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Traveller buried in €28,000 coffin

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  • #2
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    He won't stay buried long in that thing.


  • #3
    realweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭realweirdo


    From what I understand he made his from criminality. Head of a gang of burglars who terrorised old people up and down the country. That's where he made his money from.


  • #4
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Had to laugh when the news of the shooting was on the radio and his neighbours were interviewed saying what a nice neighbour he was. This was just after the newsreader had described him as a serial burglar. What a great neighbour, he goes to someone elses estate to break in to their houses. A real hero.


  • #5
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    No doubt from the proceeds of robbery committed against poor elderly people throughout Ireland.


  • #6
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    It's their culture Boss.

    Look away or they'll box the head off ya!


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  • #7
    thisNthat
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭thisNthat


    Hang on now, You can't be telling the truth and stating facts like that,
    Its not allowed in Ireland, He's an ethnic minority and the poor auld fella etc etc yawn ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz :rolleyes:
    realweirdo wrote: »
    From what I understand he made his from criminality. Head of a gang of burglars who terrorised old people up and down the country. That's where he made his money from.


  • #8
    tenifan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭tenifan


    The criminal assets bureau should have interrupted the funeral and confiscated the coffin as it's the proceeds from crime. Dump the body in a pit somewhere.


  • #9
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    The so called guards are too scared, that's why.
    Plus talking to someone who lives up the same spud trail as him and she was scared of it. Very scared.
    A scuzter and yes CAB should rip through his dead silk knickers in his 28k box.


  • #10
    realweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭realweirdo


    Have the Criminal Assets Bureau ever acted against travellers? Many have serious wealth and how it was achieved is dubious. Surely this guy was a prime candidate for CAB investigation.


  • #11
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Cremation would have been cheaper no?

    Think of all the shiny faux gold necklaces he'd have been able to en-throw to his family.

    Great lad all the same.


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  • #12
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    The so called guards are too scared, that's why.

    No. They have no backup from the legal 'higher up's' in this country.

    If they arrest these people, they're out in no time to continue with their activities.

    Why bother?


  • #13
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Very sad that his innocent children had to witness his death all the same.
    Fat Andy Connors, now there's a handle.


  • #14
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    realweirdo wrote: »
    Have the Criminal Assets Bureau ever acted against travellers? Many have serious wealth and how it was achieved is dubious. Surely this guy was a prime candidate for CAB investigation.

    I'd like to know that too.
    I can guess the answer is no.

    Travellers are protected.

    The guards should be disbanded and a real police force established.


  • #15
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Am I the only one who read this in the paper yesterday and had thoughts about taking a shovel and doing some eh....digging ?

    Its fencing a gold-lined coffin that's the stumbling block - I'd wind up dealing with the guys family.


  • #16
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    No. They have no backup from the legal 'higher up's' in this country.

    If they arrest these people, they're out in no time to continue with their activities.

    Why bother?

    No, they are scared.
    Easier to bully law abiders.


  • #17
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Other travellers will have that nicked within a few weeks...anything for scrap and this is the finest


  • #18
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,172 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    No. They have no backup from the legal 'higher up's' in this country.

    If they arrest these people, they're out in no time to continue with their activities.

    Why bother?

    All that is neccessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing.


  • #19
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,640 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    No, they are scared.
    Easier to bully law abiders.

    No they're not, stop talking bollocks.


  • #20
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,110 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    How did they manage to carry the thing? They're heavy enough without the gold.


  • #21
    dixiedan
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭dixiedan


    I see the report in the indo says one of the floral tributes had a message saying "million dollar man"....I'll say!!


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  • #22
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Deank wrote: »
    Cremation would have been cheaper no?

    Probably not - FAT Andy.


  • #23
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    awec wrote: »
    How did they manage to carry the thing? They're heavy enough without the gold.

    They probably took the gold out first. I know travellers. They're not stupid. And I'd imagine they're having a laugh at the idiot journalist who ran with the story.


  • #24
    The Th!ng
    Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭The Th!ng


    Did any representatives of Pavee Point attend the funeral?


  • #25
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    No, they are scared.
    Easier to bully law abiders.

    That's why there is such a high proportion of the prison population from the traveller community. They just keep handing themselves in.


  • #26
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    josip wrote: »
    All that is neccessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing.

    The rot starts from the top down.

    Gaurds are only footsoldiers in the scheme of things.

    The legal profession creams it with these types. Free legal aid is a gravy train for them & they milk it for all it's worth.

    No halting sites near their gaffs!


  • #27
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Blay wrote: »
    No they're not, stop talking bollocks.

    Ok.
    Live in your fantasyland.

    Travellers are NOT subject to anything like the rest of us are, taxes, law etc - principally because our overweight, useless 'guards' are scared and Joe Bloggs who might slip up slightly is an easier target.

    The UK Constabulary are the same - they will generally avoid them like the plague.

