Dublin tracksuit brigade strike again...Leon jumps in the Liffey (NSFW)

entropi · 07-09-2010 3:59pm #1

So the knacks strike again with top quality mobile phone footage of some lad "Leon" jumping into the River Liffey down by Liberty Hall for a 50 euro bet. NSFW tags because of that wonderful accent and bad language :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUGH6KTMVg

Doyler92 · 07-09-2010 4:03pm

Fool.

GLaDOS · 07-09-2010 4:06pm

My city makes me so proud

Leeg17 · 07-09-2010 4:08pm

If only it was the Golden Gate, if only...

Craptacular · 07-09-2010 4:09pm

Doyler92 wrote: »

Fool.

Did you have the volume turned down or wha'? He's clearly not a fool but a "mad ting".

Doyler92 · 07-09-2010 4:11pm

Craptacular wrote: »

Did you have the volume turned down or wha'? He's clearly not a fool but a "mad ting".

I actually did have the volume turned down. I heard the mad thing part though :P

John_Rambo · 07-09-2010 4:12pm

Sunny weather, clean river. I am seeing it all over the country, lads jumping in rivers, using bad language in the Shannon in Athlone, the Boyne in Navan, the Corrib in Galway... Don't see what the problem is.

Doyler92 · 07-09-2010 4:13pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Sunny weather, clean river. I am seeing it all over the country, lads jumping in rivers, using bad language in the Shannon in Athlone, the Boyne in Navan, the Corrib in Galway... Don't see what the problem is.

I know where you are coming from but do you know how dangerous it is?
If you want water go to a beach like Bettystown.

iMax · 07-09-2010 4:23pm

"hear... that young wans handicapped, if she jumps in she'll die..."

mikemac · 07-09-2010 4:27pm

"A oner"
Must be one hundred euro, I never heard that phrase before

Would have been a shame if the water was shallow and he got two broken legs!

John_Rambo wrote: »

Sunny weather, clean river. I am seeing it all over the country, lads jumping in rivers, using bad language in the Shannon in Athlone, the Boyne in Navan, the Corrib in Galway... Don't see what the problem is.

I hear you
However, people have drowned off the Quincenntinial (sp?) bridge over the Corrib

donmeister · 07-09-2010 4:30pm

I was hoping he'd drown at the end.

Rowley Birkin QC · 07-09-2010 4:30pm

A bit more chilled out but along the same lines....

Dancor · 07-09-2010 4:30pm

''she's a handicap head''

John_Rambo · 07-09-2010 4:33pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

I hear you

He didn't drown, looks like the tide was slack, he can swim strongly. I have done it plenty of times in the Liffey and the Corrib.

Don't see why you would like to see him break his legs or drown.

BaZmO* · 07-09-2010 5:44pm

The lads from Jackass do something similar and they get a TV show and eventually a film deal, a lad from Dublin does it and he's a knacker. Snobbery much?

LuckyFinigan · 07-09-2010 5:50pm

reminds me of this lad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4H6VAEtfs

Chucky the tree · 07-09-2010 5:56pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Sunny weather, clean river. I am seeing it all over the country, lads jumping in rivers, using bad language in the Shannon in Athlone, the Boyne in Navan, the Corrib in Galway... Don't see what the problem is.

:pac:

Hank_Jones · 07-09-2010 6:32pm

Leon, what a hero...

Know people that got Weils disease after swimming in the Liffey, not advisable.

Son Of A Vidic · 07-09-2010 6:37pm

Do these mindless twits represent the future of our country?

landsleaving · 07-09-2010 7:11pm

medicman2009 wrote: »

Do these mindless twits represent the future of our country?

Nope, the present. :pac:

John_Rambo · 07-09-2010 8:05pm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Know people that got Weils disease after swimming in the Liffey, not advisable.

Shyte talk. It's tidal there and flowing, salt kills Weil's and it doesn't occur in flowing water. Done the Liffey swim, swam in the Liffey, canoed the river, trained for two years and competed in East coast skiff races on the river and completed in the Liffey descent numerous times, never got sick. You are just a pure snob that doesn't like a young fella with a Dublin accent having a bit of craic swimming in the Liffey coming up with tall tales about diseases. End of.

medicman2009 wrote: »

mindless twits

I presume you were a whole bag of sense and cop on when you were his age.

