petrol station worker threatened with machete

spankmemunkey · 07-07-2013 08:05PM #1

Security is now on the door full time after a robbery where a man threatened staff with a machete thats the third time cash has been stolen in attacks in tesco petro stationl ballbeg, looks like they let things go too far, its the staff I feel sorry for.

ex_infantry · 07-07-2013 09:12PM

no job or money is worth that agro

S28382 · 07-07-2013 11:26PM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

Security is now on the door full time after a robbery where a man threatened staff with a machete thats the third time cash has been stolen in attacks in tesco petro stationl ballbeg, looks like they let things go too far, its the staff I feel sorry for.

You seem to enjoy reporting on these incidents out that way, why dont you go out and work there doing security and protect the workers then you can report back here on how your life is threatened by Ballybeg thugs on a daily basis.

Seriously man why do you seem to get off on posting these things. There is plenty of sh*t happening in Waterford not just in Tesco Ballybeg.

deisemum · 07-07-2013 11:53PM

It's terrible that staff are threatened like that.

It's not something new, my husband was threatened at gunpoint during an armed raid when he worked in a petrol station near Ardkeen when he was 14 years old.

S28382 · 08-07-2013 12:06AM

I agree its not nice at all for the staff its terrible that there is scum out there that do things like that but it seems to me going from this and from a previous thread about that the OP loves reporting on it whenever it happens out in Tesco Ballybeg. If he reported on a small percentage of stuff that happens around the town he would have the most posts on Boards.

wmpdd3 · 08-07-2013 12:08AM

It looks like the solution is for stations in isolation like that one, to be pay at pump only.

S28382 · 08-07-2013 12:13AM

Yep pay at pump is a good idea it is bad when staff go to work and get threatened unfortunately its a problem all over the country, scumbags doing it as they will more than likely get away with it.

nicolaed · 08-07-2013 09:25AM

Zero-tolerance for scambags!

spankmemunkey · 08-07-2013 12:27PM

wmpdd3 wrote: »

It looks like the solution is for stations in isolation like that one, to be pay at pump only.

They had pay at pump but they stopped it for some reason, a friend of mine who works there was telling me this, tesco don't really care to be honest they had certain people doing damage on cctv and never acted upon it, this is the 3rd or 4th time theres been attacks on here. The staff do not want to be posted to the petrol station as u can imagine.

callaway92 · 08-07-2013 01:04PM

wmpdd3 wrote: »

It looks like the solution is for stations in isolation like that one, to be pay at pump only.

Tesco Ballybeg actually stopped pay-at-pump recently enough.

The guy working there told me too many people that had maybe €10 in their bank account were putting in €30/€40.

I'd assume then that banks were complaining to Tesco for this.

Still pay-at-pump in Clonmel anyway!

2SWEET · 08-07-2013 08:50PM

Seriously op do you ever have anything positive to say? Robberies happen all over the city and there are trouble makers all over of the city yet 99% of you posts focus on Tesco Ballybeg and the surrounding area, and all your information seem to come from a friend which I find a bit strange.

spankmemunkey · 08-07-2013 09:03PM

2SWEET wrote: »

Seriously op do you ever have anything positive to say? Robberies happen all over the city and there are trouble makers all over of the city yet 99% of you posts focus on Tesco Ballybeg and the surrounding area, and all your information seem to come from a friend which I find a bit strange.

If you had of just ignored it this post probably just would have gone away but you posted on it and now youve given it legs. I do actually post positive stuuf just take a look at the reasons to be positive in waterford thread. If you must know my friend works there I just didn't want to draw attention to them. I am happy to write about it and as youve seen there are people interested in reading it, If u don't like what I write just ignore me and my posts. I for one find it shocking that in the 3 or even 2 short years that petrol station has been open its been done 4 times and has even resulted in one member of staff quiting, don't blame them and that they now have to have full time security. Which is sad to see the effects of crime in waterford not just ballybeg,

S28382 · 08-07-2013 09:09PM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

If you had of just ignored it this post probably just would have gone away but you posted on it and now youve given it legs. I do actually post positive stuuf just take a look at the reasons to be positive in waterford thread. If you must know my friend works there I just didn't want to draw attention to them. I am happy to write about it and as youve seen there are people interested in reading it, If u don't like what I write just ignore me and my posts. I for one find it shocking that in the 3 or even 2 short years that petrol station has been open its been done 4 times and has even resulted in one member of staff quiting, don't blame them and that they now have to have full time security. Which is sad to see the effects of crime in waterford not just ballybeg,

Grow up and stop spreading stories from your friend over the internet if you want to write about it then apply for a job in the local paper as a crime correspondent maybe then you might see its not only Ballybeg its happening in it can happen anywhere and all your doing is highlighting Ballybeg in a negative way.

wobbles · 08-07-2013 09:55PM

S28382 wrote: »

Grow up and stop spreading stories from your friend over the internet if you want to write about it then apply for a job in the local paper as a crime correspondent maybe then you might see its not only Ballybeg its happening in it can happen anywhere and all your doing is highlighting Ballybeg in a negative way.

