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    #32
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭emo72


    Gatling wrote: »
    So did anyone happen to see fiona ( as named in the various fb posts ) actually hit the bollard or read the title and decided she was thrown into the bollard without actually seeing it ,

    I've only seen the video i posted. its enough to make me sick. i didnt see the girl hit the concrete or bollard. thank god. does it really make much difference? surely anyone would agree its horrible anyway. would you like it done to you? im not here to garda bash. this thread does belong here. i would like to get the input from gardai on this. would every gardai think this is acceptable?


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    #33
    solomafioso
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    Gatling wrote: »
    Like 110% of the short garda brutality videos posted that showed absolute the opposite

    I think this may be the "one video to rule them all" (I don't know either!).

    We see a woman walking beside the car, quite close.

    And, initially two Guards, confront and are seen pushing her away. Our third "hero" enters stage left and gives her a good oul rugger bugger shove to the path then quickly exits. The bollard was just an innocent bystander.

    Some old saying about smoke and fire that can be related to phones and acts of violence nowadays.


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    #34
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    emo72 wrote: »
    its enough to make me sick.

    Must be an awfully difficult life being so sensitive.


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    #35
    solomafioso
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    SeaDaily wrote: »
    Must be an awfully difficult life being so sensitive.

    Or y'know, empathetic?


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    #36
    endacl
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    Gatling wrote: »
    So did anyone happen to see fiona ( as named in the various fb posts ) actually hit the bollard or read the title and decided she was thrown into the bollard without actually seeing it ,
    efb wrote: »
    Don't be bothered with things like facts! We just want hysteria
    solomafioso wrote: »
    I think we're sticking to a "magic bollard" theory at the moment. Or maybe it was the bollard in the grassy knoll. Completely overlooking the fact that the guard shoved her...to get her off the road.

    Justice for the bollard!

    :mad:


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    #37
    emo72
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    SeaDaily wrote: »
    Must be an awfully difficult life being so sensitive.

    not just me then. this video has gone viral. anyone who has seen and heard the "thud" is sickened by it. or maybe im wrong. im over reacting, "move along nothing to see here". im the fool for asking on a forum that gardai are on, is this acceptable. i take it all back. im the idiot for starting this thread here.


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    #38
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    solomafioso wrote: »
    Or y'know, empathetic?

    Yeah but it must be terribly tiring to be so empathetic and dramatic all the time.

    "OH MY GOD THAT'S DISGUSTING I FEEL SICK WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO"

    That sort of melodrama solves nothing.


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    #39
    efb
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    emo72 wrote: »
    not just me then. this video has gone viral. anyone who has seen and heard the "thud" is sickened by it. or maybe im wrong. im over reacting, "move along nothing to see here". im the fool for asking on a forum that gardai are on, is this acceptable. i take it all back. im the idiot for starting this thread here.

    Define "gone viral"?


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    #40
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    emo72 wrote: »
    not just me then. this video has gone viral. anyone who has seen and heard the "thud" is sickened by it. or maybe im wrong. im over reacting, "move along nothing to see here". im the fool for asking on a forum that gardai are on, is this acceptable. i take it all back. im the idiot for starting this thread here.

    It's not just you over-reacting it's all those who are commenting on the Facebook post as well.


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    #41
    efb
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    emo72 wrote: »
    not just me then. this video has gone viral. anyone who has seen and heard the "thud" is sickened by it. or maybe im wrong. im over reacting, "move along nothing to see here". im the fool for asking on a forum that gardai are on, is this acceptable. i take it all back. im the idiot for starting this thread here.

    After Hours more suited to the hyperbole


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    #42
    masonchat
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    absolutely DISGUISTING that THUG should be signing on tomorrow


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    #43
    solomafioso
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    SeaDaily wrote: »
    Yeah but it must be terribly tiring to be so empathetic and dramatic all the time.

    "OH MY GOD THAT'S DISGUSTING I FEEL SICK WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO"

    That sort of melodrama solves nothing.

    As does the other side of the scale. Also empathy != melodrama.

    Sometimes being level headed pays off too!


