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Drunk man at front door, putting hand in letterbox at 4:30am

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  • #52
    Missymoohaa
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    A brother of a friend of mine had moved house to another area 2 years previously anyway he met a couple of mates of his in his old local, got paralytic, fell down the road to his old house, banging the door, calling his wife all the names for not opening up.

    Heel of the hunt, guards were called and when he sobered up a bit in the guards barracks he was able to tell them he lived there previously and thought he was just going home. The guards had a laugh about it and dropped him back to his current home. He called to the new owners next evening to apologise profusely for frightening the sh*te out of them.


  • #53
    MrWalsh
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    Friend of mine fell asleep in the sitting room one night and woke up hearing noises at the door. Looked into the hall and saw a long pole being extended through the letter box towards the place the keys were hanging. He quickly stepped into the hall, grabbed the pole, and shoved it smartly back where it was coming from.

    There was a thud, a shout of pain and the noise of running footsteps. Never found out who it was but someone suffered a nasty eye or face injury that night.


  • #54
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    sparkling sea wrote: »
    A car being driven with no lights should set off sirens in the gardas head, especially at that time in the morning, there is no excuse for not checking it out. Its utter laziness that the garda didn't follow the car, who knows what condition the driver was in or what could have happened later on.

    I actually know the Garda who went to this incident. I asked him to clarify the car situation:

    "I had just knocked on the door, the man came out, said quickly what happened and this car flew past. It had lights on the front on, but none on the back. We weren't in a position to follow it, because by the time we would have got back into the car, and went after it, it would have been well gone. Instead, my colleague radio'd back with the reg and direction. I've no idea if someone caught up with it, because the night just went nuts after that call."


  • #55
    barneystinson
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    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I actually know the Garda who went to this incident. I asked him to clarify the car situation:

    "I had just knocked on the door, the man came out, said quickly what happened and this car flew past. It had lights on the front on, but none on the back. We weren't in a position to follow it, because by the time we would have got back into the car, and went after it, it would have been well gone. Instead, my colleague radio'd back with the reg and direction. I've no idea if someone caught up with it, because the night just went nuts after that call."

    Ah c'mon now, we can't have minor details like facts and common sense getting in the way of a good excuse for a whinge...!


  • #56
    cookie.monster
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭cookie.monster


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I actually know the Garda who went to this incident. I asked him to clarify the car situation:

    "I had just knocked on the door, the man came out, said quickly what happened and this car flew past. It had lights on the front on, but none on the back. We weren't in a position to follow it, because by the time we would have got back into the car, and went after it, it would have been well gone. Instead, my colleague radio'd back with the reg and direction. I've no idea if someone caught up with it, because the night just went nuts after that call."
    hold on.... you say a man came out!! must be some man in fairness to be sat in his house crapping himself over fingers through a letter box


  • #57
    Gadgie
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    cookie.monster wrote: »
    hold on.... you say a man came out!! must be some man in fairness to be sat in his house crapping himself over fingers through a letter box

    Being afraid doesn't make you any less of a man.


  • #58
    ToxicPaddy
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    Why the hell would you go doing something stupid like cutting someone's fingers off and getting blood all over your carpet/hall floor/door which you then have to clean off.:confused::confused::confused:

    Just whack the hand with a hammer, rolling pin, frying pan or whatever to make sure that person feels a huge amount of pain and they will scarper soon enough with a couple of badly bruised or broken fingers.

    It sounds like either someone else lived there that the guy knew in the past and he was so plastered he thought they still lived there or else he mixed the house up with another one on the street. Leave the light on outside next time and anyone who doesnt want to be seen will be slow to approach the house.


  • #59
    wylie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭wylie


    Did he come back?


  • #60
    cookie.monster
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭cookie.monster


    Gadgie wrote: »
    Being afraid doesn't make you any less of a man.
    no balls!!! so yeah it does make ya less of a man


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  • #61
    barneystinson
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    cookie.monster wrote: »
    no balls!!! so yeah it does make ya less of a man

    Spoken like a 15 year old... :rolleyes:


  • #62
    saabsaab
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    Happened here too, v late 4.00 am or so. Drunk? well dressed guy at the front door trying to get in. I opened the bedroom window to ask what was going on to be told he lived here. I am here over 20 years now and said he was mistaken. He asked was I sure? I didn't call the Guards as he seemed to be just out-of-it. He moved on in a bit.


  • #63
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,903 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Happened here too, v late 4.00 am or so. Drunk? well dressed guy at the front door trying to get in. I opened the bedroom window to ask what was going on to be told he lived here. I am here over 20 years now and said he was mistaken. He asked was I sure? I didn't call the Guards as he seemed to be just out-of-it. He moved on in a bit.

    seems like theres some seriously good stuff being sold around this town. i think i might need to start drinking again and maybe start doing some drugs as well


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
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    saabsaab wrote: »
    Happened here too, v late 4.00 am or so. Drunk? well dressed guy at the front door trying to get in. I opened the bedroom window to ask what was going on to be told he lived here. I am here over 20 years now and said he was mistaken. He asked was I sure? I didn't call the Guards as he seemed to be just out-of-it. He moved on in a bit.

    Happens to me all the time because I live very close to town. Numerous times its people think that its their friends house but their friends actually live 3-4 doors up or something. My streets houses has people moving in and out all the time so I get that kind of stuff a lot cause people mix up houses. Normally I would just open the door and ask them to move on if they are overly loud and generally you get no trouble, so I wouldn't be going around chopping off peoples digits like OP.


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