Irish Times Letter

mountainyman

This is from the Irish Times.

TheIrishTimes wrote:

Tourists in distress

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Madam, – Last year I had my wallet stolen on a Dublin bus, which did not have a working TV camera. The other passengers offered eight different descriptions of the young, female thief, the driver drove slightly off route to take me to the nearest Garda station, and hearing I now had no money or bus ticket, the lady seated next to me shook my hand as I got off and palmed a €50 note into my hand.

The Garda took the details, and when I got home a phone call had come from the Tourists’ Aid organisation, which when I called back helped me cancel my credit cards and to get the police report for my insurers.

The Garda called two days later and got my wallet, now empty of money and cards, to the nearest Garda station. Back in Canada, with the aid of the Garda report, my insurers reimbursed me 90 per cent of the considerable sum I lost. And you have an excellent bus system in Dublin! – Yours, etc,

PERCY BARBER,

Markham,

Canada.

omgiluvxmas

depending on where you live the bus service is pretty good in dublin.


irish people are kind so this helpfulness does not suprise me.

Fratton Fred

I might try this and see if anyone gives me 50 quid

OldGoat

"my insurers reimbursed me 90 per cent of the considerable sum I lost."

Feckin lier, there was only a tenner and a unused out of date condom in it! Just another insurence scammer.

connundrum

Percy Barber - the best makey-uppy name I've heard today!

Dave!

Don't ya just HATE tourists?!

ejmaztec

connundrum wrote: »

Percy Barber - the best makey-uppy name I've heard today!

Probably his occupation, not his name. Shaves genitalia for a living.

Dyr

madam gunner

I once stopped some racist scumbag and his girlfriend from battering some black girls on a bus. I received a few dig's in the head for my troubles. The bus driver pulled in and opened the doors for the scumbags so they could escape before the gardai were called. No one helped, no one palmed me 50 yoyo's for my troubles.

This christmas, F*** you all.

Up your's, etc

delta_bravo

This definitely didnt happen on the 77a or 78a anyway!

RichMc70

It's a publicity scam by Failte Ireland.
:rolleyes:

burgess1

This definitely didnt happen on the 77a or 78a anyway!

or any bus with 84 in its number.

Tom65

RichMc70 wrote: »

It's a publicity scam by Failte Ireland.
:rolleyes:

In an Irish newspaper?

I want to know who gave her €50. That person is clearly very rich, and willing to part with their cash. I want to be friends with them.

TheBlock

Nice to see that some people would still help a distressed stanger...My Father was the victim of a mugging in a foreign country. I would have been extremly grateful if a stanger had helped him out that day.