And what exactly should he do. Should he not post at all so everyone can forget about what happens in Ballybeg. Should he only post the postitive things about ballybeg so everyone thinks its all hunky dorey.

Fact is the OP is not spreading stories. This actually happened. Sure the OP posts a few threads about Tesco Ballybeg, but if he only posted about all the anti-social behaviour from that store then he would have the most posts on boards. He wouldnt need to include the rest of waterford.

S28382 · 08-07-2013 10:07PM

wobbles wrote: »

And what exactly should he do. Should he not post at all so everyone can forget about what happens in Ballybeg. Should he only post the postitive things about ballybeg so everyone thinks its all hunky dorey.

Fact is the OP is not spreading stories. This actually happened. Sure the OP posts a few threads about Tesco Ballybeg, but if he only posted about all the anti-social behaviour from that store then he would have the most posts on boards. He wouldnt need to include the rest of waterford.

He seems to enjoy reporting on it and it seems as if he enjoys the fact that he has insider info about the goings on out there...now for the record my brother works out there and he has never said there is constantly trouble out there so i think the OP is really blowing this all out of proportion as he did in the last thread he put up about it.

a fat guy · 08-07-2013 10:19PM

He suggests that someone moves to Ballybeg instead of another location due to its cheapness. I wouldn't say that he's genuinely prejudiced against the place.

And Ballybeg is a rough place, plain and simple. That doesn't mean that everyone in it is bad, just that it has a reputation for its more aggressive residents.

Totally Tropical · 08-07-2013 10:20PM

S28382 wrote: »

Grow up and stop spreading stories from your friend over the internet if you want to write about it then apply for a job in the local paper as a crime correspondent maybe then you might see its not only Ballybeg its happening in it can happen anywhere and all your doing is highlighting Ballybeg in a negative way.

Nevermind about the reputation of an area that's just a red herring.The op is just reporting what has happened which i presume is true.Think about it if these thug's weren't causing havov then there would be no need for the op to start threads like this.Ballybeg is the home of the soundest people in Waterford imo but there is elements in the community that are making ordinary decent peoples lives a misery.

S28382 · 08-07-2013 10:21PM

This thread is going to go nowhere fast.

Well done OP for another pointless thread.

Hubert H · 08-07-2013 10:24PM

nicolaed wrote: »

Zero-tolerance for scumbags!

+1 to that.

wmpdd3 · 08-07-2013 10:48PM

There were plenty of robberies in Ardkeen when it open first. Tesco have service stations all over the UK and Ireland, that store is by far not their must robbed!

There are plenty procedures within the company to protect staff, if your friend feels they are not being adhered to then he needs to go to the hsa.

Sully · 08-07-2013 11:41PM

Tis an odd one alright. When this was being discussed initially, staff in there played it down. Now apparently its escalated. It appears someone is exaggerating it or someone is playing it down.

Plenty of stuff like this has happened elsewhere in Waterford. Didn't Xtra Vision get threatened before (a few times)? The petrol station in Tramore also got threatened one evening by some bloke with a knife. Its being made a big deal here by the OP, it appears, because its in Ballybeg which doesn't have the best of reputations and is close to the halting site which also doesn't have a great reputation.

jluv · 09-07-2013 12:34AM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

They had pay at pump but they stopped it for some reason, a friend of mine who works there was telling me this, tesco don't really care to be honest they had certain people doing damage on cctv and never acted upon it, this is the 3rd or 4th time theres been attacks on here. The staff do not want to be posted to the petrol station as u can imagine.

Your friend..mmmm.you can tell us your employee no...you don't work there but you know that Tesco don't care...Staff do not want to be posted there..mmm. Quite serious allegations against a company.. Hope your "friend" has the facts straight if they are going to make those accusations in the workplace..
Aside from that I feel sorry for anyone out trying to make a decent living and that have to deal with these lunatics. And unfortunatly it's not only happening in Ballybeg. My thoughts are for the person on duty that day..

0rt · 09-07-2013 01:17AM

i worked as security in limerick, if we can diffuse a situation with ease its up to us.. but if they come in with a machette or a gun ill reverse them in, load them up and stop traffic for them..

There is no job on the planet worth the hassle..
And there are business's that fire people for handing over money to criminals.

spankmemunkey · 09-07-2013 11:02AM

Look it did happen I'm not making it up the shop was attacked for a fourth time a machette was produced, so why am I writing about it, well I would like it highlighted I'm sure tesco wouldnt, (there Re a lot of things I couldnt or wouldnt want to say) so the person complaining that I'm just dumping on ballybeg for the sake of it you wouldnt be from ballybeg would ye? So your not bias are ye? How do you intend to make things better in ballbeg sweep all incidents under the rug? How do people know how bad things are if they arent told of them or it isnt highlighted you need to know what your up against if you want to make things better, and incidents like this shouldnt be tolerated or allowed to go on as it will just become the norm and part and parcel of everyday life. I would like most of younlike to see things get better there, it can become a cloak that consumes ballybeg people should talk about these things and the more that know the better, it might make people more cautious and more aware,

spankmemunkey · 09-07-2013 11:04AM

0rt wrote: »

i worked as security in limerick, if we can diffuse a situation with ease its up to us.. but if they come in with a machette or a gun ill reverse them in, load them up and stop traffic for them..

