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Romanian carol singers

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  • #32
    Voltex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Voltex


    Anyone wrote: »
    What carols did they sing?
    I stopped them at Santa got stuck up a Chimney! after an half arsed attempt at Jingle Bells


  • #33
    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    Voltex wrote: »
    TBH Im regurgitating what the Guards have said..I couldnt give a rats if they were Irish, English, Swiss or Chinese...

    If you're bothered by groups of Irish kids shepherded by adults in the driveway you must be beside yourself every Halloween :D


  • #34
    Extinction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭Extinction


    Was it through their use of broken English that you were able to decipher what the 'boss man' was telling them? You did say they were about 6 so how do you know that it wasn't just a responsible adult looking after the children while they were out carol singing?


  • #35
    Boombastic
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    I heard they were up to this type of skulduggery around halloween aswell, calling around looking for money and sweets I heard.


    On Monday night, I believe, a guy called santa will break in to peoples houses to leave presents, if you see him OP make sure and report him to the Garda too.


  • #36
    Voltex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Voltex


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    yeah lets park the racism, now racism aside , what was your point?
    As I said I couldnt give a toss where they're from...but when you watch obvious money grabbing going on it tends to bug the s**t outta you.


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  • #37
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Damm foinererz wont intigrate!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

    or when they try we call the guards (Garda, theres a bunch of non Irish national kids trying to culturally integrate do something about it quick):pac:


  • #38
    Pottler
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    Op, nothing for it but to dig a moat and get yourself a drawbridge. That'll learn em.


  • #39
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    a person has a right to feel uneasy about groups or single people knocking at their door.....

    the guards are there to reassure them if they are safe.....

    if they are foreign, not knowing the language can make people feel more uneasy......


    that is their right.........too many smart asses trying to take that right away, under the guise of others rights...


  • #40
    Death and Taxes
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    Voltex wrote: »
    As I said I couldnt give a toss where they're from...but when you watch obvious money grabbing going on it tends to bug the s**t outta you.

    Actually what you did was make a highly derogatory and insulting remark which generalized that criminal behaviour was a cultural trait of a specified ethnic group.


  • #41
    Duzzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Duzzer


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    Actually what you did was make a highly derogatory and insulting remark which generalized that criminal behaviour was a cultural trait of a specified ethnic group.

    Why do you care? In the Roma world it's okay to make money through such ventures. Same as us having a business or something like that. Living in Balbriggan you should understand this more than most


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  • #42
    Voltex
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    Extinction wrote: »
    Was it through their use of broken English that you were able to decipher what the 'boss man' was telling them? You did say they were about 6 so how do you know that it wasn't just a responsible adult looking after the children while they were out carol singing?
    Have you ever come across a principle called Occam's Razor? Its one i usually live by...but I like to call it gut instinct!!


  • #43
    orestes
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    Voltex wrote: »
    As I said I couldnt give a toss where they're from...but when you watch obvious money grabbing going on it tends to bug the s**t outta you.

    Then why is it the first word in the title of the thread?


  • #44
    Extinction
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    golden lane wrote: »
    a person has a right to feel uneasy about groups or single people knocking at their door.....

    the guards are there to reassure them if they are safe.....

    if they are foreign, not knowing the language can make people feel more uneasy......


    that is their right.........too many smart asses trying to take that right away, under the guise of others rights...

    The guards surely have more to be doing than reassuring the OP that he is safe from 6 year old carolers.


  • #45
    nbar12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    you should have done a Mr.Bean...




  • #46
    Extinction
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    Voltex wrote: »
    Have you ever come across a principle called Occam's Razor? Its one i usually live by...but I like to call it gut instinct!!

    Most people would call your gut instinct in this situation racist.


  • #47
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    If they were Roma then they were probably begging to survive....and you called the Gardai on them? They weren't stealing, they were begging. That's not a crime. People usually do that when they're desperate.

    And please don't tell me they all live in mansions in Romania or some ****. I can take you to a shanty town outside Madrid where hundreds and hundreds of Roma gypsies live in abject poverty. I've been there and I've seen it with my own eyes.

    If somebody wants to sing some Carols to get some money from me, I can't see a problem with that. Tragic that's what kids have to do around Christmas but it's not criminal. They can do nothing right in some people's eyes, it seems.


    Really can't believe you called the police on them. :mad:


  • #48
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Extinction wrote: »
    The guards surely have more to be doing than reassuring the OP that he is safe from 6 year old carolers.

    the right to feel safe in your own home.......may be a joke to you, but to many it has been a very big and serious mistake.....

    especially when you get big bald fellas dressed as six year olds, or did you miss that bit...


  • #49
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Wait a minute...

