Anglo Cement Truck Pics

JJRocket

Im sure these images have already circulated, but just for those who have not got a glimpse yet:


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biko

Did you mean to post this somewhere else? I don't see the Galway City connection. Were the pics taken here?

Oh - http://www.galwaynews.ie/12114-protest-truck-removed-anglo-irish-bank-and-impounded
A cement mixer truck which caused disruption outside Anglo Irish Bank in the city centre this morning has been removed and impounded.
The truck was locked with the engine running and abandoned outside the branch on Forster Street.
The mixer is painted red and white and has the words "Toxic Bank" and "Anglo Irish Bank" written across it.
Registration plates were also removed making it difficult to identify the owner.
It'll remain under Garda lock-and-key until the owner comes forward to collect it, according to a Garda spokesperson.

PopeBuckfastXVI

It appears to be Anglo on Forster Street?

mashling

Thats the bank at the bottom of Prospect Hill. It's in Galway alright!

JJRocket

Yep its Galway. Abandoned this morning outside the bank as a form of protest. Blocked up a full lane for cars going up left to college road. The gardai were on hand to direct traffic so it didnt cause too much hassle. the truck registration said BANKRUPT !

dbyrne

you gotta love that... id love to start doing that to certain places in dublin, ie outside the directors houses

Starie1975

Fecking brill. Fair play to whom ever did that.

Wompa1

Seems like a costly protest! Hopefully the truck was going to reposessed or something...news says it was left locked with the Engine running and reg plates missing..

ronnie3585

I really don't see the point. The guy's pissed at Angol.....as is every other taxpayer in the country. We are where we are, parking a truck outside Anglo with a snappy phrase that nobody has seen before is going to gain nothing - but block a busy street.

Starie1975

ronnie3585 wrote: »

I really don't see the point. The guy's pissed at Angol.....as is every other taxpayer in the country. We are where we are, parking a truck outside Anglo with a snappy phrase that nobody has seen before is going to gain nothing - but block a busy street.

Made me laugh.

Highly Salami

Wow, nice cars in that photo, an exucutive-style Audi and what looks like a Lexus SUV. Together with people abandoning expensive cement trucks we must all be loaded! This country needs to seriously cop on!

Fenster

I completely slept through this. I even had people calling me and asking me to take photographs.

Zzippy

Passed it this morning, there were 2 TV cameras there, will prob be on the news later...

thecretinhop

Great stuff!! more of this we need, what the **** are people on about it blocking traffic? when we have huge potholes and shattered roads as we are paying interest on this corrupt bank what is a few hours of mild disruption, at least 25 billion is going into this cess pit we should be out on the ****ing streets:(

Amhran Nua

Well done that man/woman/angry gang of artistically inclined builders.

thecretinhop

Id say it was a reposession job, anglo probably squeezing the **** out of a plant hire place, they probably had enough, this weekend is possibly the most important of our lifes, we either need big protests or a huge news story to stop this GUBU happening, neither i belive will happen, seen that me and about 100 others were all that went to the anti nama march (exculding the SF SW etc):mad:

sgthighway

ronnie3585 wrote: »

I really don't see the point. The guy's pissed at Angol.....as is every other taxpayer in the country. We are where we are, parking a truck outside Anglo with a snappy phrase that nobody has seen before is going to gain nothing - but block a busy street.

The Phrase is actually very common regarding all of the banks entering NAMA
The traffic could get around the truck so it wasn't fully blocked.

This guys business probably went to the wall and the truck was probably financed by Anglo so he as good delivered it back to them.
Anglo spent nearly half a million euros on golf balls. How fcuked up is that?

ronnie3585

sgthighway wrote: »

The Phrase is actually very common regarding all of the banks entering NAMA

Obviously. I was being sarcastic.

JJRocket

Well I thought it was pretty good anyway. Better to do something instead of nothing. :cool:

duckygalway

fair play!

johngalway

Hope they emptied the drum contents into the bank first.

Fair play to the owner of that truck.

Don't see much point removing plates, surely it can be identified by chassis number or some other truck specific marking. Unless someone went over it with a fine tooh comb before hand.

Which I honestly hope they did

teepee

Thats one of Roadstone concrete readymix trucks , Fill it up with a dry mix of concrete and tip it in the front door and let them dig there way out of that . Probley was henry the cranky bugger .
Well done to him ,

Rylan

teepee wrote: »

Thats one of Roadstone concrete readymix trucks , Fill it up with a dry mix of concrete and tip it in the front door and let them dig there way out of that . Probley was henry the cranky bugger .
Well done to him ,

Why would you want to do that. Most of the staff in there had nothing to do with the corruption at Anglo. They are just doing their job any getting a wage out of it.

galwayrush

Should have used a slurry truck and dunped the contents at the door of the bank.

GalwayKiefer

Didn't get a chance to get on my computer yesterday to upload these but here's some more photos in case anyone's interested.

Recovery trucks that were called but couldn't shift it:


Mechanic discovering that the engine kill switch had been disabled:


New licence plates:


The truck owner was in the area watching the whole thing, he eventually came forward with the keys:


The truck owner in the cabin showing a recovery driver the controls:


The truck leaving with a Garda escort and a recovery company driver:


The owner casually walked across the road and up the street while the Gardaí were talking amongst themselves:

Starie1975

Good work GalKiefer.

You gotta hand it to your man. Great shot of him walking away down Forest Street, looks like he's heading for An Pucan. If any one knows him buy him a pint on me. PM me and I'll send on the price of a pint.

thecretinhop

here here good man, great pics by the way,:)

doubleglaze

The person who pulled this stunt is my hero.:D

Barname

ronnie3585

Will there be bananas?

