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Limerick gang member kills himself in accidental shooting [merged]

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  • 23-03-2009 4:33pm
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    Honey-ec
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/collopyp.html

    "Mobile phone video footage is being examined following the accidental shooting of a man in Limerick at the weekend. 29-year-old Philip Collopy accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a house in St Mary's Park, Limerick, in the early hours of Saturday morning.


    The shooting was captured on video by a person at the scene with a mobile phone. This phone has since been seized by gardaí. Gardaí believe Mr Collopy was showing a friend how to kill someone when he put the gun to his own head without realising there was a round in the breach.


    There were about seven people in the house at the time.
    Members of the armed garda regional support unit were on patrol when a man came running out of the house and alerted them to the shooting.

    Mr Collopy died in the Mid Western Regional Hospital at 8.30pm last night.
    A post mortem examination, due to be carried out by the Deputy State Pathologist this afternoon, will confirm the cause of death and establish if he had any drink or drugs taken at the time.


    Philip Collopy was well known to gardaí as one of the Keane/Collopy criminal gangs which has been involved in the ongoing feud with the McCarthy/Dundon gang. He was a target not just of Limerick gardaí but also of the Criminal Assets Bureau, which seized a house, two cars and a substantial amount of cash from the gang."


    Darwin Award ftw...
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    Nodin
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    "Mobile phone video footage is being examined following the accidental shooting of a man in Limerick at the weekend.

    29-year-old Philip Collopy accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a house in St Mary's Park, Limerick, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

    The shooting was captured on video by a person at the scene with a mobile phone. This phone has since been seized by gardaí.

    Gardaí believe Mr Collopy was showing a friend how to kill someone when he put the gun to his own head without realising there was a round in the breach."

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/collopyp.html

    Darwin Award winner here 'fo sho'.

    'Breach' should be 'breech' too, if I'm not mistaken


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    Drummerboy08
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    Good riddance to the b*stard.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    lol


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    #5
    Zadkiel
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    If only the rest of them did the same :D


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    gazzer
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    Darwin award winging its way to Limerick


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    Latchy
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    Never point a loaded gun at anybody unless you are going to use it ...opps .


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    Gurgle
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    What a waste.
    A golden opportunity missed - if only he had been showing his mates how to make explosives.


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    Amberjack
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    Karma


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    JCDUB
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    Good enough for him, filthy scumbag.


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    ShooterSF
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    Darwin ceremony. Edit - Oops I mean how sad. RIP.


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    Borneo Fnctn
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    Just as well he blew his own head off rather than somebody else's. Anybody who handles a firearm like that is a dangerous moron.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    disney should make a movie out of this


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    Turd Ferguson
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    If he was using a knife this wouldnt have happened....how ironic


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    The_Minister
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    There is already another thread on this.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Michael Moore should make a movei out of this (animated, of course).

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



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    Gran Hermano
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    The_Minister wrote: »
    There is already another thread on this.

    Is that on the cool vids and pics thread?


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    The_Minister
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    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Is that on the cool vids and pics thread?

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055519592


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    stovelid
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    Captain Mords Spiced Bum wrote: »
    disney should make a movie out of this

    Christopher Walken should play Mr Collopy. I can just see him, dressed in a unpleasant polyester trackie and Reeboks, enacting this scene in a cage dipped in the Shannon.


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    Nodin
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    The_Minister wrote: »
    There is already another thread on this.

    Looking at the OP's, it would seem that great minds were thinking alike at exactly 15.33....


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    herr0
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/collopyp.html


    Mobile phone video footage is being examined following the accidental shooting of a man in Limerick at the weekend.
    29-year-old Philip Collopy accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a house in St Mary's Park, Limerick, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
    The shooting was captured on video by a person at the scene with a mobile phone. This phone has since been seized by gardaí.
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    Gardaí believe Mr Collopy was showing a friend how to kill someone when he put the gun to his own head without realising there was a round in the breach.
    There were about seven people in the house at the time.
    Members of the armed garda regional support unit were on patrol when a man came running out of the house and alerted them to the shooting.

    Mr Collopy died in the Mid Western Regional Hospital at 8.30pm last night.
    A post mortem examination, due to be carried out by the Deputy State Pathologist this afternoon, will confirm the cause of death and establish if he had any drink or drugs taken at the time.
    Philip Collopy was well known to gardaí as one of the Keane/Collopy criminal gangs which has been involved in the ongoing feud with the McCarthy/Dundon gang.
    He was a target not just of Limerick gardaí but also of the Criminal Assets Bureau, which seized a horse, two cars and a substantial amount of cash from the gang.

    Only in ireland :pac:!


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    robtri
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    Honey-ec wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/collopyp.html


    There were about seven people in the house at the time.
    Members of the armed garda regional support unit were on patrol when a man came running out of the house and alerted them to the shooting.


    Darwin Award ftw...

    scumbags.... they have no respect for other people's lives and then when there is a bit of trouble in their own house, first place they go to is the garda... hope the garda laughed in his face....


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    #23
    Sofiztikated
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    He's still someones son. There's a parent today with out a child, etc. I want to know will Terry start handing out bans and all to people on this thread, like he did with the Jade Goody thread. (Btw, i'm not comparing this moron to Goody.)


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    #24
    BennyLava
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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


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    #25
    ejmaztec
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    or even have a Limerick remake of The Deerhunter...


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    #26
    ScumLord
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    Screw him, it's karma, Earl was right.


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    #27
    ejmaztec
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    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    He's still someones son. There's a parent today with out a child, etc. I want to know will Terry start handing out bans and all to people on this thread, like he did with the Jade Goody thread. (Btw, i'm not comparing this moron to Goody.)

    Hate to Godwin this, but Adolf was also someone's son.:p


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    #28
    Tech3
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    he will be remebered by his loving family

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRh_PNq_qPc


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    #29
    Gummy Panda
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    I love how they go running to the garda when something goes wrong for them.


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    #30
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Photo of the gun used!.

    Stupid bastard.


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    #31
    khmk
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭khmk


    "16 in the clip and 1 in the hole"

    someone forgot about the 1 in the hole


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