Melee in Henry Street this afternoon

Piliger

Anyone know WTF wad going on in Henry Street, Liffey Street late this afternoon with a gang of about 50 black teenagers ? It was a rolling dispute and enormous amounts of screaming and banshee'ing ..... ?

Hootanany

Break dancing compitition

Piliger

Eh no.... I don't believe so.

adamski8

I did see a bunch of them being ushered away by 3 gardai around 5.30

robjones1981

This happens most Saturdays on Henry Street/Jervis etc

Laneyh

robjones1981 wrote: »

This happens most Saturdays on Henry Street/Jervis etc

Really? I've never seen it

Lelantos

Piliger wrote: »

Anyone know WTF wad going on in Henry Street, Liffey Street late this afternoon with a gang of about 50 black teenagers ? It was a rolling dispute and enormous amounts of screaming and banshee'ing ..... ?

Wu Tang Clan were auditioning for a replacement for ODB

Diabhal_Glas

I saw it about two years ago at least 20 black teenagers with a few scanger white birds thrown in hanging out with them and screaming. There were security guards running from all angles to try break it up. Saturday afternoon at about 5pm the place absolutely packed.

I said to myself ''the times are a changing'

admiralofthefleet

robjones1981 wrote: »

This happens most Saturdays on Henry Street/Jervis etc

does it. ive never seen it happen and i worked on henry street for a good while.

can you give examples?

Dr. Jonathan Crane

I've seen gangs of black teens hanging around O'Connell street. Never seen any of it on Henry street and I passed that way on saturday evenings for years.

Piliger

robjones1981 wrote: »

This happens most Saturdays on Henry Street/Jervis etc

I shop there every Saturday and have never seen it.

Piliger

Dr. Jonathan Crane wrote: »

I've seen gangs of black teens hanging around O'Connell street. Never seen any of it on Henry street and I passed that way on saturday evenings for years.

I've seen lots of gatherings of teen black kids in many places around the city, just like white teens. It's normal. But something was happening today that was different. Some kind of inter-group dispute or feud or something.

wyndham

Who won? Bloods or Crips?

DonnaDarko09

I seen this happening also about two weeks before Xmas..big fight in Jervis, spilled out onto Henry street..gardai arrived and took away one of the youths.

Dr Turk Turkelton

wyndham wrote: »

Who won? Bloods or Crips?

The Henry Street 5-0 Crips beat the cr@p out of the Jervis Street Rolling Bloods.

Blue Eyed Boy

The "fighting" that I saw at about 6.15pm consisted of lads throwing a few slaps at each other and girls running around screaming for dramatic effect. The troublesome part of it was when they all decided to scatter like rats back up towards O'Connell Street and proceeded to knock over anyone unfortunate enough to be in their path. Fine if your used to seeing it happen but it seemed pretty distressing for some of the older people who unwillingly got caught up in the stampede. If this is a regular occurrence like some posters have pointed out, it would encourage me to avoid Henry Street at the weekends.

AltAccount

Blue Eyed Boy wrote: »

If this is a regular occurrence like some posters have pointed out, it would encourage me to avoid Henry Street at the weekends.

And what if it's a rare occurrence like other posters have pointed out?

iDave

Wow cant believe the OP hasnt been branded racist yet for highligting the fact they are black. Wheres the PC brigade this morning?

Lelantos

iDave wrote: »

Wow cant believe the OP hasnt been branded racist yet for highligting the fact they are black. Wheres the PC brigade this morning?

All busy with Jim Sheridan & the KPMG girl, guess the OP will have to wait his turn for a dose of self righteousness indignation.

RainyDay

Piliger wrote: »

I shop there every Saturday

Why?

mikemac1

Can't wait for the Evening Herald report

Carnage, terror, mayhem :eek:

And a few quotes from an imaginary "source"

wyndham

iDave wrote: »

Wow cant believe the OP hasnt been branded racist yet for highligting the fact they are black. Wheres the PC brigade this morning?

Not really racist though. It's like when the Chinese gangs go mental with the machetes on Capel Street or traveller feuds in the midlands or at weddings. It's just a fact of the story.

Mr Simpson

Wow, a fight in town!! Craaaazzzy.

Not really though. Ye can have a laugh here and all, but this forum isn't really the place for OT sillyness or threads like this