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Almost car jacked on the N25?

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  • 13-03-2012 12:14am
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    120_Minutes
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    So I went on the lash in the city Saturday night and my better half collected me and brought me home, we were heading eastbound between carrigtwohill and Midleton close to 2 am when I felt unwell and asked her to pull in at that "abandoned junction" as I like to call it, for me to throw up.

    Just as she did so, and as I was about to open the door, she saw a guy seemingly from nowhere sprint up to the car, holding what she thought was a knife. Just as he got to the boot she floored it, and I could just make him out in the rear lights, so she wasn't making it up.

    She was understandably freaked out, but it doesn't add up for me. We only moved to the area last year, but has anyone else heard of this happening at this spot? It was by pure chance we happened to pull in, what's a guy doing out there on his own at that time of night, just waiting to snatch a car?

    I don't get it.


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    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    So did you get sick in her car?


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    eurokev
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭eurokev


    I was out that direction late at night before xmas and there was a fella walking down the middle of the road balls naked clearly out of it, and wouldnt get out of the way and giving the finger etc. Probably the same numpty


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    argosy2006
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭argosy2006


    Its rude to stop for someone then speed off laughing,
    Poor guy


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    120_Minutes
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    wheresmybeaver wrote: »
    So did you get sick in her car?

    No thankfully (and it's my car) but to add to it, when she was walking to the flat I was drinking in she saw a guy outside the Phoenix face down in a pool of his own blood, for all intents and purposes, dead. A towel had been placed over his head.

    'twas the night for it...


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    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    You can walk drive through any town in Ireland,
    But you run speed through Carrigtwohill.


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    Rhys Essien
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    Are you on about the junction which was to be the main gates to Amgen?

    If so,a few months back I was driving towards Cork City from Midleton and just at the two abandoned houses opposite this entrance(the ones covered in graffiti) at around 12 at night,I spotted some lunatic looking out the window of one of the houses.It was pitch black and all the windows smashed in the houses.

    Pity the poor fcuker that broke down near there that night.


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    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Yeah it could have been this scumbag guy from Midleton, Dodge they call him. He is often walking that road between Midleton and Carrig. He's definitely not harmless, wouldn't surprise me if it was him approaching the car and also in the abandoned house.


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    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Thanks for the report. Do please make a statement to the Gardaí.


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    johnayo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Did you report it to the guards on Saturday night?


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    booboo88
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    120_Minutes wrote: »
    No thankfully (and it's my car) but to add to it, when she was walking to the flat I was drinking in she saw a guy outside the Phoenix face down in a pool of his own blood, for all intents and purposes, dead. A towel had been placed over his head.

    'twas the night for it...

    And did she not call for help?:eek:


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    -Corkie-
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    Jesus thats frightening....


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    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    johnayo wrote: »
    Did you report it to the guards on Saturday night?

    We were kinda "did that actually happen?" for the last couple of days, but we will do so.
    booboo88 wrote: »
    And did she not call for help?:eek:

    There were people at the scene as she was passing, nothing more she could have done.


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