house and home.
I've also been following this since Sunday. Met sharki on one of the quantocks group rides last year (and quite a few other nice people). He guided 'advanced/fast' group i was in that day and chatted to him about riding etc and he came across as a sound bloke so was shocked when i read he'd gone missing.
Really hope this turns out okay and he's doing some mad coastal walk.
come on sharki mate, say hi!
Lol late tea just seen the thong pic lol, also told of by his mum.wen he comes back lmao
Hope they find him ok (don't know him directly but seemed a nice chap)
Best wishes.
Apparently he was in the Royal Oak in Porlock over the w/end..
Lets hope the daft bugger's just enjoying his own company a bit too much and just "forgotten the time" !
Good vibes you Skinny little weazel..
It's just been pointed out to me in this weeks Bridgwater Mercury, that Shane Roger Austin, 38 from Cannington was banned from driving for 36 months, last week, could this explain some things?
Dibbs - found that online too - you're right it may have contributed to awol 😕
Dibbs - yes, it could, but would rather see Shane back and receiving support should he need it.
Driving or not, I want him to re-surface well and fine. Despite not having met the man in person.
Sharki - where are you? Only met you the once when we were having tea and cakes in the Q's but wish you all the best!
owt doing?
Never met or spoken to Sharki (that I know of), but hoping he turns up soon!
any sightings yet
not that i've heard. i'm having to fit this bathroom myself.
he aint getting paid...
He's going to be pissed when he gets there...
Still no news ???
Heard he'd lost Driving Licence,
God, i do hope he ain't done anything
stooopid !!!
Sharki, Come home mate.. 8)
Just to add my support, get home safe bud, or get in touch with someone. Your missed by many people.
Will be up at the q,s and exmoor over the weekend shuttling, will keep our eyes open.
Neil
Shane Roger Austin, 38, of Rodway, Cannington, drink-driving, £100 fine, £40 costs, £15 victim surcharge, disqualified from driving for 36 months (G).
Surprised all you cyclists support someone who obviously has done this before or hurt someone in his actions!
Glad I wasn't out riding when he came past
MM
[i](Whatever his crimes may be this thread is about finding someone - His disappearance seem to suggest regret anyway.. Consider this a warning Mod)[/i]
I don't think thats a fair comment MM!
Clearly no one really knows him all that well, or at least a certain part of him. His online and 'out riding' life is one thing and his personal life is just that.
Keep those sorts of comments to yourself 🙄
MM - whatever mistakes someone's made in the past there's no need to gloat when they've been missing for several days and their friends are concerned for their welfare. Hope you get the chance to say this to his face one day, preferably just after he's generously given you a great tour of the Qs.
MountainMutant - because he's our friend and he may be in trouble. That superceedes your indignation.
If you've nothing positive to say, there are other threads on here where you can go and argue. Go try those.
HTH.
when he turns up safe and well, then I'll give him some shit for the driving ban.
until then, i'd rather he just showed up...
MM
If your still able to edit that comment of yours I would....
your post is the worst comment I have ever seen on this forum when you take this whole thread into context.
what jambo said
Whatever -- He needs to resurface, end of story. He can sort the rest out later.
MM "hurt someone in his actions" Try not to jump to conclusions.
"All fines for criminal offences will carry an additional "victims surcharge" of £15, the Home Office has announced.
The levy will be added on top of every fine handed out in court for a criminal offence from 1 April.
It will be paid into a fund aimed at helping improve services for victims of crime, and will be fixed at a flat rate regardless of the size of the fine."
Although drink drivers really annoy me I try not to judge and it does seem possible he is regretting his actions. Hope he turns up safe.
+1 Jambo.
Lets try not to get off topic.
Has there been any news?
Known Sharki for quite a while and he get's zero sympathy from me about drinkig and driving.
However, regarding the guy who is so gracious and courteous to others, selfless most of the time, was great with my kids and even once jet washed my wife :lol:, I just want him to turn up safe and well.
MM you have no idea of the circumstances - things aren't always as they might appear.
Come home Sharki (Never met but sentiment is the same)
As Diane says - MM you have no idea what is/has/maybe going on. What matters right now is finding Sharki and knowing he is ok.
I'm just taking consolation that 'no news is (so often) good news' and if something bad had happened we would've known about it by now.
+1 dangerousbeans
If you listen to some of these comments, you'd think drink driving was OK if its someone you know 🙄
even once jet washed my wife
Any pics / videos? 😀
Hope he turns up ok!
If you listen to some of these comments, you'd think drink driving was OK if its someone you know
I guess everyone being so pious about him possibly having been convicted for DD has [u][i]never[/i][/u] driven the morning after a session. Go and start your own petulant thread on the issue if it irks you so much!
I assume if has gone to Spain that it would flag up?
I also assume that as he can't drive he can't work or get to his kids?
And was he deffo seen having a few on Saturday?
I'm staggered that you can fall off the radar like this.
Is there a chance that the attention this is drawing could drive him further underground?
Edit:
I like to think he is having a 'Oh **** how do I explain this moment' before he re appears.