A Lost Wallet Now Worthy Of National TV Coverage

JONJO THE MISER

Could not believe my eyes when i saw crime call tonight.
Cctv coverage of a guy losing his wallet outside a supermarket and then a guy a few minutes later seeing the wallet and picking it up, plastered the guys pic all over national tv because he picked up a lost wallet, are they having a laugh, bank robberies and attacks on cctv along with this.
No doubt it was some guards or some big hot shots wallet for i doubt if you or me lost a wallet it would be on a major real crime show.
A bloody disgrace considering there would be lots of shops who would like to put up cctv of violent crimes but crime call would not be able to put them all up but would consider a lost wallet worthy of national tv coverage.

oppenheimer1

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Could not believe my eyes when i saw crime call tonight.
Cctv coverage of a guy losing his wallet outside a supermarket and then a guy a few minutes later seeing the wallet and picking it up, plastered the guys pic all over national tv because he picked up a lost wallet, are they having a laugh, bank robberies and attacks on cctv along with this.
No doubt it was some guards or some big hot shots wallet for i doubt if you or me lost a wallet it would be on a major real crime show.
A bloody disgrace considering there would be lots of shops who would like to put up cctv of violent crimes but crime call would not be able to put them all up but would consider a lost wallet worthy of national tv coverage.

Its newsworthy if it contained something extremely valuable.

Special Circumstances

Haha I left an ipod behind me filling out forms in AIB in limerick, wasnt there went i went back. Now, either they have no cctv or they couldnt be bothered - should I get crime call on the case?

Fr_Dougal

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Could not believe my eyes when i saw crime call tonight.
Cctv coverage of a guy losing his wallet outside a supermarket and then a guy a few minutes later seeing the wallet and picking it up, plastered the guys pic all over national tv because he picked up a lost wallet, are they having a laugh, bank robberies and attacks on cctv along with this.
No doubt it was some guards or some big hot shots wallet for i doubt if you or me lost a wallet it would be on a major real crime show.
A bloody disgrace considering there would be lots of shops who would like to put up cctv of violent crimes but crime call would not be able to put them all up but would consider a lost wallet worthy of national tv coverage.

You think that's bad? Someone even made a thread about it.

donvito99

*Stolen wallet.

Kevin McCloud

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Haha I left an ipod behind me filling out forms in AIB in limerick, wasnt there went i went back. Now, either they have no cctv or they couldnt be bothered - should I get crime call on the case?

Did you even ask had they cctv?

anncoates

... But starting a thread about it is grand though.

Kevin McCloud

anncoates wrote: »

... But starting a thread about it is grand though.

I guess its more than a trivial annoyance to the op so it deserves its own thread.

JacquesDeLad

Have they got him yet?

LollipopJimmy

I can't stand the suspense, I hope they've found it

Haha it gave me a good laugh, apart from the most obvious look around and shifty back step its a bit much to have it on crimecall.

Special Circumstances

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Did you even ask had they cctv?

Ammmm...


See if you can guess before you get to the answer.




Come on, I know you can do it




It's pretty obvious in fairness




Yeah. They wouldn't even check if someone had handed it in over the counter so I wasn't exactly expecting them to help me out with cctv even before I asked. A great bunch of lads.

JaseBelleVie

Crime Call? Any excuse to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVOF6DScKQ

JacquesDeLad

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I can't stand the suspense, I hope they've found it

**** his wallet, there's someone picking up litter in this country. Hurray!:D

policarp

Any crime should be recorded.

endacl

You'd imagine if its not worthy of coverage on the national broadcaster it wouldn't be worthy of coverage on here...

Any thoughts, OP?

LollipopJimmy

JacquesDeLad wrote: »

**** his wallet, there's someone picking up litter in this country. Hurray!:D

Its actually probably sitting in a lost and found in a garda station

JONJO THE MISER

endacl wrote: »

You'd imagine if its not worthy of coverage on the national broadcaster it wouldn't be worthy of coverage on here...

Any thoughts, OP?

My thoughts are its some guards or someone connected wallet.
Serious crimes cant get on but this can.

policarp

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

My thoughts are its some guards or someone connected wallet.
Serious crimes cant get on but this can.

Might be part of a bigger picture?

endacl

policarp wrote: »

Might be part of a bigger picture?

G'wan away now with yer feckin' lateral thinkin'. This isn't the thread your looking for.

ben.schlomo

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

My thoughts are its some guards or someone connected wallet.
Serious crimes cant get on but this can.

Yes they can, sure there were plenty of parts about armed robberies, dead bodies/missing persons, violent assaults, other thefts and outstanding bench warrants, did you miss those typing out your rant?!!!

Junkyard Tom

OP the guy who picked up the wallet might have cleaned out accounts of the guy who lost it or went to his home and robbed it or even used his identity to do something far more serious.

I suspect it's more about identifying the finder of the wallet than it is about returning the wallet itself.

dxhound2005

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

My thoughts are its some guards or someone connected wallet.
Serious crimes cant get on but this can.

It's the existence of CCTV and cameraphone footage these days that partly drives the format. Much cheaper than filming re-enactments of crimes. If there was no CCTV this crime (stealing by finding, I presume) would never have made the programme.

BBC Crimewatch showed footage of an attempted car breakin from Drogheda. Only notable because the thief got hit in the head with his own brick, and it was captured on CCTV. Whole hours of TV are filled with footage filmed by traffic police of various idiotic driving practices.

It can happen on news programmes as well where things which would never get a mention otherwise are stories just because there is CCTV footage.

If you have CCTV footage of serious crimes send it in to them.

Faith+1

This is a Country where we recently blessed the roads ffs! Nothing surprises me anymore. Craggy Island eat your heart out.