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"If you witnessed it, give us a call!"

  • 31-05-2007 8:09pm
    #1
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,194 ✭✭✭✭


    Did anyone hear someone text in Gerry Ryan this morning says he or she was on a bus travelling in by Heuston Station and saw some guy get out of his car with a hatchet and hit some bloke over the head with it. And said everyone else on the bus was shocked.

    Gerry Ryan was going nuts - "if you witnessed it, give us a call!"

    Kept listening for about an hour - no-one called!


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,575 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Not related to Luas. :) Moved from Commuting & Transport.


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Maybe it never actually happened, I've wondered in the past how easy it might be to phone in about some incident and build it up with the help of a few mates into some sort of 'emergency'. A sort of zero-budget CBS radio War of the Worlds type situation.

    Mike.


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,194 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Victor wrote:
    Not related to Luas. :) Moved from Commuting & Transport.
    Was wondering where this went.. apologies Victor!
    mike65 wrote:
    Maybe it never actually happened, I've wondered in the past how easy it might be to phone in about some incident and build it up with the help of a few mates into some sort of 'emergency'. A sort of zero-budget CBS radio War of the Worlds type situation.
    That's what i thought too. But it actually it did happen.. a woman phoned in Gerry Ryan this morning to talk about it. The Gardai had the area cordoned off investigating it yesterday!


  • #5
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    This reminds me of the time I was coming home on a bus and spotted two guys squaring up to each other on the street...

    As the bus passed I saw one guy walk away, the other guy pick up a rock and throw it, and the rock head right for the back of the blokes head. The whole thing went out of view after that, so I don't know if your man did get a slap of the brick or not.

    It was one of those WTF? moments because everything happened within the space of a few seconds, it happened in a decent enough area (wasn't dodge-ville) and it was rush out, broad daylight with plenty of people around.

    I didn't ring Gerry Ryan, though.


  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    flogen wrote:
    I didn't ring Gerry Ryan, though.

    How are we supposed to believe you then?


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  • #7
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    mike65 wrote:
    Maybe it never actually happened, I've wondered in the past how easy it might be to phone in about some incident and build it up with the help of a few mates into some sort of 'emergency'. A sort of zero-budget CBS radio War of the Worlds type situation.

    Mike.

    "me screen, Me screen is lighting up, callers all over the country, and they all want the pac-man smiley back!"


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