Bumbulance equipment stolen at Ploughing Championships DONATION DETAILS IN OP

MarkR · 25-09-2014 2:20pm #1

Special place in hell reserved for people like this.

Children's ambulance has equipment stolen at Ploughing Championships

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Equipment has been stolen from a children's ambulance at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Laois.
The 'Bumbleance' provides stress-reducing journeys for children.
It is also the first interactive ambulance specifically designed for kids, and comes complete with a 19-inch TV, a Playstation 3 and an iPad mini.
But today, the group tweeted to say someone has taken equipment from the vehicle.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/childrens-ambulance-has-equipment-stolen-at-ploughing-championships-643159.html

TO HELP RAISE FUNDS TO REPLACE THE STOLEN EQUIPMENT TEXT "BUZZ' TO 50300. TEXT COSTS €4 AND ALL MONEY GOES TO THE CHARITY.

You can also donate on their website
http://www.bumbleance.com/product/make-a-donation/

suicide_circus · 25-09-2014 2:21pm

Dubs no doubt

*runs away*

goldenhoarde · 25-09-2014 2:22pm

MarkR wrote: »

Special place in hell reserved for people like this.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/childrens-ambulance-has-equipment-stolen-at-ploughing-championships-643159.html

And rightly so!!! The feckers!!!! :mad:

AidySevenfold · 25-09-2014 2:22pm

Jesus Christ. The Bumbleance was just up at Finn Park a few weeks ago. A vital service for sick kids. There is some scumbags about...

Gatling · 25-09-2014 2:24pm

Absolutely ****ing disgraceful ,

The bumbelance provides an amazing service for very sick / terminally ill children

scheister · 25-09-2014 2:24pm

F**king scumbags no other words can describe them.

25-09-2014 2:25pm

Jesus. Santa Strike Force would have donate much of that equipment. That's really sad to hear

MarkR · 25-09-2014 2:25pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

Dubs no doubt

*runs away*

If we are to become an angry mob, the farmers are the ones with the pitchforks.

conorhal · 25-09-2014 2:26pm

Ugh... faith in humanity plummets ever further down the drain.

I hope a comet hits the knackbag responsible.

25-09-2014 2:30pm

conorhal wrote: »

Ugh... faith in humanity plummets ever further down the drain.

So many people (this forum in particular) have put huge work into raising money for this project. Some folk even went as far as getting their kit off to fund it. The people who started this charity did so to help other children, after their own had succumbed to battens disease. A team pushed the ambulance up to Dublin, and for an entire half marathon last Saturday.

People are good. Most people want to help this cause. Please don't let a scumbag or two make you look negatively on humanity. Humanity is why this ambulance even exists.

Shiraz 4.99 · 25-09-2014 2:32pm

New items for sale on my Adverts page

A 19-inch TV, a Playstation 3 and an iPad mini

Going cheap, quick sale required.

inforfun · 25-09-2014 2:43pm

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

New items for sale on my Adverts page

A 19-inch TV, a Playstation 3 and an iPad mini

Going cheap, quick sale required.

Yeah.... not funny.

o1s1n · 25-09-2014 2:46pm

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

New items for sale on my Adverts page

A 19-inch TV, a Playstation 3 and an iPad mini

Going cheap, quick sale required.

How much did you get on adverts for your soul?

humanji · 25-09-2014 2:47pm

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

New items for sale on my Adverts page

A 19-inch TV, a Playstation 3 and an iPad mini

Going cheap, quick sale required.

MOD: Considering what people here have done to support the Bumbleance, best not to be making jokes right now.

eviltwin · 25-09-2014 2:49pm

That is so depressing, how scummy to you have to be to do something like that.

somesoldiers · 25-09-2014 2:50pm

Place in hell indeed along with those who rob stuff off graves and steal charity boxes.

Gatling · 25-09-2014 2:51pm

Maybe a quick whip around from AH posters at €2 might help

humanji · 25-09-2014 2:52pm

Gatling wrote: »

Maybe a quick whip around from AH posters at €2 might help

If people want to donate, the website has various options on it: http://www.bumbleance.com/

Her name was Lola · 25-09-2014 2:53pm

Just saw an interview last week with the founder. God, how bad do you have to be to rob a child's ambulance?

_Brian · 25-09-2014 2:54pm

Do we know what was stolen ??

Macavity. · 25-09-2014 2:54pm

Doesn't surprise me at all. Hopefully someone may come forward with information.

The Peanut · 25-09-2014 2:55pm

There are people out there with no moral compass. No decency, no compassion, no respect for other people or society.

It's a relatively small crime but depressing to hear.

fleet_admiral · 25-09-2014 2:55pm

I hope Karma comes and destroys the scum that did that

EazyD · 25-09-2014 2:55pm

humanji wrote: »

If people want to donate, the website has various options on it: http://www.bumbleance.com/

Can you donate items or just cash? I have a perfectly good 26 inch flatscreen I'd like to donate.

Vinneyboy · 25-09-2014 2:55pm

Myself and the family were at the charity event in Finn park a couple of weeks ago, what a great service this is for kids, hope the thieves rot in hell, no need to rob sick kids.:mad:

Chucken · 25-09-2014 2:57pm

Totally sickened by this. I'll donate when I get home later.

