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Daylight robbery at Champion Sports in Blanchardstown

  • 02-10-2013 10:50AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭


    Saw this on FB today.
    With little value on someones life nowadays would anyone stand up to them if you were in the shop. The lookout had a gun !!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭sok2005


    That's not at all how i imagined being robbed would be. Where's the fear and panic! People still shopping away, someone recording it! Hoax?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    Saw this on FB today.
    With little value on someones life nowadays would anyone stand up to them if you were in the shop. The lookout had a gun !!


    Being a hero and going for a tackle is one thing on adrenalin but what type of ****in eejit videos a robbery from close range?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭Luckycharms_74


    sok2005 wrote: »
    That's not at all how i imagined being robbed would be. Where's the fear and panic! People still shopping away, someone recording it! Hoax?

    That's what I though as well. All the staff are calm as fcuk. If I was a shopper I wouldn't be just standing around :confused:


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When did this happen??
    Walshey96 wrote: »
    Someone has been playing too much GTA V. On a serious note why didn't the shop security try and apprehend the robber?

    Most shop employees and security are told not to be heroes in this circumstance. If someone is trying to rob you, then just give it to them and don't resist. No point in an injury being caused when insurance is in place to cover it. Especially if somebody has a gun.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sok2005 wrote: »
    That's not at all how i imagined being robbed would be. Where's the fear and panic! People still shopping away, someone recording it! Hoax?

    I used to work about 5 mins from here and our shop was robbed probably once every 4 or 5 months. You get used to it.

    As far as recording it goes, sure that's the de facto thing to do nowadays. Someone gets hit by a bus... Best whip out the iPhone.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Got robbed in Sportsavers a couple of times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭Ivefoundgod


    When did this happen??



    Most shop employees and security are told not to be heroes in this circumstance. If someone is trying to rob you, then just give it to them and don't resist. No point in an injury being caused when insurance is in place to cover it. Especially if somebody has a gun.

    Plus why would the staff who are probably being paid peanuts and treated like crap bother their arse over a few 100 being stolen from a till? I know I wouldn't intervene.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    Someone has been playing too much GTA V. On a serious note why didn't the shop security guard try and apprehend the robber? I know the lookout had a gun but for all we know it could have been a pellet gun..

    Why would you risk your life for a few quid from a champion sports till. I would protect my home and family but I wouldn't step in if I was a security guard here.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    On a serious note why didn't the shop security guard try and apprehend the robber? I know the lookout had a gun but for all we know it could have been a pellet gun..


    Yep and if it wasnt a pellet gun?


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It actually happened, according to this article anyway.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    Someone has been playing too much GTA V. On a serious note why didn't the shop security guard try and apprehend the robber? I know the lookout had a gun but for all we know it could have been a pellet gun..

    Cop the fcuk on, money and clothes are insured and will be replaced. Somebodies playing too much UFC on the PS6 or whatever :rolleyes:

    I would not take the chance on it being a pellet gun or anything else, aslong as they get in, nobody is injured etc, then thats the main thing.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    no hes not


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    Someone has been playing too much GTA V. On a serious note why didn't the shop security guard try and apprehend the robber? I know the lookout had a gun but for all we know it could have been a pellet gun..

    Because an unarmed person would be a fucking moron to tackle somebody with what appears to be a gun for the sake of a minimum wage job, perhaps?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    no hes not

    The post you were replying to has disappeared!

    Sense must have prevailed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Jebus, we've all come fairly immune to this type of sh1te, it's like "ah sure that's life, now where's that t-shirt in medium"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    sok2005 wrote: »
    That's not at all how i imagined being robbed would be. Where's the fear and panic! People still shopping away, someone recording it! Hoax?

    I got held up (with a gun) when I was working in a petrol station during college.

    You'd be surprised how calm you can feel when it's happening.

    Didn't even feel really shocked afterwards, which is just as well because the cunt that owned the place made me finish the shift (and lock up the pumps) alone after the police had gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Walshey96


    anncoates wrote: »
    Because an unarmed person would be a fucking moron to tackle somebody with what appears to be a gun for the sake of a minimum wage job, perhaps?

    But your not a moron to just stand there filming the robbery as it unfolds instead of hiding?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,927 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    kceire wrote: »
    Cop the fcuk on, money and clothes are insured and will be replaced. Somebodies playing too much UFC on the PS6 or whatever :rolleyes:

    I would not take the chance on it being a pellet gun or anything else, aslong as they get in, nobody is injured etc, then thats the main thing.

    Maybe someone has never worked in retail

    ******



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    But your not a moron to just stand there filming the robbery as it unfolds instead of hiding?

    Perhaps, just perhaps, the concept of moron is wide enough to incorporate many different strands of imbecility?


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


    Must say I was surprised opening this thread and it was about an actual robbery, not just someone getting short-changed in a shop.


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  • Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Being a hero and going for a tackle is one thing on adrenalin but what type of ****in eejit videos a robbery from close range?

    Risky no doubt but hopefully it could prove crucial in sending those vile despicable individuals down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Worst armed robbery ever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    LOL at people saying they should have tackled him.

    I've been in an armed robbery. One minute you're zoned out, thinking about other crap aside from your worthless crappy retail existence. An existence in which head office doesn't give a crap about you.

    Next minute you've a gun in your face.

    My life is worth more than the €500 in the till. :rolleyes:

    You're caught completely off guard. All it takes is one shot to kill you. This isn't a movie like.

    Give em the cash and let armed gardaí go after them. The guys with better guns who are trained to use them.

    A security guard is there to stop shop lifting, kick skangers out of the store etc... Catching a bullet isn't something they're expected to do for their crappy wage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Everyone reacted in the correct manner even the security guy. Someone has and gun and what the money in the till just give it to them and stand out of the way. A few €100 is not worth taking the risk.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Walshey96 wrote: »
    But your not a moron to just stand there filming the robbery as it unfolds instead of hiding?

    There are times that a person's mobile phone has a better camera than the CCTV that is in operation. If it happens to lead to the capture of the individuals, then I'm all for it. However, if they ask for your phone, just give the damned thing to them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Jesus, that looked easy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I've taken longer at the Atm.
    Looked incredibly easy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Why didn't they press the ceiling magnet button and the two robbers would have been trapped to the roof by their helmets? Yeah bitch, magnets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    People seem surprised that staff stay calm during a robbery.

    In my experience this is what happens alright.

    Although I do use impeccable manners whilst robbing them and I have been told my soothing voice puts people at ease so maybe that's something to do with it too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    Armed robbery is extremely easy when you think of the practicalities of it.

    Shops have been robbed with baseball bats which can be just as effective as a gun in scaring people.

    Just watched the video there. Everyone reacted perfectly. No sudden movements. Keep calm and remember your codes to get the tills open. Don't look them in the eye etc...

    As for people saying the chap videoing it was in the wrong.... I think he was totally right until he decided to upload it to YouTube. Video should have been handed over to the guards. The sound of their voices could be used as evidence (CCTV has no sound) and smartphone cameras are better quality than CCTV (could pick up small logos on clothes, details etc...).

    If I was ever a witness to something where I couldn't help at all, and I could keep my calm to video it, I would.

    I wouldn't be uploading it to YouTube however. Idiot.


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