Would you take the money?

freshpopcorn

Your drink is spiked on a night out and nothing else happens. You figure out who did it and their mammy offers you €250,000 not to go to the Gardaí.

Do you take the money or go go to the Gardaí.

I'd take the money.(I've no morals I know.)

Yes, It's a story in Fair City.

RobbieTheRobber

Free drugs and a quarter of a mill where do I sign up?

In reality how you would you prove someone spiked you except an admission.

How do you give someone 250k€ that doesnt lead to revenue or garda questions, in cash like?

If given that amount in cash by somebody would you feel safe?

I don't watch fair City though so maybe all this has been explained.

freshpopcorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119704433#Comment_119704433

Well it's Fair City land.

The guys mother is one of Irelands top legal professionals. So, she'd find away.

She's about to blsckmail a judge with an indicient photo to get somebody out of prison.

Kimbot

I would gladly take it :D

Leg End Reject

After a small gift exemption of €3000 you'd pay 33% CGT. Your bank would notify revenue (money laundering legislation) and you couldn't stuff it under the mattress in notes.

So, I'd demand €331,510 to buy my silence.

Ubbquittious

yes and i'd have no need to stuff it under the matress because I'd go mad shpending !

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119704541#Comment_119704541

250k in One4all cards. Sorted.

Atlantic Dawn

It depends, if €250k was more assets than every single thing combined they owned outside of their house I would take it, if it was only a fraction of their wealth I wouldn't.

#Gain4Pain.

silliussoddius

 So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up? 

I'd take the money and then go to the cops with it.

Let the mammy then explain to them why they were "gifting" me €250k to keep silent.

uch

I'd buy the most ridiculous amount of Cake you've ever seen in your life, then none of you would hear from me again

astrofool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119705278#Comment_119705278

Would a crown be on your shopping list?

Jequ0n

I’d be more upset that someone bothered to spike my drink and didn’t want to take advantage of the situation. What was the point of the whole thing?

As for proving you were spiked. No need to go to the Gardai. It seems to be sufficient to just make claims on social media because nobody is ever allowed to question anything any more.

And yes, of course I’d take the money, and then blackmail them for more in true Guiffre style.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119707273#Comment_119707273

The woman who was sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and paid off by the crown to drop charges against Prince Andrew for having sex with a, trafficked, minor?

Count Dracula

Only if they took photos of me naked, wearing fake rubber golden boobies, with a suborifaced and protruding bedtime aid, singing " where have all the Cowboys gone?" with a German accent....

What would be the point otherwise?

Ray Palmer

People don't get their drinks spiked like that in real life no matter what stories you read or hear from friends. The rape crisis centre had to come out and tell people this yet people still don't believe it.

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119704541#Comment_119704541

The idea of having to pay 33% is just sickening, could I just burn the lot tax free?

Mr. CooL ICE

If somebody just spiked my drink and nothing else happened, then I'd take the money.

If somebody spiked my drink and took advantage of me and put things up my butt, then I'd also take the money.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119707594#Comment_119707594

Yes they do.

It happened to me in a niteclub, only my friends realised what was happening and got me to a hospital, god knows what would have happened.

RobbieTheRobber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119707667#Comment_119707667

You could burn it but as far as I know tax would still be due as you accepted the money.

captain dildano

I had my drink spiked once, a long time ago and it was terrifying. Thankfully I'd only been drinking soft drinks that night and a friend brought me home and watched over me all night to make sure I was OK. The really scary thing is that it was done by someone in the group of 'friends' that I was with that night. To this day I don't know who did it, whether they did it for a laugh or whether they meant to harm me. For all I know it could have been the person who watched over me that night. So no, I wouldn't accept money to keep my mouth shut. If someone else got hurt I wouldn't be able to forgive myself.

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119708466#Comment_119708466

This, down a quarter of a mil and Revenue chasing you.

I think you could donate it to a registered charity and CGT wouldn't be liable but I stand to be corrected on that.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119708330#Comment_119708330

Did any medical professional say what drug was used?

erlichbachman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119709530#Comment_119709530

Rohypnol most likely, this drug has lived a most interesting life in Ireland, started out as the drug that mammies were prescribed for a number of ailments, then became very known to drug abusers. During the 90's I believe they were adopted by Ecstasy users as they provided a very soft landing after a heavy night. At some point during this decade they were used to spike drinks, and after this they pretty much became outlawed in Dublin, drug addicts had to go to doctors/pharmacies outside the capital, and they also changed the tablets to include some sort of dye in an attempt to prevent spiking, though it may also have been to prevent drug abusers from injecting them if I'm not mistaken.

