Local Thug Died

Lord Trollington · 11-11-2014 09:40PM #1

Basically a lad from my home town, in his mid 20's died this week due to various complications caused by long term hard drug use.

He had many convictions, armed robbery & assault to name but a few and spent time in prison.

He was an active thug and outright scummer up until the complications started several months ago. Not a weekend would go by where him or one of his cronies would assault someone outside one of the many bars they were barred from after closing. He is from a long line of thugs and many of his midnight buddies he's left behind I would imagine are still strung out on the same hard drugs that killed him at this moment.

What I cannot get my head around is the outpouring of grief from a lot of people from the town on social media, very respected business people too. Not 6/7 years ago did he use a hand gun to rob the local mace holding up a young girl from the town with a gun, the shop shortly after closed because of it.

I have had little or no dealings with him in 10 years. But maybe my thought process is tainted as my last dealing with him was a headbut which i received when I was 17.

Am I being harsh or does an unbelievably filthy past one of bullying, terrorising, beatings and assaults, drug use, robbery, vandalism and many many more be forgiven just like that?

Tail Docker · 11-11-2014 09:43PM

It's Ireland. Never a bollox died, they're all saints in the graveyard.

Cookie_Monster · 11-11-2014 09:44PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

It's Ireland. Never a bollox died, they're all saints in the graveyard.

Indeed, just look at Haughey's funeral...

solomafioso · 11-11-2014 09:44PM

Because this backwards Catholic country doesn't like to "speak ill of the dead". C*nt in life is still a c*nt in death.

My name is URL · 11-11-2014 09:44PM

What I cannot get my head around is the outpouring of grief from a lot of people from the town on social media

Well the dead guy is unlikely to see it so maybe it's more for the benefit of his grieving family, who are a grieving family regardless of what the dead guy got up to?

castletownman · 11-11-2014 09:45PM

One less scummer in the world. I wish there was a bad batch of yokes to wipe out a few in my town too.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 11-11-2014 09:45PM

That sh1te drives me bonkers. When I die, I hope at least one person will have the balls to come out and say I was an auld b1tch....

porsche boy · 11-11-2014 09:45PM

Couldn't have said it better T/B. Just look at the send off we gave that durty thief Charlie Haughley. Sure we never speak ill of the dead.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 09:46PM

Seems to be an Irish thing. Everyone gets a hard on for the dead. A girl killed herself (strung out too) at the end of summer, she had one friend and was dead for days before anyone realised she was gone. Over 200 people showed up at the funeral and people who beat her up the year before were writing tributes to the "beautiful young woman"

jamesbere · 11-11-2014 09:47PM

I think this just shows the good nature of your local community, even with all the bad deeds he did they can still show respect at his passing.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 11-11-2014 09:47PM

Just be happy he is dead op and the odd night just grab a bottle of Jemmy and go up and dance a jig on his grave.
Will make you feel better.

Michael Weston · 11-11-2014 09:49PM

I think this thread is going to be good craic , have seen this happen in my own town, absolute skank died in prison from an overdose. He's in for dealing and assault and the local rag prints the headline such and such was a gentle giant!!! He was not he was a Robbin prick

Lord Trollington · 11-11-2014 09:49PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Well the dead guy is unlikely to see it so maybe it's more for the benefit of his grieving family, who are a grieving family regardless of what the dead guy got up to?

Why not just say nothing. His family are far from upstanding citizens themselves and are well known throughout the town. To call them scum would be an insult to scum.

What they have cost the tax payer in free legal aid and jail time I would hate to see let alone social welfare.

wandatowell · 11-11-2014 09:50PM

jamesbere wrote: »

I think this just shows the good nature of your local community, even with all the bad deeds he did they can still show respect at his passing.

It does show the good nature of the local community you're right but I'd say f*ck him. The guy was a prick and a hindrance to the town.

He's no loss I'd imagine.

Lord Trollington · 11-11-2014 09:51PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Just be happy he is dead op and the odd night just grab a bottle of Jemmy and go up and dance a jig on his grave.
Will make you feel better.

