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"Bike Theft In Fairview"

  • 22-08-2012 10:13PM
    #1
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭


    Came across this video on youtube:



    Posted the 13th of August. Uploader says:
    Two scumbags outside Tesco in Fairview attepting to steal two bikes. I asked them what they were doing and they replied calmly, "stealing bikes". Tesco staff said they wouldn't call the Gardai when I asked them to. When I started to video and move in closer to them they ran off into the park.

    Pair of scumbags. What needs to be said about them.
    But whats the deal with everyone recording stuff these days? :P
    He says "ring the gardai" - fine. He doesnt try to stop them (why should he I guess. Not his bike) but why film them? ... you see it more and more on youtube these days... "whoa, a person just got knocked over, gotta record this for youtube!" ... why!?


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  • #2
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon




  • #3
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Because it would be video evidence of them trying to steal?


  • #4
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    Because it would be video evidence of them trying to steal?


    So ... Instead of giving it to the Gardai you put that 'video evidence' up on youtube? ;)


  • #5
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    So ... Instead of giving it to the Gardai you put that 'video evidence' up on youtube? ;)

    Well yeah, if he loses it or something he can say "here, it's on YouTube" :D


  • #6
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Knack bags! :mad:

    This is the way of the world. Rather then us his phone to call the garda, he puts a video on youtube.


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  • #7
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Knack bags! :mad:

    This is the way of the world. Rather then us his phone to call the garda, he puts a video on youtube.


    Exactly what I thought!
    The recorder says at one point "no phone" - but then what is he recording his low quality video with? .. his calculator!? :pac:


  • #8
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    same as this thread? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80219846


  • #9
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Came across this video on youtube:



    Posted the 13th of August. Uploader says:



    Pair of scumbags. What needs to be said about them.
    But whats the deal with everyone recording stuff these days? :P
    He says "ring the gardai" - fine. He doesnt try to stop them (why should he I guess. Not his bike) but why film them? ... you see it more and more on youtube these days... "whoa, a person just got knocked over, gotta record this for youtube!" ... why!?



    yeah their is a thread over in cycling forum right here about that incident.


  • #10
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    yeah their is a thread over in cycling forum right here about that incident.

    didnt know that...

    ha the recorder is a boards.ie user :pac: even says he recorded it on his phone. But yet didnt want to ring the gardai :pac:


  • #11
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    didnt know that...

    ha the recorder is a boards.ie user :pac: even says he recorded it on his phone. But yet didnt want to ring the gardai :pac:

    he asked them to stop and they didn't. The threat of guards being called didn't dissuade them either. Him recording them did stop them.

    Good result, no?


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  • #12
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Uploader too stingey to call the Gardai even though it would be free?


  • #13
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,305 ✭✭✭kenmc


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Uploader too stingey to call the Gardai even though it would be free?
    Hard to make a call and still record the incident as evidence at the same time, hence he asked the "Security guards" to make the call. They claimed to have no phone. Yeah right.


  • #14
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    kenmc wrote: »
    Hard to make a call and still record the incident as evidence at the same time, hence he asked the "Security guards" to make the call. They claimed to have no phone. Yeah right.

    So he couldn't have stopped recording to make the call? Or called before starting recording?


  • #15
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Knack bags! :mad:

    This is the way of the world. Rather then us his phone to call the garda, he puts a video on youtube.

    Yeah, I'm sure if he rang the police they'd get the emergency response unit down there in less than 30 seconds, which is how long it would take to finish robbing that bike.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus lads all this **** about the uploader calling the gaurds! He was obviously using his phone to record what was happening and to get them to stop, if he just wanted a youtube video of it he would have recorded it and kept his mouth shut but he actually did something to try and stop those scumbags. Keyboard warriors, wonder how many of ye would have the balls to confront 2 dickheads with a crowbar on your own. Fair play to him, F*ck Tesco.


  • #17
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Fawkon wrote: »
    Fair play to him, F*ck Tesco.

    'F*ck Tesco' because one or two of their five hundred thousand staff wouldn't call the gardai? And we're the keyboard warriors?


  • #18
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,305 ✭✭✭kenmc


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    So he couldn't have stopped recording to make the call? Or called before starting recording?
    Doubt he had one of those new time shift recorders on his phone, so he needed to record them in the act. Ah well, if only he was an early adopter of technology eh? :rolleyes:


  • #19
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Bike theft epidemic in Dublin, to what I hear it is not just kids, they are going around in vans with hydrolic cutters and loading the vans up. I caught 2 trying to steal my bike attempting to break the lock with a tyre iron. Which was never going to happen its a kryptonite lock.

    I got "I thought it was my bike and I lost the key end of story" he was only about 15 and smart enough to keep his distance, but in truth he had a feral mad cnut look about him. I will be honest I was afraid of him. I have little doubt he and his mate were carrying.

    They bent the frame, but the lads in the metal shop in work fixed it. So it turned out alright in the end.