Hank_Jones · 07-09-2010 8:25pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Shyte talk. It's tidal there and flowing, salt kills Weil's and it doesn't occur in flowing water. Done the Liffey swim, swam in the Liffey, canoed the river, trained for two years and competed in East coast skiff races on the river and completed in the Liffey descent numerous times, never got sick. You are just a pure snob that doesn't like a young fella with a Dublin accent having a bit of craic swimming in the Liffey coming up with tall tales about diseases. End of.

Not shyte talk, person I know did the Liffey swim and got Weil's disease from it.
I'm not a fancy Harvard scientist, but just because you didn't catch anything from being in it, that doesn't mean that others haven't.

John_Rambo · 07-09-2010 8:51pm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Not shyte talk, person I know did the Liffey swim and got Weil's disease from it.
I'm not a fancy Harvard scientist, but just because you didn't catch anything from being in it, that doesn't mean that others haven't.

What year did this happen? Have you a link about this "story" cause it's a very very serious accusation against the organisers and the event. Also, it's a bizzare and incredibly unlikely thing to happen. The tidal eastuary is very clean and supports numerous wildlife and fishlife that simply can't survive in polluted water. I am very familiar with the competition and there has never been a report of anyone contracting Weil's disease in the race. Safety and health is an important factor in all open water events. Can you pm me all the necessary info?

face1990 · 07-09-2010 9:07pm

It's an irresponsible place to swim, not least because it's going to waste the emergency service's time. Usually if there's someone in the liffey it's a suicide attempt and the gardai respond accordingly to anybody in it.

Leon, the mad ting that he is, seems very easily led. I don't see a bright future ahead of him.

07-09-2010 9:14pm

Here Nicole....fcuk off.......:pac:

nerraw1111 · 07-09-2010 9:16pm

Dublin lads having a laugh on a summer's day speaking with a Dublin accent shock.

Meanwhile, the internet tut tuts.

Hank_Jones · 07-09-2010 9:22pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

What year did this happen? Have you a link about this "story" cause it's a very very serious accusation against the organisers and the event. Also, it's a bizzare and incredibly unlikely thing to happen. The tidal eastuary is very clean and supports numerous wildlife and fishlife that simply can't survive in polluted water. I am very familiar with the competition and there has never been a report of anyone contracting Weil's disease in the race. Safety and health is an important factor in all open water events. Can you pm me all the necessary info?

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=6620

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=3183

I don't have a link about the person I know, does everyone who gets sick get a newspaper article about them?
Can't remember the exact year, think it was around 2007.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 07-09-2010 9:25pm

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Dublin lads having a laugh on a summer's day speaking with a Dublin accent shock.

Meanwhile, the internet tut tuts.

you say that like there's nothing wrong with speaking with a dublin accent

John_Rambo · 07-09-2010 9:51pm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=6620

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=3183

I don't have a link about the person I know, does everyone who gets sick get a newspaper article about them?
Can't remember the exact year, think it was around 2007.

Before you edited your post you asked for an apology in writing and you had another link about the Liffey swim.

You now have two links about Weil's disease cases in the upper Liffey concerning canoeists. I know one of the paddlers that contracted the disease and that was from walking out through stagnant still water before actually launching on the river. A close canoeist friend contracted the same disease on the Slaney in Wexford. This is common throughout Ireland, rats are rats, they urinate constantly and when you get stagnant water and rats, with a cut, you get Leptospirosis. Any farmer will tell you this. You don't get it in salt flowing water.

So, you will be waiting for that apology (in writing)

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Can't remember the exact year, think it was around 2007.

Didn't happen.

Chorcai · 07-09-2010 10:12pm

Hank_Jones · 07-09-2010 10:21pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Before you edited your post you asked for an apology in writing and you had another link about the Liffey swim.

You now have two links about Weil's disease cases in the upper Liffey concerning canoeists. I know one of the paddlers that contracted the disease and that was from walking out through stagnant still water before actually launching on the river. A close canoeist friend contracted the same disease on the Slaney in Wexford. This is common throughout Ireland, rats are rats, they urinate constantly and when you get stagnant water and rats, with a cut, you get Leptospirosis. Any farmer will tell you this. You don't get it in salt flowing water.

So, you will be waiting for that apology (in writing)

Didn't happen.

It did happen, but whatever.

I'm going to make up a story about someone I know contracting Weil's disease? For what reason?

Good night...

Dublin tracksuit brigade strike again...Leon jumps in the Liffey (NSFW)

Comments