Not sure about nowadays, but in years past if you walked past a drug addict and they were in that slow motion kinda fall over forwards then it wasnt actually heroin they were using, it was most likely rohypnol.

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119704433#Comment_119704433

Won it on an accumulator your honour. Or Bitcoin,Rolex's.

EmmetSpiceland

Not sure I could take it. It’s a form of “enabling” and I’d have the next victims on my conscience.

Maybe some of you could live with that but I couldn’t.

bmc58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058266114/would-you-take-the-money

Show me the money,fast.

FintanMcluskey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119707594#Comment_119707594

Has anyone ever proven that they have had their drink "spiked"?

Lots of anecdotal stories alright but has anyone ever got blood tests etc to confirm they have been drugged

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119709997#Comment_119709997

I think drink spiking with drugs has been proven at times. The more recent needle spiking hysteria is a different story though.

AMKC

Depending on how rich they were I would take it or more. That kind of money could go a long way to making my dream come true and to me leading a much happier life :)

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119709997#Comment_119709997

Not in Ireland ever. The Rape Crisis Centre came out and pointed this out several times. They said that alcohol is the main issue. What people ignore is that you may occasionally react more strongly than accustomed to.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119709712#Comment_119709712

The question was did a medical professional say you were spiked with a drug? They could easily test for it.

Claiming the drug was "pretty much" outlawed in Dublin is ludicrous. How would that even vaguely work?

Can you explain why the Rape Crisis Centre say it hasn't happened in Ireland?

captain dildano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119707594#Comment_119707594

I had my drink spiked in a bar by someone in a group of people that I considered friends. I bought my own drink at the bar and put it on the table myself. It probably happened while I was in the toilet. That was back in the 90's. I'd been drinking coke and hadn't had any alcohol or drugs. Making sweeping statements that nobody in Ireland has ever had their drink spiked is utterly ridiculous. Most people whose drink has been spiked wouldn't have the ability to even think of going to a hospital. The whole point of spiking someone's drink is to incapacitate them and confuse them.

Many rapes and sexual assaults aren't reported, it's even more likely that someone who was raped or sexually assaulted after having their drink spiked wouldn't report it as they'd possibly feel that they'd be less likely to be believed. . I hope you and nobody close to you ever experiences it. It's awful and it's terrifying, and it's even worse when you know that it was done by someone you trusted. As for the Rape Crisis Centre, give me a break, that crowd think are out of touch with reality on a lot of things.

erlichbachman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119712081#Comment_119712081

I'm fairly certain it was impossible to get them in Dublin at some point towards the end of the nineties or beginning of the noughties, though not sure if it was the unavailability in pharmacies, or doctors in the capital had some sort of policy of not prescribing them, I know people who really had a taste for such and if they could have got them in Dublin then they would have, but I clearly remember they had to go outside the capital to source, though only as far as Kildare so it was only a slight inconvenience.

You could be correct about the lack of usage in spiking drinks though, it was probably just a reputation they had due to one bad case in some other country.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119712402#Comment_119712402

So you know more than people who specilise in a particular area? What are they actually out of touch with that you have so much more knowledge on. If people specialising in rape services aren't seeing drinks spiked then statistacilly you can be sure it is not happening. They aren't going to get a report of all rapes but they will get a large sample size which would show the use of drugs. They have had many claims and drug tests showed it was not the case. Many people claims the drugs fly through your system so can't be tested for but that is just part of the urban legends about it.

People certainly have had drinks spiked by "friends" but not for the purposes of rape. Had it done to me as a "joke" because I didn't want to do acid. Not a nice thing to do but had a fine night and it wasn't to rape me. Just one idiot who I cut out of my life because he was an a**hole

captain dildano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119712484#Comment_119712484

I'm glad it worked out as a laugh for you, it doesn't for many others, good day to you.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713245#Comment_119713245

Nice way to avoid answering all the issues with your "personal" knowledge you have compared experts. You comment on "outlawed" perceription drugs in Dublin is still ludicrous.

bad2thebone

https://youtu.be/-etpe9h1dR8

Do as Juliet say's....

El Gato De Negocios

Id probably take a bumming for €250k tbh. 🤷‍♂️