Man living in tent on the roadside in dubin

Boombastic · 14-02-2013 11:02PM

He's probably just a boy scout, is he wearing a woggle with badges on his arm?

Pottler · 14-02-2013 11:13PM

Feck sake, you can't even pitch a tent beside the footpath and practice the Hake these days without people looking to do a "pretty woman" number on you.

If you're that bothered about him Radius, nip over and give him a few bob to buy a dinner. If you complain and draw attention to him, the guards will have to act and evict him - he'll have to find somwhere else to pitch up, then someone else will "help" him and he'll get moved on again.

They do say moving home is one of the most stressful events in peoples lives. Why add to his stress levels? It's probably hard enough for him to remember the dance moves.

Spook_ie · 14-02-2013 11:43PM

OP doesn't cycle by any chance? giving out about a pedestrian on the footpath

dan1895 · 14-02-2013 11:45PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

OP doesn't cycle by any chance? giving out about a pedestrian on the footpath

FFS let it go.

IceFjoem · 14-02-2013 11:46PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Must not be that intimidating then.

Does anyone know if that 'homeless' guy still lives in UCD? Fcuker used to get 3 meals a day and a place to lie down in peace there!

You talking about the guy with the tent in the wooded area, kind of visible from the road, just after the flyover bridge if you're going into town via the N11?

I can still see the tent there alright, I can't quite recall if it's still pitched or upside down in a bush. I'll check tomorrow.

Uriel. · 14-02-2013 11:56PM

MadsL wrote: »

I'm not a self-appointed righteous warrior, it is my manifest destiny. Anyway, what's it to you?

Meh

RADIUS · 15-02-2013 08:30PM

Well that escalated quickly. I won't bother posting on AH anymore seems everything I say somehow is completely misunderstood and construed in the worst way possible.

Some real negative hostile people on here.

hames · 15-02-2013 08:34PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Must not be that intimidating then.

Does anyone know if that 'homeless' guy still lives in UCD? Fcuker used to get 3 meals a day and a place to lie down in peace there!

He's still around. Never saw him speaking to anyone.

By most accounts he is a former Maths professor/ ex student genius/ once saved a girl from being raped.

Seems like a homeless man can't just be a regular Joe, these days.

IceFjoem · 15-02-2013 08:48PM

RADIUS wrote: »

Well that escalated quickly. I won't bother posting on AH anymore seems everything I say somehow is completely misunderstood and construed in the worst way possible.

Some real negative hostile people on here.

thomur · 15-02-2013 09:11PM

Pottler wrote: »

Feck sake, you can't even pitch a tent beside the footpath and practice the Hake these days without people looking to do a "pretty woman" number on you.

Cmon mate, thats a bit fishy

ordinary_girl · 15-02-2013 09:16PM

I've seen him, and I've also seen the tent and the stuff in the trees. Tbh I had no idea he was actually living there, I get the bus by there in the mornings and anytime I see him I always assume he works for the council because of the hi-vis. That does explain all of the stuff in the trees though, it looks a bit weird!

hames · 15-02-2013 09:20PM

ordinary_girl wrote: »

I've seen him, and I've also seen the tent and the stuff in the trees. Tbh I had no idea he was actually living there, I get the bus by there in the mornings and anytime I see him I always assume he works for the council because of the hi-vis. That does explain all of the stuff in the trees though, it looks a bit weird!

man in woods
O.o

tent
O.o

clothes hanging on trees
O.o

high vis jacket..

oh, a council worker.

mad m · 15-02-2013 09:34PM

OP,

I have seen him every other day like yourself. Before he pitched up there I used to see him walk up and down constitution hill either talking to himself or dancing. He must be getting help from someone with food. It is obvious he has a mental illness of some sort. He looks like he recently got that tent as I think he used to sit under his made up tent under the trees....

He used to have an illuminious jacket which I thought he was one of those Herald paper sellers....

Sacksian · 15-02-2013 09:44PM

He's been there for at least the last 8 months or so. I was working just off Dominick Street, so would pass by at least twice a day.

He's clearly mentally ill but he keeps himself to himself, keeps his patch tidy and I've never seen him accost anyone (although he does dance, sing and pray loudly from time to time). In fact, when he's walking around in the circles he does around that little patch of grass, he will often go back in the opposite direction if someone is coming his way. I would imagine he's well known to homeless agencies in the city.

Around the time that guy was shot near the Western Way a few months ago, there was a rumour that he had been shot too. I got talking to one of the locals from the flats on Constitution Hill about him once, who said that the valet place at the top of Dominick Street often give him food but he rarely takes it from anyone else who tries to offer it to him.

His name is Emmanuel, I believe.

hames · 15-02-2013 09:50PM

Sacksian wrote: »

His name is Emmanuel, I believe.

:eek:

John 4:10

doolox · 15-02-2013 10:14PM

In view of this weak nation-states appallingly bad record in "intervening" in peoples lives, witness our appalling record on the care of the mentally ill, people not "respected" by society, such as the residents of the magdalene Laundries, orphanages etc and he is better off left alone.

This vipers pit is simply not able to take care of the weak members of society.

UCDVet · 15-02-2013 10:32PM

As long as he doesn't stop me in the street, block my path, try to shake my hand, and explain that he just needs a few quid so he can get a train ticket back home.....

I'm happy enough to leave him alone.

ordinary_girl · 16-02-2013 01:02AM

hames wrote: »

man in woods
O.o

tent
O.o

clothes hanging on trees
O.o

high vis jacket..

oh, a council worker.

Haha, tbh I didn't pay that much attention to him, it's just that when I get the bus by there it's on weekday mornings when I see all the council cleaners around town so I just assumed he was one as well. This does explain why the trees were never tidy though, I sometimes wondered how they'd manage to have those things shoved in there every day and how they'd be there every morning. I thought someone was trying to wreck a council cleaners head! haha. Yeah, anyway, now I know in future!

Smidge · 25-03-2013 01:22AM

Went back to post after searching and the thread was closed FFS:rolleyes:

I knew a thread had been done about this guy not so long ago:cool:

Super-Rush · 25-03-2013 01:25AM

Somehow we missed this one.

This is not the Dublin forum ffs.

Man living in tent on the roadside in dubin

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