Who was the "mad bastard" in your school, what did he do, and where is he now?

Franz Von Peppercorn · 09-11-2018 12:09PM

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Very sad at such a young age,
Strangely he is possible the first "mad bastard "iv ever heard called Eoin

Was thinking that too actually.

Munster46 · 09-11-2018 12:15PM

He moved to England and was shot dead in a gangland fued.

McMurphy · 09-11-2018 12:25PM

No one stands out as being a particularly mad bastard so to speak, but there was one lad in my year who was in remedial class from when we started until we left school (yep remedial class was a thing back then) who let's just say wasn't the fizziest can in the fridge, who has turned out to be one of the wealthiest among all of us from that year.

To set the scene, in primary school, while the rest of us were doing maths Joe and about 8 others from the remedial class would have been painting paper machee heads, and playing rounders etc

In high school, while we were in double geography, these lads were in the basketball court, being taught how to ride a feckin vespa !:eek:

Now Joe owns his own building firm, I'd say he's easily 50 or so employed, he owns an extensive property portfolio, and has a few holiday homes both here and abroad.

Moral of the story, academic achievements aren't everything, your brain might be suited elsewhere.

In Joe's case, the writing and spelling might not have been great, but the man had a great brain on him for construction projects.

Dark Rabbit · 09-11-2018 12:27PM

Guy was my best mate as a teenager and was crazy but harmless. He used to love the attention especially from the girls but after secondary school it was a big culture shock with people getting jobs, going to college moving elsewhere. Reality hit and the audience he had in school each day were no longer there. Use of drink, minor drugs increased, a suicide attempt, gambling addiction, and was put on antidepressants. In prison now. Over the years we'd keep in contact but less and less. I really love him like a brother and hate things turned out like this him. Its a pity.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 09-11-2018 12:30PM

Chewbacca wrote: »

I went to school with a guy called Fintan. He was the maddest bastard I ever met. He wore his school jumper inside out at lunch time one day.

He was fcuking.mental!!

He also used the blue part of the eraser on pencil lines!!! We all know that part is for using on ink not pencil!

Aw man, good time.

He's dead now. OD'd on Stinger bars. R.I.P Fintan....be mad forever broheim!

The blue part is not for ink, you cannot rub out ink. The blue part is actually for stubborn/dark pencil marks. He wasn't quite as mad as you thought, he was just uneducated in erasers.

The 'mad bastard' at my school was a total scumbag who bullied everyone he could and picked on one lad in particular who after a few years decided he had enough and beat the scumbag to a pulp, knocked him around the yard for several minutes till he had to be dragged away in case he killed him. The scumbag got up crying his little eyes out and started shouting that he would get him back and went away with his scumbag friends to mop up his tears. It settled him slightly but he still liked to think he was the hardman of the school but went quiet anytime the lad to beat the lining from him appeared.

That scumbag bully went on to be a 'celebrity' chef who opened countless restaurants here in Ireland and abroad which all went bust/closed for one reason or another. Haven't heard anything about him recently, thankfully.

Hector Savage · 09-11-2018 12:33PM

super_furry wrote: »

Taddzer. Pure lunatic. He wasn't in school but was on the estate.

Big for his age at 12, he grew into a tank and had all the subtlety and compassion of one too. He was selling hash at 16, would sell it then if he saw the people he sold to later would beat them up and steal it back off them. Had a gang of horrible scrotes around him, always hopping on people for no reason and doing some pretty serious damage.

The thing was his dad was a Guard and he was pretty untouchable because of that. As he got older he graduated to worse and worse stuff and was eventually mugging people with a hammer. He hit someone over the head with it once while robbing their bike and had to get out of the country after that, not even his dad could cover that one up. He ended up in Amsterdam for a couple of years before coming back home and when he did he looked like a shell of himself. Pale, skinny, sickly looking, really look of someone with a major drug problem.

