Stolen Bus

is_that_so · 07-05-2006 02:10PM #1

There was a mad story on radio at 2 about a bus that was stolen in Rathcoole wreaking havoc on Naas Road. A number of cars were damaged as well as a few Garda cars. The "bus" driver was eventually arrested. Lots of traffic restrictions.

EDIT: http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0507/dublin.html

spurious · 07-05-2006 02:31PM

My brother was on the LUAS it stopped.
He said the scene is like something out of a film, with at least one person's body completely covered.

monkeyfudge · 07-05-2006 02:40PM

Clearly influnced by that episode of The Cracker.

Shame on you Robbie Coltrane... shame!

Either that or Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday.

kittenkiller · 07-05-2006 02:44PM

Apparently when they caught him he had an axe with him.
Buckin loon!

Caryatnid · 07-05-2006 02:47PM

spurious wrote:

My brother was on the LUAS it stopped.
He said the scene is like something out of a film, with at least one person's body completely covered.

Covered in/by....?

The Black Oil · 07-05-2006 02:51PM

Do they mean a bus as in a Dublin Bus double decker?!

ferdi · 07-05-2006 03:01PM

one of those days?

spurious · 07-05-2006 03:02PM

Caryatnid wrote:

Covered in/by....?

As in covered by a sheet.
He believed she was a female cyclist.

kittenkiller · 07-05-2006 03:02PM

ferdi wrote:

one of those days?

Yeh, but with at least one real person in hospital!

Riamfada · 07-05-2006 03:03PM

anyone remember the final episode of the young ones when the steal the bus and drive through a billboard of Cliff Richard and then off a cliff. Quality

by the way "A spokesperson at St James's Hospital said they have two people in Accident and Emergency with minor injuries that could be related to the stolen bus."

ferdi · 07-05-2006 03:06PM

kittenkiller wrote:

Yeh, but with at least one real person in hospital!

jesus, i'm sooooooo sooooo soooorrrrrrrrryyyyy

kittenkiller · 07-05-2006 03:07PM

He was my brother!!
/sobs

And my lover!
/sobs more

Caryatnid · 07-05-2006 03:09PM

spurious wrote:

As in covered by a sheet.
He believed she was a female cyclist.

Whi? Yikes. According to the rté website only one person got injured. It's not cool to be covered by a sheet if you're not dead.

ferdi · 07-05-2006 03:12PM

**** one, rip.

spurious · 07-05-2006 03:18PM

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/05/07/story257603.html

Breaking news are announcing a fatality - an elderly woman.

Damomanye · 07-05-2006 03:23PM

from BreakingNews.ie::: An elderly woman has been killed after being knocked down by a coach involved in a garda chase on the Naas dual carriageway in west Dublin today.

now RTE confirming it.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0507/dublin.html

easy_as_easy · 07-05-2006 03:52PM

just watching this on the news now, its pretty hard to udnerstand whats happened, the gardai car was smashed!

raheny red · 07-05-2006 03:53PM

Terrible news about the old lady.

There are some crazy people out there alright. Any time I'm on a bus (I know he wasn't the bus driver, just saying is all) I begin to think what if this driver has just had a **** day (trouble with the wife/husband or whatever). They could just go off on sort of rampage and cause a lot of havoc and grief.

Slunk · 07-05-2006 03:55PM

Just seen the news flash on rte there, wrecked a fair few cars, just wondering, how would you stop a stolen coach? By the looks of it the gaurds tried a road block with their car but with little success as the car ended up wrecked

easy_as_easy · 07-05-2006 03:55PM

so what type of bus? was it a small coach or a double decker or what?

MrJoeSoap · 07-05-2006 03:58PM

Ridiculous stuff, I heard they tried to shoot the tires out. Apparently the guy hit 15 cars and three Gardai are in hospital.

Old woman killed. RIP.

Slunk · 07-05-2006 03:58PM

Rte just said it was a coach, this has me thinking bus eireann size buses but in the clips there is a mercedes sort of mini bus so I dont know if they are calling this a coach. Still not clear.

Caryatnid · 07-05-2006 04:02PM

Holy sh!t this is crap! Did this just happen like at lunch time today? That's mental. How did the guy steal the bus? That makes me so mad. The annoying thing is, that if the guy that did it is only fifteen, he'll practically get away with it, being a minor. He deserves to go down. It might be funny to rob a bus, it's not funny to kill someone. I hope he feels sick with guilt.

easy_as_easy · 07-05-2006 04:07PM

no RTE said he was in his 30's. Interesting to see how he did take the bus, he must have had passengers on the bus at some stage, was he just trying to make money?

kittenkiller · 07-05-2006 04:10PM

easy_as_easy wrote:

no RTE said he was in his 30's. Interesting to see how he did take the bus, he must have had passengers on the bus at some stage, was he just trying to make money?

Why so?

easy_as_easy · 07-05-2006 04:18PM

how did he get the bus? Im assuming he just walked onto one and forced the driver out, but Im also assuming its a Dublin Bus bus.

Stealing one from the bus depot. would be pretty hard to do I imagine

Emerson · 07-05-2006 04:22PM

It's a Dualway bus.. I thought I heard that it was a Dualway driver. Incidently, Dualway goes out to Rathcoole. He kept to the route, even during a chase!

Caryatnid · 07-05-2006 04:25PM

easy_as_easy wrote:

no RTE said he was in his 30's.

Thank God. I hope he goes down for ages.
This is a crazy story. If it was in a film, you'd think it was a far-fetched story.

easy_as_easy · 07-05-2006 04:26PM

I spotted that on breaknews.ie but thought it was just a file photo!

MrJoeSoap · 07-05-2006 04:30PM

Caryatnid wrote:

Thank God.

I always find it fascinating when people say that after something like this.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 07-05-2006 04:32PM

Caryatnid wrote:

Thank God. I hope he goes down for ages.
This is a crazy story.

Its a pity in this country life doesnt mean life.

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