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No more armed escorts..

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  • #2
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I avoid clichés like the plague but at the end of the day I think it's a case of the Emperor's new clothes wanting his cake and eating it going forward.


  • #3
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Reading Thread Title,...I thought....Hookers with Guns :rolleyes:

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #4
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    carzony wrote: »
    Seems like a crazy decision and even worse broadcasting it :eek:

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1129/663536-cash-in-transit-escort/

    The 'defence forces' will have nothing to do now :D:D




    maybe its a double bluff ;)


  • #5
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    I avoid clichés like the plague but at the end of the day I think it's a case of the Emperor's new clothes wanting his cake and eating it going forward.


    I want to touch your base.


  • #6
    blindside88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    carzony wrote: »
    Seems like a crazy decision and even worse broadcasting it :eek:

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1129/663536-cash-in-transit-escort/

    The 'defence forces' will have nothing to do now :D:D

    I don't think the lads robbing cash in transit vans get their info from rte news so I have no problem with them broadcasting it :)


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  • #7
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Nodin wrote: »
    I want to touch your base.

    Let's promote synergy and enable blue sky thinking.


  • #8
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Those trucks were empty anyways, it was just a ploy by the banks to let people think they had money


  • #9
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    I've never understood this, I thought they had automated systems to put the cash beyond use in the event of a robbery.


  • #10
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    There must be flooding on the way then.


  • #11
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »
    I've never understood this, I thought they had automated systems to put the cash beyond use in the event of a robbery.

    They do. We send it all to Germany. They mind it using guns.


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I am sure the criminals knew all about this before RTE did


  • #13
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Time for an Italian Irish Job anyone :rolleyes::D


  • #14
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    I wouldn't like to be the driver of those vans now. The criminals will be too dumb to understand the technology behind securing the money. They'll just think there's money in the van so give us it. The driver will have a terrible time.


  • #15
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    The banks have already been robbed blind from the inside by the people who ran them and the Government,Gardai and Army were powerless to stop them.
    And what's more not a single person has spent a minute in prison as a result.!!


  • #16
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Broadcasting it might be a honeypot ploy.


  • #17
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    I'm going to miss the horrified expressions of the American tourists in Galway as the guards and the army parade up Shop St to the bank.

    I had one guy stop dead in his tracks, taking in the guns and soldiers, turn to me and whisper:

    "What's happening? It's alright, you can tell me..."


  • #18
    carzony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭carzony


    The guards and army won't be happy. That's 7 million a year gone from the wages


  • #19
    munwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭munwin


    carzony wrote: »
    The guards and army won't be happy. That's 7 million a year gone from the wages

    The army will be on the dole now.


  • #20
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    wait, did RTE not make mention of the first few banks/routes to stop using the forces as defence? This was about a year back, but it doesn't surprise me that more aren't paying for the "service".

    It's not really necessary. Most countries don't use the army for this. Although I do hope it doesn't mean more redundancies.


  • #21
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I am sure the criminals knew all about this before RTE did

    I'll say. They're the employers.


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  • #22
    Mayo Yid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 366 ✭✭Mayo Yid


    Give a thief a gun he'll rob a bank, give a thief a bank he'll rob a nation


  • #23
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    Sure the bankers and Fianna fail have them cleaned out anyway!

    There's **** all left!!


  • #24
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    munwin wrote: »
    The army will be on the dole now.

    Wrong!

    They'll be on disability because there all deaf!


  • #25
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,031 ✭✭✭✭irishgeo


    Has anyone ever tried to rob one with the army in tow?


  • #26
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    I'm glad in a way. I could never walk past them without worrying I was going to be shot!


  • #27
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Rosie Rant wrote: »
    I'm glad in a way. I could never walk past them without worrying I was going to be shot!

    ????

    you're joking right?


  • #28
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    My money is on the Gardai trailing the cash vans anyway to see if they're being tailed by gangs.


  • #29
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    looking_around wrote: »
    . .
    It's not really necessary. Most countries don't use the army for this.

    They don't usually need them because the CIT van operators are armed and trained in the use of firearms themselves.


  • #30
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    irishgeo wrote: »
    Has anyone ever tried to rob one with the army in tow?

    Yes, the Bankers, Developers and Speculators, ie Fianna Fail Cronies have done it right under their noses.


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  • #31
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    washman3 wrote: »
    Yes, the Bankers, Developers and Speculators, ie Fianna Fail Cronies have done it right under their noses.

    Sssshhhhhh!

    We don't mention that anymore!


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