"I'll slit your ****ing throat, I'll cut your ****ing head off"

Poxyshamrock

Anyone else just sick to death of this HOLE of a town?

That was the threat I received tonight at 7.30 outside Brown Thomas cos I said I'd no change to some junkie while he pushed me against the window

Last week I was told to "f**k off back to Raheen you posh bastard" for no reason at all.
Funny thing is....I wouldn't call myself posh...and I'm not from Raheen.

Everytime something bad happens you've people out there trying to promote the good aspects of the city. Well it's pointless. Limerick is a scum hole and we should just get used to it.

"It's not Stab City...it's Fab City"

No, no....it is stab city.

UGH!!! Can't wait to get out of here.

red-demon

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Funny thing is....I wouldn't call myself posh...and I'm not from Raheen.
.

That's not funny...

eroo

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Anyone else just sick to death of this HOLE of a town?

That was the threat I received tonight at 7.30 outside Brown Thomas cos I said I'd no change to some junkie while he pushed me against the window

Fella with a girl?

Do yourself and everyone else a favour.. report him to the Gardai. If it's the same guy, he's not the sort of person you'd want to bump into on a Saturday night on your way to get some grub at 2am!! No point coming on here and saying Limerick is a 'hole'. You want to change that? Report those who cause it.

Aidric

Take it easy there OP. That sort of incident could happen anywhere. If it's that same guy that goes around with his 'bird' I've encountered them before. He's a dirty wino, a smack into the jaw would have him out cold, same for his skank.

Amazotheamazing

Wow, when even Poxy is getting disheartened it's time to take the city back.

Poxyshamrock

I've cooled down now.

He was on his own wearing one of those "knacker hoodies".
You know the ones with the furry hoods?

I was gonna report it to the guards but it would just be a waste of time.

Ardscoil Ris

I grew up in Moyross and I turned out fine...Didn't I?

XxXciaraxXx

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

I grew up in Moyross and I turned out fine...Didn't I?

Same here!

easyeason3

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

I grew up in Moyross and I turned out fine...Didn't I?

So are things as bad as people make out?

Ardscoil Ris

easyeason3 wrote: »

So are things as bad as people make out?

Kinda. I left when I was about nine so I can't tell you much, but I use to play for the local football team Distillery AFC and three of the people I was friends with in the team are now in prison. Two of them for murder. Makes you wonder.

To be honest not everybody in there is scum. It's a small minority.

FruitLover

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

I said I'd no change to some junkie while he pushed me against the window

So out of the two choices

a) Kick his face off
or
b) Rant on the internet about it

you chose the most useful of the two...

Poxyshamrock

FruitLover wrote: »

So out of the two choices

a) Kick his face off
or
b) Rant on the internet about it

you chose the most useful of the two...

Ranting on the internet usually doesn't result in you going to the Regional with a knife wound to the neck.

Ardscoil Ris

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Ranting on the internet usually doesn't result in you going to the Regional with a knife wound to the kneck.

Very true. You pick your battles. You did the sensible thing.

krudler

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Anyone else just sick to death of this HOLE of a town?

That was the threat I received tonight at 7.30 outside Brown Thomas cos I said I'd no change to some junkie while he pushed me against the window

Last week I was told to "f**k off back to Raheen you posh bastard" for no reason at all.
Funny thing is....I wouldn't call myself posh...and I'm not from Raheen.

Everytime something bad happens you've people out there trying to promote the good aspects of the city. Well it's pointless. Limerick is a scum hole and we should just get used to it.

"It's not Stab City...it's Fab City"

No, no....it is stab city.

UGH!!! Can't wait to get out of here.

totally agree, I live right in the town centre and am sick of stepping over junkies on the way through town, there was 6 of them on O'Connell st tonight, 6! Was coming out of the texas stakeout a few weeks back with my parents, my mother walked out before us and I walked out to find some ****ing wino giving her grief because she wouldnt give him change, he started acting the hard man until he got swiftly told to **** off by me and my dad and then he was all apologies, ****ing scumbag lets hope hes found in a doorway dead some night, have zero sympathy for these cnuts

Birdie086

Hace ye seen the one that camps out at the door of the Woking on a saturday afternoon. Somplete and utter juknkie no shame whatsoever. She taps poeple on the way in with their KIDS for fcuks sake.

Was reared in the lovely green pastures of Moyross myself.
Call me what you like but I aint no Moyrosstitute!!!

irishproduce

Primary education in Corpus Christi myself...played for Northville too...a reunion's gonna break out here!

