Irish teenager threathens to kill Guyana president

wendell borton

Teenager gets drunk in guyana and tells presidential bodyguards he's going to shoot the the president.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/irish-teenager-charged-with-threat-to-kill-guyana-president-1.1347994

Mena

Eejit.

General General

Reportedly said: I'm guyana kill your president!

lkionm

Irish guy ana few beers. Nothing new.

My name is URL

lol.. what a tool

galwayrush

Desperate for his moment of fame.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Silly little boy.

lkionm

galwayrush wrote: »

Desperate for his moment of fame.

Ah sure there was no way he was guyana get away with it.

Chemical Burn

Jail him for a year, don't let him see his mammy and teach the **** a lesson.

phoenix999

I wonder if he had to do some type of fundraising to get there. He is in for some serious stick when he gets back. Rum clearly doesn't agree with him.

anncoates

A timely blow against the hegemony of irritating globetrotting students in niche locations.

Viva Guyana.

mattjack

"Ma , yeah its me ... Ma listen , can you come and collect me , them two blokes I was tellin' ya about, they really were bodyguards , imagine that "

lkionm

anncoates wrote: »

A timely blow against the hegemony of irritating globetrotting students in niche locations.

Viva Guyana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony I dont think you know what that word means and it certainly dosent apply to going to some far flung place next to Brazil that everyone here had not heard about.

Maybe if it was Africa as a lot of students tend to go there for a year building houses and that lark, even then that word is still just as wrong.

Hegemony is a control of power.

Steve O

He only asked him if he wanted a shot.

anncoates

lkionm wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony I dont think you know what that word means and it certainly dosent apply to going to some far flung place next to Brazil that everyone here had not heard about.

Maybe if it was Africa as a lot of students tend to go there for a year building houses and that lark, even then that word is still just as wrong.

Hegemony is a control of power.

I'm sure you know well - it being AH - I was using the phrase as a sarcastic/jocular piss-take of cultural hegemony to describe some student/backpacker worldviews of host countries and their attitude to the norms therein.

You'll no doubt get a few admiring PMs from other students for your erudition though.

Remmy

muppet

lkionm

anncoates wrote: »

I'm sure you know well - it being AH - I was using the phrase in a sarcastic/jocular piss-take of cultural hegemony to describe some student/backpacker worldviews of host countries and their attitude to the norms therein.

You'll no doubt get a few admiring PMs from other students for your erudition though.

I was flexing my internet muscles for the lovely internet ladies.

I heard they all have lovely bottoms.

buyer95

*Guyana

Were great with a few drinks in us:pac:


An Irish teenager has been charged with threatening to shoot and kill the president of Guyana during what his lawyer said was an alcohol-fuelled conversation with two of the leader’s bodyguards.

Cillian James Crossan, a 17-year-old volunteer with an aid group, was joking when he said he would shoot and kill president Donald Ramotar and said it because he did not believe the two men were really bodyguards, defence lawyer Glenn Hanoman said.

“He had been drinking beer since early the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time,” Mr Hanoman said. “I think that was the main factor at play when he argued with two of the guards.”

The incident occurred on Sunday at a rodeo in the rugged and remote Rupununi region along the country’s border with Brazil. The president was not there at the time.

Crossan pleaded not guilty to the charge before a local magistrate and released on the equivalent of about €240 bail over the objections of prosecutor Vishnu Hunte.

“The threat was directed to none other than the president of Guyana, his excellency Donald Ramotar, by a foreign national,” Mr Hunte said. “There is therefore a likelihood that he may flee the jurisdiction since he is not a resident of Guyana.”

The offence is classed as a minor crime and Crossan, who is in Guyana for one year as a volunteer with the British group Project Trust, faces a maximum sentence of a fine of no more than €770.

PogMoThoin

Don't mess with a drunken Irishman

Degag

Lucky he's not in Saudi Arabia.

PizzamanIRL

buyer95 wrote: »

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“He had been drinking beer since early the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time,”

:eek: Drank them at the same time?

The rebel!

MadsL

Dumb fuck. That is all.

lkionm

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056918074 too slow bro

Gorilla Rising

Degag wrote: »

Lucky he's not in Saudi Arabia.

Pity he's not you mean.

All that would happen in the Guyana president would threaten to shoot Paddy Irishman, nothing would happen and it would all be over.

Eye for an eye and all that!

buyer95

lkionm wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056918074 too slow bro

Gave a quick look, and saw no sign of a thread like it, my bad, please delete, mods.

I had been drinking beer since early the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time, and I guess just lost the run of myself...