  • #20
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    So he couldn't have stopped recording to make the call? Or called before starting recording?

    What have calling the police achieve? Seriously? 2 boggers from Mayo drop their hang sandwiches and sprint out of the garda station, starsky and hutch style slide over the bonnet of their mondeo, then screech the tyres when they move off and just barely hold the powerslide as they round the corner out of the station?
    But in the real world you'd be lucky if they got there that day.

    The guy stopped the theft (apparently), that's the best outcome you're going to get.


  • #21
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Cienciano wrote: »
    What have calling the police achieve? Seriously? 2 boggers from Mayo drop their hang sandwiches and sprint out of the garda station, starsky and hutch style slide over the bonnet of their mondeo, then screech the tyres when they move off and just barely hold the powerslide as they round the corner out of the station?
    But in the real world you'd be lucky if they got there that day.

    The guy stopped the theft (apparently), that's the best outcome you're going to get.

    I agree it's ludicrous blaming the guy on the camera who actually prevented the theft.

    Sometimes you get lucky with the gardai if they happen to have a car in the area. But you're right, often times when you need them especially in a real emergency, you realise just how much on your own you are.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Uploader too stingey to call the Gardai even though it would be free?


    Lets face it, youtube will do more then the gardai


  • #23
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Motorist wrote: »
    I agree it's ludicrous blaming the guy on the camera who actually prevented the theft.

    Sometimes you get lucky with the gardai if they happen to have a car in the area. But you're right, often times when you need them especially in a real emergency, you realise just how much on your own you are.

    They're underage, so even if they were caught, worst thing that would happen is they'd be brought home to their mammies.

    I think filming them is the better option, at least it gives us a good laugh at 2 scummers trying to rob a bike, and they left the bikes too, so result for the owners. Although, they probably just robbed a bike 50m down the street.


  • #24
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    I was once walking on Parnell street during midday around 2pm and it was pretty crowded as always. I saw these two knacker looking kids with a large lock cutter trying to steal a bike in front of this shop. It took me a wee while before I figured out what was exactly going on. Then the security guard from the shop stepped out and asked the scumbags what they were doing. They stood up, hurled some incomprehensible abuses at the security guy and walked off to look for other safer places to nick a bike presumably... I wasn't really sure what to do about it. It didn't look like it stopped them from searching for bikes to nick or change their mind to lead a more respectable and responsible life.


    Also this video is quite interesting...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGttmR2DTY8

    People in NY really don't seem to give a ****!!


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    'F*ck Tesco' because one or two of their five hundred thousand staff wouldn't call the gardai? And we're the keyboard warriors?
    Yes, you hire gutless turds to represent your company then you get judged by their actions, tough. F*ck Tesco.


  • #26
    iDann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭iDann


    It was Bree Van De Camp :/


  • #27
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Knack bags! :mad:

    This is the way of the world. Rather then us his phone to call the garda, he puts a video on youtube.


    Exactly what I thought!
    The recorder says at one point "no phone" - but then what is he recording his low quality video with? .. his calculator!? :pac:
    I think it was recorded with a potatoe


  • #28
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    It's not just bicycles. I've had 5 motorbikes stolen in 15 years. Last one was in July last year...2 guys just lifted the bike into boot of a car (yes...the boot). 3 locks and an alarm...they didn't care.
    Several witnesses, but only one who tried to stop them. They drove from Blanchardstown to Finglas with a motorbike hanging out of the boot and nobody even rang the Gardai to report it as suspicious...ya know, because the alarm was active!


  • #29
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    So ... Instead of giving it to the Gardai you put that 'video evidence' up on youtube? ;)

    Actually yes. The court of public opinion will deal with people like this in the way the Irish justice system utterly fails to do with every single "suspended sentence" it hands down to scumbags with 30 previous convictions.


  • #30
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Colmustard wrote: »
    Bike theft epidemic in Dublin, to what I hear it is not just kids, they are going around in vans with hydrolic cutters and loading the vans up.
    Yea. Nearly all my mates who cycle have had bikes stolen. Some more than once. Clearly there's a big market for nicked bikes. I've heard that a good chunk of them are sent overseas. Dunno how much truth there is to that though. Might just be "what I heard in the pub" kinda thing. That said with the sheer number of nicked bikes on the go you'd have to wonder what market exists locally.

    Personally speaking if I heard someone was dropping breezeblocks on their ratboy hands I'd not lay awake long winter nights crying over it.
    They bent the frame, but the lads in the metal shop in work fixed it. So it turned out alright in the end.
    I hope it was a steel frame CM? No way in hell would I trust an alloy frame after something like that.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #31
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    kenmc wrote: »
    Doubt he had one of those new time shift recorders on his phone, so he needed to record them in the act. Ah well, if only he was an early adopter of technology eh? :rolleyes:

    :rolleyes: what are you on about?


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