mm wrote:
I don't think so. How about bent slightly? Does that make you
happy?

My point, which was really directed at Dave (the OP) is the in British
slang, bent means stolen, so slightly bent would mean slightly stolen. :-)

I assume he meant they had leads which were no longer straight, but it
was a cute image (to me) anyway.

Back when I lived in the states, we would call it "off the back of a truck".

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM