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Suspicious devices found outside two headshops

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭Onikage


    Oh great :rolleyes:

    http://www.irelandlogue.com/craic/daily-dose-22-sept.html

    Athlone sure brings the crazies


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,057 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    They're gonna be all but closed down in a few months when most of the substances become illegal. It's completely unnecessary for these scumbags to go on targeting businesses. The Gardai should set up a task force specifically to deal with the attacks.. if the target was for instance Polish shops they'd have done that by now


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    linky http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/suspicious-devices-found-outside-two-headshops-449439.html

    Time for action by the Government before someone gets killed, and by action I don't meant shut the shops down. I mean a good clear and fair substance policy that respects the rights of the individual to make their own choices in life.


    All the policy in the world won't stop people wanting these places closed. Particularly as the threats are thought to be coming from the 'illegal' drug trade...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    So drugs(legal or otherwise) can kill


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Onikage wrote: »
    Oh great :rolleyes:

    http://www.irelandlogue.com/craic/daily-dose-22-sept.html

    Athlone sure brings the crazies

    That story would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    So drugs(legal or otherwise) can kill

    Only death I've heard of is when some fella used legal highs with illegal ones (estacy if I'm not mistaken)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    So when the headshops close are you going to give your money to these bomb planting, ruthless, vicious, violent psycho's ?

    Answer - Yes


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    So highly illegal drug pushers are supposedly targeting shops now and so far getting away with it?
    Would I correct in reading the media stuff that way?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Sharpey


    I wonder who is behind this activity


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,916 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    What about the suspicious devices (products) to be found inside? I see a new one opened and closed in Oldcastle, Meath. Last about three weeks i believe, apparently a protest march was planned.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Biggins wrote: »
    So highly illegal drug pushers are supposedly targeting shops now and so far getting away with it?
    Would I correct in reading the media stuff that way?


    Thats what I'm taking from it anyway.

    The media were reporting some time ago that there would be an apparent 'backlash' from drug dealers over these head shops popping up everywhere, and eating into their profits.

    Now we have a report saying that headshops are being targeted with 'suspicious devices'.

    Putting 2+2 together doesn't need to come up with 5 to figure out the implications.

    Why don't illegal drug dealers open up 'legal' headshops?

    Everyone would be happy :):D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Biggins wrote: »
    So highly illegal drug pushers are supposedly targeting shops now and so far getting away with it?
    Would I correct in reading the media stuff that way?

    As far as I understood it's the RIRA wots doing it, including shooting the headshop owner in Derry and a drugdealer in Cork.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Its not often terrorists, armed gamgs and the government are on the same side.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    i dont understand why the head shops arent staying open. If i was buying it id rather do it legally than give my money to some gangster. (although if you count the goverment as gangsters i suppose it could work both ways).


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Caliden wrote: »
    Only death I've heard of is when some fella used legal highs with illegal ones (estacy if I'm not mistaken)
    That's very obviously untrue in so many ways.

    I'd love to know who's doing this, surely the moral majority can't justify protecting children by planting bombs? This is just unreal, are there warnings or any kind of message going with all these attacks?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭gollem_1975


    were they labelled "not for human consumption"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭HoPpiE


    Why don't illegal drug dealers open up 'legal' headshops?

    Everyone would be happy :):D


    I believe that to be the case in one of the shops in Castlebar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    So when the headshops close are you going to give your money to these bomb planting, ruthless, vicious, violent psycho's ?

    Answer - Yes

    that's the point. the government can't honestly be stupid enough to believe that the removal of certain products from headshops will prevent people wanting to get high. so, they are therefore knowingly handing the trade back to the type of people who will shoot/bomb/burn their competitors, and probably your children aswell.

    something that has struck me in the last few months of listening to the "think of the children" brigade - the government has presided over the catastrophic degeneration of the health service, closed down specialist wards in childrens' hospitals, offered public support and sanctuary to the priests who raped your children and refused point fcuking blank to punish them for it, and now by criminalising the best-selling products in the head shops they are literally giving gangland criminals who will stab and shoot your children a pay increase.

    this doesn't sound to me like a group of people who someone concerned about their children should be supporting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    So when the headshops close are you going to give your money to these bomb planting, ruthless, vicious, violent psycho's ?

