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Neighbourhood Watch Merged Thread

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  • #4302
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    I literally just Google them, “Machete for sale Ireland” and they’re readily available. The cheapest is less than €30 and available from a supplier in the Munster area.
    Kind of makes you think!

    You could order a tank if you want.

    https://tanks-alot.co.uk/military-vehicles-for-sale/

    The point is most people don't have them.


  • #4303
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    beauf wrote: »
    You could order a tank if you want.

    https://tanks-alot.co.uk/military-vehicles-for-sale/

    The point is most people don't have them.

    The point is they’re readily available, from local Irish based suppliers.


  • #4304
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    The point is they’re readily available, from local Irish based suppliers.

    The point being what exactly?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showpost.php?p=67185413&postcount=11


  • #4305
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    beauf wrote: »
    The point being what exactly?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showpost.php?p=67185413&postcount=11
    They’re readily available, that’s my point!
    https://irishforestryproducts.ie/product/tramontina-machete/
    https://www.thegardenshop.ie/slasher/


  • #4306
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Context is everything. You can get all sorts of things and tools. But if you have them out of context. Like in a shop or a park and no valid reason to have them they are deemed an offensive weapon.

    The other point was you only found out by googling it. Didn't know where off the top of your head either. But then again that's true of lots of normal things too.


  • #4307
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,037 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    Lets get back on topic now though thanks.


  • #4308
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Attempted break in at Orchard Court, Coolmine last night, they popped open the front door with some tool. Thankfully occupants heard them and man of the house ran down the stairs scaring them off. No idea if they tried any others in the area afterwards.


  • #4309
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    miamee wrote: »
    Attempted break in at Orchard Court, Coolmine last night, they popped open the front door with some tool. Thankfully occupants heard them and man of the house ran down the stairs scaring them off. No idea if they tried any others in the area afterwards.

    The euro locks fitted on most modern doors are the cheapest absolute dirt one could buy, recommend everyone checks and buys a anti bump and anti snap type as all they is a vice grips and pull side to side and snap it off, they even have a metal bar to the exact fit for added pressure to snap at times.

    Sensor or lighting on all the time too....

    Get a WiFi CCTV doorbell or a camera to cover entry points and say side window.


  • #4310
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Yep I think all or most of the above will be installed over the coming days, they got a terrible fright tbh.


  • #4311
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    miamee wrote: »
    Yep I think all or most of the above will be installed over the coming days, they got a terrible fright tbh.

    The locks can be changed fairly easy in most cases too....

    Have they a nice car or 2?

    Would recommend a tracker or added kill switch if yes because they will go after the keys if possible.

    It's really not a nice thing to happen and I hope the thugs die in pain that are at this sh1t.

    Hope they will come out of it ok, the scare I mean.


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  • #4312
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    The car is either 2019 or 2020 but not a highly sought after make, fairly normal. Horrible thing to happen making you feel unsafe in your own home.


  • #4313
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,068 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    The euro locks fitted on most modern doors are the cheapest absolute dirt one could buy, recommend everyone checks and buys a anti bump and anti snap type as all they is a vice grips and pull side to side and snap it off, they even have a metal bar to the exact fit for added pressure to snap at times.

    Sensor or lighting on all the time too....

    Get a WiFi CCTV doorbell or a camera to cover entry points and say side window.

    Can you recommend a particular barrel, maybe throw a link or 2 up to the type you mean.

    My old man has some fancy barrel, he has it registered somehow and only him or me are able to get copy keys cut as long as we have the license card.......which he lost! Sorry I don't know the name but Could this be the type you mean?


  • #4314
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    Seve OB wrote: »
    Can you recommend a particular barrel, maybe throw a link or 2 up to the type you mean.

    My old man has some fancy barrel, he has it registered somehow and only him or me are able to get copy keys cut as long as we have the license card.......which he lost! Sorry I don't know the name but Could this be the type you mean?

    William’s lock smith’s supply them!


  • #4315
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Seve OB wrote: »
    Can you recommend a particular barrel, maybe throw a link or 2 up to the type you mean.