    Why.


  • #28
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    It's true what they say, stolen money can't buy class


  • #29
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,640 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Ok.
    Live in your fantasyland.

    Travellers are NOT subject to anything like the rest of us are, taxes, law etc - principally because our overweight, useless 'guards' are scared and Joe Bloggs who might slip up slightly is an easier target.

    Talking bollocks again.


  • #30
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    realweirdo wrote: »
    Have the Criminal Assets Bureau ever acted against travellers? Many have serious wealth and how it was achieved is dubious. Surely this guy was a prime candidate for CAB investigation.

    How it was achieved was not from going to work like the rest of us eejits. That's for fookin sure


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  • #31
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    That's why there is such a high proportion of the prison population from the traveller community. They just keep handing themselves in.

    Not high enough.


  • #32
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Blay wrote: »
    Talking bollocks again.

    You're a fantastic debater.


  • #33
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    The Th!ng wrote: »
    Did any representatives of Pavee Point attend the funeral?

    Strangely absent any time there isn't "discrimination" against their noble minority going on.


  • #34
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    I've met a few, not many, travellers, in my life. But a lot of them have an outward bravado and bluster that hides a more private melancholia.

    I wouldn't be surprised if that coffin was worth less than half what they told the Indo.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it had no gold in it at all.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the family needed a lot of traveller loans to pay for whatever the funeral really did cost them.

    You wouldn't believe a traveller if he was trying to sell you a gate full of sand, there's no reason to believe this coffin full of gold story either.

    They screw us and we screw them. The rest is all bluff.


  • #35
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Ever drive by the housing estates in Rathkeale, rows of new Audis, Beemers and Land Rovers. There must be decent money in Tarmacadam.


  • #36
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    You're a fantastic debater.

    You should have said "You're a master debater" :pac:


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  • #37
    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    Other travellers will have that nicked within a few weeks...anything for scrap and this is the finest

    No it won't. We would never touch the grave of another.


  • #38
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,640 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    You're a fantastic debater.

    It's hard to counter an argument based on opinion rather than fact.


  • #39
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Blay wrote: »
    It's had to counter an argument based on opinion rather than fact.

    Oh go on.
    I'm all ears.


  • #40
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    You should have said "You're a master debater" :pac:

    Damn.


  • #41
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,640 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Oh go on.
    I'm all ears.

    No thanks, everyone can see that you're talking bollocks. They don't need me to point it out for them.


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  • #42
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Blay wrote: »
    No thanks, everyone can see that you're talking bollocks. They don't need me to point it out for them.

    Everyone? :confused:
    personally I think you are talking bollocks. I am willing to bet you are one of these "ah the poor travellers" types.


  • #43
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,640 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Everyone? :confused:
    personally I think you are talking bollocks. I am willing to be you are one of these "ah the poor travellers" types.

    A bit of a leap to make there.

    I say someone who claims the Gardai are afraid is 'talking bollocks'...and in your mind that means my attitude is 'ah the poor travellers'.

    I have absolutely no idea how you can connect those...if someone wants to point that out to me then by all means do so.


  • #44
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Don't worry he's just going into cold storage to be awoken after Judgement Day to turn the tide on the war against the machines.

    28000 buys you a lot on the cryogenic market.


  • #45
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Blay wrote: »
    A bit of a leap to make there.

    I say someone who claims the Gardai are afraid is 'talking bollocks'...and in your mind that means my attitude is 'ah the poor travellers'.

    I have absolutely no idea how you can connect those...if someone wants to point that out to me then by all means do so.


    Oh... i'm sorry.
    seems you took a hard on to someone saying something negative about the guards. Also another popular stand-point on here ;) :pac:

    "ahh the poor guards" lol.


  • #46
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Ever drive by the housing estates in Rathkeale, rows of new Audis, Beemers and Land Rovers. There must be decent money in Tarmacadam.

    Those houses are locked up most of the year. They're on the continent running scams. Rathkeale is the Beverly Hills of knackerdom though. Not every traveller owns a mansion straight out of a 1980s soap opera.


  • #47
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    He won't stay buried long in that thing.

    What grave yard is he in ? ; )


  • #48
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    The Th!ng wrote: »
    Did any representatives of Pavee Point attend the funeral?

    All of them, with their bleeding hearts :rolleyes:


  • #49
    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Oh... i'm sorry.
    seems you took a hard on to someone saying something negative about the guards. Also another popular stand-point on here ;) :pac:

    "ahh the poor guards" lol.

    All the Gardai are poor. Sure it wasn't too long ago that one of them couldn't live on €65K a year.


  • #50
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    Lads let the man rest in peace,he was not bad old skin after all.


  • #51
    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    Butcher Boy wrote: »
    Lads let the man rest in peace,he was not bad old skin after all.

    No mention that the man was killed in a cold blooded manner in front of his children. Just an excuse by most on this forum to attack every traveller.


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