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the poor old man

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  • #32
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Wheres the ra when you need them. Scum should be disciplined.

    The Ra only get involved with disciplining scum when the scum are outdealing them, these days.
    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Me and you the back of Sally's Saturday night, bring your friends tough guy:P

    Last man standing gets to keep the funny hat!!

    You'll be coughing up toenails when I'm done kicking your arse >.>


  • #33
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    policarp wrote: »
    These low lives would beat up their own grandparents for a few quid and think nothing of it. . .
    as sad as it is, its true, its no longer look after your own
    xoxyx wrote: »
    I'm with you 100% on this. My mum grew up in Tralee, as did her mother, and her mother's mother. I lived there myself for a year about 13 years' ago.

    I used to love hearing her stories about growing up in Tralee. Things weren't perfect. A lot of people had very little money. But, Jesus Christ, if there was one murder a year, it would have been the headline in the local paper for about 11 months!!!

    The speed at which things suddenly went downhill in Tralee is absolutely terrifying, and the changes between one generation and another are just wrong. I'm not an alarmist, but something's got to give. Where the hell is this going to end?

    My granny lived in her house in Tralee until she was about the same age as the guy who was attacked. No doubt about it, if it had been her who was attacked, and if I got so much as a hint of who did it, they wouldn't be around to see their jail sentence.

    How the fuck have things gone so wrong???
    how did things go so wrong every where,


  • #34
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I'm just after watching Eamon Horan on the news and I couldn't stop thinking of my own granny and grandad. It is sad the lengths that some thugs will go for €50, it is truly awful stuff. I hope Eamon makes a speedy recovery.


  • #35
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    The Ra only get involved with disciplining scum when the scum are outdealing them, these days.

    I don't think vigilantism works, but the above statement is pure nonsense. Republicans in Kerry were actively anti-drugs.


  • #36
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    rang a friend at home and he said word around town is they were caught later the description was probably looking for witnesses to their movements. Not definite but that's the story at the minute.


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  • #37
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    mackg wrote: »
    Any chance of a link?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbQ1RIStus


  • #38
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    booboo88 wrote: »
    eamon horan who was attacked in tralee by thugs, and then to have the ordeal of not being admitted to hospital for 6DAYS.
    75years of age, broken jaw, fractured nose,
    he had to hire a taxi to cork university hospital to see a jaw specialist.
    this country is a joke, not only do we treat our elders like crap and then we dont treat him for his injuries

    what? I dont see any reference to that here :confused:


  • #39
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Saila wrote: »
    what? I dont see any reference to that here :confused:

    it was on rte news.


  • #40
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    makes me ashamed to be from tralee :( this town is such a cesspit these days, full of druggies and scumbags who would kill their own mothers for 10 euro


  • #41
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    booboo88 wrote:
    eamon horan who was attacked in tralee by thugs, and then to have the ordeal of not being admitted to hospital for 6DAYS.
    75years of age, broken jaw, fractured nose,
    he had to hire a taxi to cork university hospital to see a jaw specialist.
    this country is a joke, not only do we treat our elders like crap and then we dont treat him for his injuries
    booboo88 wrote: »
    it was on rte news.

    ok I watched it just now, but it wasnt quite the drama you made it sound, not many know the difference on here between being admitted to hospital [in patient stay]
    and arriving there Id say , and the way you have said it it makes it sound like there were no ambulances available/wasnt deemed worthy and he had to get a taxi to hospital by himself after the assault! :rolleyes:

    and it took six days to get a bed in hospital [which it did]
    but he was seen within hours of the assault in the initial hospital he was taken to and was on a trolly

    just clearing up some facts for those who dont have rte player


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  • #42
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbQ1RIStus

    I imagine the lads involved were not dressed as smartly.


  • #43
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    I don't know, I am more and more beleiving that vigilantism is the way to go. Don't get me wrong the Garda Shicks do their best and break their balls to try and get these scum (and all the while the scummers can break their jaws) and yet when they get to court - suspended sentences, community service - and the scummers laugh their way home.