    My old man has some fancy barrel, he has it registered somehow and only him or me are able to get copy keys cut as long as we have the license card.......which he lost! Sorry I don't know the name but Could this be the type you mean?



    Something like this


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015YCZR4W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1IEaGbKKZTRZ5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

    Can be got here too....

    See that isn't available but I wouldn't be buying from UK unless it falls outside the new taxes and charges anyway


  • #4316
    A Knight of Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭A Knight of Ireland


    Catalytic converters are also being targeted in Dublin 15. Three lads took one off a car in Roselawn also last Friday night.


  • #4317
    handlemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Is there not a neighbourhood watch scheme where residents can come together apply for a grant for cctv. Ithough there was a scheme for that.


  • #4318
    A Knight of Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭A Knight of Ireland


    handlemaster wrote: »
    Is there, not a neighborhood watch scheme where residents can come together apply for a grant for cctv. I thought there was a scheme for that.

    Yes you are right there is indeed

    http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/CCTV_-_Notes_for_Applicants.pdf/Files/CCTV_-_Notes_for_Applicants.pdf

    It came out back in October or was reported in the media then. I presume a Neighbourhood watch committee or a residents association would need to apply.

    Has anyone in the Dublin 15 area looked into this?


  • #4319
    konline
    Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭konline


    handlemaster wrote: »
    Is there not a neighbourhood watch scheme where residents can come together apply for a grant for cctv. Ithough there was a scheme for that.

    What I have seen is they don't care even if there's a CCTV. Covid is helping them, they are fully covered their faces with masks.


  • #4320
    handlemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    konline wrote: »
    What I have seen is they don't care even if there's a CCTV. Covid is helping them, they are fully covered their faces with masks.

    but it would help, which estate would they pick the one with or one without. Alot of criminals are dumb so they would be caught along the line


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  • #4321
    Daeltaja
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Daeltaja


    Not sure cameras help all that much. A 2019 Kia was stolen from a driveway in Mount Symon a few days ago. The thief was covered head to toe, caught starting right at the camera in broad daylight. Didn't stop him.

    Another video doing the rounds of a young lad casually walking into drives checking car doors during the day. I don't think cameras scare them, but it helps build awareness and maybe helps catching them - this particular dope wears the same jacket apparently.


  • #4322
    raheny red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭raheny red


    :mad:


  • #4323
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    It's not a good idea to leave anything in a parked car. Especially not money it anything of value.

    A lot of these crimes are opportunitist. They try every car door on every street and eventually find one with something in it worth stealing. Which makes it worthwhile to keep doing this.


  • #4324
    wildlifeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    my car is open quite a bit, they can have my empty crisp packets and fag butts


  • #4325
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    my car is open quite a bit, they can have my empty crisp packets and fag butts

    Leaving the door open also encourages them to try though.


  • #4326
    Daeltaja
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Daeltaja


    Who leaves money in their car? Seriously... And yes, lock your doors. I have forgot to on occasion, but I've been drilling it into myself to check it before I head to bed each night.


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  • #4327
    doublejobbing 2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭doublejobbing 2


    https://www.thejournal.ie/sexual-assault-tolka-valley-park-5340750-Jan2021/

    What ever happened regarding the attack in Corduff Park in 2018? Charges were laid nearly 3 years ago but I never saw any sign of it coming to court.


  • #4328
    oLoonatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭oLoonatic


    doublejobbing 2 wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/sexual-assault-tolka-valley-park-5340750-Jan2021/

    What ever happened regarding the attack in Corduff Park in 2018? Charges were laid nearly 3 years ago but I never saw any sign of it coming to court.

    The female involved wont come back to testify so he cant be brought to trial.


  • #4329
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    seem to have stepped up clamping behind the shops in ongar i know there are signs up but only have seen cars clamped the last few days .Would use Dunness side now if you have no permit and wanting to go shopping or a walk or something .


  • #4330
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    rolling boh wrote: »
    seem to have stepped up clamping behind the shops in ongar i know there are signs up but only have seen cars clamped the last few days .Would use Dunness side now if you have no permit and wanting to go shopping or a walk or something .