He died a couple of years after that and there weren't too many people mourning him.

It's odd though, of his 'gang' of hangers on and minor dealers, at least three of them are Gardai now.

I'd believe it, I know lots of former scumbags that are Guards now.

Gardai is full of scum.

Plumbthedepths · 09-11-2018 12:35PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:

The blue part is not for ink, you cannot rub out ink. The blue part is actually for stubborn/dark pencil marks. He wasn't quite as mad as you thought, he was just uneducated, as you appear to be too.

Do you have a booking agent? You seem great fun and I fully believe you would liven up any party/ social event.

Plumbthedepths · 09-11-2018 12:38PM

Hector Savage wrote:

Gardai is full of scum.

My son is a guard. Never a day's bother in his life. Completed his master's at 20 joined the guards as mad as it sounds because he wanted to serve his community.
14,000 people in the service. Every large organisation will have bad apples, but it's pretty pathetic to describe them as .... won't even use that word.
Feel free not to call them if you ever become a victim.

Bio Mech · 09-11-2018 12:40PM

In the class below me in secondary. Small time drug dealer. Got into an scrap with another lad in his class, lost, and then attacked him after school with a red brick in hand. Bet the other guys face in with it and got .... suspended!

Two weeks after he was allowed back he pulled a hunting knife out of his bag on another lad and that got him expelled.

I heard he was killed in a joyriding crash a few years later. Was in the back seat, two older guys driving (supposedly). Hit a wall in Wicklow. He went through the windscreen. Whoever was driving ran off and left him.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 09-11-2018 12:42PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Do you have a booking agent? You seem great fun and I fully believe you would liven up any party/ social event.

Its called humor, something you don't seem to understand. Move along now.

retro:electro · 09-11-2018 12:48PM

One girl in my year had a permanent seat outside the principal’s office. Never wore her uniform either so everyday was a constant cycle of coming in without uniform, being sent to principal’s office and then sent home. Eventually they just stopped sending her home and let her wear whatever. She always had older boyfriends pick her up in their cars after school. She got into a row with another girl one day and attacked her so viciously she tore the braces from the other girl’s mouth. Blood everywhere. Not sure how she was never expelled.

Last I heard she had opened a crèche... I know where I won’t be sending my kids.

Hector Savage · 09-11-2018 12:49PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My son is a guard. Never a day's bother in his life. Completed his master's at 20 joined the guards as mad as it sounds because he wanted to serve his community.
14,000 people in the service. Every large organisation will have bad apples, but it's pretty pathetic to describe them as .... won't even use that word.
Feel free not to call them if you ever become a victim.

Didn't say they all are, said they are full of ... as in a lot - not the majority

w/s/p/c/ · 09-11-2018 12:50PM

I did transition year back in the day so when I started 5th year there were lads who were a year below me now in my class. One lad in particular was classed as the mad one from this group. Was a nice lad, wasn't a bully type or anything like that, think he had a bit of a rough upbringing.

He fathered a child aged 15, had tattoos etc and liked to drink, will never forget the day he took a bottle of vodka out of his school bag in the class and took a swig of it trying to impress everyone before the teacher came in.

Seen him a few years ago in town he looked very bloated like he was overly medicated. Only a few months after that I heard he passed away seemingly he took too many pills and washed down with drink, he choked on his own vomit. Sad end to a life, he must have been only gone 30 years old.

KungPao · 09-11-2018 12:51PM

One lad, biggest in the school, always has the “I’m a hard man” face, he went down for murder a while back.

2 or 3 have died from drugs.

1 or 2 others I see around the place. Look like they are in the dole or “on the sick”.

09-11-2018 01:08PM

Foweva Awone wrote: »

I'm the other way around. Was super shy and quiet in school, very very intelligent, loads of potential. Went on to go off the rails in my 20s and spent years in rehab. Whoops! It's always the quiet ones ...

