Car jacking on woman with two children in Dublin suburbs

Foxhound38 · 16-05-2014 09:56PM #1

What is going on with this place of late?

This is the second such story in a few days - after a similar incident with a pregnant woman being hijacked in her car earlier in the week.

We've always had a problem with cars being broken into or stolen, but is it just me or is the incidence of scumbags jumping into the car while someone is actually driving it a relatively new thing?

Anyway, hope this scrote gets caught - and the woman and her kids are able to get over their ordeal.

Strange place for it to happen too - suburbs don't get quieter than around there.

lazygal · 16-05-2014 09:57PM

Thank god we've a skoda. Ain't nobody carjacking that.

Bongalongherb · 16-05-2014 09:58PM

Always lock the doors when you get in is the key.

Foxhound38 · 16-05-2014 10:00PM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Always lock the doors when you get in is the key.

It's sad that it's gotten to the stage where we have to do that just to get on with our business :mad:

Would be nice if the politicians would finally start to take the scumbag problem in our capital seriously

Bongalongherb · 16-05-2014 10:03PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

It's sad that it's gotten to the stage where we have to do that just to get on with our business :mad:

Would be nice if the politicians would finally start to take the scumbag problem in our capital seriously

Well it is nuts to have to lock the car doors, but this is the way things are. Just a precaution. It might never happen a person, but who knows.

Foxhound38 · 16-05-2014 10:08PM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Well it is nuts to have to lock the car doors, but this is the way things are. Just a precaution. It might never happen a person, but who knows.

Agreed - it's better than the alternative. I'm in the habit of it already, 2 scumbags jumped into my car while I was sitting in it (parked) about a few months ago on the South Circular road, smacked the head off me, put a screwdriver to me and robbed what I had on me before legging it. I won't be getting caught out twice on that front!

That said, I think the town has gone mad in the last few years, and it's getting worse.

hmmm · 16-05-2014 10:09PM

Any politician who says what they really think should happen will be criticised as being "outspoken" and "right-wing". Judges don't care because releasing these guys keeps their wages rolling in. We can't afford the jail spaces because we have the highest paid prison warders in the known universe.

Bongalongherb · 16-05-2014 10:12PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Agreed - it's better than the alternative. I'm in the habit of it already, 2 scumbags jumped into my car while I was sitting in it (parked) about a few months ago on the South Circular road, smacked the head off me, put a screwdriver to me and robbed what I had on me before legging it. I won't be getting caught out twice on that front!

That said, I think the town has gone mad in the last few years, and it's getting worse.

Sorry to hear you had to go through that. Taxi drivers are well used to it, they just central-lock the doors as a habit and unlock them when they pick up a fare, then lock them when the passengers get in. In the city most of them do it just incase.

Tail Docker · 16-05-2014 10:15PM

I wish someone would carjack my pos. Give me an excuse to get somthing else.

Boombastic · 16-05-2014 10:16PM

these people are obviously underfunded and have no facilities
it's their entitlement

mad muffin · 16-05-2014 10:16PM

If things get any worse, no one is going to stop at the traffic lights.

Our SEAT Altea XL automatically locks the doors as soon as you go past 5km or there about.

mfceiling · 16-05-2014 10:17PM

I live close to where it happened. Wife has been warned to lock doors from now on. Scumbags really are a law on to themselves.

Bongalongherb · 16-05-2014 10:19PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

I wish someone would carjack my pos. Give me an excuse to get somthing else.

If said piece of sh!t gets you to point A and B, then it's a good car, who cares what it looks like, once it does the job. We all can't be too fussy now can we.

The One Doctor · 16-05-2014 10:25PM

There's a very simple solution.

Lock you car doors while driving. And before someone whines about safety, car doors are designed to unlock in a crash.

Bonedigger · 16-05-2014 10:29PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

It's sad that it's gotten to the stage where we have to do that just to get on with our business :mad:

Would be nice if the politicians would finally start to take the scumbag problem in our capital seriously

What can the politicians do - authorise sterilisation programmes for scangers?
Unfortunately we're just never going to have a scumbag free world!

downonthefarm · 16-05-2014 10:33PM

Wtf is going on,when I was a lad everyone wanted to be a footballer or a bank robber

My name is URL · 16-05-2014 10:33PM

Bonedigger wrote: »

What can the politicians do - authorise sterilisation programmes for scangers?
Unfortunately we're just never going to have a scumbag free world!

They could start by making funds available to build a few new, and much needed prisons.

ratracer · 16-05-2014 10:38PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

There's a very simple solution.

Lock you car doors while driving. And before someone whines about safety, car doors are designed to unlock in a crash.

Ahm, I don't think they are designed to unlock in a crash. If they did scumbags would be driving into the back of parked cars just to get the doors to open.

c_man · 16-05-2014 10:42PM

I expect that Dublin in the 2020's will resemble the post-apocalyptic L.A. in the Terminator movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJr5cp01mI

MadsL · 16-05-2014 10:52PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

There's a very simple solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc

SEPT 23 1989 · 16-05-2014 10:55PM

The woman and her children were uninjured during the incident.

mentally destroyed

Tail Docker · 16-05-2014 11:24PM

mad muffin wrote: »

If things get any worse, no one is going to stop at the traffic lights.

Our SEAT Altea XL automatically locks the doors as soon as you go past 5km or there about.

LOL. Hop in boys, knock yerselves out, don't mind me while I twist off your bits. Not quite everybody. They are targetting women, mainly as they are gutless little scummers.

Holsten · 16-05-2014 11:27PM

What the hell... another one?

Every day there is something now, the place is getting worse every week!

Cuddlesworth · 16-05-2014 11:45PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

There's a very simple solution.

Lock you car doors while driving. And before someone whines about safety, car doors are designed to unlock in a crash.

You know what, I'm not going to do that. And its not because "I'm a hard man" or any other bull****. Its just that the chances of anybody car jacking me are pretty much slim to none. I'd have better luck handing my money over to buy lottery tickets. I don't see the point in having your life dictated by the fear of something that "might" happen.

the_syco · 17-05-2014 04:25AM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

You know what, I'm not going to do that.

I'm guessing you don't have kids?

biko · 17-05-2014 05:08AM

Live in Waterford.

downonthefarm · 17-05-2014 10:45AM

Probably whacked out on scuzz or just playing too much GTA

Menas · 17-05-2014 10:49AM

I don't know why people are surprised that this happened.
In 1993 colleague of mine was sitting in traffic in the inner city and two scummers threw a rat in the window.
She jumped out screaming, they jumped in and nicked the car.

Maphisto · 17-05-2014 10:52AM

This is what they do in New Joysey

Caledonia · 17-05-2014 06:02PM

Mr.S wrote: »

Clearly an isolated incident though, I live 30 seconds away from there and usually the only "trouble" is from the loud school kids.

Sounds like this guy was just on a bit of a wander and ended up in Rathgar!

Is it def legit?

mad muffin · 17-05-2014 08:19PM

downonthefarm wrote: »

Well if she was driving a fancy car she deserves to get it robbed.

I think you forgot to emote.

This? :pac: or this?

because I'm sure you cannot be serious

Car jacking on woman with two children in Dublin suburbs

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