Is Tenerife safe to go on holiday?

jimpump

i seen on the news a woman had her head chopped off in a supermarket in tenerife.
i was thinkin of going there but this story is turning me off a bit

anybody been there and is safe to go there?

amacachi

I certainly wouldn't beheading there any time soon.

Rented Mule

Every place has it's issues.

It's nothing to lose your head over.

Pauleta

There are several beheadings a day in Tenerife. The tribal area of Pakistan is suppose to be nice this time of year.

jimpump

ha i seen what ya did there

seriosly tho, is there machete wieldin nutcases roamin the streets of tenerife....to anyone thats been there

jimpump

jimpump wrote: »

ha i seen what ya did there

seriosly tho, is there machete wieldin nutcases roamin the streets of tenerife....to anyone thats been there

That particular nutcase is now behind bars, as for the remainder.... you're just as likely to meet them here as there!

Pompey Magnus

jimpump wrote: »

seriosly tho, is there machete wieldin nutcases roamin the streets of tenerife....to anyone thats been there

Nope, but there are loads of Chinese and African immigrants wandering the streets selling cheap tat to drunk people.

jimpump

Deleted User wrote: »

That particular nutcase is now behind bars, as for the remainder.... you're just as likely to meet them here as there!

so when was the last time someone walked into a tesco or dunnes in ireland and behead an old lady for no reason?

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

ha i seen what ya did there

seriosly tho, is there machete wieldin nutcases roamin the streets of tenerife....to anyone thats been there

You're seriously worried that there may be a spate of machete wielding nutcases on the roam in Spain?
Don't you think if there were it might, ya know, also make the news headlines?
heh, headlines...

yes its perfectly fine, I was actually there during the beheading, didnt see it tho.... sure we have plenty of our own nutjobs here...

its a lovely island

Pompey Magnus

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Nope, but there are loads of Chinese and African immigrants wandering the streets selling cheap tat to drunk people.

Oh definitely, and everyone is doomed to buy at least one piece of crap in the inevitable drunken state We did..............

And the Toutes are a pain, but we had great fun with them after a few, very annoying when your just strolling or looking for somewhere to eat

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

You're seriously worried that there may be a spate of machete wielding nutcases on the roam in Spain?
Don't you think if there were it might, ya know, also make the news headlines?
heh, headlines...

i wouldnt call the canaries Spain! its full of moroccans/nigerians and colombians

well lanzarote was last time i was there

Mr Benevolent

jimpump wrote: »

i wouldnt call the canaries Spain! its full of moroccans/nigerians and colombians

well lanzarote was last time i was there

Sweet Jesus.

OP, of course it's safe to go to Tenerife. Would you refuse to go to Germany based on the fact that a couple of million people were killed there? No? Then think on.

jimpump

Confab wrote: »

Sweet Jesus.

OP, of course it's safe to go to Tenerife. Would you refuse to go to Germany based on the fact that a couple of million people were killed there? No? Then think on.

na me mate has jet black hair and has a big nose so germany is a no go area for him....lol

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

i wouldnt call the canaries Spain! its full of moroccans/nigerians and colombians

Oh ffs...:rolleyes:

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

Oh ffs...:rolleyes:

ya obviously never been to new town lanzarote then! FFS :eek:

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

ya obviously never been to new town lanzarote then! FFS :eek:

So if I had been your inference is that I would obviously agree with you that Lanzarote can't be a part of Spain because it's over-run with "moroccans/nigerians and colombians"; is that it?

Sorry to tell you this but no, I wouldn't. But then I'm not a racist.
I lived in Gothenburg Sweden for many years, a very multi-cultural city, didn't make it any less of a Swedish city.
In fact the large immigrant population there adds a lot to the quality of life there in many ways-different cultures, languages, lots of different types of restaraunts and bars etc, not to mention how their taxes help the economy.

Lustrum

I wish I was an octopus so I could do 8 simultaneous face palms after reading the opening post.


Mind you though, I don't go outdoors anymore after hearing about a lad getting hit by lightening...:rolleyes:

alex73

Its safer than Dublin.

jimpump

alex73 wrote: »

Its safer than Dublin.

at least in dublin, its a bullet to the head...no beheadings!

whoevers thinking im ****ting of goin to tenerife, it aint me. its the ppl im goin with that are a bit scechy after hearin bout the decapitation

personally i couldnt give 2 fcuks

Lustrum

You should buy them all chain mail armour from ebay (here http://cgi.ebay.ie/Chainmail-Coif-Medieval-Chain-Mail-Hood-Mail-Armor-/150607152840?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item2310e2c6c8#ht_2452wt_905)

and tell them to slap it on and they'll be grand!


Maybe get some of these too

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Barna77

It's the time of the beheading season.

