Bank robbery in AIB Sandyford?

qwertz

Was just driving by the AIB in Sandyford, four Garda cars and three black vans, the whole area taped off. Anybody know more?

Pighead

Is there a doughnut shop next door to the bank?

Philemon86

Yeah Just seen that myself looked like there was somone lying in the car park too.

danbhala

just seen the same as yourself. when we drove past we saw a chap on the ground in the carpark. most likely cuffed up. there was also a securicor van in the car park so my guess is that it was an attempted robbery on that... what the hell was the chap thinking....

roadrunner41

I heard there where two shots fired, fired from a gun...:eek:

SDK

Yeah, I heard what sounded like gun fire and loadsa garda cars. Apparently a guy tried to rob a secure van in AIB. He was shot, tis why he was lying on the ground. This feels like a film.

Philemon86

Where's Horatio when you need him ?.
"it seems Crime (puts on sunglasses) Dosent Pay"

danbhala

mental.. he must have been armed. the guards must have been tipped about it...

Chucky the tree

He was obviously watching Heat on RTE1 last night and got a bit carried away with himself.

is_that_so

RTE are saying this.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0823/robbery.html

DrEvil

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0823/robbery.html

Orlee

is_that_so wrote:

RTE are saying this.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0823/robbery.html

was so just about to do that

danbhala

all will be ok,

"Gardaí are investigating."

The Hill Billy

Move along now. Nothing to see here...

roadrunner41

:eek:

Dyr

ppfftt if only they had turbancop this would never have happened :mad:

Pighead

Not a word about this on www.breakingnews.ie. Absoloutely disgraceful. Breaking news Pigheads arse. Anybody got the number for the Consumer Ombudsman. Time to put an end to this farce.:mad:

Hellm0

I saw the whole thing, I work just above where it happened.
Was sitting having my lunch when I heard what sounded like a car crash. Fair enough I thought. Then I heard shouts and what sounded like gunshots(I've heard gunshots before). I go to the window to find a brawl of lads running around with hand guns and one guy with a machine gun, they werent wearing any identifying clothing so needless to say I was well wigged out.

There was 2 cars which looked like they had rammed a black sab saloon, they dragged some lad out of the car and wrestled him to the ground and began violently kicking him. Fair enough if they just wanted to subdue the guy(and I have NO pity for scummers) but they were REALLY tearing into him. Even after they had him cuffed and on the floor(with one guy standing on his head) another guy came over and kicked him in the head, just for laughs I'm guessing. They all had put on special branch caps at this point(the guy with the machine gun put on a bally clava).

Looks like they were attempting a bank robbery, odd considering "they" was just one guy who got the **** knocked out of him but there ya go. There was a securicor van outside AIB at the time but I aint entirely sure, I saw them taking a large bag from the car and later when I went out for a smoke I'm pretty sure I saw a gloved guard showing off a pretty damn big bag of coke to his mates.

Anyone know anything about why this all happened?

WindSock

Pighead wrote:

Breaking Pigheads arse.

heehee.

Riesen_Meal

Hellm0 wrote:

I saw the whole thing, I work just above where it happened.
Was sitting having my lunch when I heard what sounded like a car crash. Fair enough I thought. Then I heard shouts and what sounded like gunshots(I've heard gunshots before). I go to the window to find a brawl of lads running around with hand guns and one guy with a machine gun, they werent wearing any identifying clothing so needless to say I was well wigged out.

There was 2 cars which looked like they had rammed a black sab saloon, they dragged some lad out of the car and wrestled him to the ground and began violently kicking him. Fair enough if they just wanted to subdue the guy(and I have NO pity for scummers) but they were REALLY tearing into him. Even after they had him cuffed and on the floor(with one guy standing on his head) another guy came over and kicked him in the head, just for laughs I'm guessing. They all had put on special branch caps at this point(the guy with the machine gun put on a bally clava).

Looks like they were attempting a bank robbery, odd considering "they" was just one guy who got the **** knocked out of him but there ya go. There was a securicor van outside AIB at the time but I aint entirely sure, I saw them taking a large bag from the car and later when I went out for a smoke I'm pretty sure I saw a gloved guard showing off a pretty damn big bag of coke to his mates.

Anyone know anything about why this all happened?

Farkin hell!

And of course you went out for a smoke to see what the fuss was about!!!

Hellm0

Only after I was well sure I wasnt going to be a part of the antics:P Truth be told the Irish broadband employees were out before me, nuts of steel they must have

danbhala

i was going to lodge a cheque today down there.... dam wish i did now

Dyr

Hellm0 wrote:

Only after I was well sure I wasnt going to be a part of the antics:P Truth be told the Irish broadband employees were out before me, nuts of steel they must have

If i worked for IBB i'd want to be shot too

Hellm0

Bambi wrote:

If i worked for IBB i'd want to be shot too

Amen

macrubicon

Hellm0 wrote:

Truth be told the Irish broadband employees were out before me, nuts of steel they must have

Hmm... They are used to *causing* trouble.... maybe they wanted to see the other side of the coin !

Good luck getting through to them on the phone now !

Proves one thing though... more than 1 person does actually work there.

digitally-yours

Hellm0 wrote:

......................... I go to the window to find a brawl of lads running around with hand guns and one guy with a machine gun, they werent wearing any identifying clothing so needless to say I was well wigged out.

