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Have you been in a pub in Ireland when someone got whacked?

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  • #32
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Mara Big Region wrote: »
    HellFireClub wrote: »
    you'd think it wouldn't be too hard these days to find a witness to such a scene???

    Most hitmen wear motorcycle helmets and destroy clothing after the hit,some are caught due to fast garda response,or someone in the know talks..
    I meant a witness in the general sense as opposed to the judicial meaning of the word...


  • #33
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Atticus Microscopic Recording wrote: »
    Yes.


    Do we have to pretend we didn't click on that link now? :pac:

    Happened in the pub I worked in in Spain, guy pulled out a gun and ordered the guy outside, don't know what happened next, was too busy calming down customers, the boss gave everyone that was there a free settler, except us skivvies :( Cops came and took statements off people who seen but I never heard any more of it.


  • #34
    seanybiker
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    Got whacked off on a dancefloor years ago. Dirty bitch. It was deadly.


  • #35
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    I was in desesperados in Juarez with 2 friends before when a gun fight erupted. I only found out not too long ago that 5 people were killed in it. The shooting ended up out on the street so we ended up running out the back with a load of others and went back to the US that night.


  • #36
    deisedave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭deisedave


    Biggins wrote: »
    No.
    A chap had been previously warned not to sell on someone elses area.
    He was in a nightclub one night that I was in (attending college and working at the time in England) quietly pushing his stuff when he was approached and killed a couple of feet away from me.
    Killer just quietly just walked away as if he had just swatted just a fly and carried on out towards the exit.

    :eek:From reading your posts your life sounds fascinating:)


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  • #37
    deisedave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭deisedave


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Got whacked off on a dancefloor years ago. Dirty bitch. It was deadly.

    Any chance you were in Ruby's:D tends to be where the easy targets go


  • #38
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    deisedave wrote: »
    Any chance you were in Ruby's:D tends to be where the easy targets go

    Nah down in preachers about 10 years ago


  • #39
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    deisedave wrote: »
    :eek:From reading your posts your life sounds fascinating:)
    Honestly, genuinely, not really.
    Once you get the educational major part over - or even during the later part of it, life starts to open up.
    That and a bit of travel (which I and a friend did) and just as many - and different - life experiences are gained.
    If you still young and have the time and ability, the best thing you can ever do is travel.
    As in my case it was across water to a number of places as work and outside it.
    The world is your oyster and as I'm sure others here who have done same as I, life experiences start to build up. Be they big one or small ones, its inevitable.
    All the best. :)


  • #40
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Last Sunday. In fairness the child was acting up and deserved it, no matter what your views on corporal punishment happen to be.


  • #41
    oppenheimer1
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Ireland, no.
    Yes. Manchester and it involved drugs.

    But of course you have. Sure you've exploding collapsing buildings, have the dirt on celebrities, been in pubs where people have been shot, been shot at yourself(?) among other numerous tales too. Is there any situation where you have not been involved in walter?I wouldn't be surprised if you said you were the gay girl in Damascus as well!


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  • #42
    markesmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭markesmith


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    But of course you have. Sure you've exploding collapsing buildings, have the dirt on celebrities, been in pubs where people have been shot, been shot at yourself(?) among other numerous tales too. Is there any situation where you have not been involved in walter?I wouldn't be surprised if you said you were the gay girl in Damascus as well!

    Looks like you can add recipient of a backlash on boards.ie to that list of experience now Biggins! :pac:


  • #43
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    But of course you have. Sure you've exploding collapsing buildings, have the dirt on celebrities, been in pubs where people have been shot, been shot at yourself(?) among other numerous tales too. Is there any situation where you have not been involved in walter?I wouldn't be surprised if you said you were the gay girl in Damascus as well!
    Over the years of my posting here, I have posted photos of my time in Manchester.
    I have posted photos to others of bombings and my being there.
    I have posted to others, photos and links to my private family website where I have confirmed to others here (MODS included) to whom I associate with.
    I have posted photos of places mentioned (in Duleek for example) and my being in such places.
    ...and on.

    I don't expect you to go on 100% trust - but I would hope that sometimes you would have faith that some people have been around, are older and have been through some crap.
    Thats life. By the time you get to my age, you will have been through some stuff, maybe too much more so.
    All said with respect. :)

    Edit:
    Did a quick search here and here is just one of my earlier posts: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63112024&postcount=69
    (Some of the pics in that are of 111 Bradshawgate street, Bolton, Manchester and 200 yards up from that is the Bolton Institute of Higher Education Collage)
    If I can dig up some other proof to show that I'm not the liar your imposing an image of, upon me, I will do so, given the time I have today to prove myself.


  • #44
    this is arse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    no but i once whacked one off in a pub toilet :pac:


  • #45
    Doublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    I had left around 30mins prior the night PJ Judge was shot in the Royal Oak car park.


