Incident at Cork Airport

Reganovski

Just hearing from my sister that there has been some incident above in Cork airport. Some nutter ran out onto runway, stole a fire-engine and tried to crash it into a plane. Then he tried to steal one of those luggage thingies. Apparently about 10 gardai trying to catch him....think they had to stun-gun him or something.

Roar

From twitter

"Guy steals Garda jeep outside BT in Cork, drives to Airport, attempts to ram into plane, taken out & tasered, wearing only jocks."

!" lunatic stole police jeep in city, drove to Cork airport, tried to ram planes, now on floor after being tasered and rammed by police"

"@johnpeavoy: Cork Airport. http://twitpic.com/514rs2"

POGAN

craziness

zuroph

Psssh, i do this all the time In Grand Theft Auto

langdang

Madness!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0522/breaking27.html


rishtimes.com - Last Updated: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 17:36
Man rams plane in stolen fire engine
BARRY ROCHE Southern Correspondent

Gardaí in Cork have arrested an armed man who tried to ram an aeroplane in a stolen fire engine at Cork airport this afternoon.

The man, who is in his forties, had earlier attacked a garda in Cork city centre and slashed him in the face with a knife before stealing a Garda traffic jeep and driving to Cork airport where he rammed through the perimeter fence.

The man then stole an airport fire tender and rammed a number of vehicles before trying to ram a parked plane. It is not clear if the plane he attempted to ram was a commercial passenger jet.

A large number of garda, including armed members of the regional support unit, arrested the man at the airport under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and also seized a 12 inch knife.

He is being questioned at Togher Garda station.

There are no reports of any shots being fired. The injured garda has been taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening.

zuroph

he got that far, how did they stop him from ramming the plane?!

kerry4sam

langdang wrote: »

Madness!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0522/breaking27.html


rishtimes.com - Last Updated: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 17:36
Man rams plane in stolen fire engine
BARRY ROCHE Southern Correspondent

Gardaí in Cork have arrested an armed man who tried to ram an aeroplane in a stolen fire engine at Cork airport this afternoon.

The man, who is in his forties, had earlier attacked a garda in Cork city centre and slashed him in the face with a knife before stealing a Garda traffic jeep and driving to Cork airport where he rammed through the perimeter fence.

The man then stole an airport fire tender and rammed a number of vehicles before trying to ram a parked plane. It is not clear if the plane he attempted to ram was a commercial passenger jet.

A large number of garda, including armed members of the regional support unit, arrested the man at the airport under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and also seized a 12 inch knife.

He is being questioned at Togher Garda station.

There are no reports of any shots being fired. The injured garda has been taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening.

Wish the Garda a speedy recovery to duty . If ever their was a situation for the taser, here it is!

theparish

Al Quedas standards have dropped.

Papa_Lazarou

http://twitpic.com/514rs2

Thought there was a lot of sirens blaring going up the hill earlier alright.

Show Time

Serious nutter now locked up.

langdang

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0522/cork.html

Audio is funny on the video...

Lapin

Yet another good reason not to visit Cork.

Monty Burnz

Lapin wrote: »

Yet another good reason not to visit Cork.

Yup. That brings the total up to...one.

Oafley Jones

It's basically what I end up doing in GTA once the boredom kicks in. Hope the Garda wasn't hurt too badly.

run_Forrest_run

the security are so hung up over people bringing a tweezers with them in their hold all and this looper can leave a trail of destruction from the city up to the airport and break through onto the apron...unbelievable.

Hope none of the sane people were badly injured, as for the looper, tie him to the wing of that A320 and take off!

cookie75

Can you imagine if he pulled that stunt on friday could have been the end of him.

ofcork

Was stuck in traffic in patrick street today and saw a bmw 6 series stopped outside dunnes with a big dent and broken glass around,i assume it was part of the same incident.

dave1982

GTA 5 Cork city:D

KingIsabella

I wonder how far he would have gotten last week.....

Wetbench4

He was disappointed about the lack of the rapture. So he brought his own world to an end.:) Was he a local?

Edit: I hope he was wearing clean jocks!

corkkitteh

ofcork wrote: »

Was stuck in traffic in patrick street today and saw a bmw 6 series stopped outside dunnes with a big dent and broken glass around,i assume it was part of the same incident.

The guy jumped into the Garda jeep - A Toyota Landcruiser, and reversed into the 6 series. Made sh1te of it. The poor fella who owned it will have an strange insurance claim to fill out!

ofcork

Strange actually had passed the bmw earlier in patrick street he was heading towards grand parade and must have come back around,talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Very lucky that he collided with cars and not people. Scary stuff. Presumambly in about a years time we'll read about his supended sentence.

54kroc

Deleted User wrote: »

Very lucky that he collided with cars and not people. Scary stuff. Presumambly in about a years time we'll read about his supended sentence.

I can't see him ever seeing the inside of a prison, surely he'll end up in a mental hospital.

dave1982

So Neil will be reporting on a "incident" not involving him in the morning

evilivor

dave1982 wrote: »

So Neil will be reporting on a "incident" not involving him in the morning

I heard something about a man in a state of undress, criminality and an Aer Lingus plane and I thought of Neil.

CoalBucket

dave1982 wrote: »

So Neil will be reporting on a "incident" not involving him in the morning

Maybe he had taken some nurofen plus before he went on the rampage

54kroc

CoalBucket wrote: »

Maybe he had taken some nurofen plus before he went on the rampage

Please please ring 96fm in the morning and say that.

zuroph

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72364331&postcount=14699

CharlesHaughey

Thank God he didn't bump into 50 Cent's private jet...

or else Fiddy woulda been out with the gats and shotties, and he woulda bin "poppin' them thangs". Word is born, son. And the man woulda been in his underpants and Fiddy be like "where's ya jeans" and the man would say "you goin' down Fiddy" and then Fiddy would lay the driver the ***k out with the gunfire.

And them i'd be at home watching it on the TV and going "PHOW!" and making other types of explosion noises, and then say "That mo' fo' got laid out, Fo' Sho'". *sips Hennessey*.

castie

Oafley Jones wrote: »

It's basically what I end up doing in GTA once the boredom kicks in. Hope the Garda wasn't hurt too badly.

I was thinking the exact same thing!!