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Armed Standoff

  • 21-06-2011 6:56pm
    #1
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭


    goin on since 6pm man on the roof of the polish shop on penrose lane wavin what looks like a dirty harry size automatic handgun at the cops


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  • #2
    Typhoon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Typhoon.


    i know what they're thinking.....did he fire 5 shots or 6??


  • #3
    dayshah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dayshah


    Hoffmans wrote: »
    goin on since 6pm some gangster up on the roof of the polish shop on penrose lane wavin what looks like a dirty harry size automatic handgun at the cops, seemingly he shot someone already downstairs....:eek:

    Wow, a 6ft tall piece. That's a pretty big handgun.


  • #4
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Typhoon. wrote: »
    i know what they're thinking.....did he fire 5 shots or 6??

    With his "automatic handgun". It's either a revolver or a semi auto pistol. I highly doubt it's an automatic of any kind.


  • #5
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    The Beretta 93R is an automatic pistol in point of fact but I agree I'd be amazed if someone had one here.

    Is anyone in the area? This is as random a thread as it gets.


  • #6
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    If I was near the area I'd bring a bag of cans up and enjoy the nights entertainment :D


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  • #7
    Mysterious&Shy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Mysterious&Shy


    Yep! I'm right across from it! :eek:

    Was wondering what was going on! Gardai stopped me and advised me to stay inside :eek:


  • #8
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,331 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    It'll be a brave Garda that tries to talk down a Smith & Wesson 29 with an 8.5inch barrel.


  • #9
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    some craic here cops are shi##in bricks tho with the size of his piece ,wouldnt blame them....

    ps:not an add for dignity....lol


  • #10
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,331 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Mysterious&Shy wrote: »
    Yep! I'm right across from it! :eek:

    Was wondering what was going on! Gardai stopped me and advised me to stay inside :eek:

    And there bullet proof windows your looking through?


  • #11
    decies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭decies


    Attention reporters where exactly is this???


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  • #12
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    A mate of mine lives on the roof level pretty much across the road. I'd say he's having a ball watch this. Anybody got a background?


  • #13
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    decies wrote: »
    Attention reporters where exactly is this???

    Usual media blackout, can't have some looper with a gun getting live media attention or there would be one a week happening.


  • #14
    Mysterious&Shy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Mysterious&Shy


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    And there bullet proof windows your looking through?

    My apartment is on the other side so unless he can get me through bricks, I'd assume I'm okay :p


  • #15
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    behind aldi...wlr just picked it up lol 2 hrs later


    yea its somethin similar to this , unconfirmed report there was that is he unloaded 5 slugs into somone....
    4430792947_a657b4ede8.jpg


  • #16
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    decies wrote: »
    Attention reporters where exactly is this???

    Just down from the showboat unless I'm mistaken.


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Wonder is it a real gun or an airsoft type.


  • #18
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    Tenner says its an airsoft gun:D


  • #19
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,331 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ziedth wrote: »
    Just down from the showboat unless I'm mistaken.

    If he gets shot rubber necking it's your fault!


  • #20
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    deffo not airsoft proper handgun , yer on !


  • #21
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    Hoffmans wrote: »
    deffo not airsoft proper handgun , yer on !

    In fairness it's impossible to tell without an upclose look.


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  • #22
    LonBon
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭LonBon


    I don't think he shot anyone, was down there at 5:45 and the road had been cordoned off. No sign of ambulances and it looked like it had just kinda started. Still nothing much happening when I left at 6:10, quiet enough apart from the guards going in and out of the building.


  • #23
    deeks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭deeks


    Junction of O'Connell Street and Penrose Lane now fully cordoned off and an ambulance and a number of squad cars at the corner.


  • #24
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Pics or it didn't happen.


  • #25
    LonBon
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭LonBon


    No way! That's terrible. Really didn't think it would be anything that serious!


  • #26
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Any updates lads. Rang one of me mates living down that way. He running around top floor of his place trying to get a look


  • #27
    jimbojazz
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    Feckin' eejits, do they not realise it's the starter for the Tall ships practicing


  • #28
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    hope no one left the dinner in the oven down that way place on lockdown:(


  • #29
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    That big armed response unit jeep there and all.


