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Has Ireland gotten so bad?

  • 12-03-2015 12:47pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Just saw an article where the Gardai recommend people not to use their mobile phones in public places.

    I haven't lived in Ireland in about 15 years, has the country really gotten that bad?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,821 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    There was a guy arrested for masterbating in a supermarket the other day.

    So yeah its pretty grim over here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Just keep your wits about you and not be wandering aimlessly during the early hours of the morning after a night out and generally you should be okay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,844 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    I work around the IFSC and we are forever getting warnings about using mobiles around the area. Just keep it in your pocket til you get where your going, same in every big city really


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    sugarman wrote: »
    No.

    Its just more and more dopey people walking around in a world of their own, that arent street wise and wonder why their phone was snatched in a grab and run.

    Isn't the whole point of a mobile phone that you can walk around while using it? Pretty poor state of affairs if that's not possible in some places.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Depending where I am in Dublin dictates how careful I am with my phone.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    I thought before clicking on the link that the campaign was for people who are looking at their mobile while crossing the road. Thats what it should be for! Otherwise, I dont know anyone who has had their mobile snatched.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yep, Ireland has got so bad that the civil police force of the country have resorted to issuing press releases containing common sense advice for drunken revellers to have a wee bit of cop on about them.

    Hell in a handcart, that's where we're going.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus



    Hell in a handcart, that's where we're going.

    Who can we blame?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    No, of course it hasn't. But the advice is for the same reason why you wouldn't walk down the street waving a €500 euro note around in one hand. Because someone could whip it off you, go around the corner and it's gone.

    In the case of a phone, they duck in around the corner, into a phone shop run by some asian guy and walk out with €50.

    As others say, this advice is really only relevant in parts of Dublin - primarily D1.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Tabloid nonsense. I am walking down O'Connell street in Dublin typing thi


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    catallus wrote: »
    Who can we blame?!

    De Bankers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    catallus wrote: »
    Who can we blame?!
    I blame Muslim water meter installers with a gay agenda.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,754 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    catallus wrote: »
    Who can we blame?!

    Probably wont be long before Denis O'Brien gets the blame somehow :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tabloid nonsense. I am walking down O'Connell street in Dublin typing thi
    Very considerate of your mugger to press 'post reply'.

    You wouldn't get that in Marrakech.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    catallus wrote: »
    Who can we blame?!

    The do-gooding, lefty, hand-wringing, bleeding heart libtards; that's who.

    If we had capital and corporal punishment in this country, we'd be fine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    The do-gooding, lefty, hand-wringing, bleeding heart libtards; that's who.

    If we had capital and corporal punishment in this country, we'd be fine.

    NOW yer talkin' :)

    Rabble rabble!

    It's PC gone gay!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,844 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    deadybai wrote: »
    I thought before clicking on the link that the campaign was for people who are looking at their mobile while crossing the road. Thats what it should be for! Otherwise, I dont know anyone who has had their mobile snatched.

    I had 3 robbed directly out of my hand but would have been around 1999-2001, around the Drumcondra, Fairview area. Each time I was walking home from the pub with the phone out, typing a text.

    Twice was someone on a bike ( doubt it was the same person)
    Once a car pulled up with 3 lads in and said "give us your phone", what can you do?

    2 of them were Nokia 8810, which were the coolest phones ever. Sorry cant post pic in work

    http://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8810#/media/File:Nokia-8810.jpg

    Hasn't happened since, though it always stays in the pocket nowadays


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    It's like Mad fúcking Max over here!!! No one is safe!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    basic street smarts should be taught in secondary school


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    There was a guy arrested for masterbating in a supermarket the other day.

    So yeah its pretty grim over here.

    Sure he was only a wánker anyhow!:eek:

    Ah, its no worse than it's ever been really. Fair enough point about phones though. These smartphones are so expensive. It's not like many people were bothered running up stealing your Nokia 3210 15 years ago, they'd need a wheelbarrow to make off with it


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    basic street smarts should be taught in secondary school

    Street smarts? Surely kids know what street they live on? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Wide Load


    It wasn't like this when Big Daddy Bertie was running the place! He made sure the streets were safe!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    No, Ireland is an incredible safe country with very low crime rates, no matter what type of crime, petty such as robbery or any violent crimes. Anyone who tells you otherwise is highly misinformed or just one of those gob****es who loves to go on about how **** ireland is compared to australia in canada.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Whenever people from South America visit Ireland, or even live (t)here they consider it a paragon of virtue and order. At least outside of the drunken shenanigans post pub. Honestly, my father in law is always describing Ireland here over in the same way we would describe Switzerland.

    There is no crime. Everything runs on time...etc. It makes me laugh.

    Anyway, it's all perception. If you live somewhere truly chaotic Ireland does seem sedate and civilised, if you live in Switzerland it probably seems like a country over run by drunken maniacs where public services and amenities are planned and delivered by 5 year olds. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

    "Gotten" sounds Swiss, it's not English anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭SteM


    OP - 15 years ago if you had have walked around Dublin with a €500 piece of technology, that's the same size as a chocolate bar, waving it around for everyone to see the same thing would happened.

    Is it right that it happens now and would have happened then? No, but that doesn't mean the place has gotten bad. It means that scumbags will always pick on the low hanging fruit.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    It's like Mad fúcking Max over here!!! No one is safe!!!

    I've taped razor blades to my phone so that when someone tries to rob it they'll cut their hands.

    I sometimes rub my poo on the blades so that their wounds will become infected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Thought phones could be blocked. What's the point stealing them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    I've taped razor blades to my phone so that when someone tries to rob it they'll cut their hands.

    I sometimes rub my poo on the blades so that their wounds will become infected.

