The Colourful Characters of Waterford

Wanderer2010 · 23-10-2020 5:20pm

Motivator wrote: »

Wouldn’t entirely agree with you there. He’s a bit of a headbanger and wouldn’t feel too comfortable around him. My wife came across him and his pals when it was dark one evening and they frightened the life out of her. Very aggressive and calculating guy.

Yeah id have to add my agreement there. I met him down in the park one day and you just know the people who have a bad vibe around them. He has it in spades. Even the way he looks at you its like he wants to cut you open. Plus im suprised he seems to be Irish. He looks German to me!

vriesmays · 24-10-2020 3:41pm

smellyoldboot wrote: »

Lovely chap Davy but a nuisance with drink in him. I don't blame him for the way he is, he had an awful early life, let's just say the Ireland of a generation ago did serious damage to a lot of young people. I'd say there's plenty of the other poor divils like him with similar tales.

What happened to Davy Singh in Waterford? He used to hang around the arcade where Supermacs is.

friendlyfun · 24-10-2020 5:32pm

vriesmays wrote: »

What happened to Davy Singh in Waterford? He used to hang around the arcade where Supermacs is.

I saw him on Ballybricken yesterday with a cowboy hat. Looked in good spirits.

friendlyfun · 24-10-2020 5:35pm

Who is the fella who used to swim across the river every morning? I saw a lad running down the park road in is underpants one day looked like he was back from a swim hah

Motivator · 24-10-2020 7:53pm

friendlyfun wrote: »

I saw him on Ballybricken yesterday with a cowboy hat. Looked in good spirits.

Davy is harmless but he is a bit of a nuisance. There wouldn’t be any bad in him but I can understand people having a few run ins with him etc.

I recall he was stabbed or had his throat cut even by a horrible little bastard about a decade ago but thankfully recovered well.

Rustyman101 · 24-10-2020 10:26pm

friendlyfun wrote: »

Who is the fella who used to swim across the river every morning? I saw a lad running down the park road in is underpants one day looked like he was back from a swim hah

if i remember he was a German lad, some swimmer, clothes left by the brewery over the river and land back upstream by the foundry, used to be a spate of calls until people figured out he was only in for a swim.

vriesmays · 25-10-2020 4:23pm

Motivator wrote: »

Davy is harmless but he is a bit of a nuisance. There wouldn’t be any bad in him but I can understand people having a few run ins with him etc.

I recall he was stabbed or had his throat cut even by a horrible little bastard about a decade ago but thankfully recovered well.

Was it a racist attack.

smellyoldboot · 25-10-2020 5:41pm

vriesmays wrote: »

Was it a racist attack.

No just a nasty little bollix being a nasty little bollix. Some of these lads haven't enough brains to actively be a racist.

Dan133269 · 26-10-2020 10:49am

Flow Motion wrote: »

Joey is as about as distantly removed from Joey le Blanc as you could get !! :pac:
Joey leBlanc still lives in Waterford. Someone told me he now lives in a supervised house somewhere out by Earlscourt. I actually saw him not so long ago by the Ardkeen Shopping Centre.
Originally he lived down in the Doyle Street area. A lot of the kids used to give him a hard time slagging him off and he'd chase them away. Archetypal scarey man chasing kids. Dont know his background but he more than likely had some kind of mental/social issues. Back in the 1980's the GP would not have been so sympathetic when it came to caring for such individuals. Perhaps thats why there was a large number of these characters in the town. In the general Ballybricken/Barrack St area alone you could encounter Martin Hunt with his hurley, Eddie Batt (bad luck charm), Joey leBlanc and Mad Tex and his dogs. A veritable gang of Marvel Superheros down on their luck:pac:

Eddie Batt, there's a name I was wondering if someone was going to mention. I think a lot of the younger crowd may never have even heard of him, but the whole town knew his name years ago.

I'm very curious to find out what his story is and why he was considered so unlucky. Regardless of whether he was unlucky, the poor fella must have had a pretty bad time of it trying to go about his daily business. I remember when we were kids, young fellas would shout "there's Eddie Batt" and everyone would run away from him as fast as they could like he was a leper, as if you could catch his misfortune from simply being close to him.

Someone told me that when he used to walk into the bookies some people would throw their dockets on the ground as they would think that the mere sight of him would mean their horse wouldn't win. Crazy when you think about it.

91wx763 · 26-10-2020 12:56pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

Eddie Batt, there's a name I was wondering if someone was going to mention. I think a lot of the younger crowd may never have even heard of him, but the whole town knew his name years ago.

I'm very curious to find out what his story is and why he was considered so unlucky. Regardless of whether he was unlucky, the poor fella must have had a pretty bad time of it trying to go about his daily business. I remember when we were kids, young fellas would shout "there's Eddie Batt" and everyone would run away from him as fast as they could like he was a leper, as if you could catch his misfortune from simply being close to him.

Someone told me that when he used to walk into the bookies some people would throw their dockets on the ground as they would think that the mere sight of him would mean their horse wouldn't win. Crazy when you think about it.

The proper Eddie Batt bad luck horse docket story went along the lines of one day a bloke went to the bookies in Barrack Street and put on his bet. As bad luck would have it he met Eddie in the street and went to screw up the docket but he said hang on it can't always be true. Back in the pub he watched all the horses win !!!

He went back to the bookies and drew the winnings.

And then got knocked down by a car at the corner of the Mayors Walk !!!!!

Motivator · 26-10-2020 4:56pm

91wx763 wrote: »

The proper Eddie Batt bad luck horse docket story went along the lines of one day a bloke went to the bookies in Barrack Street and put on his bet. As bad luck would have it he met Eddie in the street and went to screw up the docket but he said hang on it can't always be true. Back in the pub he watched all the horses win !!!

He went back to the bookies and drew the winnings.

And then got knocked down by a car at the corner of the Mayors Walk !!!!!

Never heard that story but I don’t think it’s true. Poor Eddie Batt was a lovely fella who just got labelled a jinx one day and the name stuck with him. Waterford is a small place and unfortunately for him he never got rid of it. He had a lonely existence by all accounts.

Gaspode · 27-10-2020 3:59pm

Naming & identifying private individuals here is not on, thread closed.

The Colourful Characters of Waterford

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