Anyway, these two hanging around (the guy and his lady friend) what age group are they...might keep an eye out for them...I'd like to be prepared if I thought I might be getting thrown against a window

Iang87

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

I grew up in Moyross and I turned out fine...Didn't I?

i dunno about that

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Ranting on the internet usually doesn't result in you going to the Regional with a knife wound to the neck.

no ranting on the internet rarely lands you in hospital with such a wound but it could if you were making a sandwich and having the rant but thats neither here nor there.

On a serious note you prob should have hit him a dig and ran away, doesn't sound like the manly thing with the running away but you might teach the prick a lesson.

irishproduce

Agreed, that's the job for him...a slap in the head. You wouldn't have to run...sure he'd be high as a kite...knock him around a bit then ring Henry Street and tell them where to find him - sure they'd only tell him he was asking for it :pac:

ninty9er

The thread question could more appropriately be is "anyone else sick of the SCUMBAGS that plague this planet, can't wait til we can chemically castrate people who are scum".

brousuka

I was outside a well known pub having a cigarette in the smoking area/canopy last night and it sounds like the very same scangers who bummed me for coins, not only that but a while later another junkie tried to bum a cigarette. This guy who hangs out with the girl should be taken off the streets immediately - total scum and a very depressing image of the City.

Birdie086

They could with setting up a little Junkieville and sendin em all there. They could tap each other to the hearts content.
Seriously though they take the whole look off the place.

Skuxx

I hate the little fcukers!!!

Someone asked me for a fag in town the other night, I said sorry I don't smoke and kept walking! I thought i was very polite to the guy and everything was fine until he followed me down the road, told me to watch my mother fcukin back that he was comin after me!!!


i can't wait to leave this town:)

Raiser

To be honest its always bothered me the way people on here can whitewash over every negative aspect of Limerick.

For example:

Poster complains along the lines of: My mates got robbed and assaulted on Cruises St. at 2pm on a Saturday - theres scum everywhere unleashed and unchallenged and I have never ever witnessed a viable Garda presence on the streets of Limerick.....

Response - fcuk off you idiot people get assaulted everywhere - and anyhow in Thomond park people are really quiet during penalty kicks, and there's ducks in Corbally...... :rolleyes:

You generally have to admit to, face up to and respond to a problem people..... I'm not seeing any evidence of that......

Limerick should be studied in Universities Globally as an example of how not to plan a City, legislate/run same and especially how zero policing in the face of rampant, mindless scumbag infestation inevitably leads to an exponentially spreading disaster decade on decade.

Personally I'd prefer to live in a shít City where people worked on improving it and eliminating the scum than to live in a supposedly safe City where people are shot dead in their Estates, gunned down in their Businesses, mugged, robbed, threatened, beaten and intimidated.

FFS.

talkingclock

Well said, Raiser, very well said!
I totally agree!

easyeason3

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

Kinda. I left when I was about nine so I can't tell you much, but I use to play for the local football team Distillery AFC and three of the people I was friends with in the team are now in prison. Two of them for murder. Makes you wonder.

To be honest not everybody in there is scum. It's a small minority.

Right well I spend a good bit of time in Limerick & have never really come across anything I haven't experienced in other towns & cities.
But I suppose it's a case of if you want to know come live with me.

ninty9er

I take issue with the insinuation that there's zero Garda presence. It's there and it's quite obvious.

I suppose as you say yourself, you only see what you want to and whitewash over everything else.

I know, as does everyone else here there's scumbags in Limerick, the same as there are in Basle, Chicago and Manchester. The only difference between all 4 is a scumbag is more likely to be shot dead if (s)he's a different colour in Chicago.

I know we have our issues in Limerick, but it's no more a hole than any other city on this planet.

The planning issue...okay I accept, but then again I'm the type of person that would like to build a metro and triple width streets under/in a 10000 acre field in the middle of nowhere and build a city around them... a bit like a better version of Adamstown.

Raiser

ninty9er wrote: »

I take issue with the insinuation that there's zero Garda presence. It's there and it's quite obvious.

Its there and its obvious, there isn't a Yummy Mummy in Castletroy that doesn't have the full attention of some Templemore spawned, slack-jawed, slack-brained, pimple-popper with one eye on her tax disc and the other edging for her cleavage..... They're all over our dual-carriageways pointing speed detectors at the tax-payer who pays their wages - likelihood is that when the poor cnut gets home he'll have been robbed by the Gardai and the knacker who broke their back window and emptied their house.

