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Scam on commuter train

  • 14-10-2012 11:45am
    #1
    gaziah
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi , don't know if this is the right forum so feel free to move mods. Just wondering has anyone seen the woman with two kids who takes the dundalk to dublin line every day. Most days during the week, these kids (no older than 6/7 ) go up and down the train asking for money for sponsorship, using a card with just a football player on the front. Obviously a scam, and I've seen her get on and off in skerries so has anybody else noticed this woman?


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  • #2
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    gaziah wrote: »
    Hi , don't know if this is the right forum so feel free to move mods. Just wondering has anyone seen the woman with two kids who takes the dundalk to dublin line every day. Most days during the week, these kids (no older than 6/7 ) go up and down the train asking for money for sponsorship, using a card with just a football player on the front. Obviously a scam, and I've seen her get on and off in skerries so has anybody else noticed this woman?
    You should report this to Irish rail as this type of begging is possibly illegal.


  • #3
    Rashers72
    Registered Users Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭Rashers72


    Although I use the train both ways, 5 days a week, at peak times, I have only spotted this once. But it does seem to be the same person.


  • #4
    gaziah
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭gaziah


    Rashers72 wrote: »
    Although I use the train both ways, 5 days a week, at peak times, I have only spotted this once. But it does seem to be the same person.
    usually off peak times, I'm on the 2:05 now from skerries and she is on it, although not sending the kids up and down. 2 times this week I've seen her get the 9:30 from Pearse too


  • #5
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    most of the "charity" collections and draws you see are scams, I give tyo noone any more


  • #6
    bikeman1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭bikeman1


    Yes many times if I happen to be on a Commuter. Total scam. I have never seen anyone give them money as most people have seen them before. Although their sponsorship card seems to have a good few names on it.


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  • #7
    thomasj
    Registered Users Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭thomasj


    bikeman1 wrote: »
    Yes many times if I happen to be on a Commuter. Total scam. I have never seen anyone give them money as most people have seen them before. Although their sponsorship card seems to have a good few names on it.

    I remember they used to walk up the carriages on the maynooth trains with candles and leave them on the tables with notes and would come back looking for money for them. Saw that on darts as well a couple of times.

    Wasn't as annoying though as being on a dart on a Monday morning and them going around with accordians to make your head even worse!


  • #8
    wicklowwonder
    Registered Users Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭wicklowwonder


    gaziah wrote: »
    Hi , don't know if this is the right forum so feel free to move mods. Just wondering has anyone seen the woman with two kids who takes the dundalk to dublin line every day. Most days during the week, these kids (no older than 6/7 ) go up and down the train asking for money for sponsorship, using a card with just a football player on the front. Obviously a scam, and I've seen her get on and off in skerries so has anybody else noticed this woman?

    A kid stopped into a pub I was in on Saturday in the city centre looking for sponsorship for her soccer team. Wonder is it the same crew?


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Well it's nothing like the trains in some European countries where you get plagued by immigrants selling trinkets of all shapes and sizes on the trains.


  • #10
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    And she's probably not paying for her fare either...


  • #11
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Part of the bye laws...S.I. No. 109/1984


    No person shall—






    ( a ) sell or expose or offer for sale or cause or permit to be sold or exposed or offered for sale any article or goods whatsoever; or






    ( b ) tout, ply for, or solicit or cause or permit touting or plying for or soliciting alms, reward or custom or employment of any description.


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  • #12
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    thomasj wrote: »
    I remember they used to walk up the carriages on the maynooth trains with candles and leave them on the tables with notes and would come back looking for money for them. Saw that on darts as well a couple of times.

    Wasn't as annoying though as being on a dart on a Monday morning and them going around with accordians to make your head even worse!


    And here's one for you....

    23. (1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person or if requested not to do so by an authorised person, sing, perform on any musical or other instrument or use any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or portable wireless or television apparatus.


    I like the reference to a 'gramophone'...I can't imagine someone lugging on a big His Master's Voice and 78 rpm records!


  • #13
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    And here's one for you....

    23. (1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person or if requested not to do so by an authorised person, sing, perform on any musical or other instrument or use any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or portable wireless or television apparatus.


    I like the reference to a 'gramophone'...I can't imagine someone lugging on a big His Master's Voice and 78 rpm records!

    The first set of points would probably wreck the needle and scratch the record!


  • #14
    ax586
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭ax586


    There on the train now as I speak


  • #15
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,949 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    And here's one for you....

    23. (1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person or if requested not to do so by an authorised person, sing, perform on any musical or other instrument or use any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or portable wireless or television apparatus
    Any chance that would cover MP3's and cellular telephones? The're a lot more common that gramophones!:)


  • #16
    thomasj
    Registered Users Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Any chance that would cover MP3's and cellular telephones? The're a lot more common that gramophones!:)

    The reason we have mp3s and mobile phones (with headphones) is so that we don't have to listen to them (accordian players). Don't take that away from us, please!


  • #17
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    coylemj wrote: »
    Well it's nothing like the trains in some European countries where you get plagued by immigrants selling trinkets of all shapes and sizes on the trains.

    Probably them bloody Irish.... "get the lasta yer Cheekie-Charlies"....:eek:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #18
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,240 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Any chance that would cover MP3's and cellular telephones? The're a lot more common that gramophones!:)

    Note that it says "23. (1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person ..."


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