There was 2 cars which looked like they had rammed a black sab saloon, they dragged some lad out of the car and wrestled him to the ground and began violently kicking him. Fair enough if they just wanted to subdue the guy(and I have NO pity for scummers) but they were REALLY tearing into him. Even after they had him cuffed and on the floor(with one guy standing on his head) another guy came over and kicked him in the head, just for laughs I'm guessing. They all had put on special branch caps at this point(the guy with the machine gun .................

That sounds like IRAQ to me mate !!!

Cant believe it .

You should have taken their car's REG and call garda !

_blank_

Is it the AIB down near the Beacon hospital?

That's a non-cash branch afaik.

TomTom

It's at the oother end accross from microsoft

ejmaztec

Did the Guards load all of the evidence into the boots of their cars - for "forensic" examination?

delly

Well judging by the tech savy folks who saw all this happening, I'll be pretty disappointed if nothing appears on youtube.

thebman

I damn well hope the place was robbed with the crap I've had to put up with from the AIB lately.

TomTom

I had hot soup in one hand and a drink in the other so i recorded nothing

Tha Gopher

roadrunner41 wrote:

I heard there where two shots fired, fired from a gun...:eek:

That reminds me of something Charlie Bird (i think) said re the Dublin riots a year or two ago

"They were boxing me....with their fists"

Cheese Princess

DesF wrote:

Is it the AIB down near the Beacon hospital?

That's a non-cash branch afaik.

You're thinking of BOI

_blank_

Cheese Princess wrote:

You're thinking of BOI

D'oh.

Of course I am.

Dammit.


Thanks.

David Michael

roadrunner41 wrote:

I heard there where two shots fired, fired from a gun...:eek:

As opposed to those Deadly biros that have been doing the rounds?

Evil Phil

danbhala wrote:

i was going to lodge a cheque today down there.... dam wish i did now

I WAS lodging a cheque in there when it happened!!!

Dyr

pics ffs!!

Spud83

All the news is reporting no gun shots. Is this another case of board’s poster over exaggerating? Or the news stations being wrong. Hmm think I’ll believe the boardsies

Kenny_D

I also work opposite the AIB and the previous account seems more or less accurate. I didn't see any machine gun but I saw the guy with the balaclava and I also saw 3 cops kick the living **** out of the guy on the ground (who hadn't been shot). A single shot was fired if I'm not mistaken (saw the smoke from the gun), the first bang was the cars ramming into the getaway car. Also one guy running away at the start but I'd say he was caught. It was a sting. There were too many special branch cars there within seconds for it not to have been and also the fact that the 3 cars boxed in the getaway car almost immediately. The whole thing was mad. Within the space off minutes there must have been 10-15 unmarked squad cars pulled up outside the bank

Kenny_D

alanmurphy83 wrote:

All the news is reporting no gun shots. Is this another case of board’s poster over exaggerating? Or the news stations being wrong. Hmm think I’ll believe the boardsies

I'm 95% sure there was a gun shot. I was sitting at the window eating lunch and turned around as soon as I heard the first bang. I work almost directly opposite where it happened and I'm up a few floors so I had a really good view

Dyr

wtf is this doing in a dublin forum? they'll be moving any thread that mentions the dail from politics into here next. Culchie begrudgery sez i!! :mad:

Hellm0

Even the RTE site said there was shots, I heard shots I tell you!

Edit. As far as the machine gun goes, yer man in the baliclava had one. Was about the same size as an MP5 but was defo not an Mp5. Looked rather like an UZI cept more angular, way the guy handled it swear it was a toy though.

Spud83

Hellm0 wrote:

Even the RTE site said there was shots, I heard shots I tell you!

Edit. As far as the machine gun goes, yer man in the baliclava had one. Was about the same size as an MP5 but was defo not an Mp5. Looked rather like an UZI cept more angular, way the guy handled it swear it was a toy though.

RTE wrote:

It is believed that no shots were fired during the foiled raid, no one was injured and no money was stolen

Kenny_D

Before the website was updated though RTE also said it was believed that shots were fired

Hellm0

^^

Kenny_D

You could be right about the machine gun though. Broke my glasses yesterday so I could see it all but not with great detail. lol

macrubicon

GStormcrow wrote:

the first bang was the cars ramming into the getaway car.

Jaysus... I hope the Special Branch or ERU did not bang up one of their spanky new BMW's.... there would be hell to pay for that one !

lemansky

oohhhh sends a shiver of excitement down my spine when this type of thing goes down. Gotta love the ERU and SDU.

Kenny_D

macrubicon wrote:

Jaysus... I hope the Special Branch or ERU did not bang up one of their spanky new BMW's.... there would be hell to pay for that one !

God no. It was some dodgy family space wagon thing

CLADA

Brother in law was using the ATM in that branch shortly after 1pm, As he was making his way to the exit he gave way to two cars coming in, the driver in the 1st car waved in acknowledgement but the 2nd car was right on the tail of the 1st one, they pulled up just passed him and about 7 or 8 men jumped out of both cars and ran towards a white van, he said there was a flash and an explosion like a firework and next thing there were two fellas in balaclavas on the ground being handcuffed, he said it was all done and dusted in about 20 seconds, he said it was very slick and couldn't believe the 1st driver was so cool as to wave to him on the way into an armed robbery!
He's just not sure if it was gardai or not, he said the driver of the 2nd car was very small, maybe 5' 6". Do the army give the Gardai assistance in these types of operations?