Mensa have the doors ajar.

freshpopcorn · 09-11-2018 01:36PM

Out of mad bastatds in my town a few has being in trouble with the law over various minor crimes.
They've become parents up in enough.
A lot of the mad bastatds in the area would have went to Austrillia.
However in school they were from a troubled back ground but they were never really bullies.
The bullies went on to be doctor mainly. Guys who'd be very rude and belittling and there still the same now!

Foweva Awone · 09-11-2018 01:52PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mensa have the doors ajar.

I became a member years ago, I'm pretty sure it's since lapsed! Probably killed most of my brain cells with alcohol anyways.

Gonad · 09-11-2018 01:56PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Our one is now a retired sportsman & current media personality.

I know who it is

Initials are AQ

Stab*City · 09-11-2018 02:02PM

I think the schools are finally being run properly at this stage. Anyone who went to school pre 2000 I'm sure seen their fair share of crazy stuff.. One day the head master lined up around 20 of us in the yard. He said half of ye will either be on drugs or in prison in a few years and the other half of ye will be dead. He was right. Ye are the scrapings of the barrel. The worst of the worst he said. We were pretty bad. But we never did anything back then as bad as what ye got up to FATHER.

death1234567 · 09-11-2018 02:09PM

Stab*City wrote: »

I think the schools are finally being run properly at this stage.

I can confirm that they aren't.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 09-11-2018 02:16PM

The mad bastard in my sister’s year (ya know, the kind of lad who pierces his ear with a needle in double Irish) continued to be mad for a few years after school then apparently had an epiphany and became a Catholic priest. True story. I can still recall picking my jaw up off the floor when I heard that news. Best gossip ever.

Grayson · 09-11-2018 02:17PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The mad bastard in my sister’s year (ya know, the kind of lad who pierces his ear with a needle in double Irish) continued to be mad for a few years after school then apparently had an epiphany and became a Catholic priest. True story. I can still recall picking my jaw up off the floor when I heard that news. Best gossip ever.

I knew a guy who thought of himself as a mad bastard. He's now a fianna fail Councillor.

raze_them_all_ · 09-11-2018 02:18PM

Stabbed through the heart by his sister.

Bigbagofcans · 09-11-2018 02:20PM

The 'mad bastard' was one of the ruffians in the town, they did mad stuff in school and now they work at 'Full Time Mad Bastard' whilst also juggling 'Full Time Mommy' duties with 3 children by 2 men.

Mookie Blaylock · 09-11-2018 02:22PM

This lad was in my brother's year at at school, nasty little shíte..had his teacher beaten up in 4th class by family members...
left school at 12-13...got involved in drugs...then skipped to England and disappeared....
was found some months later in 2 wheelie bins

We are all cut up about it

Tommybojangles · 09-11-2018 02:22PM

Probably blaming Peter casey for his unemployment

yourdeadwright · 09-11-2018 02:35PM

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

This lad was in my brother's year at at school, nasty little shíte..had his teacher beaten up in 4th class by family members...
left school at 12-13...got involved in drugs...then skipped to England and disappeared....
was found some months later in 2 wheelie bins

We are all cut up about it

Wheelie ? sounds like a load of Rubbish

Bigbagofcans · 09-11-2018 02:43PM

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Wheelie ? sounds like a load of Rubbish

I've bin sick of these jokes for a while, they keep getting recycled!

_Brian · 09-11-2018 02:49PM

He’s in Jail now, ended up killing someone over something very petty.

I’d say i knew from maybe age 11/12 that he would end up in jail.

faceman · 09-11-2018 02:56PM

Don’t know or care where most of the bad egg mad bastards I went to school ended up.

But there was one lad, used to illegally drive and wreck cars at weekends, hide reptiles in the classroom and give everyone painful wedgies. He was a bully with a heart. You could talk him out of doing something bad.

He went on to become a very successful celebrity chef.

Who was the "mad bastard" in your school, what did he do, and where is he now?

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