RTE Rammed

Dave! · 03-12-2006 10:25PM

mickd wrote:

It was just an observation that is all. Anybody who calls someone a piece of **** to their face regardless of what state they are in has a problem, all the more on national television.

What? People insult others all the time, it doesn't mean that they have a problem, save with the person they called a piece of sh*t. You must have had the most polite unbringing ever......

mickd wrote:

Then he tries to ram the door with his car the following week. Disturbing behaviour all round is what it is. The man needs help not to be made a hero of one week then a villian the next week.

But he did something funny and harmless (and something which alot of people would like to do) the first time, and something reckless and dangerous the second! Of course public opinions changes! If I were giving food to homeless people one day you might say I'm a nice bloke, and if you caught me kicking them in the teeth the next day, you'd surely have a different opinion.
I don't think it's that unusual.

Anyways.

Sparky · 03-12-2006 10:41PM

A micra... lol.

Maybe the RTE execs will give him his own show!

lodgepole · 03-12-2006 11:00PM

Kojak wrote:

So much for high-quality security at RTÉ :rolleyes:

There's no reason for RTÉ to have security stronger than they currently have. A one off event by a man clearly disturbed isn't evidence that they should.

BaZmO* · 04-12-2006 10:57AM

Actually, when you think of it. Yer man crashing into to the building does actually prove that his safety invention would work.
Wasn't his invention a car that's driven by a computer rather than manually thereby eliminating human error?

mickd wrote:

Trust Ray "How mad is that" D'arcy to give this disturbed man even more publicity.

I don't think Ray D'Arcy was trying to give him publicity. He even said himself that the guy wouldn't have gotten any airtime on RTE (obviously) and that he may actually have a valid point to put across. As it happened, he didn't. He just waffled on like some drunken fool that you'd meet in the local pub.

Avns1s · 04-12-2006 11:15AM

BaZmO* wrote:

Wasn't his invention a car that's driven by a computer rather than manually thereby eliminating human error?

Maybe he should have fitted it to his own car.:D

Last week I was interested to hear what he was supposed to have invented. Now I fear it's probably as "off the wall" as himself so I don't want to know.

BaZmO* · 04-12-2006 11:22AM

Avns1s wrote:

Maybe he should have fitted it to his own car.:D

Eh, that was the point I was making.

SprostonGreen · 04-12-2006 11:23AM

Some kind of restraining order will be handed out I'd say. What a nutjob.

eth0_ · 04-12-2006 11:50AM

Bond-007 wrote:

He needs to be sent to the central mental hospital in Dundrum for some help.

Why? Why not St Pat's?

Ghost Train · 04-12-2006 12:22PM

SprostonGreen wrote:

Some kind of restraining order will be handed out I'd say. What a nutjob.

maybe a driving ban too eh?

J.R.HARTLEY · 04-12-2006 12:43PM

has to be a fine or more for malicous damage to rte's property

Tabnabs · 04-12-2006 04:45PM

Man charged over RTÉ car damage

04 December 2006 14:50
A man has appeared at the Dublin District Court charged in relation to an incident on Saturday night, when a car was driven against the door of the RTÉ studios in Dublin.

52-year-old Paul Stokes, who is self-employed and has an address at Mountpelier Parade in Monkstown, was charged with one count of criminal damage.

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel, sign on twice weekly at Blackrock Garda Station and not come within a 2-mile radius of RTÉ.

Judge Aingeal Ní Chondúin told Mr Stokes to get a solicitor. He is to reappear again before the court on 15 January.

The court heard Mr Stokes was arrested at 11.10pm on Saturday night at the RTÉ studios. He was taken to Donnybrook Garda Station where was he was questioned and charged at 4.50am on Sunday morning.

The court was told he made no reply when charged. There was no garda objection to bail, but Garda Joe O'Callaghan from Donnybrook asked that a number of restrictions be laid down.

During the proceedings, Mr Stokes asked that the court move to strike out the charge. He said he had been in communication with RTÉ over the last 8-10 weeks about a device he had invented to prevent all road accidents.

Mr Stokes claimed that RTÉ was failing in its duty by not highlighting this. But Judge Ní Chondúin stopped Mr Stokes, and said that this was only the start of the process, and only concerned the matter of bail. She advised Mr Stokes that if he had a gripe he should get himself a solicitor who would be better able to deal with it.

Mr Stokes asked did the bail condition preventing him from coming within two miles of RTÉ mean he could not drive past the campus on his way into the city centre. The judge said that it did.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1204/rte.html

BaZmO* · 04-12-2006 04:55PM

He sounds like a right bleedin nutter. Even trying to represent himself in court. :rolleyes:

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel

Does that mean that he can't contact his daughter? I'm sure she'll be glad of that condition tbh.

J.R.HARTLEY · 04-12-2006 05:16PM

i thought you couldn't represent yourself in ireland. this guy needs a f'in slap and someone to tell him cop on, if he does have a lifesaving device he's not saving anyone with his carry on

Milktrolley · 04-12-2006 06:40PM

BaZmO* wrote:

Does that mean that he can't contact his daughter?

According to TV3's Rebekah O'Neill, Paul Stokes asked the judge that question, and it was agreed that she would be exempt from that clause. The judge also advised him that he would have to find a new way into town from his Monkstown home.

A few people have mentioned Paul Stokes' comments on RTÉ's road safety site. He begins:

As a practical person...

Practical? Definitely the odd screw or two loose.

lostexpectation · 04-12-2006 09:19PM

Dyflin wrote:

Man charged over RTÉ car damage

04 December 2006 14:50
A man has appeared at the Dublin District Court charged in relation to an incident on Saturday night, when a car was driven against the door of the RTÉ studios in Dublin.

52-year-old Paul Stokes, who is self-employed and has an address at Mountpelier Parade in Monkstown, was charged with one count of criminal damage.

He was released on his own bail bond of €1,000 and has given an undertaking to abide by a number of conditions.

These include that he must make no contact with RTÉ management or personnel, sign on twice weekly at Blackrock Garda Station and not come within a 2-mile radius of RTÉ.

Judge Aingeal Ní Chondúin told Mr Stokes to get a solicitor. He is to reappear again before the court on 15 January.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1204/rte.html

what are the chances he won't get up to anything else til january?

no pyschological assesment or anything?

Our man in Havana · 04-12-2006 11:07PM

no pyschological assesment or anything?

I don't think that the court can order that in this case. Today was only a bail hearing.

lostexpectation · 05-12-2006 02:36AM

Bond-007 wrote:

I don't think that the court can order that in this case. Today was only a bail hearing.

imagine if they thought of doing something with him at last weeks bail hearing eh?

Our man in Havana · 05-12-2006 02:46AM

lostexpectation wrote:

imagine if they thought of doing something with him at last weeks bail hearing eh?

What bail hearing? He was not even charged then.

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