Grand Theft Trinity

ewan whose army

So a 68 year old man followed a cleaning van in through front gate at 6:30am, ignored the security guards, drove around college damaging cars and the like before trying to get out of the closed gates, then proceeded to ram through the historic front gates, damaging them.. Then driving off through Nassu street and then the wrong way up Dawson st.

Crazy , he was caught thankfully

jane82

You really should have to resit the driving test yearly once you hit 65. This is getting rediculous.

vicwatson

Said on the journal he was joyriding !! - Hardly

He has probably never done a test in the first place - prob got the amnesty in 1979

andrew

I'm not sure how well the driving test establishes whether someone is, or is likely to go, mental. Perhaps the Theory test could include a true/false question: "I intend to use a motorised vehicle to do something batshit insane"

wilser

jane82 wrote: »

You really should have to resit the driving test yearly once you hit 65. This is getting rediculous.

yeah because everyone knows its the over 65 that cause all the accidents.
why don't you have to sit the test every year if you are between 18 and 25? Hardly think that because of 1 incident every one over 65 should have to sit the test, also I noted in the news it was a white, male driver maybe it should be anyone over 65 whose white,male and answers to the name Fred that should resit the test every year

jane82

What about anyone who has to stop the car to make a left turn?

sopretty

andrew wrote: »

I'm not sure how well the driving test establishes whether someone is, or is likely to go, mental. Perhaps the Theory test could include a true/false question: "I intend to use a motorised vehicle to do something batshit insane"

I actually laughed out loud at this! :pac:

What sort of a car was he driving? Did he have 'No fear' emblazoned on the rear window of his Subaru? Or was he in a a wee Micra? Or a 141 D mercedes?

spoonbadger

jane82 wrote: »

You really should have to resit the driving test yearly once you hit 65. This is getting rediculous.

wilser wrote: »

yeah because everyone knows its the over 65 that cause all the accidents.
why don't you have to sit the test every year if you are between 18 and 25?

Posts #2 and #5 and this thread has already descended into utter retardation

Mr Pseudonym

spoonbadger wrote: »

Posts #2 and #5 and this thread has already descended into utter retardation

I know - bad spelling and punctuation in both!

I submit that the first of those two was a joke.

I live on campus- woken up by this guy blaring music from his car at 6.30 am, wrecked today now.

And our poor door

sopretty

Deleted User wrote: »

I live on campus- woken up by this guy blaring music from his car at 6.30 am, wrecked today now.

And our poor door

What was he playing? Beethoven? Britney?

jane82

spoonbadger wrote: »

Posts #2 and #5 and this thread has already descended into utter retardation

Do people still use that word, "retardation". It just doesnt sit right with me.
Anyway it was a joke about the strangeness of this 68 year old joyrider. To be honest he probably has issues that need addressing and probably will never be allowed drive again.

sopretty

sopretty wrote: »

What was he playing? Beethoven? Britney?

Didn't recognise it, sounded like some sorta easy listening stuff you'd hear off Q102 or something.

Mr Pseudonym

jane82 wrote: »

Do people still use that word, "retardation". It just doesnt sit right with me.

Especially in this situation: it seems like there was no application of brakes at all.

lfqnic

Deleted User wrote: »

I live on campus- woken up by this guy blaring music from his car at 6.30 am, wrecked today now.

And our poor door

I know I left my place in Botany Bay this morning at 8 and was completely oblivious. You have to hand it to trinity security, they do a really good job of keeping their eye on us with minimal fuss. I feel very safe living and working on campus, and it isn't like things like this don't happen every so often. I've heard (not witnessed) horror stories from the cleaning ladies about things that happened hours before and you wouldn't have a clue walking through campus that some disaster or another has just been averted.

TL;DR trinity sec = some pups.

truedoom

ewan whose army wrote: »

Then driving off through Nassu street and then the wrong way up Dawson st.

Hope he went directly to jail, didn't pass go, and didn't collect his €200.

Mr Pseudonym

truedoom wrote: »

Hope he went directly to jail, didn't pass go, and didn't collect his €200.

There's a one-way traffic system, so I imagine he would have been required to go anti-clockwise around Trinty. The good news is that he would have avoided passing the bank.

andrew

truedoom wrote: »

Hope he went directly to jail, didn't pass go, and didn't collect his €200.

Was he driving this?

Skerries

truedoom

andrew wrote: »

Was he driving this?

He has known accomplices;

Skerries

man the front we can be invaded any minute!

http://instagram.com/p/mSU0O6jfOx/

Tears in Rain

So what's the story, anyone know who this guy is yet or why he decided to go on a rampage?

bootybouncer

truedoom wrote: »

Hope he went directly to jail, didn't pass go, and didn't collect his €200.

what a rubbish statement !!!!!!!!

bootybouncer

Tears in Rain wrote: »

So what's the story, anyone know who this guy is yet or why he decided to go on a rampage?

Indeed..........................disgruntled ex employee perhaps ???

Loafing Oaf

sopretty wrote: »

What was he playing? Beethoven? Britney?

Surely this:

chopper6

bootybouncer wrote: »

Indeed..........................disgruntled ex employee perhaps ???

All employees are disgruntled to some extent.

A story i heard was that he'd had his parking permit revoked as a retired staff member and decided a bit of payback was in order but this might not be the case.

there's plenty of nutters on both sides of Trinity's walls.

ewan whose army

Maybe someone got pissed at the new logo?

I mean it is kinda crappy compared to the old one

chopper6

ewan whose army wrote: »

Maybe someone got pissed at the new logo?

I mean it is kinda crappy compared to the old one

Very amusing...i first heard that "joke" at 8am.

You must've been in bed :rolleyes:

ewan whose army

chopper6 wrote: »

Very amusing...i first heard that "joke" at 8am.

You must've been in bed :rolleyes:

The life of a PhD student

guineylab

looks like the rebranding is going well, removing the gates was part of the initiative on the new crest!

Mr Pseudonym

guineylab wrote: »

looks like the rebranding is going well, removing the gates was part of the initiative on the new crest!

I think you could be on to something: a publicity stunt for their new initiative which aims to open Trinity's doors to the wider community.