Oh I see the Gardai around Limerick - I've just never seen them where and when they should be..... I bet there's very few cashing that pay cheque with a clear conscience......

ninty9er wrote: »

SNIP!!!!!! Disregarded - Please refer to my last post pleading for an end to this type of lame defence of the indefensible

dh0661

krudler wrote: »

totally agree, I live right in the town centre and am sick of stepping over junkies on the way through town, there was 6 of them on O'Connell st tonight, 6! Was coming out of the texas stakeout a few weeks back with my parents, my mother walked out before us and I walked out to find some ****ing wino giving her grief because she wouldnt give him change, he started acting the hard man until he got swiftly told to **** off by me and my dad and then he was all apologies, ****ing scumbag lets hope hes found in a doorway dead some night, have zero sympathy for these cnuts

These guys - winos/druggies - are not the REAL problem though.

I know they are annoying and a threat around any town but they are victims also and I must stress I am not suggesting any leniency for them.

As we all know it's the scum lords that are the root to all these problems.

I hope that the proposals made by minister for justice during the week will help to arrest and imprison them fairly swiftly.

krudler

ninty9er wrote: »

I take issue with the insinuation that there's zero Garda presence. It's there and it's quite obvious.

There really isnt though, I walked through town at around 11 tonight, prime time for travelling between pubs and clubs and there wasnt a single cop on O'Connell st, from McDonalds to near Henry st, not a single one, but there were 4 winos/junkies, go figure

cson

As a relatively new outsider to the city I have to say that while I haven't encountered any unsavoury incidents as of yet I would find it a good deal less safe than other places I've been to.

I'd agree with Raiser that the Garda presence, or rather lack of, is very noticeable in the city centre. The whole Cruise's St - William St area is one that'd I'd regard as quite rough for an area that would comprise a large part of the city centre and I'd hazard a guess the limited policing is a factor in this.

I'm going to take Galway as an example as its the only other city I'm very familiar with and it'd be the same-ish size as Limerick. The city centre in Galway is possibly one of the safest places I've been, walked around there at al hours and you never get any hassle. There is always a Garda presence and afaik they're are Garda CCTV around Eyre Square these days. If I was to get off a train in Galway and a train in Limerick I know which place I wouldn't be watching my back as often. Colbert Station is not the most inviting of places.

To end, the city has some serious issues, ones that require an effective cleaning out of the place. While I wouldn't go as far as to say the city is out of control, too much control rests with the Gangs in the city and until an authoritive and noticeable Garda presence wrests 100% control of the city they're will always be those issues.

easyeason3

cson wrote: »

As a relatively new outsider to the city I have to say that while I haven't encountered any unsavoury incidents as of yet I would find it a good deal less safe than other places I've been to.

I'd agree with Raiser that the Garda presence, or rather lack of, is very noticeable in the city centre. The whole Cruise's St - William St area is one that'd I'd regard as quite rough for an area that would comprise a large part of the city centre and I'd hazard a guess the limited policing is a factor in this.

I'm going to take Galway as an example as its the only other city I'm very familiar with and it'd be the same-ish size as Limerick. The city centre in Galway is possibly one of the safest places I've been, walked around there at al hours and you never get any hassle. There is always a Garda presence and afaik they're are Garda CCTV around Eyre Square these days. If I was to get off a train in Galway and a train in Limerick I know which place I wouldn't be watching my back as often. Colbert Station is not the most inviting of places.

To end, the city has some serious issues, ones that require an effective cleaning out of the place. While I wouldn't go as far as to say the city is out of control, too much control rests with the Gangs in the city and until an authoritive and noticeable Garda presence wrests 100% control of the city they're will always be those issues.

So if new legislation is to be introduced does that mean judges will be a bigger target? I'm guessing there are Guards in Limerick at the moment who don't want to rock the boat too much because of an obvious backlash they & their families will get, which is understandable. Some people have suggested bringing in the army but it's really the same difference.
So, would it be a viable idea to bring properly trained Guards/ Army in from different regions & have them in balaclavas so they can't be identified?
The one problem I can come up with is that these gangs will target existing Guards/ Judges/ Army members to make a point.
So what is a solution?

Biro

easyeason3 wrote: »

So if new legislation is to be introduced does that mean judges will be a bigger target? I'm guessing there are Guards in Limerick at the moment who don't want to rock the boat too much because of an obvious backlash they & their families will get, which is understandable. Some people have suggested bringing in the army but it's really the same difference.
So, would it be a viable idea to bring properly trained Guards/ Army in from different regions & have them in balaclavas so they can't be identified?
The one problem I can come up with is that these gangs will target existing Guards/ Judges/ Army members to make a point.
So what is a solution?

