Idiots at Dublin Airport

Rovi

Spotted this in yesterday's (Friday, 2nd June, 2006) Irish Independent (cut'npasted from www.unison.ie)-
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Arial]Slovaks fined €500 each for toy shootout at airport[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial]
A TOY-GUN "shootout" between two men was not a very grown up thing to do at the best of times, but definitely not when it was in an airport arrivals hall, a court heard yesterday.
The production of two replica handguns by Peter Laurinec (22) and Emanuel Hirec (21) caused a lot of distress among people waiting in Dublin Airport on May 6, Judge Anne Ryan said when she fined them €500 each.
Dublin District Court heard when they started pointing them and pretending to shoot at one another, bystanders alerted airport police and they were arrested.
The pair, who are from Slovakia, and live at Grange View Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour. The court heard they bought the toys in a €2 shop near where they live before setting off for the airport to meet some friends arriving from Slovakia.
Their solicitor, John O'Doherty, said they were in high spirits at the prospect of meeting people from home.
"The toy guns were for joke purposes, nothing more than that and while they are in their 20s, they were acting a lot younger than they are.
"Obviously, people at the airport viewed their behaviour as a lot more sinister than it was, but they now understand the gravity of the situation," Mr O'Doherty said.
Mr Laurinec has been living here nine months and Mr Hirec for one month. Both are employed as warehouses workers.
Judge Ryan, who was shown the toy guns, said it was a very serious matter which caused distress to a lot of people at the airport.
"To somebody who does not know they were toys, they look very authentic," she said.
She would not impose a jail sentence because they had no previous convictions and they had acknowledged, through an interpreter, that they understood the seriousness of what they had done.
"I hope they do realise what they have done and will not come before the courts again."
The judge gave them two months to pay the fines and also ordered the destruction of the toys.
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Idiots!

Glad to see the judge broke their toys though
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tom_ass19

Rovi wrote:

The judge gave them two months to pay the fines and also ordered the destruction of the toys.

haha.....i would ave kept em....lol

johngalway

These two must hold jobs as osterich impersonators as they seem to have their heads stuck below ground for the last half decade or so :rolleyes: We all do stupid things at some time or another but why on earth bring fake guns to an airport Very lucky though that they chose Ireland to live in and not UK or USA or they may have been permenantly put below ground!

John