Careful now

jimpump wrote: »

i wouldnt call the canaries Spain! its full of moroccans/nigerians and colombians

So is Ireland, run by that German bird and Sarko

:pac:

jimpump

Lustrum wrote: »

You should buy them all chain mail armour from ebay (here http://cgi.ebay.ie/Chainmail-Coif-Medieval-Chain-Mail-Hood-Mail-Armor-/150607152840?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item2310e2c6c8#ht_2452wt_905)

and tell them to slap it on and they'll be grand!


Maybe get some of these too

http://cgi.ebay.ie/CRAZY-Bike-Jousting-Fencing-Swords-Retractable-Plastic-/140518768243?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b7923e73#ht_500wt_1156

thanks for the links pal, gonna check them out!

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

at least in dublin, its a bullet to the head...no beheadings!

whoevers thinking im ****ting of goin to tenerife, it aint me. its the ppl im goin with that are a bit scechy after hearin bout the decapitation

personally i couldnt give 2 fcuks

Spelling, grammar and punctuation are obviously other things you can't "give 2 fcuks" for judging by your semi-literate ramblings.

Read the forum rules-text speak is not allowed here.

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

Spelling, grammar and punctuation are obviously other things you can't "give 2 fcuks" for judging by your semi-literate ramblings.

Read the forum rules-text speak is not allowed here.

WELL SORRY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barna77

jimpump wrote: »

WELL SORRY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, it's Shakespeare

:rolleyes:

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

WELL SORRY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FAIL :rolleyes:

jimpump

oh sorry but i havent slept in 24 hours and aint really thinking like an intellectual like yourself, you must have a sad life pickin me up on crap like that

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

oh sorry but i havent slept in 24 hours and aint really thinking like an intellectual like yourself, you must have a sad life pickin me up on crap like that

Then why are you trying to write on the internet instead of sleeping? that's rhetorical by the way, I couldn't care less why.

And in your book an intellectual is someone who can read and write properly?


That tells me enough to know I have no further reason to waste any more time replying to you.

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

Then why are you trying to write on the internet instead of sleeping? that's rhetorical by the way, I couldn't care less why.

And in your book an intellectual is someone who can read and write properly?


That tells me enough to know I have no further reason to waste any more time replying to you.

Location... Wicklow

Nuff said

Ponster

Greentopia wrote: »

Read the forum rules-text speak is not allowed here.

To to be fair to the chap, that wasn't text-speak, it's just the level of spelling that a lot of people come out of the education system with (myself included many years ago).

Minstrel27

Tenerife is a **** hole like most of the other holiday resorts.

JustAddWater

Greentopia wrote: »

Read the forum rules-text speak is not allowed here.

Jaysus, don't lose the head over it

Irish Musician

I live here in Tenerife.That guy was/is mentally disturbed.He wasn't right in the head.Everyone over here was shocked that this could happen but they caught the guy immediately.
Apart from this incident,Tenerife is a great place to live.Safer than Dublin,my home town.Just take reasonable precautions,like you would at home and you will be fine.If you do come over check out the band CRUSH.

jimpump

Irish Musician wrote: »

I live here in Tenerife.That guy was/is mentally disturbed.He wasn't right in the head.Everyone over here was shocked that this could happen but they caught the guy immediately.
Apart from this incident,Tenerife is a great place to live.Safer than Dublin,my home town.Just take reasonable precautions,like you would at home and you will be fine.If you do come over check out the band CRUSH.

thanks for the info mate, ill have to show the misses what ya said just to prove to her that the crime was a once off....and i did look it up on google and it was a bulgarian schizo homeless fella
that cut the poor english womans head off

i hope he fcukin rots in jail for what he did!

and BTW, crumlin man here and them canaries are 100X more dangerous than dublin

amiable

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Tenerife is a **** hole like most of the other holiday resorts.

Care to elaborate?

Personally i've been there several times and think its a beautiful place.

Granted down around the Veronica strip is a bit of a dive IMO but some people love that and each to their own.

Would i be right to assume you just don't like package holiday resorts?

Greentopia

Ponster wrote: »

To to be fair to the chap, that wasn't text-speak, it's just the level of spelling that a lot of people come out of the education system with (myself included many years ago).

There was text speak in his post I replied where you're quoting me. He said "ppl" and 2 fcuks".

But yes I agree with your main point; and our education system is not the shining light that most people seem to think it is.
If it was we wouldn't have droves of people leaving college (never mind second level!), having CV's binned by potential employers because they're littered with spelling and punctuation errors.
Though that's not just bad English, that's compounded by laziness in not running it through a spell check even.

Sorry, going OT here.

Greentopia

JustAddWater wrote: »

Jaysus, don't lose the head over it

Ba-dum-tish!!

I was waiting for that.

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

Ba-dum-tish!!

I was waiting for that.

