Crime Epidemic in Dublin: Look what the Gardai are doing about it....

jetsonx

...beating up buskers in Temple Bar.

As most of us have heard through the media or from simple anecdotal evidence, there is a crime epidemic in Dublin at the moment. Businesses and houses getting broken into. People getting mugged on the street. Cars being burgled and broken into. Everyday I seem to hear about another burglary or another mugging.

Meanwhile, look what our "police force" are getting up to down in the capital's "cultural quarter" of Temple Bar. Instead of nicely but firmly telling them to move on (what a proper police force would do) - our boys in blue turn into bully boys...proceeding to chase them and then give them a beating.

Utterly despicable behaviour of the Gardai.

Good at beating up buskers, bad at fighting actual crime. Fail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwBOJeJrWU

ballygowan1

Everyone knows the Gardai lost control of Dublin a long time ago. All you have to do is walk through the city during the day and you see open drug dealing.

Death and Taxes

jetsonx wrote: »

...beating up buskers in Temple Bar.

As most of us have heard through the media or from simple anecdotal evidence, there is a crime epidemic in Dublin at the moment. Businesses and houses getting broken into. People getting mugged on the street. Cars being burgled and broken into. Everyday I seem to hear about another burglary or another mugging.

Meanwhile, look what our "police force" are getting up to down in the capital's "cultural quarter" of Temple Bar. Instead of nicely but firmly telling them to move on (what a proper police force would do) - our boys in blue turn into bully boys...proceeding to chase them and then give them a beating.

Utterly despicable behaviour of the Gardai.

Good at beating up buskers, bad at fighting actual crime. Fail.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=81686216&postcount=1




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwBOJeJrWU[/QUOTE]

Not again, we had this crap video just before Christmas.
My sympathy is with the Gardai on this one.
By the way have you alink to evidence of the alleged "crime epidemic in Dublin" because the available evidence says different.

fail!:mad:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=81686216&postcount=1

Amirani

That was posted here a while back when it happened. The buskers wouldn't move so the Gardaí moved them.

Sully

Silly thread. 9/10 of these YouTube videos are out of context and misleading. If you are asked to move on, refuse or don't co-operate, or resist arrest - don't expect a cup of tea and a pat on the back.

Best username ever

Reminds me of queing up for a Ryanair jet.

starviewadams

Out of context video,one sided video.

Where's this crime epidemic you speak of?I live in West Dublin and work in the City Centre and I've never witnessed or experienced it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

jetsonx wrote: »

...beating up buskers in Temple Bar.

As most of us have heard through the media or from simple anecdotal evidence, there is a crime epidemic in Dublin at the moment. Businesses and houses getting broken into. People getting mugged on the street. Cars being burgled and broken into. Everyday I seem to hear about another burglary or another mugging.

Meanwhile, look what our "police force" are getting up to down in the capital's "cultural quarter" of Temple Bar. Instead of nicely but firmly telling them to move on (what a proper police force would do) - our boys in blue turn into bully boys...proceeding to chase them and then give them a beating.

Utterly despicable behaviour of the Gardai.

Good at beating up buskers, bad at fighting actual crime. Fail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwBOJeJrWU

Masssively reliable sources you;ve listed there.

Okay. so what are you NOT telling us? I don't see any busking going on? Sounds like an anti-guards agenda here, espeically from the guy doing the taping.

Drakares

ballygowan1 wrote: »

Everyone knows the Gardai lost control of Dublin a long time ago.

Hahahahaha

donvito99

Play a different tune OP.

We discussed this months ago and came to the conclusion that everyone but the Guards were arseholes.

Hootanany

Busker are handy. Junkies are too much hassle villains are. Dangerous

talla10

Didnt this happen about 3 months ago??

Buskers refuse to comply with lawful direction, resist arrest, attempt to flee to evade arrest caught and arrested whats the problem??

Gardai get given batons, spray and cuffs to use them not because they look pretty or because incidnets like this are pleasent to watch. There was 3 Gardai there against how many buskers and a somewhat hostile crowd.

Had the buskers co operated there wouldnt have been an incident.

B.A._Baracus

Cue 'defenders of the gardai' to this thread ... In 3... 2.... 1....

talla10

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Cue 'defenders of the gardai' to this thread ... In 3... 2.... 1....

We already posted genius :rolleyes:

starviewadams

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Cue 'defenders of the gardai' to this thread ... In 3... 2.... 1....

Rational people in other words!

Lawrence1895

Thread closed in 3...2...1

Luca Brasi

jetsonx wrote: »

...beating up buskers in Temple Bar.

As most of us have heard through the media or from simple anecdotal evidence, there is a crime epidemic in Dublin at the moment. Businesses and houses getting broken into. People getting mugged on the street. Cars being burgled and broken into. Everyday I seem to hear about another burglary or another mugging.

Meanwhile, look what our "police force" are getting up to down in the capital's "cultural quarter" of Temple Bar. Instead of nicely but firmly telling them to move on (what a proper police force would do) - our boys in blue turn into bully boys...proceeding to chase them and then give them a beating.

Utterly despicable behaviour of the Gardai.

