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Busker arrested on Grafton Street today about half 4. Any info ?

  • 01-08-2008 12:33am
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    Does anyone know what happened that led to a man being arrested on Grafton Street this afternoon (or yesterday afternoon as it were!). I only got there as he was put into the Garda car (with 3 officers) and a Garda van drove up from suffolk Street (with full siren and lights).

    I think he was a busker , there was a guitar, mic and other busker gear left behind (which the guards placed into their van. He had some sign on the ground which read something like

    "McCann wont pay BT with my money"

    It was an odd couple of minutes all the same.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    The police decided it was just one to many renditions of Wonderwall. I heartily endorse this crackdown.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    As do I. All buskers and street "entertainers" need to be incarcerated. This is not a plaza, its a street and there is quite simply no room on Grafton or Henry for <SNIP> to be blocking up the whole Street.

    It's the huge crowd of gawpers I want to punch. Yes, a guy in top-to-toe paint, how interesting. Let us all stand an gawp and block the street for people who actually have lives and want to get past.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Neesa wrote: »
    As do I. All buskers and street "entertainers" need to be incarcerated. This is not a plaza, its a street and there is quite simply no room on Grafton or Henry for <SNIP> to be blocking up the whole Street.

    It's the huge crowd of gawpers I want to punch. Yes, a guy in top-to-toe paint, how interesting. Let us all stand an gawp and block the street for people who actually have lives and want to get past.

    Poor you, you must have such a hard life being delayed like that for, what, 30 seconds? Doesn't sound like much of a life to me tbh.

    The buskers give the street a bit of character and tourists really like it. And some of the buskers throughout the years have been very talented.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Yes! Mc. Savage finally done for those kiddie piccies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭TheBandit


    Neesa you made me angry enough to sign in..... and i'm very very lazy. Cheer up for feck sake we don't need another bloody scowler in this world


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    Neesa wrote: »
    It's the huge crowd of gawpers I want to punch

    I wonder how many you would get through before ending up lying on your back staring at the back of your eyelids!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cianos wrote: »

    The buskers give the street a bit of character and tourists really like it. And some of the buskers throughout the years have been very talented.

    But most of the buskers are hippies. If left unchecked, we could have a race of Liam O Maonlais on our hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    stovelid wrote: »
    we could have a race of Liam O Maonlais on our hands.

    Ah comon... please stovelid, its a long weekend, don't ruin it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    lightening wrote: »
    Ah comon... please stovelid, its a long weekend, don't ruin it.

    Ignore my warning at your peril.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    EDIT

    Not in the mood


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    The buskers that really piss me off are the ones all too common here in Galway.
    Look at me! I have a silver face and can stand still holding my umbrella!
    Just want to punch them
    Every time.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Good God let it be McSavage.
    I've taken to abusing him. It started a few month back when I saw him on the street arguing on his phone and decided to stand really close to him and start taking his picture. He had coarse words with me but I didn't respond. Just kept clicking away. Later I made a montage out of the photos. Within a few month I'd freeked him out by doing this whenever I saw him and had camera on hand. It came to the boil a few weeks back when he spotted me and started giving it big. I smiled benignly at him and suantered around the corner where I met and paid 4 junkies (5euro a pop)to disrupt his show as I stood behind them...laughing and pointing.
    Best 20squids I've spent in a long time.

    And the best has yet to come. I've a cracker up my sleeve.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    humberklog wrote: »
    Later I made a montage out of the photos

    Riiiiiight!!!

    I know that fella, the one with the guitar. The tourists love him. What's the story with him, why do so many people hate him? Fill me in dudes!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    Great. I'm glad to have it confirmed here that others agree.
    _________________________________________________________

    Lightening, for more info on that creep McSavage see this thread in the Thunderdome.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055199934

    In its entirety it's 51 pages long though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Messed Up Mind


    humberklog wrote: »
    Good God let it be McSavage.
    I've taken to abusing him. It started a few month back when I saw him on the street arguing on his phone and decided to stand really close to him and start taking his picture. He had coarse words with me but I didn't respond. Just kept clicking away. Later I made a montage out of the photos. Within a few month I'd freeked him out by doing this whenever I saw him and had camera on hand. It came to the boil a few weeks back when he spotted me and started giving it big. I smiled benignly at him and suantered around the corner where I met and paid 4 junkies (5euro a pop)to disrupt his show as I stood behind them...laughing and pointing.
    Best 20squids I've spent in a long time.

    Perfectly normal... I like buskers generally. They liven up the street a little bit. It kinda adds an artsy humble feeling to the street rather than the 'I just tote want to spend all of daddy's/my husband's/my hard earned money on everything I can get my hands on!' that normally resonates on Grafton street. In fairness, I'd rather see someone covered head to toe in silver standing still all day than a big yoke covered in orange with a bird's nest for hair.

    Personally, I hope it was the red haired bloke with the guitar with no side things on it. He should be arrested for crimes of fashion and being a hippy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    JAYSUS!!! That fella is unpopular!