    Violence begets violence? Fúck that, time for ordinary people to feel safe so if we cant physically maim people then its about time that non violent methods should be made acceptable to use (e.g. Pepper Spray, Taser). Age old arguement if you have them they have them, but at least the table is level.


  • #44
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Saila wrote: »
    ok I watched it just now, but it wasnt quite the drama you made it sound, not many know the difference on here between being admitted to hospital [in patient stay]
    and arriving there Id say , and the way you have said it it makes it sound like there were no ambulances available/wasnt deemed worthy and he had to get a taxi to hospital by himself after the assault! :rolleyes:

    and it took six days to get a bed in hospital [which it did]
    but he was seen within hours of the assault in the initial hospital he was taken to and was on a trolly

    just clearing up some facts for those who dont have rte player
    thats exactly what my issue is, it doesnt seem worthy why? he's 75 year old man ffs?
    so we had an elderly man who was viciously attacked on a trolly, but no thats not drama at all, its only a slight scuffle. are you serious?
    even his own daughter said the staff were amazing its the system thats at fault


  • #45
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Tralee is a awful rough spot always has been and always will be.


  • #46
    Damokc
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    they ran in the direction of Mitchels Crescent............enough said:rolleyes:


  • #47
    mackg
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Tralee is a awful rough spot always has been and always will be.

    It was always a little rough but it has gotten worse at an alarming rate, even 5 years ago it is not a patch on what it is today. Coke has done serious damage to the town. I remember when the festival was brilliant craic now it's just a fcukin mess. In court in tralee a scumbag walked up and boxed a bangard in the nose recently.


  • #48
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Damokc wrote: »
    they ran in the direction of Mitchels Crescent............enough said:rolleyes:

    I thought they moved all those pricks out of there and dispersed around north Kerry?


  • #49
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    booboo88 wrote: »
    thats exactly what my issue is, it doesnt seem worthy why? he's 75 year old man ffs?
    so we had an elderly man who was viciously attacked on a trolly, but no thats not drama at all, its only a slight scuffle. are you serious?
    even his own daughter said the staff were amazing its the system thats at fault

    we are clearly talking at cross purposes, I was just filling in the possible misunderstandings which your post could have created, you are now making me sounds like the bad guy.

    lets clear a few things up

    1 the assault was terrible, poor man.
    2 a taxi driver took him to hospital, after assault [there was never a mention of an ambulance being called or not arriving]
    3 when he got to hospital he was on a trolley and seen to
    4 he decided to get a taxi to another hospital to see a jaw specialist

    you seem way to emotionally involved to talk about this, so Ill leave it there and urge anyone who hasnt seen it to go to the rte player and watch the six one news to see all I have written is the way it is


  • #50
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Not too fond of that town myself, it's gone only one way and thats down south. AGS have no control in that town and people get away with some ridiculous ****.


  • #51
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    In many parts of the country, that I've travelled, I've seen "Community Alert Area" " Neighbourhood Watch" Signs, but I don't think people actually pull together under these banners.
    We complain about lack of Garda presense, government indifference, anti-social behaviour etc. but the little bit most of us should do, we don't.


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  • #52
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    This is why I moved out of there years ago and rarely go back, when I do I generally hang out at home, the town is terrifying to be around on a weekend night, so many people out looking for trouble. I'll never forget bumping into a person in a nightclub in Galway on one of my first night's out in college, I was apologising profusely and she just said "You're grand!". I was so used to getting daggers and "F*ckin watch yourself will ya" in Tralee.

    That poor man, and don't get me started on having to pay for a taxi to Cork.


