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03-03-2008 02:51AM

flanum wrote: »

is it my imagination or was there a lot less antisocial behaviour going on when the ra ruled the streets? ok i know it wasnt perfect but i seem to remember a lot less joyriding/house breakind/muggings ec?

Well the risk of losing a kneecap or two is a rather brutal deterrant! anyway the ra were probably giving some of them a purpose as well.

Vigillanties, Guardian angels; not really been there, done that, doesn't really work.

Almost all the crimes you mention are on the decline, cars are harder to nick, houses are better secured, fewer people walk in risky areas.
Crime clear-up rates are improving as well, sometimes it's a "one man crimewave".

03-03-2008 02:56AM

I walked from Dame Street to Drumcondra one night, one of my friends said I was mad to do it and the next day my brother said the same thing. I'm just not scared of walking home at night.

buckfast4me · 03-03-2008 03:24AM

Everyone walking everywhere.. disgraceful.. the poor taxi drivers will be out of business in no time

03-03-2008 03:29AM

Keeps their back seats clean!

Dashticle · 03-03-2008 03:56AM

Stupidly I remember getting so ****ed up drunk that i got lost somewhere Drumcondra on my way home from the pub. I literally remember realising I was lost, not being able to remember how I was standing there, I'd pretty much blacked out for an hour. Was on my own, no one attacked me, some people less drunk than me were even so kind as to point me in the right direction.

Oriel · 03-03-2008 10:59AM

Where was the gig and where do you live?

Oriel · 03-03-2008 11:01AM

jahalpin wrote: »

Belfast (along with the rest of Northern Ireland) is probably one of the most dangerous places to be walking around at night.

Rubbish. I've lived in Belfast and Dublin and find Belfast safer than Dublin. By quite a margin. Your fear was in your head before you started to walk.

biko · 03-03-2008 11:05AM

I've walked around Belfast at night many times drunk, never a bother. Last time was Saturday.
The closest I've been to trouble is a guy in Antrim town wanting to beat me up for pinching his gfs ass. Then his gf came over and say it wasn't me so he left looking for the real culprit.

Oriel · 03-03-2008 12:10PM

biko wrote: »

I've walked around Belfast at night many times drunk, never a bother. Last time was Saturday.
The closest I've been to trouble is a guy in Antrim town wanting to beat me up for pinching his gfs ass. Then his gf came over and say it wasn't me so he left looking for the real culprit.

Ha! Where were you at in Antrim?

03-03-2008 12:20PM

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biko · 03-03-2008 02:07PM

Oriel wrote: »

Ha! Where were you at in Antrim?

I don't remember the name but it was a night club/bar on High Street I think. Was offered coke in the toilets, girls were chanting UDA UDA in the chipper afterwards and I was almost beaten up.
Good times

da1&only · 03-03-2008 02:46PM

I was leaving a night club on the northside of dublin on friday gone at about 1 o'clock as i had to be up early the following morning so i left on my own.I only live about 15 mins from the spot so i decided to walk,as i was half way true the carpark at the front of the night club i was hit from behind in the head for no apparent reason.I turned to defend myself when i realised there was three of them so i decided to make a run for it instead of getting seven shades of sh!te kicked out of me.i ran about 200m and thought i had lost them only to turn around to see they had chased me.At this stage i was shouting at them,asking what the wanted but got no reply.I tries to run again but tripped the next thing i knew i was on the ground getting a beating,cant remeber much but remember coming through with a busted up nose and my watch my gf had got me for xmass from newyork was gone.and all this happend.Needless to say i will be more carefull from now on but i should be able to walk freely on my streets with out being in fear of these scum bags

Collie D · 03-03-2008 02:56PM

biko wrote: »

I don't remember the name but it was a night club/bar on High Street I think. Was offered coke in the toilets, girls were chanting UDA UDA in the chipper afterwards and I was almost beaten up.
Good times

Antrim forum tbh

Oriel · 03-03-2008 03:11PM

biko wrote: »

I don't remember the name but it was a night club/bar on High Street I think. Was offered coke in the toilets, girls were chanting UDA UDA in the chipper afterwards and I was almost beaten up.

That sounds like the Kneebreakers or The Steeple bar.

Dinter · 03-03-2008 03:21PM

Remember one night in Manhattans in Portobello when I was around 18. Went in for a feed but then the homing instinct took over and I left. Didn't say goodbye to anyone so nobody knew I'd gone. Was totally blacked out.

Anyway the next day I woke up and I'd a big gash on my head that had bled so much the pillow was stuck to my face. Turned out a girl I knew had seen me having a massive scrap at Rathmines church and I'd gone home with her. I had absolutely no recollection of it.

I'd say a lot of assaults reported are like that. Drunken idiots. Don't know to this day if I started it or not.

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