    From the other thread;
    Degsy wrote: »
    Quite unlike McSavage,he has the imagination of a jar of phlegm

    :D:D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    lightening wrote: »
    Riiiiiight!!!

    I know that fella, the one with the guitar. The tourists love him. What's the story with him, why do so many people hate him? Fill me in dudes!

    He's a bully to other buskers especially foriegn ones and good ones.
    He's a cancer to the fabric of our good society.
    He has border-line ginger hair which is curly.
    His wife's a <SNIP>
    He's a coward.
    He speaks funny(wierd) but yet he's not funny.
    His feet never look as though they're fitting into his shoes properly.
    He seldom wears jeans.
    He ocassionally buys a Topic. I buy Topics!
    He's a very jealous man. (See 4th point...oooeee this'll be FUN!)

    I'm not kidding about my stalking/ annoying him. It's affermative action here mate. I've the pics and other Boardsies to prove it. I'd enough of him and decided to act. I'm only in phase 1 too. I'm building towards medeivel forms by phase 4. I'm looking forward to phase 2 mostly. That's the bit with his wife.
    I popped my daughter onto my shoulders a few week back and hid at the rear of the crowd where commando Daisy slowly clapped her hands and chanted "Not Funny"(Until she noticed the Haagan Das shop across the way)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    humberklog wrote: »
    Good God let it be McSavage.
    I've taken to abusing him. It started a few month back when I saw him on the street arguing on his phone and decided to stand really close to him and start taking his picture. He had coarse words with me but I didn't respond. Just kept clicking away. Later I made a montage out of the photos. Within a few month I'd freeked him out by doing this whenever I saw him and had camera on hand. It came to the boil a few weeks back when he spotted me and started giving it big. I smiled benignly at him and suantered around the corner where I met and paid 4 junkies (5euro a pop)to disrupt his show as I stood behind them...laughing and pointing.
    Best 20squids I've spent in a long time.

    And the best has yet to come. I've a cracker up my sleeve.

    :D

    You and Degsy should have a pint.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    stovelid wrote: »
    :D

    You and Degsy should have a pint.

    Look above, I quoted him... He's an angry man, I love it.

    How does this fella bully other buskers? This is all very interesting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    I'll deff stand Degsy a pint or five for his contribution to "that thread".

    :D


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Neesa wrote: »
    I'll deff stand Degsy a pint or five for his contribution to "that thread".

    :D
    The time for talking's well gone sister Neesa. All can join. All you need to do is disrupt him at EVERY chance. It's action and intimidation all the way. Pulling his bird will be the cherry on top!

    Buskers don't have 'pitches'. It's 1come gets. When someone sets up at a lucrative spot that he decides he wants he approaches them and tells thewm to FORRGH ORFF. Some do. Others (my peeps)don't and he knows now not to mess with them. I tellsya he wouldn't feck with the North Strand Klesmer Band! He preys on the week...ACT NOW ON THIS ABORTION!
    Hire who you can (I reccommend junkies. They're cheap and will do anything.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    humberklog wrote: »
    The time for talking's well gone sister Neesa. All can join. All you need to do is disrupt him at EVERY chance. It's action and intimidation all the way. Pulling his bird will be the cherry on top!

    I am all for joining GROMS, the Get Rid Of Mc Savage club. I luckily don't see him very often but the very next time I do I solemnly swear I will uphold the values and ideals of GROMS and harrass and annoy him until such time and he throws a hissy fit and stalks off.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Jesus what link. Nice one Neesa. Plenty of recruits there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    humberklog wrote: »
    Good God let it be McSavage.
    I've taken to abusing him. It started a few month back when I saw him on the street arguing on his phone and decided to stand really close to him and start taking his picture. He had coarse words with me but I didn't respond. Just kept clicking away. Later I made a montage out of the photos. Within a few month I'd freeked him out by doing this whenever I saw him and had camera on hand. It came to the boil a few weeks back when he spotted me and started giving it big. I smiled benignly at him and suantered around the corner where I met and paid 4 junkies (5euro a pop)to disrupt his show as I stood behind them...laughing and pointing.
    Best 20squids I've spent in a long time.

    And the best has yet to come. I've a cracker up my sleeve.


    You're a legend. I hate the guy too!
    Please contribute your photos to this thread

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055199934&page=27


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭A-Train


    Sign me up to that club.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    If that's McSavage lifted Dublin City has suddenly got a whole lot better for the 5 seconds it'll take daddy Andrews to interfere and get him let off again.

    Still good man humberklog. Hope your scheming works out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Pen1987


    The North strand Klesmer should follow him around all day, ALL day, until he just ****s off home. Do a reenactment of that **** they did in Burger King last year in his ear ALL DAY.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Oh yeah and if you happen to mosey over to the Thunderdome thread try and leave a note for McSavage as the demented twit seems to think the view count somehow justifies his existence.