Good at beating up buskers, bad at fighting actual crime. Fail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwBOJeJrWU[/QUOTE]

Must have been a slow day at the Pizza Joint if thats all you can come up. Old news, saw it all before.

MaxSteele

Dang young people playing loud music !

Sing a different tune there moral crusaders. An argument between the gardai and a busker got out of hand. Anything to wring your hand at.

kowloon

I read in some Youtube comments that the Gardai are hiring junkies to conduct executions on buskers. Alongside the death camps I think it's all going swimmingly.

Pottler

talla10 wrote: »

Didnt this happen about 3 months ago??

Buskers refuse to comply with lawful direction, resist arrest, attempt to flee to evade arrest caught and arrested whats the problem??

Gardai get given batons, spray and cuffs to use them not because they look pretty or because incidnets like this are pleasent to watch. There was 3 Gardai there against how many buskers and a somewhat hostile crowd.

Had the buskers co operated there wouldnt have been an incident.

Laughed quite a lot. Them buskers are renowned hard chaws. Strike terror into the heart of all men. Would you ever stop, there's only so much laughter left in me.

talla10

Pottler wrote: »

Laughed quite a lot. Them buskers are renowned hard chaws. Strike terror into the heart of all men. Would you ever stop, there's only so much laughter left in me.

Because there a busker they cant be violent?

Pottler

talla10 wrote: »

Because there a busker they cant be violent?

Is that a serious question? You really think some nervous kid packing up their gear, going out and having the chutzpah to sing and play in public actually is internally going "come on pigs, have a go if you dare". Would you ever...

talla10

Pottler wrote: »

Is that a serious question? You really think some nervous kid packing up their gear, going out and having the chutzpah to sing and play in public actually is internally going "come on pigs, have a go if you dare". Would you ever...

No of course not and i didn't say all buskers are violent or even discourteous. I simply asked if being a busker meant they didnt have the potential to be violent. The buskers on the video became quite aggresive when told to move on and the Gardai handeled it well. That was my original point

Pottler

talla10 wrote: »

No of course not and i didn't say all buskers are violent or even discourteous. I simply asked if being a busker meant they didnt have the potential to be violent. The buskers on the video became quite aggresive when told to move on and the Gardai handeled it well. That was my original point

We'll disagree on the "handled it well" bit. My version of handling it well involves tapping your foot to the music as you walk past, but each to their own.

Pal

Remember Robocop in Temple bar.
Took his badges off and beat the crap out of peaceful people with a baton.
Fuggin animal that guy.

that's where our taxes go folks. paying these thugs.

And what happened to Robocop ?

he's a big man now.

last seen licking the truncheon over spectators in Dalymount.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

talla10 wrote: »

Because there a busker they cant be violent?

Oh one or two can. but it's actually an integral part of their act, so I don;t know if it counts or not.

talla10

Pottler wrote: »

We'll disagree on the "handled it well" bit. My version of handling it well involves tapping your foot to the music as you walk past, but each to their own.

The Gardai had recieved a number of noise complaints from local residents and thats why they asked to move along. Gardai unfortunately dont have the option of tapping their feet to the music whilst policing Dublin City Centre.

Pal wrote: »

Remember Robocop in Temple bar.
Took his badges off and beat the crap out of peaceful people with a baton.
Fuggin animal that guy.

that's where our taxes go folks. paying these thugs.

And what happened to Robocop ?

he's a big man now.

last seen licking the truncheon over spectators in Dalymount.

That guard was found not guilty in court of having committed any offence at that 'peaceful' march. As i said before Gardai have been given batons to use where appropiate. And the courts decided his level of force was appriopriate.

Pottler

talla10 wrote: »

The Gardai had recieved a number of noise complaints from local residents and thats why they asked to move along. Gardai unfortunately dont have the option of tapping their feet to the music whilst policing Dublin City Centre.





That guard was found not guilty in court of having committed any offence at that 'peaceful' march. As i said before Gardai have been given batons to use where appropiate. And the courts decided his level of force was appriopriate.

I stand corrected so. Well, not really, I just can't be bothered argueing about it.:)

keithclancy

jetsonx wrote: »

...beating up buskers in Temple Bar.

As most of us have heard through the media or from simple anecdotal evidence, there is a crime epidemic in Dublin at the moment. Businesses and houses getting broken into. People getting mugged on the street. Cars being burgled and broken into. Everyday I seem to hear about another burglary or another mugging.

Meanwhile, look what our "police force" are getting up to down in the capital's "cultural quarter" of Temple Bar. Instead of nicely but firmly telling them to move on (what a proper police force would do) - our boys in blue turn into bully boys...proceeding to chase them and then give them a beating.

Utterly despicable behaviour of the Gardai.

Good at beating up buskers, bad at fighting actual crime. Fail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwBOJeJrWU

You know it could be 'Stop rubbin your hole off the floor'

Same thing .. move on

Don't move on .. right then

Lionel Messy

The gards... What a nice bunch.

Sergeant

Spotted some Omar lookalike on the corner of Dame and George's Street earlier.

Shít is gettin' serious.

humanji

As stated above, we already had a thread on this that went into detail about what actually happened.