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    #2972
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,080 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Regrettably, ive since discovered that a house along the street from my own was broken into around the time i spotted the men and car i described, on Sunday afternoon.

    My neighbour had the Guards around this morning and tonight i rang the member that took their report and described the car and men just as i did above, which he told me was useful. Apparently that car is operating in concert with another, a 01 Mercedes Coupe, they two cars run spotter for each other. According to the Guard i spoke to in Blanch it is indeed a well known traveller gang committing a spate of burglaries. If anyone wishes to confirm that, ill happily pm the Guards name.


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    #2973
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    Collectors in castleknock area for thormond house,thats a Limerick charity, can't imagine it's a legit one.


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    #2974
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    3 teenage travellers on push bikes surveying Stockton area, one of the push bikes has a petrol engine attached.


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    #2975
    LaLa2004
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭LaLa2004


    There is a teenager collecting for Melodeon Youth club -something to do with a Zambian project. He is operating in the Laurel Lodge area this evening(Thursday). He told a number of lies on my doorstep. Seems suspect.
    From an Internet search it looks like a group which operated in Lucan in July 2015.


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    #2976
    donaghs
    Registered Users Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭donaghs


    Traveller van going around laurel lodge area. Only suspicious as sister could heard loud snapping sounds outside front of house, for almost 5 mins. When she eventually went to investigate it, the lad out the front claimed he was having trouble getting his leaflet through the letter box. Ridiculous. Got the impression he was having a look through, testing the door too.

    There's two of them and a branded van so I assume they do some legitimate garden business too


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    #2977
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    Is it illegal to cut down trees on a public green?


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    #2978
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    Conal tree services cutting trees since early this morning on pecks lane.


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    #2979
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    horse7 wrote: »
    Is it illegal to cut down trees on a public green?

    It's only illegal if they haven't been contracted to do it.


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    #2980
    Valentina
    Registered Users Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    horse7 wrote: »
    Conal tree services cutting trees since early this morning on pecks lane.

    Earlier in the week they were pruning trees on Pecks Lane that were interfering with the power lines. Presume if they're on one of the greens too that someone (Fingal Co Co or ESB?) has brought them in.


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    #2981
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    No power lines.


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    #2982
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    January wrote: »
    It's only illegal if they haven't been contracted to do it.

    Thats not so.I t doesn't make something legal because you pay someone to do something.


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    #2983
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    donaghs wrote: »
    Traveller van going around laurel lodge area. Only suspicious as sister could heard loud snapping sounds outside front of house, for almost 5 mins. When she eventually went to investigate it, the lad out the front claimed he was having trouble getting his leaflet through the letter box. Ridiculous. Got the impression he was having a look through, testing the door too.

    There's two of them and a branded van so I assume they do some legitimate garden business too

    Call local cop shop and give reg and van details I have many times.


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    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    horse7 wrote: »
    Thats not so.I t doesn't make something legal because you pay someone to do something.

    Presumably the council maintain the road around that area and have contracted these guys to remove the trees, maybe because they are diseased or impeding view, or their roots are affecting the pathway or similar.


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    #2985
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    There hardly going to do council work on a bank holiday week end.


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    #2986
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    horse7 wrote: »
    There hardly going to do council work on a bank holiday week end.

    Why don't you go and ask them?

    They've obviously been hired by someone.


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    #2987
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Are they taking up or blocking any part of the road? If so, they might have been a requirement to do it on a weekend when traffic should in theory be less than a work/school day.


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    #2988
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    horse7 wrote: »
    There hardly going to do council work on a bank holiday week end.

    And you know this how? There's currently a group of lads working on a council house to get it ready for the next person moving in. It's Saturday FGS, not Christmas Day.


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    #2989
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    jack presley wrote: »
    Are they taking up or blocking any part of the road? If so, they might have been a requirement to do it on a weekend when traffic should in theory be less than a work/school day.

    No


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    #2990
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    January wrote: »
    And you know this how? There's currently a group of lads working on a council house to get it ready for the next person moving in. It's Saturday FGS, not Christmas Day.

    No need for sarcasm.


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    #2991
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Either way is this really a Neighbourhood Watch issue?


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    #2992
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Either way is this really a Neighbourhood Watch issue?

    So basically there's a few lads cutting a few trees on a Saturday? Call the feds.


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    #2993
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    jack presley wrote: »
    So basically there's a few lads cutting a few trees on a Saturday? Call the feds.

    Well, to be fair, if they're cutting down trees they shouldn't be then it is an issue for someone. Unless they're doing it to gain access to someone's back garden or stealing the trees off private property it's not really a Neighbourhood Watch issue.


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    #2994
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    For what it's worth, OP, there's a site called "fix my street", I think, that Fingal Co Co. Use to monitor things like graffiti, grass verges, trees etc. You could have a look on there and see if anyone else has reported it or leave a report yourself.


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    #2995
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    horse7 wrote: »
    No need for sarcasm.

    Wasn't sarcasm...


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    #2996
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    For what it's worth, OP, there's a site called "fix my street", I think, that Fingal Co Co. Use to monitor things like graffiti, grass verges, trees etc. You could have a look on there and see if anyone else has reported it or leave a report yourself.

    Thank you Elmo,have sent them a mail PS more mods on here than anyone,enjoy ur weekend.


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    #2997
    fasterbetter
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭fasterbetter


    The lovely cottage down by the canal between 12th lock and Ashtown was wrecked over the weekend. I only hope they were caught on the many CCTV cameras in the area. This cottage has been empty for at least a year and a small fortune was spent upgrading it recently including cameras and new windows/doors.

    I often wonder if anyone is watching those cameras down by the canal on the new cycle path?.


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    #2998
    septictank
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭septictank


    Our old friends the traveler kids collecting for a fictitious charity are doing the rounds the same 4, 1 girl 3 boys, didn't spot the mother in the car but no doubt not far away.

    Collecting for something in Leitrim around Ashtown area.


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    #2999
    SnakePlissken
    Registered Users Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    septictank wrote: »
    Our old friends the traveler kids collecting for a fictitious charity are doing the rounds the same 4, 1 girl 3 boys, didn't spot the mother in the car but no doubt not far away.

    Collecting for something in Leitrim around Ashtown area.

    Careful now, how do you know they belonged to said community, did you ask for their addresses? Interview them about their heritage? This is Boards.ie, just because something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck doesn't mean you can go around calling them a duck.


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    #3000
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭horse7


    septictank wrote: »
    Our old friends the traveler kids collecting for a fictitious charity are doing the rounds the same 4, 1 girl 3 boys, didn't spot the mother in the car but no doubt not far away.

    Collecting for something in Leitrim around Ashtown area.

    Thanks for the tip off.


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    #3001
    septictank
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭septictank


    SnakePlissken wrote: »
    Careful now, how do you know they belonged to said community, did you ask for their addresses? Interview them about their heritage? This is Boards.ie, just because something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck doesn't mean you can go around calling them a duck.

    Sorry about that.

    Our old friends the ducks collecting ...............................


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