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Armed robber gets owned!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    If we did that to the skanger animals (not humans as far as I am concerned) it would be nice to see a few off them ending up on a slab every time they tried to rob some decent person maybe in the future we will have a national skanger cull and wipe them out for good :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭LundiMardi


    it's a damn good thing the woman got out of the way, i can't see yer man thinking clearly in that one!! He surely would have shot one of them in the crossfire if they hadn't moved!!

    Oh, and what exactly was he stealing? it just looks like an office.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    It's a motel.

    John


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    Yeah that's great, some guy is trying to steal money and gets killed. Fantastic, lets all have a laugh at that. God forbid anyone here would have to resort to stealing.

    This is what happens when people confuse dirty harry with real life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    classic!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭LundiMardi


    oh did the robber die? I didn't realise...





















    meh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 978 ✭✭✭bounty


    oh did the robber die? I didn't realise...

    No, the robber got 7 - 11 years in jail. The clerk wore a glock t-shirt to the trial :D
    Yeah that's great, some guy is trying to steal money and gets killed. Fantastic, lets all have a laugh at that. God forbid anyone here would have to resort to stealing.

    This is what happens when people confuse dirty harry with real life.

    A week or two before the robber verbally threaten the clerk for a room and the robber was forced to leave, he swore revenge

    A week later, he returned and tryed to rob the place with .45 Long colt revolver, so "roof top" (the clerk's forum name from one of my gun forums) shots the scum bag

    So RE*AC*TOR, he was hardly the victim here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    woody wrote:
    If we did that to the skanger animals (not humans as far as I am concerned) it would be nice to see a few off them ending up on a slab every time they tried to rob some decent person maybe in the future we will have a national skanger cull and wipe them out for good :D

    That's a lovely opinion right there. :rolleyes:

    "Animals... Not human... Cull and wipe them out for good..." Surely that kind of talk is best left to the denizens of Stormfront or some such?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    I hope the insurance company doesn't see that video. They'd go mental to see the clerk shooting at the mother and kid like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    That's a lovely opinion right there. :rolleyes:

    "Animals... Not human... Cull and wipe them out for good..." Surely that kind of talk is best left to the denizens of Stormfront or some such?

    Scumbags are not a race, so he doesnt need to go to stormfront to hate them. If your willing to break the law, you are gambling with the consequences, which in turn are your own fault and no one elses. He knew the possible repercussions so he deseveres it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Stekelly wrote:
    Scumbags are not a race

    Never said they were, it's just the typified opinion that's uncannily similar to the style of posting usually found on such sites as the one I've mentioned. I'd be plenty in favour of dealing with skangers and scumbags more harshly than is current, but ranting about non-human scum and wiping people out is a pretty spurious extreme in anyone's books.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    That video and everyone who thinks the clerk 'TOTTALY FOCKIN PWNED DAT SKYUMBAG!!1' are utterly abhorrent. Cretins, the lot of you. It's no wonder that society is so bolloxed when you consider that instead of trying to prevent people from pursuing a life of crime, we praise the eejit who shoots them with a handgun, almost hitting a mother and child in the crossfire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Shabadu wrote:
    we praise the eejit who shoots them with a handgun, almost hitting a mother and child in the crossfire.

    Agreed. He completely missed the damn mother and baby for crying out loud! Two consecutive headshots, then we'd be talking something praise-worthy. That dingus couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Heinrich


    Never said they were, it's just the typified opinion that's uncannily similar to the style of posting usually found on such sites as the one I've mentioned. I'd be plenty in favour of dealing with skangers and scumbags more harshly than is current, but ranting about non-human scum and wiping people out is a pretty spurious extreme in anyone's books.

    I won't show my opinion on this issue but frankly I would like to hear comments from victims of crime regarding the judicial outcome of their misfortunes rather than the armchair know-it-all.

    I do wonder about the mindset of some of these criminals, notably the most recent suspected murderer with his 28 previous convictions...

    ...extreme:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    At leaset he wasnt FPS Doug.