  • #46
    Truley
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    Years ago I lived in the Liberties and was cycling home about 9.30pm on a weekday night. As I passed the local pub a few doors down from my apartment I noticed things sounded a bit raucous inside. I remember taking note of the time because I was surprised, it was very much the small, quiet 'old man' pub. Next morning I discovered a man had been shot there at precisely the time I was passing on my bike.

    When I was about sixteen a very well known and notorious traveller was murdered in my home town. On the day of the funeral the place was on lock down and swarming with Gardai because of fears of a retaliation attack. Myself and my boyfriend would sometimes meet up *ahem* in an old boarded up, derelict house on the outskirts of the town. On the day of the funeral, we were in there when we heard the sound of a procession of cars speeding past and people roaring out the windows etc. Next there was a series of deafening bangs coming from the other rooms in the house and the sound of breaking glass. It was terrifying, we just sat there in shock until the banging sounds stopped. When we did get up and move around the house we saw a number bullet holes in the windows. People had been shooting at the house!


  • #47
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    I was in a pub in Co.Down about 10 years ago when 2 masked men walked in. A man sitting about 20ft away scrambled up, and ran for the toilets. Pretty stupid place to run but that particular bar only had one enterance. The gunman, calm as you like, shot him twice in the back as he was getting to the toilets doorway, then walked up and shot him twice more as he lay on the ground. A fairly traumatic experience for most of us who witnessed it but not least for his wife, sister and mother who where all there at the time.
    Turned out to be part of a loyalist feud going on at the time.


  • #48
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Biggins wrote: »
    Ireland, no.
    Yes. Manchester and it involved drugs.

    Me too. Stabbing in a pub in Broughton.


  • #49
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Biggins wrote: »
    No, the place was called "The Temple" at the time and was run by the London based 'Ministry of Sound'.

    Been in the The Haçienda a few times - and I can tell you, that at times was pretty dodgy too.
    Was full of folk you wouldn't want to cross, seriously.

    I was in the Hacienda the night it got reopened, and there were a bunch of stabbings that night as well, but I didn't see any of it. We only became aware when the police showed up.


  • #50
    paky
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭paky


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    With all this gangland crime, I'm just wondering have an AH'rs happened to have been drinking in a pub when a gunman turned up to whack someone??? Statistically with so many lads getting shot dead in a pub in Ireland and with Irish pubs usually busy enough, you'd think it wouldn't be too hard these days to find a witness to such a scene???

    i came on a double murder once. it happened at the junction of gardiner st and summerhill i think? was quite gruesome


  • #51
    Biggins
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    dpe wrote: »
    Me too. Stabbing in a pub in Broughton.

    Besides the pub incident, that whole place and area is absolutely lovely.
    Especially around there and Bolton and Edgworth where the old mills are.
    I miss that whole area. Used to take some lovely walks over there on the hiking trails.
    (Stopping off in a "Rose and Crown" for refreshment)
    Hope to return some day. Still brings back fond memories. :o


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  • #52
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Biggins wrote: »
    Besides the pub incident, that whole place and area is absolutely lovely.
    Especially around there and Bolton and Edgworth where the old mills are.
    I miss that whole area. Used to take some lovely walks over there on the hiking trails.
    (Stopping off in a "Rose and Crown" for refreshment)
    Hope to return some day. Still brings back fond memories. :o

    Not the bit I was in! Lower Broughton was a proper sh1thole then, its worse now.


  • #53
    Biggins
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    dpe wrote: »
    Not the bit I was in! Lower Broughton was a proper sh1thole then, its worse now.
    Thats not good. :(
    The northern areas around the hills and vales up there are/were a joy to behold.
    Especially around the reservoirs.
    Fell in deep love for the first time up around there with a young lass of the same age.
    "Justine Dutton" :o
    Aaa... the memories... Time flys too quick.


  • #54
    HellFireClub
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    Savage Tyrant wrote: »
    I was in a pub in Co.Down about 10 years ago when 2 masked men walked in. A man sitting about 20ft away scrambled up, and ran for the toilets. Pretty stupid place to run but that particular bar only had one enterance. The gunman, calm as you like, shot him twice in the back as he was getting to the toilets doorway, then walked up and shot him twice more as he lay on the ground. A fairly traumatic experience for most of us who witnessed it but not least for his wife, sister and mother who where all there at the time.
    Turned out to be part of a loyalist feud going on at the time.

    Wasn't very loyal in the end though! :D


  • #55
    deisedave
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    this is arse wrote: »
    no but i once whacked one off in a pub toilet :pac:

    That joke wasn't made before:P


  • #56
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Since when did talking about a murder become so casual as to make it OK to call it getting "whacked" ?


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