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"Racist" row: Finger-loss fraud

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    #32
    lostexpectation
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    he was attacked


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    #33
    robinph
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    I can understand that loosing a finger could mess with his memory of the preceding incidents slightly as I imagine is stings just a touch. Was he actually attacked or was it more like his face was just a bit bruised from landing on it as he scaled the fence?


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    #34
    CantGetNoSleep
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Since when is beating up the English racist? Good clean fun more like!
    No its them coming over here that is


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    #35
    longshanks
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    i was in the sauna earlier and a few of the old lads in there were talking about it. one of them was giving all the details and he was saying... ' yeah it was a strange one, the guards went back and searched the place and found the finger still stuck on the fence, they couldn't believe that no birds or rats had eaten it'
    without missing a beat another fella turns around to him and says... 'cant blame the rats, it was english'


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    #36
    Piste
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    Nightwish wrote: »
    I think it was Britain Place.


    Excellent.


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    #37
    the GALL
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    FruitLover wrote: »
    He got his finger cut off by a pole.

    i thought he blamed the Irish:D:D:D


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    #38
    df1985
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    pretty obvious he got pissed, hurt himself, couldnt admit it to his parents so he makes up an elaborate story and now its biting him in the ass, i used to do the same when i was 16/17.and they always found out the truth anyway.


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    #39
    Kold
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    FruitLover wrote: »
    He got his finger cut off by a pole.

    Quality.


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    #40
    buckfast4me
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    insurance fraud?


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    #41
    neacy69
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    buckfast4me wrote: »
    insurance fraud?


    now it all makes sense!!


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    #42
    Mizu_Ger
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    buckfast4me wrote: »
    insurance fraud?

    No thanks. I just had one.


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    #43
    Degsy
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    He just wanted to get out of the washing up for a while.


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    #44
    ShowmanBob
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    navin.r.johnson wrote: »
    According to the kid a gang of five lads asked him where he was from. When he replied England they allegedly beat the tar out of him. Sounded a bit suspect from the off in that he said they actually ripped his finger off.
    I wonder how good a piano player he was? Hopefully a very good one.

    I think thats a very dispicable and inhumane thing to say, regarless of how he lost his finger he still a 17 year old pianist. He was attacked prior to the fall and he was "split from his friends" and "very frightened", the fact that he fell from 8ft fence does suggest concussion! Not to mention the post traumatic stress that losing a finger would give, when I cut my arm open 5 years ago I was stone cold sober and my mind still blocked the memories. Also I listened to him on the radio he never suggested racism, he just said they asked him where hes from (probably from the earlier attack) and he did say "at a guess" they ripped his finger off. Obviously very confused, thinking he knew more than he did!
    My sympathies are still with him, and with William Wallace aka Braveheart as his father he should be alright!


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    #45
    Fratton Fred
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    ShowmanBob wrote: »
    I think thats a very dispicable and inhumane thing to say, regarless of how he lost his finger he still a 17 year old pianist. He was attacked prior to the fall and he was "split from his friends" and "very frightened", the fact that he fell from 8ft fence does suggest concussion! Not to mention the post traumatic stress that losing a finger would give, when I cut my arm open 5 years ago I was stone cold sober and my mind still blocked the memories. Also I listened to him on the radio he never suggested racism, he just said they asked him where hes from (probably from the earlier attack) and he did say "at a guess" they ripped his finger off. Obviously very confused, thinking he knew more than he did!
    My sympathies are still with him, and with William Wallace aka Braveheart as his father he should be alright!

    That is why I was very disappointed with the headline in the herald today. they are making a big deal of the fact he lost his finger on the fence and airbrushing out the fact he was attacked. Regardless of how it happened, it was still pretty horrific.

    Says a lot that beating up an Englishman cen be described as "Fun" and not get slated as well. If he was stabbed would his attack have been laughed at as well?


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    #46
    Dyr
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    only if he was stabbed in the finger


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    #47
    L1011
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    Now, why do I suspect the original headbutting (all they can see on CCTV) has nothing to do with him being English?


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    #48
    Fratton Fred
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Now, why do I suspect the original headbutting (all they can see on CCTV) has nothing to do with him being English?

    probably not, but it is irrelevant. he was attacked.

    From what I read, the lad was pretty open and said he was asked where he was from and was then beaten up, he never said he was beaten up for being English It's the papers that have made a big thing out of this, not him.

    The surgeon said it looked like his finger was bitten off, which he also said he didn't remember happening, if he wanted to make a big deal out of this, that would have been more dramatic.


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    #49
    christo82
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    i don't believe he had got the two incidents mixed together. I think he paniced and thought it would be easier to blame the loss of the finger on the attack than on an accident that happened later. He may have been stupidly embarassed about trying to climb the fence and falling.


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    #50
    Mizu_Ger
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    The whole pianist angle is being blown out of proportion. I heard him on Gerry Ryan the following day say that he plays the piano, but wasn't a concert pianist or even thinking of becoming one. The papers jumped on this as it makes for a better story.

    Is there any indication as to why he was trying to jump the fence? Was he chased from MacD's? Its a decent run to Britain Place from MacD's on O'Connell Street.


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    #51
    seamus
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    Drunk 17-year-old English kid gets into a fight and it's our fault how? There are hundreds of thousands of English who manage weekly to not get into fights, so I'd be surprised if he was suddenly "set upon".

    What in God's name was he doing climbing a fence? I can see how he might have ran, and kept running for half a km and ended up where he did. But an 8 foot fence? And by virtue of the fact that he didn't make it over the fence, yet managed to not get a beating, proves that he wasn't being chased.

    Totally out of all proportion. Drunk kid makes an excuse for an injury (most of us have been there) and suddenly it's in the news so he can't go back on it, he can only bend the story a little.


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    #52
    Dyr
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    Come now we all know what fibbers these english can be:

    "i had my finger bitten off"
    "the famine never happened"
    "we won world war 2"

    etc etc


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    #53
    ports best
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    lol bambi nice one:D


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    #54
    Fratton Fred
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    Bambi wrote: »
    Come now we all know what fibbers these english can be:

    "i had my finger bitten off"
    "the famine never happened"
    "we won world war 2"

    etc etc

    Leprechauns
    "I don't recall a suitcase full of cash"
    Dublin Area RAPID Transit

    Pot, Kettle Black. :D


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    #55
    FruitLover
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    ShowmanBob wrote: »
    regarless of how he lost his finger he still a 17 year old pianist

    Not anymore...


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    #56
    AckwelFoley
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    Ths kid is tryinh to make a fool of us.

    Its as if hes jus giving us the finger.


    *gets coat.. leaves*


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    #57
    funk-you
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    snyper wrote: »
    Ths kid is tryinh to make a fool of us.

    Its as if hes jus giving us the finger.


    *gets coat.. leaves*

    What does it matter, he'll never be able to finger the guy who loafed him.

    *Gets...................already left*

    -Funk


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    #58
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Reminds me of that old Helen Keller joke, why did Helen Keller play the piano with one hand?? She would sing with the other one :eek:


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    #59
    AckwelFoley
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Reminds me of that old Helen Keller joke, why did Helen Keller play the piano with one hand?? She would sing with the other one :eek:

    Gold.


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    #60
    kmick
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    Freddie star ate my hamster.


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    #61
    AnonoBoy
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    Motosam wrote: »
    Hur hur, the shoe is on the other foot now :pac:

    Wait shit...

    BRILLIANT!!!! :D


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