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Tragic yet worrying scenes in waterford last night

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  • #62
    lighterman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭lighterman


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    Yes I was discussing it openly at lunch time with people and the majority agreed with me. So no issue here stating my feelings in public.

    I'm delighted to hear that. Sure there must be loads of room up there on that horse for them all


  • #63
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    Hopefully the other 3 in the group will also fall off the earth and so all society a favour.


  • #64
    damienirel
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    Lost now are they falling off horses they were up on or just falling off the earth??:P


  • #65
    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    And anyone who believe it was a co incidence that a group of 4 men arrived outside a senior guards house and threw glass bottles at it really needs check themselves into the loony bin

    The media are telling us it was a coincidence. Funny how people pick and choose the bits they want to believe.


  • #66
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    lighterman wrote: »
    I'm delighted to hear that. Sure there must be loads of room up there on that horse for them all

    When not going around causing damage to peoples property and assaulting people means that you are on a "high horse" it really shows the depths to which society has sunk


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  • #67
    lighterman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭lighterman


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    And anyone who believe it was a co incidence that a group of 4 men arrived outside a senior guards house and threw glass bottles at it really needs check themselves into the loony bin

    Why? You mean voluntarily admit themselves in to a psychiatric unit because they hold an opinion that isn't the same as yours.

    slight over-reaction.no???


  • #68
    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    When not going around causing damage to peoples property and assaulting people means that you are on a "high horse" it really shows the depths to which society has sunk

    As does celebrating a kids death when you dont know all the facts I suppose


  • #69
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    drumswan wrote: »
    As does celebrating a kids death when you dont know all the facts I suppose

    Please enlighten me with all these facts that you have come across then.


  • #70
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    drumswan wrote: »
    As does celebrating a kids death when you dont know all the facts I suppose

    Please also point out this celebrating I was engaging in. I must have missed it.


  • #71
    drumswan
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    TheDoctor wrote: »
    Please enlighten me with all these facts that you have come across then.

    We dont know the facts


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  • #72
    Santa Cruz
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    December2012 wrote: »
    That child has been let down by the adults who should have been bringing g him up properly.

    That "child" is 18 years of age. Correction "was 18 years of age"


  • #73
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    Yes lets please stop this "child" rubbish. He was an adult who knew exactly what he was doing.


  • #74
    damienirel
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    drumswan wrote: »
    As does celebrating a kids death when you dont know all the facts I suppose

    don't think anybody is celebrating anything. you're making stuff up now.


  • #75
    lighterman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭lighterman


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    When not going around causing damage to peoples property and assaulting people means that you are on a "high horse" it really shows the depths to which society has sunk

    yep that's it.

    A little reading on what high-horse means: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/high+horse


  • #76
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    lighterman wrote: »
    yep that's it.

    A little reading on what high-horse means: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/high+horse


    What a crime, feeling superior to criminals. Whatever should I do


  • #77
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    When not going around causing damage to peoples property and assaulting people means that you are on a "high horse" it really shows the depths to which society has sunk

    No. You are reflective of the depths that society has sunk. A child has died in tragic circumstances. You gloat, you call him a 'scumbag'.


  • #78
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    LorMal wrote: »
    No. You are reflective of the depths that society has sunk. A child has died in tragic circumstances. You gloat, you call him a 'scumbag'.


    An adult died, please direct me towards this gloating that I took part in.


  • #79
    lighterman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭lighterman


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    What a crime, feeling superior to criminals. Whatever should I do

    I know exactly what you should do. But 1 reported post is enough here so ill say no more.


  • #80
    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    damienirel wrote: »
    don't think anybody is celebrating anything. you're making stuff up now.

    Its the usual little internet fantasy-violence circlejerk from boards' keyboard warriors, plenty of daily mail reading types on here love to revel in this stuff


  • #81
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


    lighterman wrote: »
    yep that's it.

    A little reading on what high-horse means: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/high+horse

    glad that was explained...here was I thinking...


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  • #82
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


    drumswan wrote: »
    Its the usual little internet fantasy-violence circlejerk from boards' keyboard warriors, plenty of daily mail reading types on here love to revel in this stuff

    LOL!


  • #83
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    lighterman wrote: »
    I know exactly what you should do. But 1 reported post is enough here so ill say no more.

    First thing you have said that I 100% think you should do


  • #84
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #85
    average_runner
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    At the end of the day, its the garda that has to go back and live in the house he was attacked in. I am sure he be nervous every dark night there.

    Feel sorry for the man after what these thugs but him thru.


  • #86
    TheDoctor
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭TheDoctor


    average_runner wrote: »
    At the end of the day, its the garda that has to go back and live in the house he was attacked in. I am sure he be nervous every dark night there.

    Feel sorry for the man after what these thugs but him thru.

    Agreed, the only people who get my sympathies are the family of the home that was attacked


  • #87
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


    Hi Patww79 - you must be one of those keyboard daily mailers circle jerking that drumswan was on about! lol!
    you could almost taste the hatred in that post. glad i'm a tree hugging guardian reader that abstains or drumswan would seek and destroy me.


  • #88
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    TheDoctor wrote: »
    An adult died, please direct me towards this gloating that I took part in.

    Yes, numerically 18 is viewed as an adult. Were you a fully mature and totally responsible adult at 18?

    I am not condoning his behavior but:
    1. He has died in a tragic accident
    2. He was very young
    3. His family must be devastated

    You should not judge. You don't have the full facts. His actions do not warrant his death. You should certainly not call him 'a scumbag'.


  • #89
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #90
    Zulu
    Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    He was a young boy. Whole life ahead of him. maybe he was a little terror or a scum bag but there's nothing to say he couldn't have become a perfectly respectable adult. He is DEAD and everyone is acting like he got what he deserved because someone, not even proven to be him, threw a bottle at someone?

    A few people in this thread really need to look themselves in the mirror!
    Sigh. This young man, went with a group of other men to a familys home to terrorise them at night time. Children should be able to sleep safely in their homes.
    While I'm sure you would have the same sympathetic attitude if they came at night to your house, to your children, I certainly wouldn't.
    They, when confronted, didn't choose to run off. They threw a bottle at the fathers head. That man could be in the morgue this morning, but thankfully he isn't. These men didn't care less for his life or the life of his wife or family, and you have have the audacity to question our sympathies; to ask us to look into the mirror? Pffft. Jog on.


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  • #91
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    LorMal wrote: »
    Yes, numerically 18 is viewed as an adult. Were you a fully mature and totally responsible adult at 18?

    I am not condoning his behavior but:
    1. He has died in a tragic accident
    2. He was very young
    3. His family must be devastated

    You should not judge. You don't have the full facts. His actions do not warrant his death. You should certainly not call him 'a scumbag'.


    It wasn't an accident, it was an criminal act, pre planned.


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