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Someone in Ballymun is getting engaged

  • 29-01-2010 3:23pm
    #1
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0129/ballymun.html

    "Almost €1m worth of diamonds have been stolen during an armed robbery at a Dublin hotel."

    The hotel? Why the Ballymun Travelodge. Who the **** brings €1million worth of diamonds to a Ballymun Travelodge?


Comments

  • #2
    TheGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭TheGod


    Holy ****.

    Two diamond robberies, both for 1million and both in a Ballymun Hotel!

    What a coincidence!!!


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    but you wouldn't suspect they'd be there.

    The perfect hiding place (except that it wasn't)


  • #4
    kawaii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭kawaii


    And how!


  • #5
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Ballymun Travel Lodge?

    Could that even be considered a hotel? Me thinks not.

    What sort of idiot brings a million in diamonds and then stays in Ballymun...


  • #6
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    They'll be swapping them straight for yokes later on tonight


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  • #7
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    super_furry wrote: »
    Who the **** brings €1million worth of diamonds to a Ballymun Travelodge?

    A: A numpty.


  • #8
    TheGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭TheGod


    Victim named

    mr-t1.jpg


  • #9
    Shzm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭Shzm


    super_furry wrote: »
    Who the **** brings €1million worth of diamonds to a Ballymun Travelodge?

    Someone who pays alot of insurance. Just sayin'.


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Carrying one million around in what is an easily desposible form of liquidation, is pure stupid.
    Part of me wants to say he deserved to be robbed - but no one should have to go through that experience.

    At the very least, he should have at least a one/two man protection system with him even if hired for a day or two while in certain areas.
    Not to do so is an open invitation for what sadly happened.

    The robbers clearly knew his I.D. - where to access the diamonds - probably his route - his number of suite in the hotel, etc.
    There was a lot of things he could have done but didn't. He will be grateful (hopefully) for his insurance payments he has being paying.


  • #11
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    TheGod wrote: »
    Victim named

    mr-t1.jpg

    I pity the fool that took them!

    or as they say in ballymun, i pity the fool what took them:D


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  • #12
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    TheGod wrote: »
    Victim named

    mr-t1.jpg

    So dya reckon they'll catch the diamond (s)nickers .... or will we have a marathon investigation on our hands?


  • #13
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    TheGod wrote: »
    Holy ****.

    Two diamond robberies, both for 1million and both in a Ballymun Hotel!

    What a coincidence!!!

    No, its obivious that the original thief has had the diamonds he stole, stolen from him.

    So obivious. :rolleyes:

    :pac:


  • #14
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    This must be what "diamond in the rough" is all about.


  • #15
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    It was Paul Simon.
    He wanted to replace the diamonds on the soles of his shoes.


  • #16
    nehemiah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭nehemiah


    From the RTE page

    "Gardaí now want to know why the man brought so much jewellery to Dublin, and why he stayed in Ballymun."

    Sure why not?!


  • #17
    TheGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭TheGod


    nehemiah wrote: »
    From the RTE page

    "Gardaí now want to know why the man brought so much jewellery to Dublin, and why he stayed in Ballymun."

    Sure why not?!


    Drug deal gone wrong I reckon.


  • #18
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    TheGod wrote: »
    Drug deal gone wrong I reckon.

    Hell of a lot of diamonds for a few Disprin's!
    Now he has a right worse headache!


  • #19
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Whoever said that diamonds are forever, was wrong.


  • #20
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    Ballymun Travel Lodge?

    Could that even be considered a hotel? Me thinks not.

    what is it if not a hotel, looks like a hotel to me



    i have stayed at the days hotel in ballymun on numerous occasions when i had an early flight at dublin airport, never heard a pin drop, never stayed at the travelodge though


  • #21
    Chewbacca.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Chewbacca.


    It could have happened in D4, the robbers didnt just happen to walk in off the street obviously


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  • #22
    Mr Trade In
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭Mr Trade In


    I am betting it was Clooney and Co looking to Film Oceans (Dublin)9.


  • #23
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    I was thinking same thing why stay in ballymun with them and in their room with them:eek: surly you would put in hotel safe :confused:
    Also how did they know he had them ;) Airport staff or someone else along way,otherwise only answer is inside job:D


  • #24
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Biggins wrote: »
    It was Paul Simon.
    He wanted to replace the diamonds on the soles of his shoes.

    oh dear..... I appreciate the effort buuuut....


  • #25
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    me-skywalker wrote: »
    oh dear..... I appreciate the effort buuuut....
    :D


  • #26
    Jet Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    On an unrelated note, does anyone know where I can sell some diamonds in the North Dublin area??

    <_<
    >_>


  • #27
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Jet Black wrote: »
    On an unrelated note, does anyone know where I can sell some diamonds in the North Dublin area??

    <_<
    >_>

    You think your stuck?
    I'm left with a load of drugs now I can't shift! :(

    Anyone want to buy a crate of laxatives?


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