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Margaret Cash steals €300 worth of clothes from Penneys and aftermath/etc!

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https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/homeless-mumofseven-margaret-cash-appears-in-court-over-stealing-300-worth-of-clothes-from-penneys-37434491.html

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PuppyMcPupFace

maninasia wrote: »

How come they have their own dialect/language and distinct culture then ?

Being badly spoken and ignorant does not constitute a separate language.

And as for "culture" ?? Seriously???

maninasia

goose2005 wrote: »

there's little evidence for their separateness before the Famine. Most of our ancestors were itinerant or semi-itinerant at one time or another, due to migrant labour, evictions or shortage of land

How come they have their own dialect/language and distinct culture then ?

Deebles McBeebles

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

They wanted to see his decorations?!

It's like they're not even trying anymore. :pac:

I stuck that into my Cant translator and it said "we are going to rob you and there's f*ck all you can do about it, sick boy."

Church on Tuesday

Birneybau wrote: »

There was a gang going around my area the last week. 3 young wans knocked on a neighbour's door (getting over cancer treatment, he was asleep). He came down to the the door and they asked him if they could come in to see his decorations?

2 big fat fcukers outside his garden in a white van.

They wanted to see his decorations?!

It's like they're not even trying anymore. :pac:

Birneybau

There was a gang going around my area the last week. 3 young wans knocked on a neighbour's door (getting over cancer treatment, he was asleep). He came down to the the door and they asked him if they could come in to see his decorations?

2 big fat fcukers outside his garden in a white van.

[Deleted User]

punisher5112 wrote: »

A lot of the clothes are cut up and bundled into bags and squashed into cubes.

These are then sold on as cleaning rags etc.

I used put unsalable stuff into these bins until I found out that the shops could get something for them if recycled. So now I separate the clothes before giving all to charity shops.

punisher5112

A lot of the clothes are cut up and bundled into bags and squashed into cubes.

These are then sold on as cleaning rags etc.

DEFTLEFTHAND

What's her issue though?

She can't string a coherent sentence together, she sounds like a drunken Katie Taylor.
What head condition does she actually have?

Raheem Euro

AllForIt wrote: »

Obviously a lot of knob heads use them to get rid of their garbage instead of paying for it to be dumped which is a reprehensible thing to do imo.

The same type of people who would dispose of their refuse in a post box. Or a well. Or into back of someone elses pickup truck.

AllForIt

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Actually they're not. They're a business that recycles clothes and whack the name of a charity on the front because people are more inclined to donate if they think it's going to charity. I've been told that maybe half a % of profit goes to the charity being sponsored by the clothes bank.

Most clothes that go into those banks are garbage and not fit for re-use. It's the crap that no one wants that gets left there - used underware, socks, bed linen etc basically anything that a charity shop won't take. Anyone taking from them isn't going to find much re-useable stuff.

Obviously a lot of knob heads use them to get rid of their garbage instead of paying for it to be dumped which is a reprehensible thing to do imo.

tuxy

But both you and RTE are claiming the same thing and you tell me not to believe the RTE report.

I was just asking if anything had changed since.

Paddy Cow

tuxy wrote: »

RTE had a prime time investigates about this years ago. Are you saying nothing has changed since then, what is your source?

RTE had a prime time investigates story a week or two ago about travellers that was discussed on this thread, and it turns out their version of reality is not the same as the actual reality. I wouldn't trust RTE as far as I'd throw them. I'd trust my source (a person who makes his living in re-using clothes) and for obvious reasons, I'm not going to name him on here. If you want to believe that 95% of clothes left at a clothes bank are used by charities then go ahead. Makes no difference to my life if you believe me or not.

PCeeeee

BBFAN wrote: »

Gas the amount of people that jumped in to say "ROBBING FROM CHARITIES".

Nowhere in Galway Guys post did it say it was a charity clothes bank?

Also, they get about 50 cent per kg for clothes IF it is a charity. If someone needs clothes badly enough to take them from a clothes bank then they're welcome to them in my eyes.

The people who left them outside the skip were obviously too lazy to come back when the skip was emptied or go directly to charity shop so feck them.

Gas indeed. Robbing not too bad you reckon if it's not from a charity?

tuxy

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Actually they're not. They're a business that recycles clothes and whack the name of a charity on the front because people are more inclined to donate if they think it's going to charity. I've been told that maybe half a % of profit goes to the charity being sponsored by the clothes bank.

RTE had a prime time investigates about this years ago. Are you saying nothing has changed since then, what is your source?

Paddy Cow

Omackeral wrote: »

Clothes banks are charity banks 95% of the time. Your point may have merit that if they're using the clothes themselves fair enough but you are so god damn willfully obtuse when it comes to Travellers. It's unreal.

Actually they're not. They're a business that recycles clothes and whack the name of a charity on the front because people are more inclined to donate if they think it's going to charity. I've been told that maybe half a % of profit goes to the charity being sponsored by the clothes bank.

