RTE Rammed

Just heard on the news that a Nissan Micra drove into the front entrance of RTE :eek: .
Wonder if the driver is the same guy that gave Pat an earfull on the Late Late.

Rb

Wouldn't surprise me if it was him tbh, hes done it before to the road authorities (iirc) in protest. Drove the car into their front doors and it got towed, all because they wouldn't listen to his ideas apparently.

Wishbone Ash

Edited.

lostexpectation

omigod it must be as they said he parked his car blocking the RSA a few weeks back?

he must be pissed off at being manhandled out of the studio last week and mistakenly believes he's been even more oppressed, does nonone still have a link to the ray darcy interview

I looked his name up on the web, didn't find anything about at all except that one reference to the rte webchat, I was expecting details his highly unoriginal blackbox idea

does anyone have that interview he eid with ray darcy
its harder to find radio archives or clips then tv? argh

was it him

Dave!

A Micra? lol

MrJoeSoap

Right, last week was funny, but this is a joke (if its him).

Lock him up.

Creamy Goodness

great way to get his point across on road safety.

yeh let's go crash a car...

****ing moron tbh.

qwertplaywert

yep.....i would have used bombs
*looks around,sweating*
bombs?who mentioned bombs?!?

eamon234

I was wondering why The Plank was driving a Monster Truck last night someone must have tipped him off! That's probably why he waited til tonight

Mossy Monk

whoever it was, lock them up please. last thing we need on the roads is another lunatic

Tabnabs

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1203/rte.html

The main building at the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook in Dublin was damaged last night by a man who drove his car into it.

The man rammed the car into the doors of the building as audience members from Tubridy Tonight were leaving the main reception area.

No one was injured in the incident.
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There was no disruption to programmes and viewers were not aware of the incident.

RTÉ Security has identified the driver as Paul Stokes, the same man who disrupted the transmission of The Late Late Show on 24 November.

The man crashed his car into the revolving doors leading to the reception area of the television building shortly after 11pm last night.

He had entered the complex by crashing his Nissan Micra through a security barrier at the Nutley Lane entrance before driving the car 40 metres to the television building.

The man was detained by RTÉ security staff before being handed over to the gardaí.

He is being detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act at Donnybrook Garda Station.

Dundalk Daily

Off his rocker, crazy that he could get that far in.

Mossy Monk

sad bastard. jail would be great for him

Heisenberg.

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DublinWriter

Maybe he was just demonstrating his 'amazing' invention to prevent car crashes?

...oopps.

Ghost Train

Sound like he has a screw loose

Our man in Havana

The incident happened as audience members from Tubridy Tonight were leaving the main reception area.

It was probably way more entertaining than Tubridy Tonight!

mike65

He's the sort of guy who people laugh at until he kills someone (bit like that mad priest Horan). He clearly needs psychiatric assesment and proberly a long course of pills!

Mike.

Guy:Incognito

He is crazy. He was locked when he ranted at kenny and that ray darcy interview was hilarious, the guy just kept laughing at himself.

Someone getting injured might have been the lesser of two evils as he might have got jail time.

Lunatic.Good to see he's keeping his promise to keep the roads safe.:rolleyes:

mickd

What a difference a week makes, last week people were "whacking off" with excitement over this man's Late Late appearance now he should be locked up. Trust Ray "How mad is that" D'arcy to give this disturbed man even more publicity.

Creamy Goodness

yeh because last week it was funny no one had a chance of getting physically hurt, but when you drive a car into a building no matter what size of a car it is there's a huge chance of someone getting hurt.

and the irony of it all is hilarious tbh, what must he be thinking.

Dave!

mickd wrote:

What a difference a week makes, last week people were "whacking off" with excitement over this man's Late Late appearance now he should be locked up.

Slagging Pat Kenny on TV is not dangerous.

Driving your car into the reception door of RTÉ IS dangerous.

Of course he should be charged over it.

Milktrolley

DaveMcG wrote:

Slagging Pat Kenny on TV is not dangerous.

