So my work was Raided Last Night...

Twilightning

...by three guys wearing black bin bags over their heads, I shit you not. I work in a local Spar shop. One idiot was standing at the door with the thing draped over his face shouting abuse and telling his mates to hurry up while the two guys came up to the counter, one of them waving an iron bar at me (I was the only one behind the till at the time) and the other holding a bag in his hand telling me he'd shoot if I didn't open up the till. More likely a banana than a firearm.

"WHERE'S DE BLEEDIN' 50s!?" Needless to say these guys weren't the most sophisticated store raiders, making off with less than €150 in 10 and 20 notes. When the police arrived about 10 minutes later (Great reaction time after the manager hit the panic button from behind the deli as it was happening), they asked me to describe the guys that did it. It went like this:

"How many of them were there?"
"I'm not sure since there could have been two of them outside, but there was definitely three. Mid twenties, scummy North Dublin accent, scrawny, wearing tracksuits."
"Did you see their faces or were they covering them? Balaclavas?"
"They were wearing bin bags."
"What, like those two ****in' muppets from Limerick?"
"Yeah, pretty much."

I put it up on Facebook later on when I got home and most of the replies told me I should have just told them to **** off back to their horse outside. All in a night's work!

FatherLen

ok.

godscop

Do you sell vanilla coke ?

Twilightning

godscop wrote: »

Do you sell vanilla coke ?

Afraid not

jimthemental

€150? So you could say, they made a bags of it!
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Twilightning

jimthemental wrote: »

€150? So you could say, they made a bags of it!
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Degag

Could have been worse OP. Be thankful you're alive.

danniemcq

do you want a blue peter badge OP?

phasers

Some of us can't afford balaclavas, moneybags.

Twilightning

Degag wrote: »

Could have been worse OP. Be thankful you're alive.

Ah I am, but something like that really does show you what a bit of shock and disbelief does to people. There were at least 10 other people in the shop, some less than 5 feet away from these guys and nobody did anything except stand and stare, except me obviously.

listermint

danniemcq wrote: »

do you want a blue peter badge OP?

great input bro !

Twilightning

danniemcq wrote: »

do you want a blue peter badge OP?

I'm definitely not taking the piss out of what happened to me last night or anything!

danniemcq

listermint wrote: »

great input bro !

you too

thetonynator

Wouls there really be only €150 in notes in the till at any one time? I thought there would be several hundred at least . . .lucky there wasnt!

Twilightning

thetonynator wrote: »

Wouls there really be only €150 in notes in the till at any one time? I thought there would be several hundred at least . . .lucky there wasnt!

We're told to drop the 50 notes into a box underneath the till which they can't obviously get at, so there's never too much money in the till in case something like this happens. I hope it was worth it for them! I heard they're local so they're probably gonna get caught.

MagicMarker

thetonynator wrote: »

Wouls there really be only €150 in notes in the till at any one time? I thought there would be several hundred at least . . .lucky there wasnt!

You only need to keep a couple hundred in a till at any one time in case....... da da da dun dun DUN DUN!!!! .... you get robbed.

Seanachai

That's rich , the cops calling two very intelligent , creative guys 'Muppets' considering their reaction time. Were they uniformed or plain clothes?.

Bosco boy

I think i know the getaway driver he's Enda and hes got a honda

Twilightning

Seanachai wrote: »

That's rich , the cops calling two very intelligent , creative guys 'Muppets' considering their reaction time. Were they uniformed or plain clothes?.

Uniform showed up first and spoke with the supervisior who was on at the time, plain clothes detectives showed up a few minutes later. The ironic thing is we called the police earlier in the week to tell them to come down to the shop since there was a gathering of like 40 scumbags out on the field in front of us waiting for a fight to start and some of them were hurling abuse at the shop. Worried us since there was only 3 staff on and they came down like a bloody bullet, 2 minutes tops.

cherryghost

I suppose they had a horse outside ready for the getaway :pac:

Kinetic^

Just be careful going home, they'd never forget a mug like yours

jester77

So where were the €50s??

Twilightning

jester77 wrote: »

So where were the €50s??

Mentioned it earlier in the thread, in a drop box under the counter that can only be opened with a key the manager has.

Pyridine

Mentioned it earlier in the thread, in a drop box under the counter that can only be opened with a key the manager has.

Sorry where abouts do you work??

*gets ready with pen and paper to plan the next, more lucrative heist!*

GrumPy

http://i.imgur.com/141UD.jpg

Twilightning

Pyridine wrote: »

Sorry where abouts do you work??

*gets ready with pen and paper to plan the next, more lucrative heist!*

Twas the Spar in Clarehall!

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Should've checked if there was a horse outside.

The horse probably would have had a heavy duty bin bag to avoid any possible identification.

GrumPy wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/141UD.jpg

Cool attempt at thanks whoring bro!

enda1

Betcha one of them bought a roll of black bin bags earlier in the day or the previous day in your shop. Check the tapes and you may have one of them.

Mr E

Twilightning wrote: »

"WHERE'S DE BLEEDIN' 50s!?"

Should have said "60 years ago.... ask yore ma."

Twilightning

enda1 wrote: »

Betcha one of them bought a roll of black bin bags earlier in the day or the previous day in your shop. Check the tapes and you may have one of them.

I was thinking that myself. Gonna have to have a filter through the CCTV today anyway so I'll run it by the manager.

Mr E wrote: »

Should have said "60 years ago.... ask yore ma."

It was one of those situations where you think of all the awesome things you could have said AFTER it happens!