Most clothes that go into those banks are garbage and not fit for re-use. It's the crap that no one wants that gets left there - used underware, socks, bed linen etc basically anything that a charity shop won't take. Anyone taking from them isn't going to find much re-useable stuff.

utmbuilder

A 20 foot container of used clothes goes for 25000euro depending on the grade

PuppyMcPupFace

BBFAN wrote: »

I didn't realise that, I think my aunt is getting the Irish pension but maybe she worked here at some stage.

She came back under some scheme as well that allows emigrants to come back in retirement and got a lovely little flat.

My dad worked most of his life in the UK and gets most of his pension from the UK but we're over here now and he gets 40 euro a week to make up the difference. I think that seems fair.

Good health to your aunt.

Mad_maxx

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Well if you don't get it there is no point trying to explain it to you.

Point being they will Rob something even it has no value, it's in their nature.

gozunda

Conall Cernach wrote: »

You can get a non contributory pension here if you meet the age and income requirements and are entitled to live here. Top rate of non con pension is 232 per week.

A equivilant to the non-contributory pension here does not exist in the UK Afaik. Additional benefits such as the household package for TV fuel etc are also available here where a means test is not exceeded.

According to age action Ireland "There are 135,000 people in Ireland getting a British State Pension and 70,000 with private British pensions." No detail given on the numbers from the UK living here claiming non-contributory Irish pension here though.

donkeykong5

Deleted User wrote: »

BBFAN wrote: »

Now come on, do you really care about someone taking clothes that someone else was getting rid of?

I don't get it?

Those clothes were donated to charities. Stealing from anyone is bad enough, but stealing from charities is beneath contempt.

Paul Kelly from console comes to mind.

Edgware

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I was at the bottle banks in Loughrea yesterday and the clothes bank is just beside them, some people left bags of clothes there because the bank hadn't been emptied and next thing a few pavees hop out of a car and steal the lot.

They didn't even care that we all saw them at it.

What has this got to do with Mags? She can afford her own thongs

[Deleted User]

BBFAN wrote: »

Nowhere in Galway Guys post did it say it was a charity clothes bank?

Clothes banks are charity banks 95% of the time. Your point may have merit that if they're using the clothes themselves fair enough but you are so god damn willfully obtuse when it comes to Travellers. It's unreal.

Conall Cernach

Deleted User wrote: »

They can only get the Irish pension if they’d worked in Ireland. If they’d never worked here, they’d only get the Uk one. They would, however be entitled to a medical card.

You can get a non contributory pension here if you meet the age and income requirements and are entitled to live here. Top rate of non con pension is 232 per week.

Galwayguy35

BBFAN wrote: »

Gas the amount of people that jumped in to say "ROBBING FROM CHARITIES".

Nowhere in Galway Guys post did it say it was a charity clothes bank?

Also, they get about 50 cent per kg for clothes IF it is a charity. If someone needs clothes badly enough to take them from a clothes bank then they're welcome to them in my eyes.

The people who left them outside the skip were obviously too lazy to come back when the skip was emptied or go directly to charity shop so feck them.

Holy jaysus you blame everyone apart from the people who actually stole the clothes in that post.

SEPT 23 1989

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Those clothes were donated to charities. Stealing from anyone is bad enough, but stealing from charities is beneath contempt.

They have no morals their brains are wired differently

BBFAN

Gas the amount of people that jumped in to say "ROBBING FROM CHARITIES".

Nowhere in Galway Guys post did it say it was a charity clothes bank?

Also, they get about 50 cent per kg for clothes IF it is a charity. If someone needs clothes badly enough to take them from a clothes bank then they're welcome to them in my eyes.

The people who left them outside the skip were obviously too lazy to come back when the skip was emptied or go directly to charity shop so feck them.

[Deleted User]

BBFAN wrote: »

Now come on, do you really care about someone taking clothes that someone else was getting rid of?

I don't get it?

Those clothes were donated to charities. Stealing from anyone is bad enough, but stealing from charities is beneath contempt.

mikemac2

BBFAN wrote: »

Now come on, do you really care about someone taking clothes that someone else was getting rid of?

I don't get it?

They will pick out what they want. Puma, Nike, Levi's, whatever. The rest will either be fly tipped into a ditch(any black bins bags near you?) or they will try to sell it by the kilogram to one of those export places. And it's stealing from the charity!

tuxy

BBFAN wrote: »

Now come on, do you really care about someone taking clothes that someone else was getting rid of?

I don't get it?

So you see no issue with stealing form charities? I guess anything that's an easy target is fair game.

Galwayguy35

BBFAN wrote: »

Now come on, do you really care about someone taking clothes that someone else was getting rid of?

I don't get it?

Well if you don't get it there is no point trying to explain it to you.