    "BOOOOM Headshot"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    Thank Christ some of you lot aren't allowed to own weapons. Imagine the bedlam if guns were as readily available here as in the United States. Not only from the scumbags but from the knob-ends who think it's hilarious to shoot people.

    Look at the face the mother gives the clerk directly after he fires his shots. She can't believe it.

    And the music... For **** sake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    That's a lovely opinion right there. :rolleyes:

    "Animals... Not human... Cull and wipe them out for good..." Surely that kind of talk is best left to the denizens of Stormfront or some such?

    Nope Skangers are filth pure and simple there choose to be that way against society and I choose to live right and by the law, I am only express disgust but I would rather do more.... And as for stormfront they are idiots.... skangers are animals and treat joe bloggs normal citizen like a slush fund for there promiscious.immoral and criminal like behaviour.

    I would thinking most citizens in ireland and also non-nationals would agree they are scum as was that scumbag robbing the motel :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Sorry I can't really get into that kind of footage unless it's accompanied by two souless grinning idiots spewing reassuring puns that appeal to honest godfearing middle-class America.

    "You can be sure the robber didn't get a *bang* out of that! The gunman is currently booked into a nearby motel for 7 to 11 ..... *years*"

    Ah genius those writers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭muletide


    on a side note anyone know the song in the long version


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 978 ✭✭✭bounty


    Pigman II wrote:
    "You can be sure the robber didn't get a *bang* out of that! The gunman is currently booked into a nearby motel for 7 to 11 ..... *years*"

    Ah genius those writers!

    So you watched "Worlds most violent motel robberies 17" too? :D

    I found a post from the clerk in the video, on a forum:
    Well I am the shooter, Rooftop Voter.
    Obviously there are a couple of Nay sayers, which is fine. Some may not have the instestinal fortitude to defend their own lives. If you want to take that chance that a robber isn't going to kill you after giving up cash, or what not, that's fine and tottaly your choice. It's not mine. Do you really think I gave two ****s about the money in the cash register??? NO, I'm worried about the guy holding a big ****ing .45 revolver at me my friend. Would I have been fast enough to draw down on the guy if my she wasn't there, I don't know, probably not, but I have been tought the best action is reaction from the person who trained me, which would mean I would have to come up with another plan and quick, but that wasn't the case. I worked with what I had. You have split seconds to thing about what's going on, and what to do, and lives could possibly hang in the balance, have fun making the choice. Also, I was in the middle of trying to tell him to drop the gun when he jumped back and I started to see a gun come up, that's when I ducked. If you don't want to get shot, don't make sudden movements in that situation, especially with your gun hand. When I popped back up I had less than a second to decide whether or not I was going to fire. Do you shoot a person who just a tenth of second earilier had a gun on you, or do you wait to see if he's going to shoot you first??? No brainer to me. Was I scared, hell yeah, but I've learned through a lot of other past expierances how to keep it together when the **** hit's the proverbial fan. Also, I am not an un trained shooter. Quite the opposite, I train others. I am a firearms instructor here in Ohio, and shoot over 1,000 rounds of ammo monthly (usually) between an assortement of "assualt rifles" and mixed handguns, usually in the .40 or 9mm. I also wasn't that close to the kid, a little over 3 or so feet at least, that's enough room for me. You can doubt me, and second guess me all you'd like, which is fine, every one is entitled to their own opinion. I might be back later.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    Shabadu wrote:
    That video and everyone who thinks the clerk 'TOTTALY FOCKIN PWNED DAT SKYUMBAG!!1' are utterly abhorrent. Cretins, the lot of you. It's no wonder that society is so bolloxed when you consider that instead of trying to prevent people from pursuing a life of crime, we praise the eejit who shoots them with a handgun, almost hitting a mother and child in the crossfire.
    You've obviously never been robbed at gunpoint...

    Happened to me in work once (and then again the next week but I wasn't there that time) and I'd just LOVE to have had something to put holes in that guy with...

    Fair enough it was an incredibly stupid thing to do with the mother and child there but if they hadn't been there I'd have no problem whatsoever with him blasting that bastard to pieces...