    :rolleyes:

    Thanks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Yes we all hate McSavage but does anyone know who this busker is that was arrested ? He didn't have red hair and it definately wasn't McSavage as I saw him in the cop car. Afterwards there was a lady with a northern Irish accent explaining to a few people what happened and then she helped the Guards put this guy stuff into the Garda van.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,040 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Yes we all hate McSavage
    I don't even know who he is so please don't include me! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    I don't even know who he is so please don't include me! ;)

    Ok you're excluded


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Yes we all hate McSavage

    +1
    Rabble Rousing FTW!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    pvt.joker wrote: »
    You're a legend. I hate the guy too!
    Please contribute your photos to this thread

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055199934&page=27

    I'll have my smart montage up tomorrow brothers. No pc at home. Too much porn for the single man living alone. I'd never get time to work on creepy stalking montages if I kept computypwriterthingy in the gaff.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I don't even know who he is so please don't include me! ;)


    You dont know who mcsavage is?
    Shame on you.
    The thunderdome thread will teach you all you need to know!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭TirEoghain


    Degsy wrote: »
    You dont know who mcsavage is?
    Shame on you.
    The thunderdome thread will teach you all you need to know!!

    To save me from having to read a 51 page thread, one photo would tell me who he is. Can someone point me to one photo of him?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    There's pics of him on the last page of the linked thread.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    TirEoghain wrote: »
    To save me from having to read a 51 page thread, one photo would tell me who he is. Can someone point me to one photo of him?
    http://www.dublinks.com/assets/38/E3E38493-DC98-4F0E-885ED5F3ADF779DE_big_image/image_image_image_Dave_McSavage.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,040 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Degsy wrote: »
    You dont know who mcsavage is?
    Shame on you.
    The thunderdome thread will teach you all you need to know!!
    I couldn't be bothered going there!

    Is he the chap that Joe Duffy has on Liveline on a Friday?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I couldn't be bothered going there!

    Is he the chap that Joe Duffy has on Liveline on a Friday?

    Nope.
    Even Joe duffy has standards.This fool is a regular filler-inner on the Late late Show because he used to be a warm-up man in the studio.His lack of talent is both palpable and pitifull.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Why are you all giving (said 'comedian') such good publicity? Do you realise that 400,000+ people view this site? Just don't talk about him, it's the best way to destroy his rep.

    Look at all the people who still hate Hitler (with good reason too). He's probably the most famous man in history because people talk about him. Do you really want (said 'comedian') to be that famous in Ireland?

    Someone once said to the media 'I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right!'

    Slagging him off on Boards.ie is only helping him become even more popular. Every insult, every comment that he's unfunny, every word about him increases his income by a measurable amount. His detractors become his PR people. You're helping him make money.

    Stop it!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Confab wrote: »
    every word about him increases his income by a measurable amount.

    Including yours? :D

    Disliking McSavage is a public duty, tbh.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Confab wrote: »
    Look at all the people who still hate Hitler (with good reason too). He's probably the most famous man in history because people talk about him. Do you really want (said 'comedian') to be that famous in Ireland?


    Stop it!

    I dont recall Hitler making any moneyout of his "popularity".
    It was his talent for waging wars of agression that got him noticed.
    McSavage's talents dont run to making people laugh,much less conquering half the world!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    If he can "conquer" the challenge of begging enough money off strangers to buy a cup of tea in the morning he's doing exceptionally well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Not a fan, but there are worse, to be honest. Mind you, I think people just hate him for the sake of hating him. Anything constructive?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Not a fan, but there are worse, to be honest.

    Like whom?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Degsy wrote: »
    Like whom?

    The polish/czech cowboy with the guitar for a start. Elderly guy. But that's neither here nor there: why (constructively) McSavage?

    And, getting back to the original point, any more info on the guy who was arreste yesterday? Must have been doing more than just singing

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    The polish/czech cowboy with the guitar for a start. Elderly guy. But that's neither here nor there: why (constructively) McSavage?

    And, getting back to the original point, any more info on the guy who was arreste yesterday? Must have been doing more than just singing

    I believe this thread was about a busker who seemed to fit mcsavage's description.A lot of people seemed to hope it was mcsavage because he seems to annoy a lot of people.
    Pics of this czech cowboy or gtfo!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Degsy wrote: »
    I believe this thread was about a busker who seemed to fit mcsavage's description.A lot of people seemed to hope it was mcsavage because he seems to annoy a lot of people.
    Pics of this czech cowboy or gtfo!

    I know, but no one seems to know if it WAS him or not. I'm curious as to the 'why' more so than the 'who'. Also, why's he annoying? He's not particularly good, but then it's busking.

    Have pics of just about every other busker except the cowbow (and McSavage, if he's who I think he is) so sorry - you got me there.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    That other McSavage thread is one of the most pathetic things I've ever read. And for once Dave McSavage wasn't at fault.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    Phlann wrote: »
    That other McSavage thread is one of the most pathetic things I've ever read. And for once Dave McSavage wasn't at fault.

    :D:D


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