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<p>35,000  gallons x 6.6 = 231,000 bottles x 5 = £1,155,000 x 2 (proof dilution) =£2,310,000. </p>
<p>Tanker takes 10,000 gallons (double will take 20,000 gallons) Special strength before bottling about 70% which must be reduced to 40%.  Therefore 20,000 galls = 132,000 bottles at 70% reduced to 40% = 231,000 bottles at £5 per bottle = £1,155,000. </p>
<p>Each tanker will take one hour to fill by gravity, therefore a special pump will have to be used. See Info and ref whisky sites for container levels etc and other info.  100 PROOF = 60 percent,  80 proof is 50%. </p>
<p>Very worth while. </p>
<p>Or how to steal twenty thousand gallons of whisky and get away with it.</p>
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<p>Plumbers are supposed to fix leaks. That's the normal way of it. But Billy Doyle was the only one I ever knew who started a leak. He was the man who first thought of how to siphon off all that whisky from Aitkenbar Distillery right under their noses. And Paddy McNeill was the man who thought of how to get away with it.</p>
<p>Story goes: They get the idea of taking the whisky. But it must look like an accident (take in drain of whisky from Bond) But word gets out. After the whisky are Police: Customs and excise. Plus two local and rival gangs who run pubs and its their turf anyway. </p>
<p>The thieves get the whisky in a milk tanker. Then they have to get the tanker back, so they empty the stuff into a huge tank on a building site. From there it is siphoned off. Then into milk-botttles, working all night. </p>
<p>Police on the trail are led to it but it's been disguised again. The crooks want the source more than anything else and have to be set up. The whisky company wants people to believe it didn't happen, and even they are not sure how it was done. Customs need the revenue. Police and customs are at loggerheads. The two crooks are at loggerheads. Doyle and McNeill and their pals have to weave their way through.</p>
<p>Last scene must be going through customs on a flight to the South seas. Passing through the nothing to declare corridor. One of them will have to be as drunk as a lord.</p>
<p><em>HIGH TENSION. That's the strength of the whisky, and they have stolen 20,000 gallons of the stuff. Maybe more than a million when you siphon it off and make it look like an accident. It's the young boys again. Second generation up from the Bull rustlers?  One's a plumber. One's being put out of work at a closed down creamery. They get the whisky and now they have to get rid of it. It's like whisky galore. The cops want it. The customs want it. The crooks want it. Every drunk in town wants a share.  They realise they have bitten off more than they can chew. They have to get rid of it, or make people think they have. They have to crash the tanker, which gets the dairy owner the insurance to start again. And in doing so they have to save the whisky. Sell it to a Russian seaman? Spanish fisherman? Norwegian trawlerman!!! </p>
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<p>SCENES:  Lads on the golf course, taking swings at the balls.  They see the runnel ditch and smell the whisky and a lot more things besides. The fish are dead. A man comes running towards them, telling them they can't play through. It is then obvious that the lads are not members. (I know your father and he was a worthless shit!) get the needle in quick. Among them is the apprentice plumber. Milk boy. Bright but disadvantaged. A couple do have jobs, but the rest are scratching for money.The town is running down.  The council are in the pocket.  No jobs and no hope.  Lectures from grandfather about the old days. </p>
<p>*When they steal the whisky, they have to have lookouts. Use an AA van as a pretence? Plus a motor cyclist who keeps coming back and forth to warn them. When they get the whisky, some is spilled into a dent in the road. Meanwhile there is a tramp who-s been sleeping under the railway arch. Hr is discovered, but he doesn't seem to notice what's going on. The biker comes and scoops up some whisky in a tin and hands it to the man. Lit from the back by the milk tanker's lights, he looks like an alien. Later on the tramp's story would be quite good. A great big space ship and a Martian. They must have stolen the whisky. D'you think they'll invade Scotland? (He's been back there every night, with a big demijohn just in case) Every time he sees a tanker while drunk he goes haywire. Kneeling and praying.</p>
<p>*There has to be some strain between the young men. Milk Company is being put out of business. Having bought the tankers, owner realises that his brother has been defrauding him and he's about to lose the business. He tries to kill himself, fails, but can't work for some time. Maybe he'd just been ill, and his cousin has ripped the place off while he's been away. Cousin will have to get comeuppance too. The business is on the verge of collapse. Which is why the tanker is available.</p>
<p>*Leaking some whisky into drainage pipe to let it go down to the river. Get wee brothers with minnow nets to catch minnows and sticklebacks (as bait) so they can dump them in. (Plus rainbow trout which later become part of the evidence pointing to theft).</p>