120_Minutes

Idiot cops, the rubberbandits ironically enough wear spar bags not bin bags.

gothicus

People are taking this Rubberbandits thing a bit to far now ffs

Twilightning

gothicus wrote: »

People are taking this Rubberbandits thing a bit to far now ffs

Haha I know but c'mon! They had bags over their heads!

big fellow

SPAR in Henry St Limerick was raided approx a year ok. (the smaller of the two SPARS)
Guy comes in holding a steak knife threatning the shop assistant, has a go demanding money, shoves the knife out at the assistant. The assistant grabbed the blade, broke it off and stuck it in the muppets shoulder. The muppet went to leave the shop,changed his mind and turned around and threatned the assistant. The assistant then produced a pick ax handle and beat the guy some more. Strike one for the good guys!

7Sins

Twilightning wrote: »

...by three guys wearing black bin bags over their heads, I shit you not. I work in a local Spar shop. One idiot was standing at the door with the thing draped over his face shouting abuse and telling his mates to hurry up while the two guys came up to the counter, one of them waving an iron bar at me (I was the only one behind the till at the time) and the other holding a bag in his hand telling me he'd shoot if I didn't open up the till. More likely a banana than a firearm.

"WHERE'S DE BLEEDIN' 50s!?" Needless to say these guys weren't the most sophisticated store raiders, making off with less than €150 in 10 and 20 notes. When the police arrived about 10 minutes later (Great reaction time after the manager hit the panic button from behind the deli as it was happening), they asked me to describe the guys that did it. It went like this:

"How many of them were there?"
"I'm not sure since there could have been two of them outside, but there was definitely three. Mid twenties, scummy North Dublin accent, scrawny, wearing tracksuits."
"Did you see their faces or were they covering them? Balaclavas?"
"They were wearing bin bags."
"What, like those two ****in' muppets from Limerick?"
"Yeah, pretty much."

I put it up on Facebook later on when I got home and most of the replies told me I should have just told them to **** off back to their horse outside. All in a night's work!

Do you have Curly Wurlys there? :pac:

Solnskaya

at least they didn't ask you-"Got any grapes?". That could've got really annoying.

carlybabe1

Twilightning wrote: »

Haha I know but c'mon! They had bags over their heads!

yeah, unfortunately, they have air holes in them :rolleyes:


ohhhhhh****kkkkkk.....a...a..aam .........I ...old :eek:

they should still suffocate

Killer Pigeon

Twilightning wrote: »

Mid twenties, scummy North Dublin accent, scrawny, wearing tracksuits."

How southsider of you.

You're just after painting 99.9% of North Dublin as "scummy".

Solnskaya

you should have just thrown a plastic tray of meat at them-everybody knows no plastic bag can resist those sharp edges. That or told them to feck off and come back when they could afford balaclavas. You gotta laugh at these muppets, €150, split three ways and a minimum two year stretch if caught, thats €0.07 per day if you get arrested. Master criminals.

Solnskaya

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

How southsider of you.

You're just after painting 99.9% of North Dublin as "scummy".

which is totally unfair, cos the real figure is only 85%.

Killer Pigeon

Solnskaya wrote: »

which is totally unfair, cos the real figure is only 85%.

Well yeah, if you cut out Clontarf, Malahide and Castleknock, then it would be around that.

Conor108

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Well yeah, if you cut out Clontarf, Malahide and Castleknock, then it would be around that.

We prefer MalaRIDE

Killer Pigeon

Conor108 wrote: »

We prefer MalaRIDE

I always thought it was Mala-hard...

... well at least for those Malahardians who try to act like the rest of North Dublin, anyway.

Solnskaya

yeah, but all the good stuff is cancelled out by ...Balbriggan:D is balbriggan in N.dublin? I'm not even sure if balbriggan is in earth.

Piriz

for all the anti-North Dublin posters, piss off back to the southside or the country and stop being bitches..

thanks

WoollyRedHat

It's at times like that, that you need a Super Blaster handy



When you pull out one of those at them, they'll think twice about trying to rob someone who has their Super-Blaster and isn't afraid to use it

Who needs security...

Tayla

Twilightning wrote: »

I heard they're local so they're probably gonna get caught.

I don't know why the guards bother, last year near me there were 3 or 4 armed robberies of post offices and shops in a couple of days, they caught them but did any of them get locked up for it? .....yea right :rolleyes:

One of the guys is up in court for loads of seperate things and for some reason he still hasn't been locked up, I heard he was supposed to keep away from the area but still see him around, it's ridiculous.

Solnskaya

Piriz wrote: »

for all the anti-North Dublin posters, piss off back to the southside or the country and stop being bitches..

thanks

just a quick note piriz, due to the wonders of the tinternet, you don't actually have to be in N.Dublin to post about it, you can do so from the comfort of wherever you happen to be. Which, hopefully, isn't N.Dublin.:D

mconigol

Shops should have a supply of fake cash or marked traceable notes to hand over to these guys.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Patent pending.

MagicSean

Twilightning wrote: »

Uniform showed up first and spoke with the supervisior who was on at the time, plain clothes detectives showed up a few minutes later. The ironic thing is we called the police earlier in the week to tell them to come down to the shop since there was a gathering of like 40 scumbags out on the field in front of us waiting for a fight to start and some of them were hurling abuse at the shop. Worried us since there was only 3 staff on and they came down like a bloody bullet, 2 minutes tops.

The reason being that your panic alarm is not linked to the Gardaí. It is linked to a monitoring company who then have to contact the Garda station with a code which has to be entered into a system and verified because they are usually false alarms. Much faster to ring 999 if you can.

Twilightning

Why was this thread bumped? It's fairly old. I don't even work in the kip anymore. And if anyone's accusing me of being anti-North Dublin or a Southsider and such, I grew up in Ballybough near Fairview in a block of flats. Classy as ****.