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Door to Door Junkie Begging.

  • 20-05-2013 01:32PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭


    Was sitting down burping my newborn daughter yesterday when a knock at the door was answered by my OH.

    She Opened the door to see a toothless junkie with a note in his hand asking us to read it. Obviously too wasted to string a sentence together.

    She didn't read the letter but I could hear him muttering that he had no money to buy a bottle of gas to cook food for his baby.

    I got up and gave him back the note and told him no thanks and closed the door.

    Is this a new thing. Living in Dublin a year now, this is a first. Anyone else experienced this.

    Had I not been there the Mrs reckons she would have lost her life answering the door to what greeted her yesterday.

    This was in Dublin 14 by the way.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭The Barefoot Pizza Thief


    Was sitting down burping my newborn daughter yesterday when ..

    I'd get on to Holles St asap if I were you. That's not supposed to happen.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Never happened to me,we had gypsies knocking on the elderly peoples doors around here for a long time demanding to be let in etc etc.One day a group of local men pulled one of the beggers into one of the houses and beat to him a pulp,needless to say we haven't seen any scobies hassling the elderly again.And rightly so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    She didn't read the letter but I could hear him muttering that he had no money to buy a bottle of gas to cook food for his baby.
    ... or tippex thinners to correct spelling mistakes on his CV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Liam90


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.

    Really? That's a bit extreme.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.

    Yeah that sky and eircom crowd are always at it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Yup, that's Dublin 14 (wherever that is) life for ya.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Liam90 wrote: »
    Really? That's a bit extreme.

    Yes really. What's the best that could happen when someone calls to your door unexpectedly who doesn't have your phone number?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    biko wrote: »
    Yup, that's Dublin 14 (wherever that is) life for ya.
    South Dublin, mostly a middle class area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.

    Me either, only people who call over are friends and the landlord who always let you know, otherwise its just salesmen and chuggers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.

    I look out the window, if I know them I will answer, if I don't, I wont. I don't try and hide the fact when I am looking out the window and I have been seen on many occasions 'vetting'.

    Just sick to death of answering the door to somebody who is trying to sell, beg or canvas. I am not interested; if I want to buy something I go to the shop, if I want to vote I do the research myself, I donate a portion of my wages every week to 2 charities and I also volunteer for another. I have no interest in talking about my religious beliefs to a stranger. I work long and hard hours and I want to spend any spare time with my wife and child, not trying to get rid of somebody who is rabbiting on about whatever vested interest they have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    I've one,i was standing outside Doyles pub in phibsborough having a smoke a couple of weeks ago when i was accosted by a smackhead with a clipboard!a blonde girl maybe late 20s,probably a looker before the skag took hold of her,but clearly strung out to bits.anyways she comes up to me grinning from ear to ear with a set of teeth on her that resembled an old churchyard,and says she's collecting for some residential addiction care place down in kildare and she's asking me Will i sponsor her.knew it was a scam of course but i admired her ingenuity and gave her 2quid.she then INSISTED that i write my name on the clipboard for a chance of winning whatever 'prize' i stood a chance of winning.grand says i 'have you a pen'? em no,in she goes to paddy powers and gets a pen,so i grabs it and the clipboard to write down me john hancock and there was a big streak of blood across the page,poor wench had been injecting into her finger.it would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    I've had chuggers, salesmen ect ect.

    But a begging junkie is new to me.

    Are we far too accepting of random people coming to our door in Ireland. It is your property after all, one you work damn hard to pay for nowadays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Surely you have to admire his entrepreneurial thinking, by bringing the begging to you, instead of him waiting for you to pass him. The Celtic Tiger is strong is him clearly, embrace and reward his keen sense of opportunity!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Yes really. What's the best that could happen when someone calls to your door unexpectedly who doesn't have your phone number?

    They deliver a registered letter?:D


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Liam90 wrote: »
    Really? That's a bit extreme.

    I'm the same usually. Don't get many people calling into me unexpectedly and too many people wasting your time at the door.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't answer my door to anyone unless they've called ahead. Too many beggars.

    So if the junkie had called to give you a heads up you would answer the door eh??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    frag420 wrote: »
    So if the junkie had called to give you a heads up you would answer the door eh??

    Yes, I'd have the bucket of cold water ready to throw on him.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Liam90 wrote: »
    Really? That's a bit extreme.

    Not extreme at all IMO, what good news could a stranger possibly have for you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭aN.Droid


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Not extreme at all IMO, what good news could a stranger possibly have for you?

    Have you heard the good news about jesus christ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Corkbah


    solution to door to door beggers ......build a moat !!

    (fill moat with water and hungry water based animals/mammals.... direct all charity calls, tv licence inspectors - with a poster on a stick on the far side of said property etc to travel through the moat before requesting an audience with the owners of the property.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I never answer the door.

    Instead I pour hot tar from the cauldron above to get rid of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Wasnt there new legislation recently about aggressive begging. I would consider approaching private property as aggressive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    They deliver a registered letter?:D

    or a summons:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Corkbah


    They deliver a registered letter?:D

    when has a registered letter been any good ...they are usually bad news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Corkbah


    iDave wrote: »
    Wasnt there new legislation recently about aggressive begging. I would consider approaching private property as aggressive.

    obviously you didn't read that taxpayers paid for two men to challenge the "Law" and the beggars were successful ...aggressive begging is no longer a crime.

    the point they won on was that if a beggar doesn't speak english and a garda asks them for their licence to beg (charities also have this licence), they claim ignorance and a lack of english - garda cannot arrest them because they "didn't know what the garda was asking for"

    one of the men involved in the challenge has the same surname of a very well known criminal Roma family - many of which have been before the courts many times for begging and similar offences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭aN.Droid


    Corkbah wrote: »
    obviously you didn't read that taxpayers paid for two men to challenge the "Law" and the beggars were successful ...aggressive begging is no longer a crime.

    the point they won on was that if a beggar doesn't speak english and a garda asks them for their licence to beg (charities also have this licence), they claim ignorance and a lack of english - garda cannot arrest them because they "didn't know what the garda was asking for"

    one of the men involved in the challenge has the same surname of a very well known criminal Roma family - many of which have been before the courts many times for begging and similar offences.

    That if true is very foolish. Ignorance is never and excuse.

    What if they committed a crime such as theft and feigned a lack of english then. Same situation different crime but they can still be arrested.

    This country...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    People who knock on your door are almost never there to give you something.

    They simply must be destroyed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Yes really. What's the best that could happen when someone calls to your door unexpectedly who doesn't have your phone number?


    Free hugs?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭Gott


    We've had gypsies selling fireplaces that ... fell off lorries but begging junkies is a new one to me.

    Even in the five years I was in Dublin I never encountered that.

    Do what you will with every unwanted caller, either don't answer the door or tell them to fu*k off.


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