Tokyo · 25-09-2014 2:59pm

Took the liberty of reposting this in the Farming & Forestry forum on the off-chance that an attendee may have spotted something. Hope mods/OP don't mind..

humanji · 25-09-2014 3:40pm

EazyD wrote: »

Can you donate items or just cash? I have a perfectly good 26 inch flatscreen I'd like to donate.

I'm not sure. You can email them on the site, I guess.

_Kaiser_ · 25-09-2014 4:03pm

According to this:

"One blaggard stole two lockers-worth of medical equipment.” A number of oxygen saturation probes were stolen, devices used for measuring pulses.

Sounds like junkies or kids to me

:mad: Although what they'd want with that stuff is beyond me? Especially if they left the electronics stuff?

Tokyo · 25-09-2014 4:12pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

According to this:

Sounds like junkies or kids to me :mad: Although what they'd want with that stuff is beyond me? Especially if they left the electronics stuff?

Opportunistic crime? Grabbed a couple of EMT bags and ran? Quite possible that the likes of iPads, TVs and such would have been locked away, while medical gear, by its very nature, would be easily accessible.

Doesn't matter - either way they're scum.

ScumLord · 25-09-2014 4:16pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Sounds like junkies

I immediately thought of bubbles from the wire.

I doubt you'd get too many junkies making their way out to the ploughing championship. I'd say some **** just saw it unguarded and stole it on the assumption they could find someone who would buy the stuff.

SEPT 23 1989 · 25-09-2014 4:23pm

the gear will probably turn up at some market in the near future sold by the elvis lookalikes

fleet_admiral · 25-09-2014 4:28pm

Were the contents of the van insured?

byhookorbycrook · 25-09-2014 5:47pm

For those of you who don't know, Bumbleance is a child ambulance service, run by Tony and Mary Heffernan whose two children dies from Battten's.
As well as transporting ill children to and from hospital, the Bumbleance does "angel trips" to allow parents bring their dying children home to die with their families around them

http://www.bumbleance.com/

At the ploughing today, some hoor stole €800 from the ambulance. Please share this on social media if you can.

kfallon · 25-09-2014 5:48pm

Some people just shame the human race :rolleyes:

Mr E · 25-09-2014 5:49pm

Jesus Christ, how low can people stoop? :mad:

AlanS181824 · 25-09-2014 5:49pm

Evil bastards!

Stealing from sick children is beyond low.

Karma will get them, rest assured.

Ruu · 25-09-2014 5:50pm

Threads merged.

Mod

byhookorbycrook · 25-09-2014 5:53pm

If you want to help to replace the stolen Bumbleance equipment text BUZZ to 50300

Mrs Garth Brooks · 25-09-2014 6:00pm

Cnuts

Did the look of the ambulance not give away that it was for kids? Let's rob it anyway.

What scumbags. Hope they die a slow, rotten death.

byhookorbycrook · 25-09-2014 6:02pm

It seems Tony turned away for a minute to take a call from a parent of a seriously ill child.

indigo twist · 25-09-2014 6:06pm

Scummy thing to do. I world assume (and hope!) it was all covered by insurance, but I'm sure those responsible could do without the hassle involved with a claim.

charlietheminxx · 25-09-2014 6:09pm

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

If you want to help to replace the stolen Bumbleance equipment text BUZZ to 50300

Done and will share on Facebook.

Summer wind · 25-09-2014 6:10pm

I wonder if these horrible excuses for humans have children themselves. How would they feel if it was their children this was done to. What kind of upbringing turns out people like this.

alie · 25-09-2014 6:12pm

Its awful. My daughter attends crumlin regularly and we ofter hear hospital complaining of play equipment being stolen from St Johns. (Cancer unit). People who do stuff like that have no empathy for anyone.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 25-09-2014 6:14pm

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

It seems Tony turned away for a minute to take a call from a parent of a seriously ill child.

I read that. Its absolutely heart breaking. Took a call from a parent to book the bumbleance . Then it was robbed.

Seriously, I have no words.

fits · 25-09-2014 6:19pm

I hadn't heard about the bumbleance but I'm really upset about this. How awful to do something like that. How low a human being you would need to be.

AlanS181824 · 25-09-2014 6:22pm

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

It seems Tony turned away for a minute to take a call from a parent of a seriously ill child.

I actually have no words... I am honestly just... Wow.

I actually requested an IOU from Meteor to be able to donate!

So shocked something like this would happen ...

EyeSight · 25-09-2014 6:25pm

Thing is it makes a huge difference to sick kids, but the thieves will probably only get about 200 euro for it all

ScumLord · 25-09-2014 6:28pm

EyeSight wrote: »

Thing is it makes a huge difference to sick kids, but the thieves will probably only get about 200 euro for it all

They'll probably get nothing for their haul. If they got some drugs they can sell them on the street but I don't think you'll get to many doctors buying equipment off random strangers, especially when it's so specific.

When it makes national news they'll probably just dump everything.

EyeSight · 25-09-2014 6:48pm

ScumLord wrote: »

They'll probably get nothing for their haul. If they got some drugs they can sell them on the street but I don't think you'll get to many doctors buying equipment off random strangers, especially when it's so specific.

When it makes national news they'll probably just dump everything.

I thought they took a tv, ps3 and ipad mini?
EDIT: the article says it has those items(not sure why they'd mention it if it wasn't stolen).

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