RTE News - Tiger Kidnapping

Filibuster

Paul Reynolds on the 9pm news today did a report on a tiger kidnapping and like all their other reports on such crimes they show the family home. They have effectivly just advertised to everyone in the country that this family has access to money, how much etc...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Filibuster wrote: »

Paul Reynolds on the 9pm news today did a report on a tiger kidnapping and like all their other reports on such crimes they show the family home. They have effectivly just advertised to everyone in the country that this family has access to money, how much etc...

... and usually a pet tiger. Not breaking in there.

Boaty

Filibuster wrote: »

Paul Reynolds on the 9pm news today did a report on a tiger kidnapping and like all their other reports on such crimes they show the family home. They have effectivly just advertised to everyone in the country that this family has access to money, how much etc...

He said they don't keep large sums of money..

Jamie2k9

Filibuster wrote: »

Paul Reynolds on the 9pm news today did a report on a tiger kidnapping and like all their other reports on such crimes they show the family home. They have effectivly just advertised to everyone in the country that this family has access to money, how much etc...

The point being.......?

BTW have you email RTE with your concerns

At least we all know where to gets beds in North Tip!

catallus

Your point is? Its not like they're giving gps, is it?

I really thought this was about a break in at dublin zoo

returnNull

Deleted User wrote: »

I really thought this was about a break in at dublin zoo

well a few years ago there was a penguin kidnapping from there....
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0708/133130-penguin/

Three men climbed the perimeter fence and entered the penguin habitat, capturing a 10-year-old female named Kelli.
They put her into a sack and left the zoo where they hailed a taxi passing through the Phoenix Park.
They told the driver they had a rabbit with them and he dropped them in Dublin's north inner city.
The penguin was found on Rutland Street and was taken back to the zoo by gardaí from Store Street.
Kelli was returned to the penguin habitat after a vet inspection found she had no injuries.

sasta le

Was thinking that showed pics of the couple and there business surely thats wrong

sasta le

At 1st thought this was a random robbery that was gone very wrong but said online business and other house based business

Mint Aero

Em there's already a thread and it was not a tiger kidnapping.

seamus

They probably went a bit overboard on the report alright, I think they were trying really hard to push the emotional angle.

To be fair RTE made it clear that there's not much point in breaking into their house, it's not any different to anyone else's house, which is kind of the point of the report.

But yeah, lets give a detailed description of who they are, what their businesses are called and where they are, then broadcast on the main national news bulletin. They were only slightly short of giving a link to their facebook profiles and their bank account numbers.

catallus

sasta le wrote: »

At 1st thought this was a random robbery that was gone very wrong but said online business and other house based business

There is no such thing as a random robbery. It is always planned, even phone snatchers follow buses or people walking.

seamus wrote: »

They probably went a bit overboard >>>>>>>>>

But yeah, lets give a detailed description of who they are, what their businesses are called and where they are, then broadcast on the main national news bulletin. They were only slightly short of giving a link to their facebook profiles and their bank account numbers.

That's the downside to the media aspect of this issue.

sasta le

But the news said a hard working family with a modest bunaglow,this was well planned not a gang doing a series of houses in a night which happens alot too

kneemos

It's kinda their job to report,if they start being PC about it nothing would get reported.
Newspapers and the web will presumably have the same details.

sasta le

But shouldnt be showing the family and the home so closely and so soon after it

kneemos

sasta le wrote: »

But shouldnt be showing the family and the home so closely and so soon after it

That's what reporting is.The pics will be in tomorrows papers along with even finer details no doubt.

chopper6

These cowardly crimes shouldnt be dignified with the name "tiger".

Tigers after all are brave and noble creatures...there's nothing brave or noble about terrifying unarmed people in the family home in pursuit of money.

The old "criminal code" (for what it was worth) recognised that the family home was never to be invaded especially if there were children there.

"tiger" kindnappers threaten children with sawn off shotguns and beat women with pistol-butts....they'd try that once in the US let me tell you.

These people are the lowest of the low.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

chopper6 wrote: »

These cowardly crimes shouldnt be dignified with the name "tiger".

Tigers after all are brave and noble creatures...there's nothing brave or noble about terrifying unarmed people in the family home in pursuit of money.

The old "criminal code" (for what it was worth) recognised that the family home was never to be invaded especially if there were children there.

"tiger" kindnappers threaten children with sawn off shotguns and beat women with pistol-butts....they'd try that once in the US let me tell you.

These people are the lowest of the low.

Wait, wait, wait, a second....

.... am I correct in think ing that this is jist a term and that there was NO actual tiger involved...? :eek:

chopper6

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Wait, wait, wait, a second....

.... am I correct in think ing that this is jist a term and that there was NO actual tiger involved...? :eek:

Nah...you're talking about the Kidnapping of a Tiger...totally different crimes....of course there's always the possibility of being kidnapped by a tiger.