Degag

fortune wookiee wrote: »

Pity he's not you mean.

All that would happen in the Guyana president would threaten to shoot Paddy Irishman, nothing would happen and it would all be over.

Eye for an eye and all that!

Somehow i feel they wouldn't be so lenient!

lkionm

buyer95 wrote: »

Gave a quick look, and saw no sign of a thread like it, my bad, please delete, mods.

I had been drinking beer since early the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time, and I guess just lost the run of myself...

At the same time? Christ on a bike, thats a bannable offence on boards.

Yakult

Alcohol, the nectar of ****ing idiots!

Auldloon

buyer95 wrote: »

The president was not there at the time.

Was a reasonable story til I got to this bit.

Super-Rush

Merge

FutureGuy

Gawana good thing.

etc.

Gyalist

It's unusual to see Guyana in the news for something other than Jim Jones and Jonestown.

I'm surprised that he was prosecuted.

buyer95

Super-Rush wrote: »

Merge

Sound, on a side note, is it just me, or is " merge " the ugliest sounding word in the english language?

Just me then, (Gets coat.)

lkionm

buyer95 wrote: »

Sound, on a side note, is it just me, or is " merge " the ugliest sounding word in the english language?

Just me then, (Gets coat.)

Ill merge you.

JRant

Bail = slip over the border and GTFO.

anncoates

General General wrote: »

Reportedly said: I'm guyana kill your president!

lkionm wrote: »

Ah sure there was no way he was guyana get away with it.

FutureGuy wrote: »

Gawana good thing.

etc.

*Cough*

Gyalist

JRant wrote: »

Bail = slip over the border and GTFO.

It's possible to do so but not without local help. It's not the sort of place for Irish kids with no survival skills to be messing around in.

WoollyRedHat

And he would have got away with it too, if it weren't for those pesky bodyguards!!

phoenix999

He better stay off the rum if he ever goes to Thailand.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jan/25/press-freedom-thailand

So 11 years for insulting the King, what would someone get for threatening to kill him?

General General

anncoates wrote: »

*Cough*

*Fart*

Ruudi_Mentari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosF_2paykA

Joe Lane

A lot of sanctimonious comment - maybe thats the norm here?

Even the tabloids have more a balanced and considered view then many on here -

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4872300/If-these-comments-were-made-then-it-was-in-jest-Cillian-wouldnt-hurt-a-fly.html

This is obviously a decent and intelligent young man who has been indiscreet in a bar late at night

Hands up anyone who can identify with that?

conorhal

Joe Lane wrote: »

A lot of sanctimonious comment - maybe thats the norm here?

Even the tabloids have more a balanced and considered view then many on here -

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4872300/If-these-comments-were-made-then-it-was-in-jest-Cillian-wouldnt-hurt-a-fly.html

This is obviously a decent and intelligent young man who has been indiscreet in a bar late at night

Hands up anyone who can identify with that?

Decent and intelligent? Events would suggest otherwise, boorish and stupid would be more appropriate adjectives methinks.

I've done a lot of stupid things while drunk, but I can't recall (perhaps due to blackout) ever jokingly threatening to asassinate a head of state in front of his bodyguards, that's just taking drunken sutpidity to a near heroic level.
The worst he'll get is a 750 euro fine, he can consider it a stupidity tax and move on, I'm sure mummy and daddy will have no problem stumping it up for him.

WayneMolloy

Not a bad gig for a seventeen year old to get. A beautiful place with stunning women. All he had to do was mind his p's and q's, not be foolish and respect the natives.

Silly boy.

WayneMolloy

Joe Lane wrote: »

A lot of sanctimonious comment - maybe thats the norm here?

Even the tabloids have more a balanced and considered view then many on here -

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4872300/If-these-comments-were-made-then-it-was-in-jest-Cillian-wouldnt-hurt-a-fly.html

This is obviously a decent and intelligent young man who has been indiscreet in a bar late at night

Hands up anyone who can identify with that?

Book smart does not equate with street smarts. Mixing Caribbean rum with beer is not a smart move. No real good will come of it.

Celly Smunt

Degag wrote: »

Lucky he's not in Saudi Arabia.

Yes,a threat to the president of Saudi really would wouldn't go down well...

gobnaitolunacy

Another one of our fine young people doing us proud in foreign lands.

WayneMolloy

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Another one of our fine young people doing us proud in foreign lands.

The Irish are grand for 13 days out of 14. But when we go on a binge, some of us hit the self destruct button. Even the soundest lad in the world turns into a muppet when he over indulgences and hits the top shelf.