Friday, October 2, 2015

The Duke of Manchester and the Red Dwarf

Below is a snippet from an article which came up in my Google Search Daily.  It lays out events and nicely illustrates the unreality and potential for loss which come with the territory when dealing with a psychopath, in this case Alexander, 13th Duke of Manchester.  Was ever a number so well assigned by fate?



Look over the TIME LINE to see what Alex was doing during this period.  He had  succceeded to the title of Duke of Manchester upon the death.  Instead of science fiction - fantasy they should make a movie from the Life of Alex, Duke of Derangement. 

2002 
        July  
                     25 - Died:  Angus Charles Drogo Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, at age 63 
                       Alex succeeded to the titles of 16th Earl of Manchester, co. Lancaster, title of
                     
16thViscount Mandeville, 13th Duke of Manchester, 16th Baron Kimbolton of 
                      Kimbolton. 

              
The fourth Montagu job began while the couple was living in Irvine in early
                 2002. Alex became a security guard for Nordic Security and drove a patrol car
                wearing a standard uniform. Excited by this, he became very wrapped up in the job.                         According to Wendy, Alex decided he was actually a police officer, buying extra
               uniforms in addition to a pair of handcuffs.

                       The handcuffs were used on Wendy, one evening as Alex dragged her down the
               hallway, bruising her badly during a disagreement. He lost the job because of an
               altercation while on patrol at a movie complex area in Lake Forest.

                       Wendy understood the event which ended this employment was an altercation
               with a woman manager at the Movie theater and the manager's boyfriend. Alex did
               not confide in her further except to say he needed to break up a fight. He told
               Wendy he was shoved and hurt on the job, evidently this resulted in a claim for
               workman's compensation. Wendy believes the job lasted perhaps, a month.

2003 - 2004
                 Alex, now Duke, decides he needs to upgrade his bodily appearance. 
                 While telling Wendy he has medical needs requiring back surgery he schedules
                       a colon  reduction to help him reduce his growing weight. 
                 This surgery took place at Tri-City Regional Medical Center.  Alex had a
                       bypass.
                 The source of the money was a claim against his previous employer. 

2005
         March 
                    
25 -  NBC News by Mike Taibbi  Jackson witness says he’s been threatened 
                        
Montagu claims caller has told him to stay away from trial.  
        
April
                    
20 - The Declaration made by Alexander, Duke of Manchester, on the abuse of
                         his son by Jackson was entered into the court record.
              
         The fifth job was his longest and lasted nearly two months. 
             Alex started training in November 2005 at Disneyland for the Indiana Jones Ride.

                 
Initially, he loved the work and made friends, occasionally having drinks after
           
work. But evidently this also meant he did not have the money to pay the mortgage 
           
on the house they had finally managed to buy. After the family was evicted from the
           
home Wendy had made for them the family moved to Laguna Niguel. This occurred 
           
around Valentine's day, 2006 while Alex was still working at Disneyland. This was the
           
last job except a possible short stint at MacDonalds on the fry machine. 
                According to Wendy she knew of no serious avocational pursuits which occupied
           
Alexander's interest.

2003 - 2004
                 Alex, now Duke, decides he needs to upgrade his bodily appearance. 
                 While telling Wendy he has medical needs requiring back surgery he schedules
                       a colon  reduction to help him reduce his growing weight. 
                 This surgery took place at Tri-City Regional Medical Center.  Alex had a
                       bypass.
                 The source of the money was a claim against his previous employer. 

2005
         March 
                     25 -  NBC News by Mike Taibbi  Jackson witness says he’s been threatened 
                         Montagu claims caller has told him to stay away from trial.  
         April
                     20 - The Declaration made by Alexander, Duke of Manchester, on the abuse of
                         his son by Jackson was entered into the court record.
              
         The fifth job was his longest and lasted nearly two months. 
             Alex started training in November 2005 at Disneyland for the Indiana Jones Ride.

                  Initially, he loved the work and made friends, occasionally having drinks after
            work. But evidently this also meant he did not have the money to pay the mortgage 
            on the house they had finally managed to buy. After the family was evicted from the
            home Wendy had made for them the family moved to Laguna Niguel. This occurred 
            around Valentine's day, 2006 while Alex was still working at Disneyland. This was the
            last job except a possible short stint at MacDonalds on the fry machine. 
                According to Wendy she knew of no serious avocational pursuits which occupied
            Alexander's interest.
- See more at: http://www.thedukeanddoxieofmanchester.info/p/time-line.html#sthash.RatdVTew.dpuf
From Red Dwarf, and the movie

The Duke of Manchester

"Whilst Naylor was in Australia, he got a call. The man on the phone claimed he had £60 million to invest in movies, and asked how much of it Naylor wanted. After careful consideration (“3 nanoseconds”), Naylor decided that £60 million would do just fine.
Naylor and the Duke agreed to meet, but then the Duke asked if Naylor could pay for his airfare and let him sleep on his couch.
Yeah.




However, after some research it was discovered there was in fact a Duke of Manchester (who knew?) and the family had moved to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century.
So, even that faint glimmer of hope was enough to convince them to keep on going. They asked to speak to the Duke's bank manager, but of course, he was a very busy man and couldn't possibly find time to speak a movie director on behalf of one of his multi-million pound clients.
They did manage to get the Duke to fax over a bank statement showing an account with 100 million US dollars (“completely faked of course”) and, finally, after he tried to convince them they were speaking with a famous Australian actress (“'I've got such a bad cold', she insisted, 'but I really am the famous actress'”) the dream finally plummeted...

...Back to Earth

Despite the proclamation that he hoped to miss the next Dimension Jump due to filming commitments, the Duke effectively signalled the end of the road. There were no more official updates, no more statements."

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