  • #30
    jakedixon2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭jakedixon2004


    seanybiker wrote: »
    That big armed response unit jeep there and all.

    Is the partyvan already down there?


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  • #31
    decies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭decies


    Mike get down there and find out what's happening?


  • #32
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    jakedixon2004 wrote: »
    seanybiker wrote: »
    That big armed response unit jeep there and all.

    Is the partyvan already down there?
    According to one of the lads it is.


  • #33
    fitzcoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭fitzcoff


    Wlrfm (Official) Update: Garda Press Office say its a stand-off, no one has been hurt

    Taken from facebook


  • #34
    batm!ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭batm!ke


    Mad! Hearing loads of different stories. Guys family are supposed to be there trying to talk him down. A crowd of about 40-60 bystanders down there now for a good aul gawp!


  • #35
    Finnbar01
    Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    Where are the pictues and the videos?

    Personally, I just shoot him.

    :D


  • #36
    jakedixon2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭jakedixon2004


    I am just back from there and somehow I was able to walk through all of the Garda tape without any word.


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  • #37
    Asmodean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭Asmodean


    Where's John mc clane when you need him!


  • #38
    fitzcoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭fitzcoff


    On WLR's Facebook Page


    Helena Power
    Do you have any official updates on the goings on around the glen?
    9 minutes ago · Like ·
    David Cassidy likes this.

    Paul Collins what john o mahony said is true , i am in having a pint there too
    8 minutes ago · Like


    John O Mahony
    my dad just saw it all!!a bullet just flew past his silver head of hair!!he is now having a pint of guinness in the showboat in the middle of watching fair city!!
    14 minutes ago · Like ·
    2 people like this.


  • #39
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Dayo went and got photos of every angle then cops told him to fook off with camera. Nice amount of cops around but doesn't look crazy


  • #40
    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    Was asked to stop taking pictures by Gardai because family members are present i asked him if somebody was hurt he replied"not yet",second armed response unit has just arrived from cork and large crowd starting to gather.


  • #41
    Woodgate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 775 ✭✭✭Woodgate


    No one has been shot. Seemingly it's an Irish guy. Threw a table out the window and said he would shoot (don't know who, could be himself) if anyone came in. Armed response unit there at the mo.


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  • #42
    jo06555
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭jo06555


    Woodgate wrote: »
    No one has been shot. Seemingly it's an Irish guy. Threw a table out the window and said he would shoot (don't know who, could be himself) if anyone came in. Armed response unit there at the mo.

    IV drove by seen it lots of cops I heard he shot in the air is that true?


  • #43
    Asmodean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭Asmodean


    Christ I hope no one gets hurt and they can resolve the situation peacefully. Wonder what pushed him over the edge.


  • #44
    jimbojazz
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    Anyone getting the feeling that this isnt going to end nice. Hope the negotiators are capable and that the RRU arent just looking for an easy target.


  • #45
    jo06555
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭jo06555


    Woodgate wrote: »
    No one has been shot. Seemingly it's an Irish guy. Threw a table out the window and said he would shoot (don't know who, could be himself) if anyone came in. Armed response unit there at the mo.

    IV drove by seen it lots of cops I heard he shot in the air is that true? Heard name too lots would know of him


  • #46
    Roomic Cube
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Roomic Cube


    I wanna go and take a look now!


  • #47
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I just got a call from a friend asking if I was on a roof in town. It all makes sense now!


  • #48
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    gazza is on the way with the cans boy.


  • #49
    jimbojazz
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    leg wax wrote: »
    gazza is on the way with the cans boy.


    He is too, just saw him in the KFC with a Party Barrell


  • #50
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    jimbojazz wrote: »
    He is too, just saw him in the KFC with a Party Barrell
    Would ya reach the river from there with a fishing rod?|


  • #51
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Roomic Cube wrote: »
    I wanna go and take a look now!
    Pick me up in hillview haha. I have a bag of cans and all lol


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