Crimecall Tonight - 26th May

Tipsy Mac

Crimecall on RTE1 have just shown CCTV coverage of the robbery of a flag, yes a flag, 3 drunken looking lads stealing a Cypriot flag from outside the Cypriot Embassy in Dublin on a late friday night. In a city where drugs are openly sold and people are being beaten up and mugged on a daily basis I find this a crazy waste of my license fee that this "crime" was seen as necessary to show, it would have been cheaper to provide a cheque to the Cypriot Embassy for the purchase of 1 new flag than to go to the expense of showing the CCTV footage on national television and the associated man hours in bringing it to air. I really thought that the days of Garda Patrol where half the force were involved in the investigation of a packet of Tayto crisps from the village shop were gone, clearly not.

aloevera

yes, i saw it! it was a bit nuts.
i agree with you. what a bloody waste. chase the real f*ckers.

the robbery in the post office in navan and the eurospar down the country were horrifying!!!!

it really annoys me that people are getting away with this sh*t! and the guy who was killed in artane. its scary.

big syke

Oh dear god are you serious?? :eek::eek:
Any other "serious crimes" on it last night??:rolleyes:

dodgyme

I will get Mr Tayto on the case.

muffinman

Come on.. What other "international incidents" do the poor gardaí have to look after.. Give them a chance

dodgyme

muffinman wrote: »

Come on.. What other "international incidents" do the poor gardaí have to look after.. Give them a chance

drinking in the embasseys in ballsbridge and fighting about whose round it is?

Auvers

yeah i was laughing at that as well

and how about yer man that robs a couple of bottles of shampoo from a pharmacy and leaves the shop without paying :eek:

NormanNicetouch

Remember they had CCTV of someone shoplifting a single bottle of perfume from some place down the country a couple of years ago. Dunno how they pick these things when there must be loads of more serious CCTV to show. Maybe the shop was owned by a relative of the Garda Commisioner or Crimecall's producer. Kinda weird anyway.

gidget

What other "international incidents" do the poor gardaí have to look after

The CCTV of the Roma gang in the shop in Limerick where the shopkeeper gets distracted and the girl crawls behind the counter to get the money. when the shopkeeper returned the girl then payed for her products with the money she just stole!!

you only have to read about the court appearances in the paper with this crowd and the number of convictions they have notched up - the gardai go to the trouble of catching and charging these people yet they walk free out of court

aloevera

gidget wrote: »

The CCTV of the Roma gang in the shop in Limerick where the shopkeeper gets distracted and the girl crawls behind the counter to get the money. when the shopkeeper returned the girl then payed for her products with the money she just stole!!

saw it too! what a sneaky, sly and crafty bunch of bi*ches!

you only have to read about the court appearances in the paper with this crowd and the number of convictions they have notched up - the gardai go to the trouble of catching and charging these people yet they walk free out of court

i agree. off topic - but recently heard story of a lad who has just gotten away with underage sex.. he was given a .....(*term/exact word wont come to me*).. basically shoved under the carpet like!

timmywex

The reason this kinda thing is on theshow is only to keep the embassy happy i would think! Makeit appear that the gardai are going to do something about 3 drunks robbing a flag!

A Disgrace

Lets not forget folks that CCTV footage of serious crime, murder, rape etc is rare.. Also, the success rate of arrests from these segments is very high, and you'll generally find that the perpetrators are involved in other, perhaps more serious crimes...

A theft of a flag from an embassy, even if it just seems like a prank, would be considered a serious breach of security by any government, so action is required.. And finally (I have a pizza in the oven), Crimecall never forgets it's entertainment brief, and that's one of the reasons we watch it!

Now if you'll forgive me, I'm hosting a Cyrpus night in my bedsit..

NormanNicetouch

A Disgrace wrote: »

A theft of a flag from an embassy, even if it just seems like a prank, would be considered a serious breach of security by any government, so action is required..

OMG. Imagine if someone had stroked the flag from outside the American Embassy!!! Sharon Ni Bheolain would have been forced to do newsflashes(!) on the hour, every hour until it was recovered. Dreadful.