<p>*Very shy boy with a little stammer who becomes very outgoing in drink. They use him to get address of places as a young official. Suit, Glasses, hair combed. But thy have to feed him whisky and there's a tight balance between him being smart and him being drunk. (He must be offered a drink)</p>
<p>*Leaking whisky out as a decoy -  tears and recriminations.</p>
<p>Girlfriend wants to know if they do gin and tonic.</p>
<p>Strong nationalist feeling. Braveheart!! Boy in kilt. (Maybe at a wedding???) Freedom!!!. It's our drink. They've taken all the oil and they've got all the whisky. Do you know how many distillers are based in Scotland? The distiller must be getting taken over by a London conglomerate, which means redundancies and asset stripping.  (They have also pulled the plug on the lease of the milk dairy too perhaps??? To make room for a commercial development.</p>
<p>1.  Reason for the plan. Point of the story. Bad thing is happening which affects the community.</p>
<p>2.  Conception of idea. Idealistic (getting something back out of this place. He's ruining the whole town. This place will be like a dead zone when he'd finished." Planning.  Training the guard dog to get drunk. And the guards. </p>
<p>Arrangements.</p>
<p>Getting into the place, then fixing the plumbing.  Lots of plans.  Copper pipes, plastic pipes. Complexity.  A hydrometer.  This is over proof whisky, twice the normal strength.  Drunks drinking whisky from sauce bottles.  Irishmen carrying the water-pipe out. The angel's share.  Coopers making barrels. </p>
<p>3.  Carry it out. Getting the whisky into the tankers.  False alarms.  Wrong pipes.  Lining them up. And the hazards.  Leaks.  Alarms. Guard dogs getting drunk. Alarms.(buckle stuck on the fence, might need bolt cutters -watch my goolies). Using big plastic sewage sumps at a building site to store the whisky after the cops and customs men come sniffing at the tankers. </p>
<p>Customs men etc. (got a key from  customs man) Tramp scene. Hazards of motorcyclist. Couple in a car (he pretends to be a cop to move them on).  Poisoning the fish.  Making sure there are dead fish in the burn. But the wrong fish go in </p>
<p> rainbow trout. </p>
<p>4. Afterwards. Celebration. Old grandfather drinking whisky. A party. (and here  the romantic interest deepens). Deciding what to do with it. (The main man knows, but he won't say. He knows they'll eventually be fingered so he has to work out a devious plan.  It will be to get the whisky up to the islands and onto a Norwegian boat. (Price of drink in Norway is horrendous) Some going to Spain.  He will have to convince the locals that he's going to bottle the stuff.  The police will be convinced.  But they will be bottling Irn Brandy, his grandmother's recipe, on a franchise.  </p>
<p>Up in the highlands, with the cops chasing them all over the place, they will have to buy up all the milk of the local creamery, to fill the tankers.  (Maybe bringing it all down to make Highland Cream. )</p>
<p>5. Real aftermath. Then the trouble with the cops. Customs, Crooks etc. Having to hurry to avoid detection. Having to outwit everyone.</p>
<p>6.  getting the whisky to the destination.</p>
<p>7.  Final twist.</p>
<p>SUB-PLOT:  Boy - girl romance. (getting the money for something!!!) Saving the fishing boat???</p>
<p>Come-uppance for distillery owner? (been in the family for generations)</p>
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<p>One of them has an older woman girlfriend.  She will be crucial. </p>
<p>all sorts of dynamics. Environmental health involved at first. And customs. Whisky boss is under the gun on both counts.</p>
<p>The cops (who have been out to get some of the boys??) Hear of a glut of new stuff on the streets.</p>
<p>The crooks who have the trade monopoly or who just want a part of the heist (as a local tax) They call it the community charge.</p>
<p>Then a certain falling out among thieves. (but not too serious) . Fun with them all finding bottles to fill up with whisky. (Kids lining up with Irn Bru bottles. Money back. (Having a pee in a bottle)</p>
<p>He does a deal qwith Andy Kerr to take his condensed milk which he gets from the Dairy on Skye.  The Dunvegan distillery will be the core business, supplying the malt.  The Dumbarton one will become a bottling plant for the mix, the Angels share. </p>
<p>So he has to get the distillery. </p>
<p>He prevents Crichton from selling, by creating a stir.  Making sure the building is made listed, and preventing the infil on the river.  Then he has bought the Dunvegan site, but the deal haas been done with the local people who have it in trust, and they have money from the HIDB, and from Jack and it is paid over ten years, so Crichton can't get his hands on it.  He does have the distiller's license, though and that's his own. </p>
<p>Andy gets the insurance on the tankers, and that helps him set up again. And he gets the co-op job. </p>
<p>Crichton gets caught with his hand in the till. </p>
<p>Jack merges the dairy with the bottling plant, so they get round the clock production. </p>
<p>Crichton will sell the Dunvegan place for easy cash and Jack geets the license. </p>
<p>Siobhan will be part of the team who are against the demolition.  And her history teaching friend has looked out some of the old documents. </p>
<p>Jack will have to find a way of getting Crichton's tankers.  He'll do a deal for the barrels as well, but Crichton will be conning him.  But he'll know that. </p>
<p>Then up to Skye. </p>
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