Harassing Phonecall

SeanW89

Had a bit of a heated conversation with another man on the phone.
I'll start from the start, bit of a long story, I had advertised my car for sale on donedeal on Sunday, got a phonecall on Monday morning with someone offering me well under the asking price, i turned him down. He then told me he would be collecting another car 30 minutes away from where mine was advertised and would ring me again when he was. I sold the car after this conversation but didn't think of ringing him as I did not accept his offer and he said he'd ring me back anyway.

This is where the fun starts, phone call from him a while ago asking about the car, which i informed him had been sold. He then started to go mad, telling me how I should of rang him as he was at this place to collect the other car but didn't end up meeting him. I obviously told him that I hadn't accepted his offer and he said he would ring me anyway. Which he told me I wasted his time and then told, not asked, me to pay him for the petrol he had just used. He then started getting very heated and I explained again that he said he'd ring me and there was no deal of any kind. He wasn't very happy at all, which he then said he was going to burn down my car, my house and a lot of other pretty serious claims if you ask me. I told him I would ring the guards tell them the number he had rang me off earlier that day and put a complaint in.

Not trying to disrespectful or anything but he sounded very much like a person from the travelling community. He knew what area my car was in, not the actual address and my first name and phone number. As he does have a lot of details and sounded pretty incensed by the whole matter I did ring the guards, still waiting for a reply. What can the guards actually do though? Not saying they're lazy or incompetent in any way but they cannot actually do much when all they have is a mobile number. Seems like serious allegations from the other person and if this had been said to some elderly person living on their own or something along those lines they were genuinely be scared for their lives......

Turner

You called a patrol car to tell them this?

They haven't arrived because it's not a high priority call.

Would it not have been better to drop down to the station and report it there?

SeanW89

No, didn't call a parole car....I'm not that worried. Just rang them to let them know, I'm always giving out saying they have higher priority things to do, this not being one, so don't want to waste their time. Just phoned the station to let them know and tell them the number and leave it there with them. But what can they actually do about this and other cases of the same kind?

First Aid Ireland

Can people call patrol cars directly? I'd defo be ringing the gardai if it was me!

Althalu5

Cool story bro

Degsy

Ignore it..sounds like a blowhard chancing his arm.

scholar007

SeanW89 wrote: »

Not trying to disrespectful or anything but he sounded very much like a person from the travelling community.

Can you articulate what this gentleman said and perhaps give us a flavour of the accent used?

frozenfrozen

scholar007 wrote: »

Can you articulate what this gentleman said and perhaps give us a flavour of the accent used?

I'll rob the wheels off your house boss*

or something to that effect.

EMTFlynn

Similar thing happend to a friend of mine, she advertised on done deal other girl was to ring her back to confirm she was taking the car.

She didn't ring back, my friend sold the car, other girl rang back next day, then followed abuse down the phone.

Block the number.

SeanW89

scholar007 wrote: »

Can you articulate what this gentleman said and perhaps give us a flavour of the accent used?

So your saying you cannot distinguish the accent of a traveler folk then a lets say usual male from county Clare, if not you should get your ears tested, it also helped that he kept calling me cus, man following that by I'm going to burn your house down........ but no, I suspect it was a old age lady from spain thinking of it.

Have the number saved now so know if he's ringing, not just him I just really dislike people that think they can do or say what they want, just pure ignorance. Like I was saying earlier if it had been to an elderly person living on their own it would be a very scary ordeal!

vicwatson

Emergency Services

SeanW89

vicwatson wrote: »

Emergency Services

Yes, if you read the first post I asked what can the guards actually do about things like this. Yes I understand that 99% of the harassment's will end after the phone call but you never know.

Duiske

Did you hear back from the Gardai after ?

SeanW89

Nope, when I first rang they asked did the other person say they'd do it immediately or at a further date, I said he didn't say then the guard said he'd ring me back and didn't get anything..... never knew you had to book a time for a good old abode burning though.

Tyron Jara

You probably wont hear from the guards again unless this indivdual carries out his threats which I highly doubt. Some people may think calling the guards is wasting there time however calling them and explaining what happend has at least informed them of the threat therefore if anything does happen itl be that man first on the list of suspects and itl be recoreded you have reported his threats.

mr.dunkey

always a good idea to go down to meteor or any phone shop and get a spare sim, use it for the sale then dump it or keep fir next time.

Keeps these messers away

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Was that the saxo? Pity its gone, looked like a clean one. Sorry to hear about the hassle Op

SeanW89

jar_of_coins wrote: »

Was that the saxo? Pity its gone, looked like a clean one. Sorry to hear about the hassle Op

Thanks, Ya that was the one, it was gone within a day of putting it up on Donedeal, your man offered me €50 quid and then €75 so he was just chancing his arm like. Haven't heard anything since from him.

Eru

Tyron Jara wrote: »

what happend has at least informed them of the threat therefore if anything does happen itl be that man first on the list of suspects and itl be recoreded you have reported his threats.

Recording a report means nothing, I can report my neighbour is an alien, doesn't mean he is. The OP could just as eaily provide the same info if his house actually was burnt down.

that said, picking up a phone and asking a Garda a few questions isnt a whole lot to ask and the OP's reason was certainly more valid than half the lunatics I speak to daily.

OP, abuse him back, tell him where to go and hang up, thats about the extent of it.

Dermot Illogical

Eru wrote: »

Recording a report means nothing

Not true for harassment cases. The offence requires repeats to be prosecutable so the number of reports has some relevance if the prosecution wants to avoid the "If it happened before why did you not report it?" question.

Eru

RT66 wrote: »

Not true for harassment cases. The offence requires repeats to be prosecutable so the number of reports has some relevance if the prosecution wants to avoid the "If it happened before why did you not report it?" question.

Harassment cases require recorded history, recorded as in evidence via phone records, call logs, text messages or a personal diary that can be submitted as evidence to a court, not how often you told the guard. Telling the guards everyday for a year that aliens are abducting your cat is not evidence your cat was abducted.

I wont go into that in any more detail on a public forum (Harassment, not the cat, I believe the cat)