Driving your car into the reception door of RTÉ IS dangerous.

Of course he should be charged over it.

My sentiments exactly. And to do it when so many people are waiting in the foyer? Lock him up.

Mossy Monk

mickd wrote:

What a difference a week makes, last week people were "whacking off" with excitement over this man's Late Late appearance now he should be locked up

what would you suggest? he could have seriously injured someone

Rb

Mossy Monk wrote:

what would you suggest? he could have seriously injured someone

Or killed someone, which is quite possible given the audience members and staff going in and out of RTE day in day out.

Hes a danger to himself and God knows who else he chooses to protest against, prison would definately do him some good. Or at least he'd get what he deserves.

Our man in Havana

He needs to be sent to the central mental hospital in Dundrum for some help.

Kojak

I've heard of not liking the programmes that RTÉ show, but this is ridiculous.

So much for high-quality security at RTÉ :rolleyes:

Cake Fiend

Fair play to the man, standing up for what he believes in.

And as we all know, the best way to get yourself taken seriously is to first break into a nationally broadcast TV show, ranting and raving on air, then later drive your car through the security barrier and into the building!


.... oh, wait...

11.3 SECONDS

He will appear in the District Court tomorrow.

Assuming that he is charged tomorrow it means that we become restricted in what we can say before he is tried due to the sub judice rule. So, get your observations in now !!

Does anybody actually know what the hell this guy's "campaign" is about or is he just a general purpose crank who opines on everything ?

StupidLikeAFox

Give him his own chat show!

mickd

It was just an observation that is all. Anybody who calls someone a piece of **** to their face regardless of what state they are in has a problem, all the more on national television. Then he tries to ram the door with his car the following week. Disturbing behaviour all round is what it is. The man needs help not to be made a hero of one week then a villian the next week.

Dave!

mickd wrote:

It was just an observation that is all. Anybody who calls someone a piece of **** to their face regardless of what state they are in has a problem, all the more on national television.

What? People insult others all the time, it doesn't mean that they have a problem, save with the person they called a piece of sh*t. You must have had the most polite unbringing ever......

mickd wrote:

Then he tries to ram the door with his car the following week. Disturbing behaviour all round is what it is. The man needs help not to be made a hero of one week then a villian the next week.

But he did something funny and harmless (and something which alot of people would like to do) the first time, and something reckless and dangerous the second! Of course public opinions changes! If I were giving food to homeless people one day you might say I'm a nice bloke, and if you caught me kicking them in the teeth the next day, you'd surely have a different opinion.
I don't think it's that unusual.

Anyways.

Sparky

A micra... lol.

Maybe the RTE execs will give him his own show!

lodgepole

Kojak wrote:

So much for high-quality security at RTÉ :rolleyes:

There's no reason for RTÉ to have security stronger than they currently have. A one off event by a man clearly disturbed isn't evidence that they should.

BaZmO*

Actually, when you think of it. Yer man crashing into to the building does actually prove that his safety invention would work.
Wasn't his invention a car that's driven by a computer rather than manually thereby eliminating human error?

mickd wrote:

Trust Ray "How mad is that" D'arcy to give this disturbed man even more publicity.

I don't think Ray D'Arcy was trying to give him publicity. He even said himself that the guy wouldn't have gotten any airtime on RTE (obviously) and that he may actually have a valid point to put across. As it happened, he didn't. He just waffled on like some drunken fool that you'd meet in the local pub.

Avns1s

BaZmO* wrote:

Wasn't his invention a car that's driven by a computer rather than manually thereby eliminating human error?

Maybe he should have fitted it to his own car.:D


Last week I was interested to hear what he was supposed to have invented. Now I fear it's probably as "off the wall" as himself so I don't want to know.

BaZmO*

Avns1s wrote:

Maybe he should have fitted it to his own car.:D

Eh, that was the point I was making.