    Is this up around the new Romayos chipper? I think it's overkill having double yellow lines on both sides of the one way road in front of the redeveloped Ongar house when the road is plenty wide! There's parking for about 60 cars behind the yellow house but only about 10 apartments in the building so most parking spaces are always empty so not sure why they are so strict!


  • #4331
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Behind the newsagents that part they are bringing in restrictions on the main street also to stop people parking for more than two hours i think that is probably fair enough for the shops .⅘


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  • #4332
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Saw a couple of lads on a scrambler yoke yesterday on the main green area behind the big house in ongar hope not the start of this stuff .


  • #4333
    rockatansky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    If I were you I wouldn't wait for someone else to do something about it. Gardai have much more power to stop and confiscate bikes and quads.

    If you contact your local councillors they'll all say the same, call 999. Seems mad as it's not really classed as an emergency. But they'll tell you that comes from the Gardai themselves. It means it's bumped up the priority list and they can address it much more quickly than just a standard call to Blanchardstown Garda Station.


  • #4334
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,638 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    rockatansky wrote: »
    If I were you I wouldn't wait for someone else to do something about it. Gardai have much more power to stop and confiscate bikes and quads.

    If you contact your local councillors they'll all say the same, call 999. Seems mad as it's not really classed as an emergency. But they'll tell you that comes from the Gardai themselves. It means it's bumped up the priority list and they can address it much more quickly than just a standard call to Blanchardstown Garda Station.

    999 calls are for actual emergencies.

    Using it to put in a non emergency call won't make any difference how quickly the call is responded to, it just gets put onto the list with the other calls and they're worked through.

    Don't be tying up a 999 calltaker with a call that could be dealt with another way.


  • #4335
    rockatansky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    Witcher wrote: »
    999 calls are for actual emergencies.

    Using it to put in a non emergency call won't make any difference how quickly the call is responded to, it just gets put onto the list with the other calls and they're worked through.

    Don't be tying up a 999 calltaker with a call that could be dealt with another way.

    As I said, this is the instruction I received from multiple Fingal County Councillors in the area via email.

    So no, I won't be following your suggestion.


  • #4336
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    Two scummers on a small quad bike doing laps around the square in ongar and then back onto the green beside the playground yesterday.

    Anyone notice the young drug dealer at the end of the rat road, manorfield drive end, he's there every day, tucked in where the swinging gate is, always on his phone.


  • #4337
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Dealing going on up there for a while I think judging by some of the guys hanging around there I have seen .Unfortunately nothing really will be done while demand is there .The smell of weed up there sometimes is pretty strong am sure other stuff is freely available.


  • #4338
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,523 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Witcher wrote: »
    Don't be tying up a 999 calltaker with a call that could be dealt with another way.
    We all know that calls to Blanchardstown Garda station are often unanswered.

    rockatansky said councillors said to call 999. I've been told the same thing by an Inspector in Blanchardstown.


  • #4339
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,357 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Has anyone reported the drug dealing, as described, to the cops or raised it with local Councillors?


  • #4340
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Has anyone reported the drug dealing, as described, to the cops or raised it with local Councillors?

    In an ideal world, after ringing Blanchardstown Gardai station they would check it out. Catch him with drugs on him a short time after the call. While he is still there.

    Realistically, I wouldn't be surprised to hear if they took 3 days to come out that's if they ever did.
    As for a local councillor, I would expect hot air and a little speech how he'll contact the guards.

    Even if he was caught he would be doing the same a few days later maybe down the road somewhere else. As another poster said the demand is there.


  • #4341
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    It really is defeatist I know but I see little point in reporting at this level .We all know there are loads of replacements to fill any void I know it will never happen but unless the demand stops the problem will still be here long after we are all gone .


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  • #4342
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Witcher wrote: »
    999 calls are for actual emergencies.

    Using it to put in a non emergency call won't make any difference how quickly the call is responded to, it just gets put onto the list with the other calls and they're worked through.

    Don't be tying up a 999 calltaker with a call that could be dealt with another way.

    Wrong, ,the residents group that i was on once was advised by the inspector in blanch to ring 999 no matter what as it gets logged.


