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Cherry Picker @ Leinster House

  • 07-12-2010 9:12am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone got any more info on the cherry picker incident at Leinster House? Can't see anything on breaking news or irish times. Just hearing it on Today FM apparently same guy as the cement mixer incident.

    And it's playing Poker Face


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/crane_protest.html


    I LOLed at whole thing, this bit was a classic...

    'threw a number of tennis ball at the ground below.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    WOW, Greece and France could learn some protesting tips from us


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    danniemcq wrote: »
    WOW, Greece and France could learn some protesting tips from us

    Yeah this guy really is bringing protesting to new heights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,108 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Yawn. Who are these nutjobs and what exactly are they trying to achieve? Anti government slogans you say... well that's the first time I've heard somebody isn't happy with the current government!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Yawn. Who are these nutjobs and what exactly are they trying to achieve? Anti government slogans you say... well that's the first time I've heard somebody isn't happy with the current government!?

    and if he's the same guy as the cement mixer guy he owes the banks a fortune too


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


    The guy would make a bigger impression if he used a something like recently bought sherman tank instead of all this on-site construction equipment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭sealgaire


    RTE are engaged in a policy of censorship on this one. No surprise there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    He likes his machinery.

    I'd like to see a Massey Fergusen outside Leinster house. Does he do requests?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    He was arrested, what could he be done for? Playing music too loudly? Wilful throwing of tennis balls? Or just plain ole breach of the peace? I say let him get whatever he needs off his chest and drive on.:D

    What is the difference between his protest and a that of bunch of marchers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭GrahamThomas


    sealgaire wrote: »
    RTE are engaged in a policy of censorship on this one. No surprise there

    Umm... This story was posted on the RTE website (with pictures) at 8:58 this morning: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/crane_protest.html

    Would you like to explain how that constitutes "a policy of censorship"?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    Yakuza wrote: »
    He was arrested, what could he be done for? Playing music too loudly? Wilful throwing of tennis balls? Or just plain ole breach of the peace? I say let him get whatever he needs off his chest and drive on.:D

    What is the difference between his protest and a that of bunch of marchers?

    I would go with breach of the peace and a few vehicle sections thrown in for good measure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Umm... This story was posted on the RTE website (with pictures) at 8:58 this morning: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/crane_protest.html

    Would you like to explain how that constitutes "a policy of censorship"?

    Keep your facts to yourself :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Umm... This story was posted on the RTE website (with pictures) at 8:58 this morning: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/crane_protest.html

    Would you like to explain how that constitutes "a policy of censorship"?

    Yeah i hate to say but RTE actually had this before Breaking News and Irish Times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭GrahamThomas


    Mark200 wrote: »
    Keep your facts to yourself :rolleyes:

    Sorry Mark, won't happen again.

    Rabble rabble.... Zanu FF..... Rabble rabble.... censorship..... Rabble rabble..... We're worse than North Korea..... Rabble rabble.....

    Is that better? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 eoghan77


    people thinking they've spotted a conspiracy when theres nothing. love it :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Why did the gardaí rip down the anti-government slogans, "Nothing to see here, move along"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Crosáidí wrote: »
    Why did the gardaí rip down the anti-government slogans, "Nothing to see here, move along"

    Well we couldn't have our overly sensitive politicians reading them on their way in to work could we?
    Some of those backbenchers might start having a crisis of conscience on how they'll vote this afternoon.

    RTÉ mightn't be doing the censorship but AGS certainly are...shame on them.
    ...and no, in this instance they're not just "doing their job".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    yes I cannot understand why the slogans had to be destroyed. In a democracy aren't you allowed to protest with slogans?


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


    Is this Joe McNamara again? I wonder if he can charge the Gardai with needless destruction of property?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    From the RTE news article:

    "Gardaí later removed a number of the anti-government slogans."

    Why would the Gardaí remove the slogans? What has it got to do with them? They are just responsible for moving the vehicle off the road and get traffic moving again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    From the RTE news article:

    "Gardaí later removed a number of the anti-government slogans."

    Why would the Gardaí remove the slogans? What has it got to do with them? They are just responsible for moving the vehicle off the road and get traffic moving again.

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    Mark200 wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Go on, give us your opinion :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    yes I cannot understand why the slogans had to be destroyed. In a democracy aren't you allowed to protest with slogans?
    I agree - the gardaí had no business removing the slogans. I've said elsewhere on these boards that I have the height of respect for them, as they are the line between us and the scumbags, but that respect gets a bit tinged when they start censoring legitimate protest / expression of opinion. I know I'm not in full possession of the facts as to what happened, but I passed the cherry picker on my way up Kildare St and it didn't endanger / block traffic.

    There's a post on politics.ie showing the slogans being removed.

    Poor form from AGS in this case. I can only hope it was just one of them who took matters into his own hands, rather than reacting to some policy coming from down from the top.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    It appears that Crane protest guy has now been jailed!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    It appears that Crane protest guy has now been jailed!

    Breach of bail conditions from the last incident I bet....still not good "optics" on a day like today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    It appears that Crane protest guy has now been jailed!

    I've just heard that too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Ah it's all becoming clear now as to why the Gardai felt it their duty to remove the posters....seems one of them was a comment aimed at the Minister for Justice and his €300K pension plan. Gardaí are merely protecting the interests of their head honcho from such scurrilous accusations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭Nozebleed


    will there be a riot in town tonight? i think it could happen.


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