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Have you ever been jumped or mugged while walking in South Dublin?

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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Conservative wrote: »
    Absolutely I agree. Some of the dirtbags I see jumping onto buses/dart with free passes is scary. Not that the driver can do much about it anyway but the whole system is crazy.

    I was just pointing out that people from the country (like me) often have a warped view of parts of South Dublin. You can buy a house for 10 million quid on Vico Road and still have some rough neighbours not too far down the road.

    Bono, he is from the north side of Dublin?


  • #53
    annascott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Not me but a friend got hit in the face and badly injured in Inchicore. About 6pm broad daylight


  • #54
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Mugged in Stillorgan?

    What, did someone threaten to hit them with a bag of organic gluten free cous cous?


  • #55
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Actually, in fairness I did have someone shout abuse at me and try to punch me in Dalkey one night.

    He was about 90, couldn't stand and missed me by about a metre. It was the best laugh of the night.


  • #56
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Do people from Dublin realise there are another 25 counties where things also happen? What if I wanted to share my exciting mugging story? :D

    Or is there a reason why this post is so specific? I've noticed a few of them have been, over the past few days. Odd...


  • #57
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I've lived in Stillorgan for 33 years, never a problem, except once.
    In the shopping centre I was crossing the car park when a Johnnie Walker (whiskey) white van missed me by inches. He was going at speed the wrong way in the one-way.
    Just inside Tesco I said to him that he was driving dangerously and could have hit me. He leaned over me threateningly, and asked me to start something.
    Just then a guy in a suit in his mid 20s, about 6'5" and strong, leaned over him and said he thought it was dangerous.
    I was saved.
    I believe in guardian angels.


  • #58
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Did anyone ever rob the robber? I was getting mugged one day but decided to switch it up and robbed the guy trying to rob me. Luckily I had a 6 inch hunting knife on me at the time he had no weapon. I took his phone, money and his runners, I left him with his clothes though.


  • #59
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Did anyone ever rob the robber? I was getting mugged one day but decided to switch it up and robbed the guy trying to rob me. Luckily I had a 6 inch hunting knife on me at the time he had no weapon. I took his phone, money and his runners, I left him with his clothes though.

    Sounds familiar mate.


  • #60
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    Sounds familiar mate.

    I was only joking, luckily I was never mugged or tried to be mugged either.


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  • #61
    LeBash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭LeBash


    riemann wrote: »
    Poster is correct re South Dublin, feels much safer than the North. Lived in both places, no comparison.

    That is a load of rich creamery butter.


  • #62
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    I'd love to bring someone who's not familiar with Dublin but talk about "D4" around to Ringsend some day! :D


  • #63
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    I've lived all over Dublin, including places like Tallaght, Clondalkin and Ballyfermot but the only time anything ever happened me was when I was walking out of work at about 5.30 in the day. It was where the Hilton hotel is near Clare Hall in Coolock, two scumbags tried to beat me up and stab me with a Stanley knife to rob my bag off me. Thankfully I fought them off and the one with the blade got arrested


  • #64
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    A skanger tried to rob me outside the Central Bank. He stuck his hand in and robbed my wallet.

    A serious red mist descended and he ended jumped into the cabin of an oncoming truck having been given the kicking of a lifetime.

    Wallet retrieved successfully.


  • #65
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Yeah when i was 13 a junkie robbed £10 of me at needle point.


  • #66
    pxdf9i5cmoavkz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭pxdf9i5cmoavkz


    cruais wrote: »
    PS I am a Northsider. Ya better watch out, I might mug you. FFS

    Not if I mug you first!


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  • #67
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Despite travelling to some truly awful ****eholes in many different countries over the years, I've been lucky enough to have never been mugged, but the closest I've come was in Tara Street where I was meeting a work colleague - he rang me, and as I answered my phone, I saw him about 100 yards away - we walked towards each other, and some guy came flying across the street, hit him with a shoulder, and as he lay on the ground, grabbed his phone and ran off with it.


  • #68
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    If I was a mugger it would be the richer neighbourhoods I would be hanging out in.


  • #69
    Nabber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    I mug from the south and give to the North.

    The Sheriff is pissed, but fcuk him.


  • #70
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    No. Only in the north side, in Swords.


  • #71
    tara73
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭tara73


    nullzero wrote: »
    Nowhere is safe in Dublin, junkies get free travel. Just you wait until the red and green Luas lines are joined up, brass monkeys shuffling around in Cherrywood and leopardstown.
    On a positive note it might serve as a natural regulator for property prices.

    this really made me laugh:pac: funny thinking!


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  • #72
    LincolnHawk
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭LincolnHawk


    The notion of South Dublin as safe/posh/wealthy is always laughable. It's a massive area with pockets of wealth, surrounded by rougher parts, with some middle class bits, some shtholes. The same mix as the north side, albeit with slightly more affluence per m2


  • #73
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Compare Henry Street and Grafton Street.

    Never any hassle walking along Grafton Street at 4am.

    Henry Street usually has bunches of loitering scumbags at 4am.


  • #74
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    A skanger tried to rob me outside the Central Bank. He stuck his hand in and robbed my wallet.

    A serious red mist descended and he ended jumped into the cabin of an oncoming truck having been given the kicking of a lifetime.

    Wallet retrieved successfully.

    Did that happen? Really?


  • #75
    dresden8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭dresden8


    the_syco wrote: »
    Compare Henry Street and Grafton Street.

    Never any hassle walking along Grafton Street at 4am.

    Henry Street usually has bunches of loitering scumbags at 4am.

    Hamsterdam.

    It's policy.


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