  • #4343
    PerryB78
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭PerryB78


    Phil.x wrote: »
    Two scummers on a small quad bike doing laps around the square in ongar and then back onto the green beside the playground yesterday.

    Anyone notice the young drug dealer at the end of the rat road, manorfield drive end, he's there every day, tucked in where the swinging gate is, always on his phone.

    Is that the little tubby lad? I've heard him arranging deals on his phone so he's not discreet about it, must think hes Tony Montana or something. He'll get his comeuppance one day if he keeps it up, these lads always do


  • #4344
    wildlifeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    PerryB78 wrote: »
    Is that the little tubby lad? I've heard him arranging deals on his phone so he's not discreet about it, must think hes Tony Montana or something. He'll get his comeuppance one day if he keeps it up, these lads always do

    strange he is doing that there with whatsapp and telgram etc..i thought they all did it behind closed doors these days.


  • #4345
    LorelaiG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭LorelaiG


    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    strange he is doing that there with whatsapp and telgram etc..i thought they all did it behind closed doors these days.

    You've got to be joking... dealers have snapchats and instagrams and all now to sell their stuff on. It's all mostly done via social media these days as far as I can see.


  • #4346
    PerryB78
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭PerryB78


    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    strange he is doing that there with whatsapp and telgram etc..i thought they all did it behind closed doors these days.

    Yep I've heard him a few times on the phone doing his thing, he's not shy about it but he sticks out like a sore thumb


  • #4347
    Praetorian22
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭Praetorian22


    Unrelated but possibly related due to the close vicinity.........my friend was stopped by two men walking dogs the other morning just before the Hansfield train bridge (the one that splits from the Maynooth line).

    The men told him to be careful as there was a lad sitting under the bridge at 10.30am wearing a balaclava, looking dodgy up to no good. For context my friend was walking towards the bridge and the men with the dogs had just walked through......They told him to walk around the bridge just in case


    .......could be nothing but you never know....


  • #4348
    wildlifeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    LorelaiG wrote: »
    You've got to be joking... dealers have snapchats and instagrams and all now to sell their stuff on. It's all mostly done via social media these days as far as I can see.


    eh so youre agreeing with me. not sure what you thought i meant.


  • #4349
    wildlifeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    Praetorian22 wrote: »
    Unrelated but possibly related due to the close vicinity.........my friend was stopped by two men walking dogs the other morning just before the Hansfield train bridge (the one that splits from the Maynooth line).

    The men told him to be careful as there was a lad sitting under the bridge at 10.30am wearing a balaclava, looking dodgy up to no good. For context my friend was walking towards the bridge and the men with the dogs had just walked through......They told him to walk around the bridge just in case


    .......could be nothing but you never know....

    makes it a lot easier to **** him into the water if he makes a move. not very bright on his part.


  • #4350
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Praetorian22 wrote: »
    Unrelated but possibly related due to the close vicinity.........my friend was stopped by two men walking dogs the other morning just before the Hansfield train bridge (the one that splits from the Maynooth line).

    The men told him to be careful as there was a lad sitting under the bridge at 10.30am wearing a balaclava, looking dodgy up to no good. For context my friend was walking towards the bridge and the men with the dogs had just walked through......They told him to walk around the bridge just in case


    .......could be nothing but you never know....

    I notice that rail bridge has become a magnet for teenagers to sit on the metal support beams underneath so they're sitting above you as you walk by. Fencing by the new apartment block up from it has been broken to allow easy access to the canal there so drawing a lot more pedestrian traffic. I haven't noticed any antisocial behaviour so far apart from an increase in littered unfortunately in that area.


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  • #4351
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    ongarboy wrote: »
    I notice that rail bridge has become a magnet for teenagers to sit on the metal support beams underneath so they're sitting above you as you walk by. Fencing by the new apartment block up from it has been broken to allow easy access to the canal there so drawing a lot more pedestrian traffic. I haven't noticed any antisocial behaviour so far apart from an increase in littered unfortunately in that area.

    I seen two girls eating pizza from plates under that bridge, obviously from the apartments beside it.


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