Paddy O'Gorman - "OAP's selling drugs on the Boardwalk".

OutlawPete

Anyone just hear Paddy O'Gorman on the Pat Kenny radio show say that "OAP's selling drugs on the Boardwalk to junkies" ? The country's gone mad ..

EDIT**

Uploaded an audio clip from the show. The sound is quite low.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STL472Yt3DU

genericguy

old people are shit.

wudangclan

Selling their spare viagra or what?

CliffHuxtabel

another innovative, recession-busting idea

WindSock

They weren't OAPs, they were 25 year old addicts...

OutlawPete

wudangclan wrote: »

Selling their spare viagra or what?

He said Anti-Depressants.

He just said it ten minutes ago and he's still being interviewed so I'd expect a few calls by midday. Although PK / RTE may realise that it's a controversial thing for him to have just said and may not wish to start talking about it again.

They'll be on to Joe @ 1.45 no doubt

Gone Drinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZduNqmFt78

wudangclan

OutlawPete; He said Anti-Depressants.

There is a recession on.
You can't really fault the OAPs for trying to spread a little happiness.

OutlawPete

WindSock wrote: »

They weren't OAPs, they were 25 year old addicts...

He said OAPs were selling them to the addicts and that he witnessed it loads of times and impied it happens every day.

OutlawPete

wudangclan wrote: »

Selling their spare viagra or what?

He just said he knew one part time security guard who sells his Viagra

Degsy

OutlawPete wrote: »

He said OAPs were selling them to the addicts and that he witnessed it loads of times and impied it happens every day.

He's a clown..why would geriatrics approach junkies and risk getting thier faces slashed open?

OutlawPete

Degsy wrote: »

He's a clown..why would geriatrics approach junkies and risk getting thier faces slashed open?

Pat just laughed when he said it anyway ..

Seen the show he did outside the Cash Converters on Meath St. the questions he asks people are cringe factor 10.

AnonoBoy

I sell OAPs to junkies for drugs sometimes.

WindSock

OutlawPete wrote: »

He said OAPs were selling them to the addicts and that he witnessed it loads of times and impied it happens every day.

yeah but.

They might look like OAPs

gurramok

Who is Paddy O'Gorman?!

extra-ordinary_

sounds like utter sh*te.

junkies are now into Viagra and anti-depressants????

ScumLord

Degsy wrote: »

He's a clown..why would geriatrics approach junkies and risk getting thier faces slashed open?

It's one of those mutually beneficial relationships. Junkies want drugs, OAPs want money, this kind of thing does happen. I'm sure it's not commonplace and it may be junkie OAPs that are doing this.

Degsy

ScumLord wrote: »

It's one of those mutually beneficial relationships. Junkies want drugs, OAPs want money, this kind of thing does happen. I'm sure it's not commonplace and it may be junkie OAPs that are doing this.

Its garbage..How many junkies make it to pensionable age???

wudangclan

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

junkies are now into Viagra and anti-depressants????

One is to give them a lift and the other is, eh , to give them a lift.

Bob_Harris

I said to my OH regarding what an OP said in AH, I don't know what an OAP is.

It's hardly a new thing.

It's more likely they are selling them Valiums and Xanax.

wudangclan

Bob_Harris wrote: »

I said to my OH regarding what an OP said in AH, I don't know what an OAP is.

Old Age Pusher.

Evil_Clown

Paddy had another story aswell about the man doing community watch that was buying viagra off the old men in the watch area and sellin them to his mates in the motorbike club.

OutlawPete

gurramok wrote: »

Who is Paddy O'Gorman?!

http://www.rte.ie/tv/ogorman/

Degsy

rarnes1 wrote: »

It's hardly a new thing.

It's more likely they are selling them Valiums and Xanax.

"Oooh hello there young man..would you like awfully to purchase some pills off of me"

"wha?"

"I say,i've got some frightfully good pills..now how many would you like there me old sagosha?"

"Gimme your jackeh,yer wallah,yer watch AND yer fukkin pills or i'll slash ya ta ribbons"

"oh..really..ther's no need for that..when i was a young man i AAARRRGH!"