The combined word of certain high up members of the Gardai against certain known criminals to be taken over the word of them and their lawyers in court so that they can be put away.
I'm all for innocent until proven guilty, but take the case of "The General". Stopping outside the home of guards etc, waving up at them with a "do anything and I'll kill your family" type of way, and nothing can be done cause there's no evidence. When it comes to a point where everyone knows that he's a crime lord, then it should be enough to incriminate him and put him away.

Kess73

If it is any consolation to the OP, I think the guy that threatened him ran into the wrong guy last night.


A junkie/scumbag type guy with a similar scummy girl with him, went at two girls at the Meteor shop side of BT. They were roaring and shouting at the girls, and this guy walking by went over, and the scumbag went to hit the guy, and the guy sidestepped the punch, and levelled the junkie with a punch of his own.


As we were leaving the scene the guy who flattened the junkie was asking the girls if they wanted him to call the Gardai for them.

Funny thing was if you saw the guy that helped the girls in a different location you would probably not really pay much heed to him. He was a big enough guy, tall and heavy, but was wearing glasses and had a goatee and looked like the least like the type that would take on a scumbag. We went over after he had done the hard work, but I don't think I would have been as confident as he was in stepping in, plus the way he slipped the punch looked trained, as he adjusted his feet as he was avoiding the punch and threw his own punch back almost in one smooth movement.


Fair play to him for asking about getting the Gardai, as I think most people would be out of there asap. If indeed it was the junkie that threatened the OP, then karma bit him on the butt quickly. This was at about 11pm last night.

Aidric

cson wrote: »

The whole Cruise's St - William St area is one that'd I'd regard as quite rough for an area that would comprise a large part of the city centre

Are you actually seriously suggesting that Cruises St is a rough part of the City? Come off it.

Insect Overlord

Aidric wrote: »

Are you actually seriously suggesting that Cruises St is a rough part of the City? Come off it.

At night time, perhaps.

Xennon

In a time gone by, the behavior of many of these 'scumbags' wouldnt be tolerated by the community. The problem is there is no community any more, as individuals we leave it up to the guards and the legal system to deal with them even though these people are a product of our own society.

The 'have nothings' will always want what the 'haves' have. Is there a way forward? Will this regeneration plan work? Will a couple of years work stop generations of low life?

Answers on a post card..............

krudler

Aidric wrote: »

Are you actually seriously suggesting that Cruises St is a rough part of the City? Come off it.

I wouldnt walk through it at night, no passing traffic, theres always a bunch of winos by the statue, so yeah its a rough part of the city

KerranJast

An File wrote: »

At night time, perhaps.

Not at all. Between College and work I've been based in Limerick for 6 years. Most of my time out at night has been in that side of the city because I'm based in Castletroy. Worst trouble I've seen is a bunch of teenagers getting chased by bouncers from Icon. Like every city Limerick has rough spots that you just don't go to and it has its fair share of petty crime (Castletroy has had a mini thievery wave for the last year) but overall I feel much safer there than I did when I worked in Dublin.

Mr. Croft

Raiser wrote: »

Response - fcuk off you idiot people get assaulted everywhere - and anyhow in Thomond park people are really quiet during penalty kicks, and there's ducks in Corbally...... :rolleyes:

KerranJast wrote: »

Like every city Limerick has rough spots that you just don't go to and it has its fair share of petty crime (Castletroy has had a mini thievery wave for the last year) but overall I feel much safer there than I did when I worked in Dublin.

Raiser your spot on

Liam Byrne

Another load of crap today, but this time from the Sunday Tribune, with a DOUBLE-PAGE headline of "CAN LIMERICK BE SAVED"

Mind you, within those articles there was an OK interview with Laura Ryan.

The one that annoyed me, though, was some mother claiming that her son was "only a joyrider, addicted to stealing cars"

When mothers of little ****s have that attitude, what hope is there ? Why interview her and give her newspaper space ?

LINK : http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/apr/19/can-anything-save-limerick-now/

bullets

Galway, Cork, Dublin any time I've been out and about
I have felt a lot safer than when in Limerick.

You can throw all the statistics you like at me, does not change the fact
that when I'm been out in other cities I've felt a hell of a lot safer walking
the streets of other cities than my own home town.

I've seen a more visible presence of Gardai in other cities,
Limerick Lots of cameras yes. Foot patrols not nearly enough.

My impressions from walking down the streets of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick.

