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Football hid fuel-stealing scam

  • 27-09-2008 12:28pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭


    People will try anything :)



    By Grainne Cunningham

    Saturday September 27 2008

    HAVE you heard the one about the Lithuanian with the hole in his van? No, it's not a politically incorrect joke but a new fuel-stealing scam uncovered by gardai.

    Nerijus Kikas (31) came up with a complicated but ingenious ploy to extract diesel from the local filling station and managed to steal 355 gallons before being caught by gardai.

    Mr Kikas, with an address at 10 Westfield View, Ashbourne, Co Meath, cut a hole in the floor of his Peugeot van where he had a large container for holding the diesel. He then fed a tube through a football which he positioned below the van. The tube led into the service station's diesel holding tank.

    The football concealed the tube so, to the casual observer, it simply appeared that there was a football stuck under the van, according to Garda Pat Muldowney, who gave evidence at Mr Kikas's trial.

    Mr Kikas had also installed an electric pump to allow him to steal diesel as quickly as possible, Drogheda District Court heard yesterday.

    He was arrested shortly before 1am on Wednesday, September 24, a short distance from the Esso Filling Station at Carronstown in Duleek, Co Meath.

    Gda Muldowney told the court Mr Kikas had another modified van for transporting the diesel and described the set up as a 'sophisticated operation'.

    Mr Kikas's solicitor, Patrick Branigan, said the defendant -- who has been living in Ireland for three years -- had been working in the construction industry but was now unemployed as a result of the downturn in the economy.

    Mr Kikas realised this was a serious offence but all of the diesel, which was valued at €2,396, had been recovered, he said.

    Judge Flann Brennan imposed a €1,000 fine on Mr Kikas and gave him three months to pay.

    - Grainne Cunningham


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,041 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I was reading it in the Indo this morning. I'd almost admire the ingenuity! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    I was reading it in the Indo this morning. I'd almost admire the ingenuity! :)

    +1, 10/10 for head scratching on this one! I was going to ask how did he drill down into the tank area but I suppose he parked over the filling ports and opened the lid and put a plastic pipe down?

    Imagine if he had been malicious and had contaminated the fuel instead of removing it, if he had a grudge against the garage, imagine the amount of damage he could have caused!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    do we have to let him continue living in the country?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    VH wrote: »
    do we have to let him continue living in the country?
    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Builders are getting desperate. :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Yes.
    are we not allowed deport criminals?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    VH wrote: »
    are we not allowed deport criminals?
    Not ones from fellow EU states, AFAIK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    VH wrote: »
    are we not allowed deport criminals?
    He must be having a right aul laugh at the stupid Paddy court system, he steals over €2k worth of goods and gets fined €1,000.....AND had a few months to pay for it FFS


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Sizzler wrote: »
    He must be having a right aul laugh at the stupid Paddy court system, he steals over €2k worth of goods and gets fined €1,000.....AND had a few months to pay for it FFS

    And a criminal record. :rolleyes:

    He will be watched.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Hotwheels


    And a criminal record. :rolleyes:

    He will be watched.

    I'm sure they will....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Hotwheels wrote: »
    I'm sure they will....
    Try getting into the States these days with any criminal record. :eek:

    He will also find it impossible to get a service station loyalty card :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    He will be watched.

    He's hardly a master criminal, he'll move on to the next town and they wont know him from Adam.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    Sizzler wrote: »
    He must be having a right aul laugh at the stupid Paddy court system, he steals over €2k worth of goods and gets fined €1,000.....AND had a few months to pay for it FFS
    seeing as he's now unemployed he'll be paying the fine out the dole we're giving him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Hotwheels


    He will also find it impossible to get a service station loyalty card :D

    priceless :D

    Take money out of his dole, not unless the court orders it they can't...and I doubt if he'll be heading for the USA anytime soon..life's too good here :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Sizzler wrote: »
    He's hardly a master criminal, he'll move on to the next town and they wont know him from Adam.

    The Authoritiies in the next town will know soon enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    You have to give the bloke 10/10 for originality. The football was pure genius :D
    The Authoritiies in the next town will know soon enough. Everytime his vehicle confronts a mobile or fixed ANPR camera or the toll bridge gantry the system will know exactly who he is and where he is.

    Do you sit at home with a tin foil hat :pac: You have to be the most paranoid person ever ....

    iwanttobelieve.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Hotwheels wrote: »
    priceless :D

    Take money out of his dole, not unless the court orders it they can't..
    conviction by the court should trigger an automatic Social Welfare audit - no smoke without fire, dontchaknow.........fuel-fullled, or not.......

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 tmulcahy365


    Reminds me of this story,
    "A BENCH warrant has been issued for a man suspected of involvement in the 'man in a suitcase' scam in which baggage was raided on buses."

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055297174

    Do these oddball crimes happen a lot in Eastern Europe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Reminds me of this story,
    "A BENCH warrant has been issued for a man suspected of involvement in the 'man in a suitcase' scam in which baggage was raided on buses."

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055297174

    Do these oddball crimes happen a lot in Eastern Europe?
    That's quite imaginitive, in fairness.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills



    Do you sit at home with a tin foil hat :pac: You have to be the most paranoid person ever ....
    Not so much paranoid but aware that Ireland is well capible of going down the same road as the UK.


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/15/civilliberties.police


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Hotwheels wrote: »

    Take money out of his dole,


    Let him off the fine if he goes back to Lithuania and claim the dole there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,041 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Sizzler wrote: »
    he steals over €2k worth of goods and gets fined €1,000
    Possibly because all the stolen diesel was recovered?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Scottie99


    Try getting into the States these days with any criminal record. :eek:

    He will also find it impossible to get a service station loyalty card :D

    He won't need one!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    They must have a soft spot for Lithuanian's, a garda car pulled up next to my Lithuanian ex girlfriend at traffic lights at about 2am when she was on her phone, when she saw them she threw it across the car, haha, they let her off though:cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    cormie wrote: »
    They must have a soft spot for Lithuanian's
    no - it's the "me no speak english" card that has their hands tied


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    My ex had better English than a lot of Irish people I know :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    no doubt - when it suited


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