Degsy

rarnes1 wrote: »

It's hardly a new thing.

It's more likely they are selling them Valiums and Xanax.

What do the old folks do if the junkies fall behind in thier tick payments?
Do they send a gang of coffin doodgers round to give him a good umbrella-basing upside the noggin?:rolleyes:

ScumLord

Degsy wrote: »

Its garbage..How many junkies make it to pensionable age???

I've met a few drug using pensioners, I wouldn't call them junkies. Your obviously under the assumption that drug users don't make it to old age which is a very wrong assumption. I've heard of ICA grannys swapping pills all the time, they don't abuse the drugs and as such have plenty left over.

geeky

Bizarre as it seems, this ain't new, though moving to the boardwalk is.

Few years back, I interviewed a guy in Arbour Hill. He'd been locked up for something he did while on Heroin. Apparently, the way he progressed from sniffing petrol fumes and whatever bad hash bigger lads sent his way was this little old lady, who got tons of prescription meds and sold them out of her house. As far as he knows, she's still doing the same thing today.

Degsy

ScumLord wrote: »

I've met a few drug using pensioners, I wouldn't call them junkies. Your obviously under the assumption that drug users don't make it to old age which is a very wrong assumption. I've heard of ICA grannys swapping pills all the time, they don't abuse the drugs and as such have plenty left over.

Maybe the idea isnt new but i very much doubt if OAPs are hanging round the boardwalk flogging thier meds..even the guards dont go there.

ScumLord

Degsy wrote: »

Maybe the idea isnt new but i very much doubt if OAPs are hanging round the boardwalk flogging thier meds..even the guards dont go there.

I doubt it happens that way but it does happen. More than likely between granny and some relation or neighbour their certainly not out on the street dealing.

stovelid

Great news.

Senile drug-dealers = bargains

Lux23

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

sounds like utter sh*te.

junkies are now into Viagra and anti-depressants????

Some will take anything, a friend of mine sells his prozac and xanax. Hes not an OAP though. I can't believe people would be surprised by this, its being going on for years.

General Zod

anti-depressants are good for withdrawl symptoms or dealing with the comedown.

rainbowdrop

Lux23 wrote: »

Some will take anything, a friend of mine sells his prozac and xanax. Hes not an OAP though. I can't believe people would be surprised by this, its being going on for years.

Yeah, it's been going on a long time. I remember a guy that lived near me in the mid 90s, who used to sell his meds, and he was in his 60s. He used to flog Diazipam, Tamazipam (spelling?) and Valium to teenagers (if you take a few of them, they make you feel really drunk).

He would then go back to his Doctor, tell him he had LOST his tablets, and ask for another prescription. Nice top up off his pension I suppose!!

builttospill

General Zod wrote: »

anti-depressants are good for withdrawl symptoms or dealing with the comedown.

LOL. Another silly boards statement. No they aren't. Anti-depressants actually make you more jumpy cos they are firing the serotonin back up. It's sedatives like the benzodiazepines diazepam and temazepam that are good for withdrawal and dealing with the comedown.

builttospill

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Yeah, it's been going on a long time. I remember a guy that lived near me in the mid 90s, who used to sell his meds, and he was in his 60s. He used to flog Diazipam, Tamazipam (spelling?) and Valium to teenagers (if you take a few of them, they make you feel really drunk).

He would then go back to his Doctor, tell him he had LOST his tablets, and ask for another prescription. Nice top up off his pension I suppose!!

Diazepam is valium. Our should I say Valium is diazepam. Valium is the brand name.

OutlawPete

Just edited the opening post and added a short audio clip with Paddy's comments.

Gummy Panda

He got one thing right though, there is a lot of junkiees hanging around the boardwalk at the customs house.

pebbles21

They crush up the Viagra and put it in their eyes cos it makes them look hard:D

orourkeda

Degsy wrote: »

He's a clown..why would geriatrics approach junkies and risk getting thier faces slashed open?

Because they have drugs