world is a crazy place

hit_the_decK

i was coming hom from the pub last night,bout 1 am.
saw this guy taking rubbish out of a green wheelie bin.
it was a guys house i knew ,so i looked again and saw i didnt reconize him.
went over to him and saw he had 2or 3 what looked like phone bills or esb bills. in his hand
i took them off him and told him id ring the police.
he looked eastern european.
have any of you guys ever seen this.
i think il invest in a shreader .

AngryBadger

fair dews, is there some kind of legal info that can be gotten off bills?

spahndirge

That was me, just had one too many last night.


PS - Any chance you could send those bills on? Wasn't finished reading them.

xzanti

Maybe he has no fixed abode and wanted to use a false name and address for something ?? Maybe just looking for something to wipe his ar*e with ??

TheVan

It could have been innocent or sinister, I guess we'll never know!

However I know my parents have always torn up any bills they throw out.....presumably there is information on them that anyone could use!

Shred!.....it's what all the cool kids are doing these days!

hit_the_decK

its a scary taught though.

StupidLikeAFox

its an even scarier thought

JohnCleary

He could have been looking for Credit Card statments, etc.

Let this be a lesson; Tear up bills/statments/anything with personal info on it before you throw it out

impr0v

It was Eddie Hobbs carrying out a covert Income vs Expenditure spot check

astrofool

shred anything with your name on it, they're not expensive these days.

N_Raid

yeah sounds like he was after them for identity theft. all you need to get a lot of IDs is someones birth cert (which afaik is easy to get) and a utility bill. if even. you might have just saved your friend from getting bills for credit cards he didnt get or use.

you dont even have to get a shredder just tear up the bit with your name and address so its unreadable

jrey1981

Yep he defo wanted them for ID theft. My sister had her passport stolen as it was in her handbag and some guy ran up a €15 grand vodafone bill in her name.

ST*

xzanti wrote:

Maybe he has no fixed abode and wanted to use a false name and address for something ??

You are right on the money Xzanti. Holding a bunch of phone bills in his hand? I would of called the cops on the spot.

Atrocity

Those Eastern Europeans, they're a hoot. You should have told him that if you saw him again you would give him 'much beating'

Steoob

this may be a bold statement...but if the middle east and eatern europe and all of their residents around the worldwere to vanish off the face of the earth...then there would be alot less crime and alot less news...not being racist but its true sorry...

like one of my favourite phrases goes...

not all middle easterns are terrorists but all terriorists are middle easterns

LovelyHurling

Steoob wrote:

this may be a bold statement...but if the middle east and eatern europe and all of their residents around the worldwere to vanish off the face of the earth...then there would be alot less crime and alot less news...not being racist

I don't care if you think that, but you could at least admit that it is racist. Unless youre saying that you could remove millions of people from any random area and there would be less global crime, in which case you have a point.

like one of my favourite phrases goes...

This is one of your favourites? Its not quite big like Kennedy or Gandhi is it... I dont want to hear the others

not all middle easterns are terrorists but all terriorists are middle easterns

P. O'Neill
Johnny Adare
Ulrike Meinhof
Adolf Hitler
Timothy McVeigh
Every member of ETA
Every member of RAF
Every meber of the German Red Brigades
Every member of Prima Linea

There are hundreds more examples

The op just happened to mention a point on the wheelie bin man's indentity. What are you talking about???

senordingdong

So what did the man do after you took the bills from him?

Did you ask your friend if he knew anyone like this?

Omnipresence

IdentityTheft is gonna be a huge problem ... even your name, address and date of birth is a serious combination for anyone to have...

As for original bills and documents with financial information on them should defo not be thrown out or better shredded ...

Be careful with receipts espec credit/laser cards

PROTECT YOUR IDENTITY....

Be careful of having online forums giving too much information away about yourself !!!!

Steoob

P. O'Neill
Johnny Adare
Ulrike Meinhof
Adolf Hitler
Timothy McVeigh
Every member of ETA
Every member of RAF
Every meber of the German Red Brigades
Every member of Prima Linea

im not familiar with a number of these people but but from the people i do know none of them are invloved in the last decade or so... im talking about the present... the middle east is in the news practically ALL the time now due to some wrong reason...you cannot deny that...

subway

invest in a coal fire for your house

Fighting Irish

hit_the_decK wrote:

i was coming hom from the pub last night,bout 1 am.
saw this guy taking rubbish out of a green wheelie bin.
it was a guys house i knew ,so i looked again and saw i didnt reconize him.
went over to him and saw he had 2or 3 what looked like phone bills or esb bills. in his hand
i took them off him and told him id ring the police.
he looked eastern european.
have any of you guys ever seen this.
i think il invest in a shreader .

Maybe he needed stuff for the fire :v:

LovelyHurling

Steoob wrote:

i do know none of them are invloved in the last decade or so... im talking about the present... the middle east is in the news practically ALL the time now due to some wrong reason...you cannot deny that...

The middle east is in the news for a few very good reasons actually, theres a war going on there and most of the new religious terrorist organisations are being formed there.

You don't know of any active terrorist organizations outside of the middle east? or even any that were active in the nineties? Fifteen miles from where Im posting is a town called Omagh have you heard of that? Kingsmill? Belfast? FARC? ETA?
Read some newspapers before you post on this topic, everyone's opinion is worth listening to but only as long as they understand what theyre saying. Terrorism is a universal problem, at the moment a lot of it is coming out of the middle east.

Steoob

LovelyHurling wrote:

at the moment a lot of it is coming out of the middle east.

and that was my original point

LovelyHurling

didnt it go more like "all terroists are middle-eastern"?

Atrocity

blah blah racism is bad kids, not all eastern europeans are terrorists. is this going to run for 21 pages of boring political rant? probably.