    Answer - Yes
    One point here, weed production throughout the world has gone local thanks to people putting instructions on growing weed in small spaces. Much of the weed bought in Ireland is now grown in Ireland, this move to lots of grow ops has liberated weed to a certain extent. Now anyone can grow weed, anywhere. In my experience I'm dealing less and less with scumbags and more and more with ordinary smokers that grow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭molloyjazz


    lol that happebed in Athlone.. i'll go down to the headshop in an hour and get the low down.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    molloyjazz wrote: »
    lol that happebed in Athlone.. i'll go down to the headshop in an hour and get the low down.


    You wouldn't mind, er, picking me up something, would you?? :D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,069 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    just in, turns out they were hoaxes

    from breaking news:
    The Defence Forces say two suspicious devices found at headshops in Athlone town today were hoaxes.

    They were found at two separate headshops in the Irishtown and Mardyke Street areas this morning.

    The scenes have since reopened.

    Read more: http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/devices-found-near-headshops-declared-hoaxes-449459.html#ixzz0hmUgH8uY

    somebody must have got their bongs & bombs mixed up:rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    To be honest, I'm starting to think that headshops are no more a risk to health than the HSE under Harney.
    Seriously...


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,069 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Biggins wrote: »
    To be honest, I'm starting to think that headshops are no more a risk to health than the HSE under Harney.
    Seriously...

    You'll definitely come out of a headshop felling better than if you went to a hospital. Headshops also answer the phone. All in all they offer a much better service. More bang for your buck as they say in the states.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    To be honest, I'm starting to think that headshops are no more a risk to health than the HSE under Harney.
    Seriously...

    Good point. :)

    People have a seriously distorted priorities if they think that closing down head-shops is what they should focus their attention on


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden



    somebody must have got their bongs & bombs mixed up:rolleyes:

    Maybe they meant this...

    http://www.bolinat.com/unique/products/reg/6947.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 Mona Lott


    Stop panicing, sure it was only two bong hoaxes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    Whats the ****ing problem with these shops?

    If you don't like them or need anything in them, keep the **** out of the shop. Don't bitch about something you don't know about.

    I don't use head shops or drugs except smoke cigs. Christ on a bike, what is it with Irish people and getting there noses in everywhere?

    Tryna get these places closed down that are legal, pay taxes and hire people for work.

    While drug dealers do the opposite. And the goverment/majority of people want to hand this trade back to them? Are they ****ing off the bat?

    Few friends of mine, that were into the coke stopped. And tried the legal 'snow blow', pay legally for it, pay taxes and it's controlled.

    If that gose there back to the drug dealer. Has everyone just lost there mind?

    The bombs should be outside these scummers that sell the illegal stuff.

    I am sick of it, people giving out yards about these shops, oh no they opened one in your area, so ? You don't seem to care if a Spar opens up selling Drink and Smokes, there all drugs, addictive and can kill. Also controlled, again different sets of rules for different people. Bloody joke.

    And again, if you don't like the shops, fair play, stop pissing me off with this bloody crap. Just keep away from them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭molloyjazz


    I was chatting to a sound fella that owns one of em in athlone today.. he said he didn't even notice the pipe like object leaning on the shop to the side of the door. His colleague actually picked it and brought it into the shop! He said the gards came in then a few minutes after, and that was the first they heard of a bomb?

    Id say its kids ****in around, inspired perhaps by all the recent media coverage of headshops.

    Although the guy did say he felt quite threatened by the whole thing, can't blame him really. But theres always some risk from high profit gains.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    parking meters?


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