    2 x Kids @ 1 Carol = 0.50 per 1 song @ 6.7 minutes per house
    6 x Kids @ 3 Carols = 1.50 per 3 songs

    Housing Estates = 50 houses answering doors max = €20.10 per hour

    Well worth calling the fuzz.


  • #50
    osheen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭osheen


    I understand why the op posted and the gaurds more or less confirmed it .
    Its organised begging
    roma gangs use children to beg not for the childs benefit but for the gang boss ie bald guy


  • #51
    Higher
    Site Banned Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭Higher


    Em whats wrong with them carol singing?

    Also could you change the thread title, fair enough if you want to say Roma Carol Singers but its not fair to have Romanian there.


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  • #52
    Sonics2k
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    golden lane wrote: »


    especially when you get big bald fellas dressed as six year olds, or did you miss that bit...

    What?


  • #53
    Extinction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭Extinction


    golden lane wrote: »
    the right to feel safe in your own home.......may be a joke to you, but to many it has been a very big and serious mistake.....

    especially when you get big bald fellas dressed as six year olds, or did you miss that bit...

    Erm yes, actually I did miss the part about the big bald fellas dressed as 6 year olds, can you point out which post that is in?


  • #54
    Higher
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    osheen wrote: »
    I understand why the op posted and the gaurds more or less confirmed it .
    Its organised begging
    roma gangs use children to beg not for the childs benefit but for the gang boss ie bald guy

    jesus its not different than people busking. Its a lot better than having the kids steal or simply beg on the floor of a street.

    Honestly can't believe the guy called the police on them. Nothing illegal about it. I wonder if he would have called the police on some young Irish travellers doing carols for xmas money??


  • #55
    Death and Taxes
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    Duzzer wrote: »
    Why do you care? In the Roma world it's okay to make money through such ventures. Same as us having a business or something like that. Living in Balbriggan you should understand this more than most

    why?


  • #56
    Voltex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Voltex


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    Actually what you did was make a highly derogatory and insulting remark which generalized that criminal behaviour was a cultural trait of a specified ethnic group.

    Get you who's never been shafted by the young kid begging on the Dublin street with the minder standing ten feet away to make sure the child is begging hard enough....or sending 12 and 13 YO kids to peoples doors late at night to ask for money or camp on the M50 and have Special Branch monitor their activities and describe how they monitor people make substantial cash transfers while at the same time going out and robbing every shop on Henry St


  • #57
    Higher
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    Voltex wrote: »
    Get you who's never been shafted by the young kid begging on the Dublin street with the minder standing ten feet away to make sure the child is begging hard enough....or sending 12 and 13 YO kids to peoples doors late at night to ask for money or camp on the M50 and have Special Branch monitor their activities and describe how they monitor people make substantial cash transfers while at the same time going out and robbing every shop on Henry St

    Ah o.k, so you saw they were Roma and decided to take it out on them. Because they all must be the same right?

    Pathetic attitude. What a little person you are.


  • #58
    Sky King
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    A couple of teenagers came carol singing to my door last year and I asked them if they were collecting money and they said yes and then I asked them what charity they were singing for and they said themselves and I told them I appreciated their honest and transparent approach so I gave them two out of date cans of Beamish.

    I don't really answer my door these days.


  • #59
    Death and Taxes
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    Voltex wrote: »
    Get you who's never been shafted by the young kid begging on the Dublin street with the minder standing ten feet away to make sure the child is begging hard enough....or sending 12 and 13 YO kids to peoples doors late at night to ask for money or camp on the M50 and have Special Branch monitor their activities and describe how they monitor people make substantial cash transfers while at the same time going out and robbing every shop on Henry St

    Carol singers are being monitored by the guards.By the way "Special Branch" has not existed for over a decade.


  • #60
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Extinction wrote: »
    Realy! A number of complaints about carol singers coming to the door at Christmas? I wish carol singers would come to my door regardless of where they are from.

    You can have mine!

    They are Irish ( not that that makes any difference).

    They thump my front door down, then if I don't answer quick enough they bang the window.

    Heaven forbid I'm on the loo, or on the phone.

    At least twice a night since mid November!

    They aren't very good at singing. In fact they are really bad. They demand money and are rather intimidating lil feckers.

    Swapsies houses?

    Is your garden big?


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  • #61
    Abi
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    super_furry wrote: »
    Why on earth did you ring the Gardai because of carol singers?
    I don't know how to put this to you other than; not everyone that knocks on your door means well, or is genuinely raising money for charity.

    Give them twenty cent between them then shut the door. And in the same way I caught a hit and run recently, them i went on foot and got a reg. the gardai are prosecuting, so it pays off not to just sit back and ignore it.


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