KittyeeTrix

Love the pics GalKiefer.....

The woman in the1!st picture looks like she has a beak instead of a mouth. Freaky looking:eek::D

Poly

Great Pics GalKiefer,

I thought the last pic was very sad, the lad walking away from his livelihood.
It's disgusting to think what Anglo were up to and this chap and many like him are foreclosed.

Fair play to him for making a stand though.

This country is rotten ripe for revolution

teepee

I see they brought two recovery truck to tow it away ? what a recovery truck for each front wheel .

RubyBlu

How do you know that that is the owner of the truck? Would it not be some random guy walking past?

Andrea B.

Emotion aside and call me naive, I imagine he got a loan from them, with clauses, that if he could not make repayments / on time etc. etc......

So now he could not make repayments? Why the big statement? He got a loan from a bank which was big on golf ball expenditure. He chose the bank.

In the "good-times" if Sean Doe had ordered concrete from him and could not pay him, what would have been the outcome?

GalwayKiefer

Well he had the keys to the truck, the Gardai took his details and he had to show the recovery company employee how to open the cabin door and the controls to switch off the mixer etc.

teepee

yes , he is the driver of the truck he owns the truck and is a well known property developer in galway city . And no it wount be right to name him .

Andrea B.

And no it wount be right to name him .

Why?

teepee

cause he doesnt want to , he walk away from press interviews from rte , tv3 etc , he just whats to make apoint he said , so others will make there voices heard .

Andrea B.

Well, someone will name him. There's not many well known property developers with curly faces.

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Fair play to him. We need more like him!

Andrea B.

Fair play to him. We need more like him!

Why? More like what? We had enough of them to bring us to this state.

If you want everyone to take a public disruptive stand, do we want the tradespeople owed by developers to deface their installations?

Do we want the potential homebuyers who payed deposits on unfinished developments to take the stand against the developers and destroy the properties with cryptic graffiti?

The developers and the banks were all in it together, with a blind eye from regulators, who were appointed by the politicians "we" voted in.

Their is no statement from the person that parked this truck to say what exactly their issue is. In the absence of that I have to presume that they are unable to make repayments on commitments they made, because people were no longer able to afford heavily inflated properties and make payments on same, to the same banks that funded his cement truck.......

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Andrea B. wrote: »

Why? More like what? We had enough of them to bring us to this state.

Why? Would you rather we put billions of our hard earned to bail out the banks without a blink of our eyes? There are thousands if not millions in this country who do not want to just roll over and accept this. If someone wants to make a protest when their property is being repossessed by the likes of Anglo then let them - it is their right to do so.

Andrea B. wrote:

If you want everyone to take a public disruptive stand, do we want the tradespeople owed by developers to deface their installations?

Do we want the potential homebuyers who payed deposits on unfinished developments to take the stand against the developers and destroy the properties with cryptic graffiti?

If I said yes, will it make you feel better?

Andrea B. wrote:

The developers and the banks were all in it together, with a blind eye from regulators, who were appointed by the politicians "we" voted in.

Their is no statement from the person that parked this truck to say what exactly their issue is. In the absence of that I have to presume that they are unable to make repayments on commitments they made, because people were no longer able to afford heavily inflated properties and make payments on same, to the same banks that funded his cement truck.......

The banks were - quite literally throwing money at developers. I'll give you an example. I applied for a credit card a few years ago and they gave me an 11k limit against my will. I told them I do not want anything more than a 3k limit and they were all smiles and refused to reduce my limit. They gave me more money to entice me to get into more debt with them.

This is common practice and they did this to everyone, so I don't buy that the developers were "in it" with the banks. The banks threw money at them, sometimes forcefully.

Andrea B.

The banks were - quite literally throwing money at developers. I'll give you an example. I applied for a credit card a few years ago and they gave me an 11k limit against my will. I told them I do not want anything more than a 3k limit and they were all smiles and refused to reduce my limit. They gave me more money to entice me to get into more debt with them.

This is common practice and they did this to everyone, so I don't buy that the developers were "in it" with the banks. The banks threw money at them, sometimes forcefully.

I was asked to invest in Bulgaria. "A sure winner". I did not run with it. I was asked to take more money with my mortgage. I didn't. I could have remortgaged and bought a new 4x4. I didn't.

I was saying in 2005 that it was all going to end in tears and advising anyone I knew trying to get on property ladder, not to. i explained the "plumbing" of the economics (half the country robbing each other) There are a few thanking me.

So the banks forced money down peoples throats? Once they were over 18 years old, I see no reason why they are not culpable for spending (swallowing) the money.

Edit/PS: Nor did I buy Eircom shares when they were being "forced" upon me.

jkforde

Andrea B. wrote: »

So the banks forced money down peoples throats?

Are you expecting us educated citizens to be prudent & responsible??

That's a tall order in a society where we expect the government to hold our hands through life, to the extent of telling us, for instance, what to wear on a bicycle when it's cold (http://bikeweek.ie/cycling-tips#What_about_cold_weather_)

All aboard...

rubensni

Rylan wrote: »

Most of the staff in there had nothing to do with the corruption at Anglo. They are just doing their job and getting a wage out of it.

You could say they were just following orders :D

teepee

Where do you think all the big devlopers in galway got there loans , anlgo brought them out on golfing junkes and the galway races was very comon place . Anglo would ring up companys begging them to do bussines with them .
Hard to feel sorry for them .:(