    Jaysus, you're doing well if you can afford to waste a second meal like that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Ruu wrote: »
    Just keep your wits about you and not be wandering aimlessly during the early hours of the morning after a night out and generally you should be okay.

    True, serious shortage of common sense going around


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    kneemos wrote: »
    Thought phones could be blocked. What's the point stealing them?

    Very easy to get them unblocked, it's illegal but there's still a thriving market.

    To answer the OP, no, ireland is grand. For some reason "place is getting worse" is written underneath every news article about anything bad that ever happens on FB and the like. I think the Irish just might be the best in the world at rose tinting the past.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    otherwise known as 'cop - on'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    Very easy to get them unblocked, it's illegal but there's still a thriving market.

    To answer the OP, no, ireland is grand. For some reason "place is getting worse" is written underneath every news article about anything bad that ever happens on FB and the like. I think the Irish just might be the best in the world at rose tinting the past.

    We used to be, not so much anymore


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    There was a guy arrested for masterbating in a supermarket the other day.

    3 for 1 offer with double clubcard points.

    a man can only take so much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    if you live in Switzerland it probably seems like a country...

    Ah yes, Switzerland... where they plan their spontaneity weeks in advance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    The do-gooding, lefty, hand-wringing, bleeding heart libtards; that's who.

    If we had capital and corporal punishment in this country, we'd be fine.


    Cut the hands offof them and they'd drop their phone stealin habits quick enough!!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,646 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Whenever people from South America visit Ireland, or even live (t)here they consider it a paragon of virtue and order. At least outside of the drunken shenanigans post pub. Honestly, my father in law is always describing Ireland here over in the same way we would describe Switzerland.

    There is no crime. Everything runs on time...etc. It makes me laugh.

    Anyway, it's all perception. If you live somewhere truly chaotic Ireland does seem sedate and civilised, if you live in Switzerland it probably seems like a country over run by drunken maniacs where public services and amenities are planned and delivered by 5 year olds. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

    "Gotten" sounds Swiss, it's not English anyway.

    In fairness it is so bad in south africa that they mugged a journalist as he was getting ready to do a piece to camera. the muggers didnt care that there was a camera pointed at them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


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    Edit: No idea how to add images in correctly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    I blame Muslim water meter installers with a gay agenda.



    Yep....Muslimins, stealing our water, just so they can have something to dip their Salad In.

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Tabloid nonsense. I am walking down O'Connell street in Dublin typing thi

    I am not a fan of that particular newspaper, but issues with endemic mobile phone theft are just fact.

    I have had my mobile stolen from me along the quays a few months ago (D2 side if anyone wants to know :-)); grabbed by a guy on a bike while I was writing a text message. Had heard of numerous people to whom the same thing happened but though I was not a prime target as these thugs seem to concentrate on foreign looking young women. These stories were definitely not as frequent 5-10 years ago.

    One of my friends was just walking on Dolier Street minding his own business. Out of nowhere a women started hugging him. He pushed her back wondering what was going on and said the whole thing lasted less than 5 seconds. A few minutes later he noticed his phone was gone from his pocket. Garda station told him they see this all the time and there was probably another person who got the phone during the few seconds it took for him to process the situation and react to what the woman did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Ah yes, Switzerland... where they plan their spontaneity weeks in advance.

    Pros & Cons I suppose, you don't need to cover your mobile in turd and razor blades over there I imagine. Your biggest concern regarding personal safety is probably avoiding skiing into a tree at the weekend.

    Here, you leave your "good" mobile at home and carry an old undesirable one around with you during the day as at some stage here, if you stick around for long enough, being robbed is a likely event.

    Again, Ireland is somewhere in the middle. A good place to be.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    It's like Mad fúcking Max over here!!! No one is safe!!!


    Just walk away. Give me your phone, price of a few cans and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,583 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I blame Muslim water meter installers with a gay agenda.

    On the bright side, we have some fabulous new halal water.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    It's gone to sh*t. Too many scumbags per capita.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    It's gone to sh*t. Too many scumbags per capita.
    That should read "Too many scumbags per capital". It seems this is mainly a Dublin city centre issue and not very common in other cities?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Imagine being advised against walking around a busy, cosmopolitan city with $1,000 or so worth of kit the size of a cigarette-packet in your hand while your head is a million miles away. Tut-tut. I blame <takes deep breath> ISIS, single mothers, John Charles McQuaid, Joe Duffy (his son), that solicitor fella above in The Dublin wot de bank are takin' de house off of, Irish Water, Lance Armstrong and all his works and all his empty promises, the Insurance industry, unemployed builders, employed builders, shiftless Corporation workers and the IndaKinny(). But not necessarily in that order.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    biko wrote: »
    That should read "Too many scumbags per capital". It seems this is mainly a Dublin city centre issue and not very common in other cities?

    Yes Dublin but I avoid it completely and haven't been there in 2 years as a result. Waterford is awful, there just isn't enough capita "for a city" to cover up the sight & sounds of scummers everywhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    we have lost 4 garda stations locally due to cut backs. There was a spate of burglaries during the last couple of years where gangs of 3 and 4 would target older people living alone in remote locations.. most of those responsible were from over the border and there were a couple of Dublin criminals suspected also. I never remember robberies happening as often as they are lately.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    Ireland has not gotten worse - it's still the same horrible dump it always was - that's the problem, nothing has changed for the better since the place was foolishly taken away from british rule...

    the only thing maybe that has gotten worse is the attitudes of all the d!ckheads that live here and think too much of themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    Best way not to get mugged is to walk around looking like you want to steal a phone...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Satriale wrote: »
    Best way not to get mugged is to walk around looking like you want to steal a phone...

    The best way not to get mugged is to walk around straight, purposeful and wide-awake with your head up.


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