There is no job on the planet worth the hassle..
And there are business's that fire people for handing over money to criminals.

the last bit of what you said is very interesting I mean the very last bit, I'm not saying tesco did that.

spankmemunkey · 09-07-2013 11:14AM

S28382 wrote: »

I agree its not nice at all for the staff its terrible that there is scum out there that do things like that but it seems to me going from this and from a previous thread about that the OP loves reporting on it whenever it happens out in Tesco Ballybeg. If he reported on a small percentage of stuff that happens around the town he would have the most posts on Boards.

Nobody for one minute suggested that it was people from ballybeg who did it! I'm just highlighting the fact that this new petrol station is only about 2 years old and its been done 4 times already the latest with a machete,

ex_infantry · 09-07-2013 05:34PM

shur was'nt spar ballybegs front door ram raided last night!!!

S28382 · 09-07-2013 07:25PM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

Nobody for one minute suggested that it was people from ballybeg who did it! I'm just highlighting the fact that this new petrol station is only about 2 years old and its been done 4 times already the latest with a machete,

But sure what difference does it make if its new or 20 years old the problem i see is that you are doing what you done before and that is gossip on an internet forum about something that your friend told you about and it is coming across that you seem to like reporting on it because its from Ballybeg......maybe im wrong but thats what it looks like to me.

What happened out there is terrible and whoever is doing it deserves everything thrown at them and i hope Tesco and the Guards do something about it asap before some one gets hurt but your reporting style is coming across as anti Ballybeg you are making it bigger than what it is and you are putting it across that its confined to that area which is bull****.

2SWEET · 09-07-2013 08:29PM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

If you had of just ignored it this post probably just would have gone away but you posted on it and now youve given it legs. I do actually post positive stuuf just take a look at the reasons to be positive in waterford thread. If you must know my friend works there I just didn't want to draw attention to them. I am happy to write about it and as youve seen there are people interested in reading it, If u don't like what I write just ignore me and my posts. I for one find it shocking that in the 3 or even 2 short years that petrol station has been open its been done 4 times and has even resulted in one member of staff quiting, don't blame them and that they now have to have full time security. Which is sad to see the effects of crime in waterford not just ballybeg,

If you don't want people to comment on your posts why post in the first place?
I'm entitled to my opinion and free to post if I want to. And from what I and many others on here have seen in your posts you seem to have something against Tesco Ballybeg. And no I don't work there or live there.

spankmemunkey · 09-07-2013 09:39PM

S28382 wrote: »

But sure what difference does it make if its new or 20 years old the problem i see is that you are doing what you done before and that is gossip on an internet forum about something that your friend told you about and it is coming across that you seem to like reporting on it because its from Ballybeg......maybe im wrong but thats what it looks like to me.

What happened out there is terrible and whoever is doing it deserves everything thrown at them and i hope Tesco and the Guards do something about it asap before some one gets hurt but your reporting style is coming across as anti Ballybeg you are making it bigger than what it is and you are putting it across that its confined to that area which is bull****.

Well I'm sorry if its coming accross that way, I do write on other threads and topics to be fair, its not like I sit around looking for stories about the place, my general point is that its shocking yo hear that a new enough petrol station being done so often and I'm sure the person who wax being threatened with a machete didn't think it was nothing. I'm sorry if you think I'm anti ballybeg I'm not, I was just recently suggesting to another poster to by a house there but turning a blind eye isnt going to make it go away, maybe if more people know about it something will be done, as much as I doubt it. I think incidents like this should always be reported be reported to the general public so we know what we're up against no matter where it happens and maybe the general public will appreciate staff members who serve the general public in all jobs be it cleaners bar workers taxi drivers. These people work hard for very little be take a lot of abuse.

S28382 · 10-07-2013 12:25AM

spankmemunkey wrote: »

Well I'm sorry if its coming accross that way, I do write on other threads and topics to be fair, its not like I sit around looking for stories about the place, my general point is that its shocking yo hear that a new enough petrol station being done so often and I'm sure the person who wax being threatened with a machete didn't think it was nothing. I'm sorry if you think I'm anti ballybeg I'm not, I was just recently suggesting to another poster to by a house there but turning a blind eye isnt going to make it go away, maybe if more people know about it something will be done, as much as I doubt it. I think incidents like this should always be reported be reported to the general public so we know what we're up against no matter where it happens and maybe the general public will appreciate staff members who serve the general public in all jobs be it cleaners bar workers taxi drivers. These people work hard for very little be take a lot of abuse.

But who is turning a blind eye....... there is plenty of positives aswell as negatives about Ballybeg as there is of anywhere whether its an affluent area or not but you dont seem to see that your threads about this issue are about Ballybeg and you only know about it because you know some working out there....well guess what so do i and i dont hear as much bad stuff as you seem to so maybe it isnt as bad as you are making it out to be.

I spent 27 yrs living in Ballybeg and i seen some bad stuff and some good stuff and while some of its reputation is warranted some of it isnt and its storytellers like you that are continuing to give the place its bad name.

petrol station worker threatened with machete

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