Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Owryan wrote: »

Estates where the emergency services are the enemy.

I had the misfortune of working in an estate in with huge social problems.

One day while I was there, a chap ,v drunk and high, and some of his mates started beating the crap out of their girlfriends. Seriously beating them, all the while the locals stood and watched. Gardai and ambulance pulled up and were immediately attacked themselves by the crowd.

Even the girls who were after having the crap kicked out of them started attacking the gardai. The ambulance had all its windows smashed and 2 Gardai ended up in hospital.

The playground is constantly locked due to vandalism, there are more dealers than legitimately employed people and motor tax/insurance/nct are "not for them".

The money spent on services and supports for the estate is scary, ESP when far more deserving ones have to do without.

Perhaps these places should be barricaded, and the herd banned from the City. Cut off their welfare, and every couple of days cut of their water and electricity supply for a laugh.

Why would just two Gardaí with a tiny baton , have bothered going in alone. Let them knock the heads off each other for all society cares. The only saving grace for the Gardaí is that they will get their revenge sooner rather than later. People can have awful trips in a cell.

demanufactured wrote: »

Willow park athlone

Once took Mrs demanufactured through it for a drive (she's not from athlone)
We got down to Meadowbrook...just as we turn the corner there's a kid of maybe 5 or 6 years old standing at a gate swinging a lump hammer..."keep drivin" he says...I couldn't stop laughing the whole way home....herself couldn't belive it.

There is the thing about Willow Park

From 1970-2000, some of the most well known and respected Athlone Families lived in that area. By the turn of 2000 most of them fled to the Monksland / Roscommon area and many other parts of town. It once was a decent area. Now a complete kip. Mels lads got in

Speaking of Mels, they knocked that all down. Council set up a "Community Center" within a year it was closed up and boarded up. Only one or two well kept houses on that row.

The flying mouse wrote: »

There the gravestones, which actually just give the details of the persons underneath, So obviously you missed were I said that , but carry on


FYI
It can depend on your cemetery, but standard sizes are as follows;
• Single 4'0 wide, Double 8'0 wide, Treble from 10'0.

So we all going into the same hole:P:pac: I say with some of the people posting here it be ironic to be right beside some of the people being judged, It probably make you turn in your grave ...

You clearly have never been to the areas of graveyards where members of a certain community are buried.

Ironic? No, the judgment tends to be based on experience.

I have a niece and a father who is now buried beside members of this community. It is no fun. A week after burying our niece , a child of theirs was buried. Even for a child there was police attending . Knowing damn well that there would be problems , we went down to the niece's grave later that evening to ensure that the plot was not trampled on. Alas, plenty of foot prints- Travelers grave was the next one! It does not take Eistein to know who it was. If anyone dared to that to their graves, they would probably mashed over whatever cross or headstone that you may have on a grave of your people. In fact, they have a habbit of smashing their own communities head stones.

I recall another grave next to my family was a big attraction, not because of the ghastly headstones and decoration (which by the way, is intended only to be used once despite being a double plot - note the land shortages and costs to get a plot today) but because of the bullet holes lodged in said headstones

Then we had one of the Pattern masses in the graveyard . They bring their herd of children and adults (many act like children) They do not give a damn who you are, they will allow their children to walk on the graves of others. It is only when you make it very clear to them that you would gladly play a part in their early retirement to a similar hole unless they leave your families grave, do they get the message. (obviously you are not alone when you approach them)

I trust you take into account the height of the "tombstones" as well?


"which actually just give the details of the persons "

Yes, I really want to know what their favorite alcoholic drink was (Marble Carvings of same) or sculpted out pictures of horses (which, to be fair, are part of their identity)