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    #44
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    masonchat wrote: »
    absolutely DISGUISTING that THUG should be signing on tomorrow

    Good thing you bolded those two words, wouldn't have been able to read them otherwise.


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    #45
    SeaDaily
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭SeaDaily


    solomafioso wrote: »
    As does the other side of the scale. Also empathy != melodrama.

    Sometimes being level headed pays off too!

    Yes absolutely. However, please go and read the comments on that Facebook video and then come back and tell me that the people reacting to this video are being level-headed.


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    #46
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭emo72


    efb wrote: »
    After Hours more suited to the hyperbole

    wanted to get some gardai input. thats why i posted here. im anti water charges. heart on sleeve type of guy. im not overly sensitive, i have kids, if they were in town and got involved in protests, i would expect gardai to protect them. not ****ing assault young girls. yeah it sounds like hyperbole. but its accurate. a massive assault by 3 men on a young girl.


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    #47
    hfallada
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    She threw herself infront of a moving car! Throwing yourself infront of a moving car isnt going to end well. Regardless of if they are Gardai, your first response is to pull the person back. The Garda must not have realised how much they pulled her. Look at the body stance of the Garda after he pulls the women. He is shocked.

    Also why is the video cut after 15 seconds? Has he gone to apologise, but the tape was conveniently cut?


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    #48
    efb
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    emo72 wrote: »
    wanted to get some gardai input. thats why i posted here. im anti water charges. heart on sleeve type of guy. im not overly sensitive, i have kids, if they were in town and got involved in protests, i would expect gardai to protect them. not ****ing assault young girls. yeah it sounds like hyperbole. but its accurate. a massive assault by 3 men on a young girl.

    She's not a young girl. She's either a young woman or an older girl


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    #49
    solomafioso
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    SeaDaily wrote: »
    Yes absolutely. However, please go and read the comments on that Facebook video and then come back and tell me that the people reacting to this video are being level-headed.

    That's another thing, I haven't read those comments. We're discussing this on a message board which is supposed to stick to facts, and therefore have an informed discussion. A 'debate' if you will. Not resort to petty gripes regarding spelling or condescension.


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    #50
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭emo72


    efb wrote: »
    She's not a young girl. She's either a young woman or an older girl

    again you are being pedantic. she is a young woman. my apologies.


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    #51
    efb
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    emo72 wrote: »
    again you are being pedantic. she is a young woman. my apologies.

    I feel your misuse of young girl was being emotive


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    #52
    solomafioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭solomafioso


    efb wrote: »
    I feel your misuse of young girl was being emotive

    Suppose it depends on the generation, doesn't it?


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    #53
    efb
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    solomafioso wrote: »
    Suppose it depends on the generation, doesn't it?

    No generation could describe her as a young girl


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    #54
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭emo72


    efb wrote: »
    I feel your misuse of young girl was being emotive

    you are right. i was very emotive. i withdraw my young girl comment and change it to young woman. does anything really change. be under no illusion, i am very emotive over this incident. im sorry for that.


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    #55
    TouchingVirus
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    You'll not have a good time of it with this subject in this particular forum, much like a member of the force trying to reason such an action in among the members of After Hours. The biases are out in force, I'd retreat now if I were you.


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    #56
    efb
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    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    You'll not have a good time of it with this subject in this particular forum, much like a member of the force trying to reason such an action in among the members of After Hours. The biases are out in force, I'd retreat now if I were you.

    I am not a Garda


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    #57
    TouchingVirus
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    efb wrote: »
    I am not a Garda

    Good for you.


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    #58
    efb
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    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    Good for you.

    Are you?


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    #59
    TouchingVirus
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    efb wrote: »
    Are you?

    No


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    #60
    efb
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    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    No

    Good for you too.


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    #61
    Gatling
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    There was no massive thud as been claimed she fell on the ground /assisted she didn't seem awfully bothered sure her glasses were still intact .
    sure didn't ye all here about the mass mobilisation of the army , tanks , and the 4 new water Cannons we bought belting down every main road in the country ......
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