Protest truck blocking Dáil access

Amhran Nua · 29-09-2010 07:24AM #1

Apparently someone has rammed the gates of the Dáil with a truck.

http://www.newstalk.ie/news/dail-rammed-by-truck/

Looks like the same one that was in Galway for a while there. I hope this has nothing to do with the protest, it would be an even more ridiculous stunt than the SWP sock puppets are used to pulling.

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Jokesetal · 29-09-2010 07:32AM

Looks like they put the frame and a canvas cover around it to make it look like a rigid truck (and avoid being pulled over by the boys in blue) and then whipped it off once parked! Foward planning..... now where did we hear that before?

20Cent · 29-09-2010 07:54AM

Good work fella.
Hope they can't move it before the protest.

Poly · 29-09-2010 08:00AM

20Cent wrote: »

Good work fella.
Hope they can't move it before the protest.

It doesn't appear as if he rammed anything, just pulled up and abandoned it, maybe he disabled the gearbox or something.

Fair play to him.

dan_d · 29-09-2010 08:02AM

It is a little bit silly, but it'll give those guards at the gate something to think about for a few hours!!

reallyrose · 29-09-2010 08:03AM

According to the Irish Times

Gardaí are attempting to remove the truck from the gates, but it is believed the truck has been immobolised.
Recovery crews attempted to reverse it but it wouldn't move. It is understood brake lines and electric cables have been cut.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0929/breaking10.html

(roffle)

Poly · 29-09-2010 08:04AM

reallyrose wrote: »

According to the Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0929/breaking10.html

(roffle)

"Recovery crews attempted to reverse it but it wouldn't move. It is understood brake lines and electric cables have been cut."

Have they tried "going forward"?

ei.sdraob · 29-09-2010 08:06AM

dan_d wrote: »

It is a little bit silly, but it'll give those guards at the gate something to think about for a few hours!!

You think they might get the hint

Happyman42 · 29-09-2010 08:07AM

As pointless and stupid as a chocolate teapot, divas in cement trucks.

wellieboot · 29-09-2010 08:10AM

At least, it'll keep joe public safe from drunk TDs. Aren't they back today???

ei.sdraob · 29-09-2010 08:12AM

^^^ pretty please ^^^

seamus · 29-09-2010 08:19AM

The guy can't exactly be in the depths of despair if he has the money to kit out and damage a cement truck.

What a complete moron, what did he think he was going to accomplish.

bcirl03 · 29-09-2010 08:20AM

Let the revolution begin - about time someone made a bold statement against the government.

Fair play to him I say.

FreudianSlippers · 29-09-2010 08:22AM

bcirl03 wrote: »

Let the revolution begin - about time someone made a bold statement against the government.

Fair play to him I say.

Double parking is hardly revolutionary

reallyrose · 29-09-2010 08:23AM

What time do the TDs come in at? Don't they drive in the other side, from Merrion St?
If the point is to have the government walk past the truck on their way to work, I'm not sure if it was successful.

I wonder if anyone got the 'ramming' on camera phone, I'd love to see how it was done / what the Garda on duty were doing while someone was driving a truck at the government buildings!

Poly · 29-09-2010 08:41AM

seamus wrote: »

The guy can't exactly be in the depths of despair if he has the money to kit out and damage a cement truck.

What a complete moron, what did he think he was going to accomplish.

He drew attention to the fact that for some unexplained reason the govt. are protecting the Anglo golden circle at all costs, even if the cost will destroy our childrens future in this country.
Give it a rest, it's not exactly 9-11

FreudianSlippers · 29-09-2010 08:43AM

Poly wrote: »

He drew attention to the fact that for some unexplained reason the govt. are protecting the Anglo golden circle at all costs, even if the cost will destroy our childrens future in this country.
Give it a rest, it's not exactly 9-11

It sounds like a Garda may have been injured.

round tower huntsman · 29-09-2010 08:47AM

well done to the trucker. i salute him and i hope this is the start of some real direct action against the scum in leinster house that have destroyed our country to bail out a golden circle of chancers,their mates.
i hope this gets coverage world wide, jay leno could get a few more laughs:D

gurramok · 29-09-2010 08:49AM

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Apparently someone has rammed the gates of the Dáil with a truck.

http://www.newstalk.ie/news/dail-rammed-by-truck/

Looks like the same one that was in Galway for a while there. I hope this has nothing to do with the protest, it would be an even more ridiculous stunt than the SWP sock puppets are used to pulling.

