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  • #992
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭893bet


    If he had put a shot off at them it could have been argued attempted murder.

    It’s very premeditated to know someone is stealing timber and then to go out with a loaded shotgun. Not even close to defending your house type scenario.

    I would love if there were stronger property rights in Ireland but if the story is even half true then the farmer is lucky it didn’t go south for him.



  • #993
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,281 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Sitting down to watch the Olympics, glass of wine just poured, my mother rang me there's someone up the fields in a jeep. Went up a lad i never met there with a gun out in the middle of a field. He drove in from the road and went over 5 fields. I asked him what he was at. Looking for deer. I said he'd no permission and I didn't know him. To get out. Wtf.



  • #994
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122458778#Comment_122458778

    A relation of mine fired into the air when he discovered cultured folk carrying out their time honoured trade on his land. Ended up in court with a warning and losing is gun license for several years.



  • #995
    lmk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭lmk123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122461410#Comment_122461410

    what a fu**ing joke



  • #996
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭blackbox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122461410#Comment_122461410

    I'm pretty sure he wasn't licensed to use the gun for that purpose, so hardly a surprise.



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  • #997
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122458692#Comment_122458692

    I was in fear of my life they threatened me and my family and property repeat it and stick to it .. that's what a relative who's a detective Sargent says anyway. Edit to add always always say you fired a warning shot....(even if it is after the first one😁)



  • #998
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122458750#Comment_122458750

    Ya that wouldn't stand up in court you have to be threatened directly and in fear of your safety..... he was not in this case



  • #999
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    They didn't threaten him directly so he would have in discharging a fire arm used unnecessary force in the eyes of the law... your allowed to defend yourself and your property using reasonable force that's up to the judges and the law is an ass usually



  • #1000
    Tonynewholland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭Tonynewholland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122461410#Comment_122461410

    The guards will take the gun from anyone if there is any threat of using it in anger. They won’t even wait for a court to decide. They are probably doing some lads a favour in doing so.



  • #1001
    have2flushtwice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭have2flushtwice


    A dead man can't lie in court



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  • #1002
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,711 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Shoot, shovel, and shut up



  • #1003
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    About 20 years ago the uncle was building new house as the road upgrade was taking his old house and the man had pancreatitis at the time and had to go to toilet very often, one night he seen a flash lamp moving around the new house during the night, it was dead quite and he fired a shot out the bathroom window, and went to bed, next morning he found the flash lamp on the ground light on in the house ,



  • #1004
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,660 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462414#Comment_122462414

    You forgot the lime



  • #1005
    PoorFarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭PoorFarmer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122461631#Comment_122461631

    He surely had a vermin licence



  • #1006
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,281 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Didn't know the deer season is open already



  • #1007
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,032 ✭✭✭Odelay


    yeah, it’s opens august 1 for male deer shot by liceneced deer hunting gets.



  • #1008
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    I've a lad beside ground Im renting (thankfully he's the opposite side of a hill) . But he's came home to "farm" but his uncle had this farm all pristine and drained etc. Your man has rushes 6ft tall in it now and he asked me the other day what's causing it so I mentioned fertiliser topping etc and did he clean the drains lately..…he then admits he didn't so I said local man is good he'll clean them. Up he pipes and says he's filled them I in a few spots to make sure they hold water for the cattle to drink.....(im a noseyfecker i know🙄) I got the neighbours young fella to put up his drone today over the two fields well holy God the drains hve just disappeared there completely closed in I never laughed so much when I saw the video



  • #1009
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Austinbrick


    Funny story. Still, he might turn it inside out in a few years.You never know. Or do you think he has farming scruples at all??



  • #1010
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Austinbrick


    No farming scruples?



  • #1011
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122643893#Comment_122643893

    Ohh no this lad grew up on a medium size dairy far he's just meaner than the grinch at Christmas.... we were reckoning he did it to save the water bill. There was no need to do what he did. Strikes me as an economical farmer type as well expected to mine the ground and make a profit from a few bullocks



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  • #1012
    kk.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭kk.man


    That's just mad, Ted.



  • #1013
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122650498#Comment_122650498

    closer to dougual id think... now hecould have some mad eco notion as I said before he seems to think in environmental terms 🙄



  • #1014
    zetecescort
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    https://www.clare.fm/news/tractor-with-timber-windscreen-intercepted-by-gardai-in-east-clare/

    ..



  • #1015
    green daries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭green daries


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122923945#Comment_122923945

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Holy smokes



  • #1016
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122924081#Comment_122924081

    Sure a 13-year old would never be able to see over that! 😄

    Not your ornery onager



  • #1017
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122209779#Comment_122209779

    I had a 10 year old Hilux as a second car for carrying bits and pieces. Minded like a baby, bought from England. Got the chassis sandblasted and undercoated when I bought it. Failed the DOE two years later on chassis rust. When I got it up on the lift to see what needed to be done, it was utterly rotten all the way up under the body. The lad that worked on it, who specialises in them told me that it's so common that the tubs and chassis legs are nearly impossible to get.



  • #1018
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122924229#Comment_122924229

    Sorry for you're troubles, that's a dose. They've very prone anyway, but the salting on English roads is a disaster for them.

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



  • #1019
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122924361#Comment_122924361

    Yeah, thought I'd neutralised that problem with the sandblasting, but obviously not! Would be slow to buy another one, though am tempted at times.



  • #1020
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    .…

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



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  • #1021
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122923945#Comment_122923945

    And he went to a bit of trouble to do a nice job...

    Someone should write "Nothing to see here" on the plywood.

    Apparently he told the guard he was ok because he had windscreen insurance...

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



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