Dublin, Lots of Bum's, lots of Dodgy heads, but they seem to mind their own business
more than other places. Bum's tend not follow you about the place or approach you,
they sit in the one spot. There is a visible Garda presence you dont have to
walk very far on most streets before you see a foot patrol.

Cork, to me seems to have a bigger visible presence of bums or people
looking for money off ya. Not so many Gardai on patrol here but a lot better
than Limerick.

Galway seems to have the biggest visible presence of Wino's Have not
been out and about up there in a few years but from what I recall I remember
I did not see that much of a Garda presence patrolling the place.

Limerick by far seems to have the biggest amount of visible Scumbags/Knackers
everywhere, a few bums/winos but not as much as the other cities.

Raiser

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Another load of crap today, but this time from the Sunday Tribune, with a DOUBLE-PAGE headline of "CAN LIMERICK BE SAVED"

So what? Let them print what they want, I found it hard to spot the parts they had exagerated or had made up to be honest.....

- Anyhow discussing this stuff is preferable to our tried, trusted and utterly useless alternative of plugging our earholes with our fingers and singing la-la-la loudly enough to mask the gunshots.

Personally I sincerely believe that "LIMERICK NEEDS TO BE SAVED" - and soon please...

Baldie

Kess73 wrote: »

If it is any consolation to the OP, I think the guy that threatened him ran into the wrong guy last night.


A junkie/scumbag type guy with a similar scummy girl with him, went at two girls at the Meteor shop side of BT. They were roaring and shouting at the girls, and this guy walking by went over, and the scumbag went to hit the guy, and the guy sidestepped the punch, and levelled the junkie with a punch of his own.


As we were leaving the scene the guy who flattened the junkie was asking the girls if they wanted him to call the Gardai for them.

Funny thing was if you saw the guy that helped the girls in a different location you would probably not really pay much heed to him. He was a big enough guy, tall and heavy, but was wearing glasses and had a goatee and looked like the least like the type that would take on a scumbag. We went over after he had done the hard work, but I don't think I would have been as confident as he was in stepping in, plus the way he slipped the punch looked trained, as he adjusted his feet as he was avoiding the punch and threw his own punch back almost in one smooth movement.


Fair play to him for asking about getting the Gardai, as I think most people would be out of there asap. If indeed it was the junkie that threatened the OP, then karma bit him on the butt quickly. This was at about 11pm last night.

Fair play to that man!! If everyone stood up to those scumbags maybe this city wouldn't be overrun with all the ****heads!!

Amazotheamazing

Baldie wrote: »

Fair play to that man!! If everyone stood up to those scumbags maybe this city wouldn't be overrun with all the ****heads!!

True, but if we all did that, what would the internet heroes complain about then?

ParkRunner

Baldie wrote: »

Fair play to that man!! If everyone stood up to those scumbags maybe this city wouldn't be overrun with all the ****heads!!

From my experience, scumbags hunt in packs and there is bound to be one of them that has a blade!

Baldie

EF wrote: »

From my experience, scumbags hunt in packs and there is bound to be one of them that has a blade!

As always, power in numbers, chicken ****s on their own!!

Elbi

FruitLover wrote: »

So out of the two choices

a) Kick his face off
or
b) Rant on the internet about it

you chose the most useful of the two...

yeah yeah, you retaliate and you are the one who gets in touble.

My friend got jumpped by some knacker with a stick one night in ellen street, friend ends up taking stick off knacker and gave him a hiding, guards passed, friend called guards over and friend ended up in trouble.

Baldie

Elbi wrote: »

yeah yeah, you retaliate and you are the one who gets in touble.

My friend got jumpped by some knacker with a stick one night in ellen street, friend ends up taking stick off knacker and gave him a hiding, guards passed, friend called guards over and friend ended up in trouble.

Typical :rolleyes:

Itsdacraic

Whats the story with the junkies that cover the road between Cruises St to down past the Old Quarter. It's like they have it divided into shifts, I'm only in Limerick twice a week but there is always one of them manning the side door of BB's and usually one at the corner at Ellen Street. I often see them talking on mobile phones too.

Millie

Raiser wrote: »

So what? Let them print what they want, I found it hard to spot the parts they had exagerated or had made up to be honest.....

- Anyhow discussing this stuff is preferable to our tried, trusted and utterly useless alternative of plugging our earholes with our fingers and singing la-la-la loudly enough to mask the gunshots.

Personally I sincerely believe that "LIMERICK NEEDS TO BE SAVED" - and soon please...

Hear, hear.

graham41

in a battery operated wheelchair myself two foreigners robbed money i was putting into my pocket catherine st. lastnite told noone I'm devastated:(