I can safely say I'm not glad he's dead. I have no feelings either way I am that long gone from the town.

If he died tragically I suppose one might have some sort of feeling but he what he died from was self inflicted through years of hard drug abuse.

jamesbere · 11-11-2014 09:52PM

wandatowell wrote: »

It does show the good nature of the local community you're right but I'd say f*ck him. The guy was a prick and a hindrance to the town.

He's no loss I'd imagine.

Give it a few days and no one will be talking about him.

Arsemageddon · 11-11-2014 09:52PM

OP, Maybe the lad had changed his ways since you last had any dealings with him?

A good few of the troublemakers in my home town were wild when they were in their teens/early twenties but then quietened down when they got a bit older and wised up.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-11-2014 09:54PM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

OP, Maybe the lad had changed his ways since you last had any dealings with him?

A good few of the troublemakers in my home town were wild when they were in their teens/early twenties but then quietened down when they got a bit older and wised up.

He said in the OP that this fella was still at it up until his health problems started a few months ago.

retroactive · 11-11-2014 09:56PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

It's Ireland. Never a bollox died, they're all saints in the graveyard.

Christ, I nearly broke a rib laughing.

Arsemageddon · 11-11-2014 09:57PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He said in the OP that this fella was still at it up until his health problems started a few months ago.

He also said he had nothing to do with him for the last ten years.

Was just offering a possible suggestion as to why the locals were expressing their sympathies.

My name is URL · 11-11-2014 09:58PM

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Why not just say nothing. His family are far from upstanding citizens themselves and are well known throughout the town. To call them scum would be an insult to scum.

What they have cost the tax payer in free legal aid and jail time I would hate to see let alone social welfare.

That still doesn't mean that they're not a grieving family. Ideally people would say nothing instead of feigning sadness and venting their spleens, but would you prefer to see a community openly celebrate the death of a person?

cloud493 · 11-11-2014 09:58PM

I wouldn't say I have any sympathy for anyone like that whose lifestyle or whatever led them to this. But on the other hand, I hate to speak ill of the dead, they were someones son or daughter, whatever, someone somewhere loved them.

trapattack · 11-11-2014 09:59PM

Don't do a Fran on it are you will never look at a pool queue or taking a shower the same again!

Chunners · 11-11-2014 10:00PM

**** him, the grave is not a "get out of jail free card", if he was a prick when he was alive he is just as much a prick when he is dead, just because he is a stiffy now doesn't make him all of a sudden a saint that we should all pity because "his life was cut short", if he wasn't such an asshole from the start then maybe it wouldn't have been. He made his choices let him die with them

sashafierce · 11-11-2014 10:04PM

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knucklehead6 · 11-11-2014 10:07PM

Did we not have this thread a while back?

BlatentCheek · 11-11-2014 10:08PM

Saw this before when some lad took himself and a load of people out in a drink and drugs fuelled car crash, you'd think Mandela had died the way some people were going on.

I felt it was a bit OTT but given how bad the family must have felt (grief mixed with shame) the dishonesty of the post-mortem lionisation of the guy on social media and elsewhere didn't really bother me.

Ultimately there's no point getting too bothered about other people's opinions, they'll mostly be wrong so it's a losing battle.

RayM · 11-11-2014 10:14PM

rip, cant stop cryin so sad, heavans got a new angle now sleep tight hun xx

Cantremember · 11-11-2014 10:15PM

It's just the worst trait in our national character: cowardice. The guy was a scrote who brought misery to others. If people don't want to tell it like it was then they should just say nothing. The absence of the usual shyte should get the message across. It's interesting you say he came from a long line of thugs. They usually do.

Michael Weston · 11-11-2014 10:18PM

uote="RayM;92998411"]rip, cant stop cryin so sad, heavans got a new angle now sleep tight hun xx[/quote]

What new angle is heaven working now ;-)

Tail Docker · 11-11-2014 10:22PM

Michael Weston wrote: »

What new angle is heaven working now ;-)

An acute one.

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