    Edit: btw the guy who robbed us that time was just looking for money so myself and the other guy on that night just stood aside and handed him the money... not worth getting shot over... but it's just the fact that some scumbag decides he has the right to pull a f*cking gun on you that got me so pissed... not the money that was lost (which was bugger all cos we tend to keep the till as empty as possible in case that ever happens)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Agreed. He completely missed the damn mother and baby for crying out loud! Two consecutive headshots, then we'd be talking something praise-worthy. That dingus couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

    Rofl


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Shabadu wrote:
    That video and everyone who thinks the clerk 'TOTTALY FOCKIN PWNED DAT SKYUMBAG!!1' are utterly abhorrent. Cretins, the lot of you. It's no wonder that society is so bolloxed when you consider that instead of trying to prevent people from pursuing a life of crime, we praise the eejit who shoots them with a handgun, almost hitting a mother and child in the crossfire.


    Ah well tbh, I think that'd prevent him for doing it again for a while. Either that of he'll just get a bigger gun and shoot first. Meh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    The thing is, the robber probably bought the gun legally from the American equivalent to Asda or something. Christ, its a motel, can't have been more than a few hundred in the till, which insurance would have covered. Shooting with the mother and child so close like that was about the stupidest thing he could have done there, except for pissing on the robbers shoes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    ahhhhh... its never a proper thrad without the PC brigade... would ye ever get real.... and as for that storm front comment... what has this got to do with a bunch of white power/pride idiots. this is about self defence. if you watch the video properly you can see the angle makes it look like the shots where closer to the woman and child than they really where. not only that but the shots where being fired from left to right so they where in no danger what so ever.

    Ahhhh... would you ever read what I was refering to in the first place with the stormfront comment before talking bollocks? Or how could woody's comments be anything to do with "Self defence"? And me.... PC Brigade? I think not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Shooting with the mother and child so close like that was about the stupidest thing he could have done there, except for pissing on the robbers shoes.

    Because she and the child were so close to the clerk when he started firing hed have had to turn about 30-45% (estimate - hard to see from the camera angle) away from the robber to hit them, or the mother would have to do something really stupid like step into the line of fire. They seem safe, if shocked, because theyre so close.

    Personally I think the clerk pulling the gun was incredibly risky to begin with, and shooting the guy 3 times in the back as he ran out was just a tad excessive. I would, like others already, not consider the contents of a till worth a potential bloodbath. But he may have seen a chance to draw the gun and given how nervous the clerk would have been having a gun put in his face by some lowlife and the risk involved, its understandable he wouldnt stop shooting until he was 100% sure the robber was down and out. If he hadnt shot him the robber would have escaped, and its possible the robber would have returned a week, or a month or even a year later to finish what he started. Im glad the robber got what was coming to him, and Im glad the two clerks and the mother and child got out safely.

    On the other hand, in Ireland, shooting a guy 3 times in the back is seen as murder by the law, regardless of context, and the clerk would go down for it much like the farmer in England, or that more recent case in Ireland where knackers tried to rob another farmer. So the clerk has another reason to be glad the gun lobby is so huge in the US.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    The robber deserved a back full of lead. Pity the clerk didn't have a desert eagle or something a bit meatier to really f**k him up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    I just keep thinking of that Simpsons episode.
    "You missed the baby, you missed the blind guy...."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Einst&#252 wrote: »
    The thing is, the robber probably bought the gun legally from the American equivalent to Asda or something. Christ, its a motel, can't have been more than a few hundred in the till, which insurance would have covered. Shooting with the mother and child so close like that was about the stupidest thing he could have done there, except for pissing on the robbers shoes.
    As was quoted earlier it not about protecting the money, its protecting yourself from someone pointing a gun at you who has presumably threatened to kill you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    this is about self defence. if you watch the video properly you can see the angle makes it look like the shots where closer to the woman and child than they really where. not only that but the shots where being fired from left to right so they where in no danger what so ever.
    that's how the cold war started.


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