  • #53
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    Acoshla wrote: »
    This is why I moved out of there years ago and rarely go back, when I do I generally hang out at home, the town is terrifying to be around on a weekend night, so many people out looking for trouble. I'll never forget bumping into a person in a nightclub in Galway on one of my first night's out in college, I was apologising profusely and she just said "You're grand!". I was so used to getting daggers and "F*ckin watch yourself will ya" in Tralee.

    That poor man, and don't get me started on having to pay for a taxi to Cork.

    such a rough town to be living in, its such a pain in the arse having to look over your shoulder for scum every time you want to do anything, was jumped a year ago for saying hi to 2 lads on the way home :rolleyes: id like nothing more than to scoobie doo out of this dump


  • #54
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Icyseanfitz wrote: »
    id like nothing more than to scoobie doo out of this dump

    Your going to have to explain this phrase for me, we don't get colloquialisms like that over here.


  • #55
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Your going to have to explain this phrase for me, we don't get colloquialisms like that over here.

    it means "get the f*** out of a place as quickly as humanly possible... or faster" :D

    colloquialisms....get on out of here with your fancy english :)


  • #56
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Your going to have to explain this phrase for me, we don't get colloquialisms like that over here.

    not that hard really is it? its obviously get out


  • #57
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Saila wrote: »
    not that hard really is it? its obviously get out

    It's not obvious at all. Scoobie Doo caught bad guys, it could mean "I wish I could go in and arrest every scumbag". And Scoobie and the Gang went into dangerous places deliberately, so it could have been like some sort of hard man dare. They rarely actually left a place because of a "monster", and stayed until they caught them all. It's a mad phrase.


  • #58
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    i remember scoobie doo being quite a coward, he always ran away from everything right? off topic much hahahaha


  • #59
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    It's not obvious at all. Scoobie Doo caught bad guys, it could mean "I wish I could go in and arrest every scumbag". And Scoobie and the Gang went into dangerous places deliberately, so it could have been like some sort of hard man dare. They rarely actually left a place because of a "monster", and stayed until they caught them all. It's a mad phrase.

    well I never heard it before either but knew what it was just after reading it...but we're different though


  • #60
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    It's not obvious at all. Scoobie Doo caught bad guys, it could mean "I wish I could go in and arrest every scumbag". And Scoobie and the Gang went into dangerous places deliberately, so it could have been like some sort of hard man dare. They rarely actually left a place because of a "monster", and stayed until they caught them all. It's a mad phrase.

    glad you like it :pac:

    dont ask


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  • #61
    amacca
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    xoxyx wrote: »
    I

    How the fuck have things gone so wrong???

    I dont know anything about Tralee but if its anything like the rest of the countryyou can probably mix n'match some or all of the below to come up with an explanation

    in no particular order

    serious violent crime not being punished swiftly enough, publicly enough or harshly enough because its become too much of cash cow for various parasites and "interest groups"

    a growing number of kids not being raised in a fashion even close to normal....a lot don't know what a proper family meal where everyone sits down together is

    the mushrooming of the supply/availability of various assorted narcotics in almost every nook and cranny in the country now

    a culture of instant gratification and entitlement with values such as working hard to achieve a goal etc fast fading into oblivion

    handing out free money to a certain small but growing group of people will not and do not ever want to do any actual work but prefer instead to be utter pains in the holes

    state incentivizing having more kids and more kids even if you don't have the means or the basic intelligence/ability to provide properly for them never mind instil at least some basic values and decency in them

    the fostering of utter disrespect for authority figures (somewhat deserved but its not for that reason the particular groups of parents I have in mind are doing it) in kids by a group of parents

    I could go on but these are the reasons I have come up with so far...I'm sure there are others

    the way we live nowadays, our culture etc has a lot to do with this type of shyte imo.....many aspects of our lives are just insane yet people just seem to accept that this is the way it is so naturally if follows that this is the way it has to be almost the way it should be and how dare anyone suggest otherwise.

    just thought of another one: small groups of thugs allowed rule estates for all intents and purposes, terrorize everyone else there


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