SprostonGreen

Some kind of restraining order will be handed out I'd say. What a nutjob.

eth0_

Bond-007 wrote:

He needs to be sent to the central mental hospital in Dundrum for some help.

Why? Why not St Pat's?

Ghost Train

SprostonGreen wrote:

Some kind of restraining order will be handed out I'd say. What a nutjob.

maybe a driving ban too eh?

J.R.HARTLEY

has to be a fine or more for malicous damage to rte's property

Tabnabs

Man charged over RTÉ car damage

04 December 2006 14:50
A man has appeared at the Dublin District Court charged in relation to an incident on Saturday night, when a car was driven against the door of the RTÉ studios in Dublin.

52-year-old Paul Stokes, who is self-employed and has an address at Mountpelier Parade in Monkstown, was charged with one count of criminal damage.

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel, sign on twice weekly at Blackrock Garda Station and not come within a 2-mile radius of RTÉ.

Judge Aingeal Ní Chondúin told Mr Stokes to get a solicitor. He is to reappear again before the court on 15 January.

The court heard Mr Stokes was arrested at 11.10pm on Saturday night at the RTÉ studios. He was taken to Donnybrook Garda Station where was he was questioned and charged at 4.50am on Sunday morning.

The court was told he made no reply when charged. There was no garda objection to bail, but Garda Joe O'Callaghan from Donnybrook asked that a number of restrictions be laid down.

During the proceedings, Mr Stokes asked that the court move to strike out the charge. He said he had been in communication with RTÉ over the last 8-10 weeks about a device he had invented to prevent all road accidents.

Mr Stokes claimed that RTÉ was failing in its duty by not highlighting this. But Judge Ní Chondúin stopped Mr Stokes, and said that this was only the start of the process, and only concerned the matter of bail. She advised Mr Stokes that if he had a gripe he should get himself a solicitor who would be better able to deal with it.

Mr Stokes asked did the bail condition preventing him from coming within two miles of RTÉ mean he could not drive past the campus on his way into the city centre. The judge said that it did.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1204/rte.html

BaZmO*

He sounds like a right bleedin nutter. Even trying to represent himself in court. :rolleyes:

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel

Does that mean that he can't contact his daughter? I'm sure she'll be glad of that condition tbh.

J.R.HARTLEY

i thought you couldn't represent yourself in ireland. this guy needs a f'in slap and someone to tell him cop on, if he does have a lifesaving device he's not saving anyone with his carry on

Milktrolley

BaZmO* wrote:

Does that mean that he can't contact his daughter?

According to TV3's Rebekah O'Neill, Paul Stokes asked the judge that question, and it was agreed that she would be exempt from that clause. The judge also advised him that he would have to find a new way into town from his Monkstown home.

A few people have mentioned Paul Stokes' comments on RTÉ's road safety site. He begins:

As a practical person...

Practical? Definitely the odd screw or two loose.

lostexpectation

Dyflin wrote:

Man charged over RTÉ car damage

04 December 2006 14:50
A man has appeared at the Dublin District Court charged in relation to an incident on Saturday night, when a car was driven against the door of the RTÉ studios in Dublin.

52-year-old Paul Stokes, who is self-employed and has an address at Mountpelier Parade in Monkstown, was charged with one count of criminal damage.

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel, sign on twice weekly at Blackrock Garda Station and not come within a 2-mile radius of RTÉ.

Judge Aingeal Ní Chondúin told Mr Stokes to get a solicitor. He is to reappear again before the court on 15 January.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1204/rte.html

what are the chances he won't get up to anything else til january?

no pyschological assesment or anything?

Our man in Havana

no pyschological assesment or anything?

I don't think that the court can order that in this case. Today was only a bail hearing.

lostexpectation

Bond-007 wrote:

I don't think that the court can order that in this case. Today was only a bail hearing.

imagine if they thought of doing something with him at last weeks bail hearing eh?

Our man in Havana

lostexpectation wrote:

imagine if they thought of doing something with him at last weeks bail hearing eh?

What bail hearing? He was not even charged then.