AnonoBoy

Boycott, Smithereens, St. Patrick's Day and now Tiger Kidnapping.

Sure who says the Irish haven't contributed to world culture, wha?

chopper6

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Boycott, Smithereens, St. Patrick's Day and now Tiger Kidnapping.

Sure who says the Irish haven't contributed to world culture, wha?

Don't forget Hooligan,Potin and the legacy of Peig Sayers.

catallus

chopper6 wrote: »

These cowardly crimes shouldnt be dignified with the name "tiger".

Tigers after all are brave and noble creatures...there's nothing brave or noble about terrifying unarmed people in the family home in pursuit of money.

The old "criminal code" (for what it was worth) recognised that the family home was never to be invaded especially if there were children there.

"tiger" kindnappers threaten children with sawn off shotguns and beat women with pistol-butts....they'd try that once in the US let me tell you.

These people are the lowest of the low.

This is where everyone goes wrong.....these people are so low not because of who they are or who they work for: they are given the incentives by the judges to carry out their crimes.

Do 500 burglaries a year, probably 100 get reported, if you're caught you admit to 50, even if you didn't do them, go before a judge and plead guilty, 3 months imprisonment for each crime is 12.5 years, Oh Noes? It's all ok they are concurrent, 3 months done and dusted, out and 3000 euro in the post office, good enough for government work, innit?

chopper6

catallus wrote: »

This is where everyone goes wrong.....these people are so low not because of who they are or who they work for: they are given the incentives by the judges to carry out their crimes.

Do 500 burglaries a year, probably 100 get reported, if you're caught you admit to 50, even if you didn't do them, go before a judge and plead guilty, 3 months imprisonment for each crime is 12.5 years, Oh Noes? It's all ok they are concurrent, 3 months done and dusted, out and 3000 euro in the post office, good enough for government work, innit?

Or 50 previous convictions and a three year sentence for ramming a garda car during a robbery
(the court heard the defendent had been abusing alcohol since the age of 12 and had no recollection of the incident and that his uncle dying ten years ago had a bad effect on him)

...with the final 18 months suspended on condition he attend flower arranging classes.

catallus

chopper6 wrote: »

Or 50 previous convictions and a three year sentence for ramming a garda car during a robbery
(the court heard the defendent had been abusing alcohol since the age of 12 and had no recollection of the incident and that his uncle dying ten years ago had a bad effect on him)

...with the final 18 months suspended on condition he attend flower arranging classes.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't true.

As it stands it is only funny.

For those who are killed raped and robbed, it is a nightmare. But all one can do in the face of it is laugh.

chopper6

catallus wrote: »

It would be hilarious if it wasn't true.

As it stands it is only funny.

For those who are killed raped and robbed, it is a nightmare. But all one can do in the face of it is laugh.

You know what a "bender" is?

It's a suspended sentence that is basically a licence to run riot untill such time as you're caught again.

People can run up dozens of charges before the original sentence is reactivated and with a chronic shortage of prison spaces they know they're unlikely to do much time anyway.

Most scumbags will continue on like this for years untill they get hit with something like a six year sentence for robbery where a firearm was used...80% of them will leave prison full-blown heroin addicts and will spend whats left of thier lives in and out of prison til they eventually wind up dead in a laneway.

Every inch of this process is being funded by the taxpayer.

shantolog

I remember another story a while ago where RTE covered buglaries down in the country.They were inteviwing a farmer was burgled mulitple times and asked him about his new security. He then walked around his farm showing speakers that sounded like dogs barking to the cameras, virtually guaranteeing he'd be burgled again...EL STOOPIDO

NuckingFacker

chopper6 wrote: »

These cowardly crimes shouldnt be dignified with the name "tiger".

Tigers after all are brave and noble creatures...there's nothing brave or noble about terrifying unarmed people in the family home in pursuit of money.

The old "criminal code" (for what it was worth) recognised that the family home was never to be invaded especially if there were children there.

"tiger" kindnappers threaten children with sawn off shotguns and beat women with pistol-butts....they'd try that once in the US let me tell you.

These people are the lowest of the low.

They never call here. I'm gonna have to start working harder. Is there such a thing as "kidnap envy"? "Rodney, no-one has tiger kidnapped me, you have got to start earning more, the neighbours are beginning to talk. Martha and Bill were done twice..."

chopper6

NuckingFacker wrote: »

They never call here. I'm gonna have to start working harder. Is there such a thing as "kidnap envy"? "Rodney, no-one has tiger kidnapped me, you have got to start earning more, the neighbours are beginning to talk. Martha and Bill were done twice..."

Maybe get RTE News to report on your plight...perhaps they can give the publc the impression you're an ecentric millionaire who doesnt believe in banks.

As they say in Tesco: Every little helps.