Street Fight among Cork teenagers

Cian92

I already made thread about this particular fight yesterday evening, but it was closed as it was a "non story". I reckon now that it made the front page of todays Cork examiner it could be reposted.

A teenage girl had teeth knocked out in a vicious pre-arranged brawl which was recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
A crowd of up to 200 teenage onlookers, including children under the age of 10, prevented adults from intervening.

It sounds pretty violent, did anyone see the video?

Jonathon O'Brien reckons it is due to a "breakdown of society". I think he is making a mountain out of a molehill.

tritium

Given that teenagers are involved this might not be the best idea for a thread. Way too similar to the kpmg thread in terms of cyberbullying potential imho

Paddy Cow

Teenagers have always had fights, there is just more ways to capture the special moment nowadays.

3ndahalfof6

No knives, pefff.

GottaGetGatt

Teenagers fighting and other Teenagers looking on.Jesus the country is F**ked!!

3ndahalfof6

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

Teenagers fighting and other Teenagers looking on.Jesus the country is F**ked!!

Adults buying and other adults getting very excited, gebus the country is fooked.

orestes

Cian92 wrote: »

Jonathon O'Brien reckons it is due to a "breakdown of society". I think he is making a mountain out of a molehill.

He doesn't say the fight is due to a breakdown of society, he is referring to youtube hosting the video content, in the same article he states "once it goes up on YouTube, it’s up there forever" and since youtube have deleted the video his statement is completely invalid.

Bipolar Joe

orestes wrote: »

He doesn't say the fight is due to a breakdown of society, he is referring to youtube hosting the video content, in the same article he states "once it goes up on YouTube, it’s up there forever" and since youtube have deleted the video his statement is completely invalid.

Right, exactly. It's not like anyone has the ability to download the videos and reupload them. That's just crazy talk!

orestes

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Right, exactly. It's not like anyone has the ability to download the videos and reupload them. That's just crazy talk!

But he was having a go at youtube, who have taken the video down and will do so whenever it is uploaded because it is against their terms and conditions, so his statement is invalid.

Bipolar Joe

orestes wrote: »

But he was having a go at youtube, who have taken the video down and will do so whenever it is uploaded because it is against their terms and conditions, so his statement is invalid.

Because he said "YouTube had a responsibility to prevent such footage, particularly featuring children, being uploaded to its site"? Remember, we're talking about a person who doesn't know how the Internet works. He's a politician. You don't get into politics because you're the smartest in all the land. You can pretty much ignore anything a politician has to say about the web.

Senna

Is this the same video from about 4/5 months ago that had cork teenage girls knocking shíte out of each other??

B.A._Baracus

By Eoin English, Irish Examiner Reporter

Ha. 'Eoin English' :pac:

Pilotdude5

Back in my day, teenagers used to fly B-24's over Europe and drop cluster bombs on civilians

EoghanIRL

A lot of time teenagers are put under pressure to fight in front of the camera .

Cookie_Monster

It can't be about the breakdown of society, that would imply there IS some form of functioning society in Cork in the first place.

Chucky the tree

tritium wrote: »

Given that teenagers are involved this might not be the best idea for a thread. Way too similar to the kpmg thread in terms of cyberbullying potential imho

Don't worry. Once the mods make sure the girls parents don't work for a company who is hired by boards.ie then this thread will be fine.

woodoo

That fight happened last year

krudler

EoghanIRL wrote: »

A lot of time teenagers are put under pressure to fight in front of the camera .

that's how Ryu and Ken got started and look where they wound up.

K-9

Mod

Video link removed, we did have a general discussion on the oft hinted at other story, unfortunately it had to be locked because some couldn't help themselves and post personal details.

I hope the same doesn't happen here, there'll be no mods or outside sources to blame.

Rhys Essien

This latest fight happened last weekend.It was supposed to have went on for an hour and one of the girls had her two front teeth knocked out.Both of them were crying and were supposed to have been kicked and punched by onlookers as well.

Teenagers were meant to be threatening the adults not to phone the cops.

What has me is,why did it take an hour for the guards to turn up in Cork City.

token101

I'd reckon people voting for Sinn Fein is far more indicative of a broken society than any kids fighting.

Sofiztikated

token101 wrote: »

I'd reckon people voting for Sinn Fein is far more indicative of a broken society than any kids fighting.

:rolleyes:

What exactly does that have to do with girls knocking lumps out of each other?

token101

Sofiztikated wrote: »

:rolleyes:

What exactly does that have to do with girls knocking lumps out of each other?

The comments about a 'breakdown of society' came from a Sinn Fein TD.

Bipolar Joe

token101 wrote: »

I'd reckon people voting for Sinn Fein is far more indicative of a broken society than any kids fighting.

Oh for fuck's sake, cop on.

token101

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Oh for fuck's sake, cop on.

I think Jonathon O'Brien is the one who needs to cop on.