No SWP this time. The radio(Today FM) this morning said it was a Galway developer who was angry at Anglo that rammed the truck.

OisinT wrote: »

It sounds like a Garda may have been injured.

Nobody injured according to RTE, they say a Garda jumped out of the way.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0929/politics.html

monkeypants · 29-09-2010 08:54AM

reallyrose wrote: »

what the Garda on duty were doing while someone was driving a truck at the government buildings!

Like taking photographs for tourists.

Why go to all the trouble of driving a cement truck there if all you're going to do is paint it? At least fill it up with dynamite first.

gurramok wrote: »

they say a Garda jumped out of the way.

Did he say "Stad" first?

seamus · 29-09-2010 09:04AM

Poly wrote: »

He drew attention to the fact that for some unexplained reason the govt. are protecting the Anglo golden circle at all costs, even if the cost will destroy our childrens future in this country.

Oh that's right, we almost forgot about it, it's not like the media have been going on about it, day in and day out for the last 18 months. :rolleyes:

"Destroy our children's future" is of course hysteria. Our children's future is 10/20 years away. 20 years ago, this country was in far worse shape and I'm sure in the 1980's the same complaints were being made about "mortgaging our children's futures", which turned out to be...eh...short sighted.

I'm not saying that what they've done with Anglo is correct. But the sequence of events has been done. We're more-or-less stuck with this POS bank and it's too late to let it collapse.

So I don't know what this guy thinks this will have accomplished? We all know that FF have fncked up royally and will be crucified at the next election. We all know that the former board of Anglo have questions to be answered and a Garda investigation is ongoing. What else?

The media have a lot of blame in whipping up this hysteria. I've lost count of the number of times that broadcasters have used the words "another 20 billion into Anglo" over the last 18 months. The media would have you believe that we've put hundreds of billions into Anglo, when in fact the figure is...23 billion. Not a small amount by a long shot, but it's not "mortgaging our children's future" either.

caseyann · 29-09-2010 09:05AM

OisinT wrote: »

It sounds like a Garda may have been injured.

No one was injured.I wouldnt imagine he had any intention of injuring anyone.But the media are making it out like he is some kind murderer and could have hurt someone.
Here comes the Chinese whispers to make him look like a terrorist of some sort.

I cant make out in the picture it doesnt look rammed merely parked.

Poly · 29-09-2010 09:08AM

OisinT wrote: »

It sounds like a Garda may have been injured.

Where does it sound like that?
Rte reporting very little damage done, only scratched the gate

seamus · 29-09-2010 09:10AM

caseyann wrote: »

Here comes the Chinese whispers to make him look like a terrorist of some sort.

Although I'm no fan of the terrorism hysteria, terrorism is defined as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.". I would class ramming a vehicle into the gates of a building as "violence".

round tower huntsman · 29-09-2010 09:14AM

i hear the trucker's been released by the cops......the had no concrete evidence to charge him:D

beanhead · 29-09-2010 09:16AM

Certainly the establishment wont be content to allow the driver of the truck to get away with a reasonably peaceful protest.

I would imagine there will be a guard in court who says he/she had to jump out of the way in fear of their life.

This will change the charge from a traffic violation to one of assault with a deadly weapon

sgthighway · 29-09-2010 09:16AM

seamus wrote: »

Although I'm no fan of the terrorism hysteria, terrorism is defined as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.". I would class ramming a vehicle into the gates of a building as "violence".

He did not ram the vechicle. He stopped short of hitting the gates.

caseyann · 29-09-2010 09:17AM

seamus wrote: »

Although I'm no fan of the terrorism hysteria, terrorism is defined as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.". I would class ramming a vehicle into the gates of a building as "violence".

Wouldnt in all honesty that truck have took those gates right off if it was full throttle ramming?

Poly · 29-09-2010 09:22AM

seamus wrote: »

Although I'm no fan of the terrorism hysteria, terrorism is defined as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.".

So would you consider jailing people for inability to pay small fines, Tv licence, utility bills as state sponsored terrorism?

Dr Bob · 29-09-2010 09:30AM

So he takes the cement truck , paints it and disguises it as a trailer , drives it into the dail , immobilizes it , steps out and gets arrested .
It's like the most sedate GTA mission ever.

round tower huntsman · 29-09-2010 09:34AM

the mans a hero imo.

Protest truck blocking Dáil access

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