Hey wicklow boy, not all of us went to a posh secondary school and trinity college......like such an intelligent bloke like yourself :rolleyes:

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

Location... Wicklow

Nuff said

Explain? Oh and I'm not from Wicklow FYI, so this should be interesting.

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

Hey wicklow boy, not all of us went to a posh secondary school and trinity college......like such an intelligent bloke like yourself :rolleyes:

So many incorrect assumptions
First off I'm female. I'm not from Wicklow, as I've already stated. I went to a run of the mill secondary school, neither posh nor scumsville. I did go to college, but not Trinity. The intelligent part I'll allow

booboo88

Irish Musician wrote: »

I live here in Tenerife.That guy was/is mentally disturbed.He wasn't right in the head.Everyone over here was shocked that this could happen but they caught the guy immediately.
Apart from this incident,Tenerife is a great place to live.Safer than Dublin,my home town.Just take reasonable precautions,like you would at home and you will be fine.If you do come over check out the band CRUSH.

im loving the plug there
dublin is a ****ehole. but good shops

emeraldstar

jimpump wrote: »

thanks for the info mate, ill have to show the misses what ya said just to prove to her that the crime was a once off....and i did look it up on google and it was a bulgarian schizo homeless fella
that cut the poor english womans head off

i hope he fcukin rots in jail for what he did!

and BTW, crumlin man here and them canaries are 100X more dangerous than dublin

And what, she thought it was a daily occurrence? A Tenerife pastime?

Shosh

jimpump wrote: »

ha i seen what ya did there

seriosly tho, is there machete wieldin nutcases roamin the streets of tenerife....to anyone thats been there

I was there when that happened and i didnt see anything and i'm still alive!
It is lovely though in all serious.

Android 666

Deleted User wrote: »

That particular nutcase is now behind bars, as for the remainder.... you're just as likely to meet them here as there!

Why? Do they holiday here? NOBODY'S SAFE!!!

jimpump

Android 666 wrote: »

Why? Do they holiday here? NOBODY'S SAFE!!!

HAHAHA...........Dublins the safest place in europe

rossie1977

yes tenerife is really dangerous now, just like rural canada is because it too had a beheading not that long ago

amiable wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Personally i've been there several times and think its a beautiful place.

Granted down around the Veronica strip is a bit of a dive IMO but some people love that and each to their own.

Would i be right to assume you just don't like package holiday resorts?

yeah tenerife is a beautiful island, the starco and veronicas area of playa de las americas isnt the nicest what with the chinese women trying to sell you toys, african men trying to sell you handbags and sunglasses and the british reps trying to pull you into their bar/club, it gets very annoying after the 40th person so i would recommend any tenerife newbie just to avoid that area altogether

there is loads of things to see and do in tenerife from watersports to visiting mount teide, masca, the banana plantations, Los Gigantes (which make irelands cliffs of moher look short) or simply watching the dolphins ride the bow wave of your boat and you sail into harbour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgeUGz1l9CY

Barna77

<insert Heathers' howling here>

Get wild in Gran Canaria

Lose your head in Tenerife

Discover Canary Islands, the fun starts here

Greentopia

rossie1977 wrote: »

yes tenerife is really dangerous now, just like rural canada is because it too had a beheading not that long ago

God yeah I remember that. Horrible. Poor chap
Didn't read your link but I believe the guy who did it was also mentally ill.

A few Canadians on Ravelry-a forum I spend way too much time on..., were scared to send their kids to school on the bus in the days after that.

Irrational yes because it's fortunately such a rare thing to happen, but I could sympathise.

Never been to Tenerife as I don't like sun holidays but what happened there certainly wouldn't put me off going there if I did.
Something like that could just as easily happen here, or anywhere for that matter.

jimpump

Greentopia wrote: »

God yeah I remember that. Horrible. Poor chap
Didn't read your link but I believe the guy who did it was also mentally ill.

A few Canadians on Ravelry-a forum I spend way too much time on..., were scared to send their kids to school on the bus in the days after that.

Irrational yes because it's fortunately such a rare thing to happen, but I could sympathise.

Never been to Tenerife as I don't like sun holidays but what happened there certainly wouldn't put me off going there if I did.
Something like that could just as easily happen here, or anywhere for that matter.

sure i suppose Larry M. did a lot worse....so yer right, it can happen anywhere

Greentopia

jimpump wrote: »

sure i suppose Larry M. did a lot worse....so yer right, it can happen anywhere

Have to come off-line now but I apologise if I came off a bit strong earlier, I'm not a grammar nazi honest, I just hate text speak on forums and find it annoying if I can't make out what someone is writing because of bad English (which is not always someones fault, I know that)

However as regard your other posts I don't believe it's ever good to generalise about a populace i.e. "Morrocans are all..." or 'Irish are all drunks', 'Germans are all humourless and efficient'. Although having gone out with a German once...

Peace.