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Bat wielding pensioner confronts cyclists

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Surveyor11 wrote: »

    Some people. Term used loosely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    I don't understand why he was allowed behave that way. Not a man among them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭happytramp


    He will probably end up spending time in he jail for that. So many offences there from Vehicular Assault, reckless driving, threatening assault, destruction of private property. They don't seem to tolerate that sort of stuff in America the way they do here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭happytramp


    I don't understand why he was allowed behave that way. Not a man among them.

    Yeah, you probably would have rushed him in your cleats and deftly slid out of the way of the swinging baseball bat before jumping up and roundhouse kicking him in the face. Cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    happytramp wrote: »
    Yeah, you probably would have rushed him in your cleats and deftly slid out of the way of the swinging baseball bat before jumping up and roundhouse kicking him in the face. Cool.

    In close his bat is less than useless. Cycling shoes slip off easily enough if you need grip. He had apparently already run someone off the road so the lads were perfectly entitled to detain him if they wanted to.

    I wouldn't be doing any of the fancy-dan stuff you mentioned, but yes I would absolutely take on someone like that. I just don't get all that standing around being polite and inquisitive.
    I noticed they all got brave as he drove off. Chapeau!


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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,483 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    I just don't get all that standing around being polite and inquisitive.
    They knew they had a camera on him - it looks far better in terms of the evidence they can produce to the authorities and in due course in court

    It was also clearly edited, so we don't know what may be missing ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    This happened in Texas He was convicted of assault.

    I'm sure anyone would be too quick to man up there - I mean, confronting s truck driving, bat wielding good ol' boy in a state where over one third of the people own at least one gun and concealed carry permits are allowed - what could possibly go wrong!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭catastrophy


    Don't see any need for all the mickey waving myself. They've got a reg, got loads of witnesses, call the police and job done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭cassette50


    From the comments section in the Daily Mail article....the push bike branch of the Hells Angels.
    It's the same here in Ireland. Groups of cyclists take up the whole road, even country roads and you could end up stuck behind them for an hour. I tried to over take them once and they started kicking my car as they kept cycling.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    cassette50 wrote: »
    From the comments section in the Daily Mail article....the push bike branch of the Hells Angels.

    Never read the comments section from online articles, certainly not from the Daily Mail. No good can come of it.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    I don't understand why he was allowed behave that way. Not a man among them.

    It's Texas, you don't escalate a situation like that in Texas. You could see his bat, it's about 90% certain he had a firearm you can't see to back that up.

    I'm surprised none of the cyclists were armed.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Brian? wrote: »
    I'm surprised none of the cyclists were armed.

    The gun would have to be carbon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    The gun would have to be carbon.

    H&K VP70


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    With Texas ' stand your ground' laws, they probably did the right thing.
    Texas is different. In Texas, one can use deadly force not just to protect a person, but also to protect personal property, including to “retrieve stolen property at night,” during “criminal mischief in the nighttime” and even to prevent someone who is fleeing immediately after a theft during the night or a burglary or robbery, so long as the individual “reasonably” thinks the property cannot be protected by other means. This law recently garnered attention when lawyers used the provision to defend a man acquitted in the deadly shooting of an escort who refused to have sex with him. In other cases, the law has been the basis for not pressing charges against individuals who shoot and kill suspected car burglars, and an individual suspected of stealing copper wiring from a car. It is worth noting that some other states authorize the use of force to protect personal property, but not deadly force.

    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/24/2345901/three-self-defense-laws-that-could-be-even-worse-than-stand-your-ground/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Brian? wrote: »
    It's Texas, you don't escalate a situation like that in Texas. You could see his bat, it's about 90% certain he had a firearm you can't see to back that up.

    I'm surprised none of the cyclists were armed.

    The Chicago way - he pulls a bat, you pull a gun......



    Unfortunately in Texas, he pulls a bat, you pull a gun, he pulls a bigger gun....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    H&K VP70

    820g. I could live with that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,122 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    An old man shook a large wrench at me in a threatening manner when climbing Kilmashogue Lane a few weeks back. I don't know what was bothering him. The climb took enough out of me without having to deal with him also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 Diamond_25


    agreed - sensable course of action, nothing to be gained by assaulting the guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭route66


    An old man shook a large wrench at me in a threatening manner when climbing Kilmashogue Lane a few weeks back. I don't know what was bothering him. The climb took enough out of me without having to deal with him also.

    More details please - I climb Kilmashogue sometimes and would like to know what I'm letting myself in for :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    route66 wrote: »
    More details please - I climb Kilmashogue sometimes and would like to know what I'm letting myself in for :o

    A world of pain. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Raam wrote: »
    A world of pain. ;)

    With a helpful local ready to act as an impromptu mechanic, should you need one...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭happytramp


    route66 wrote: »
    More details please - I climb Kilmashogue sometimes and would like to know what I'm letting myself in for :o

    Last time I was there I saw an old man in a hood crawl out of a bush with a rifle and a dragging a dead fox with behind him up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,122 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    route66 wrote: »
    More details please - I climb Kilmashogue sometimes and would like to know what I'm letting myself in for :o
    He was shouting something about staying in the big ring if I did not wish to come to any harm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    An old man shook a large wrench at me in a threatening manner when climbing Kilmashogue Lane a few weeks back. I don't know what was bothering him. The climb took enough out of me without having to deal with him also.

    Tell the full story...you were on private property and refused to stop when challenged


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,483 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Let's just leave this particular discussion there - I am sure the "parties" can continue via PM if required


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