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Have you a fag?......leads to assault

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  • #102
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Piriz wrote: »
    was that the guy in Crumlin? i read a story about it in the Indo, f'in awful..

    Yes .


  • #103
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    bigroad wrote: »
    The Government have plenty of cash ,its just wasted. I will start with the free legal aid that's wasted on these repeat offenders. Gardaí man hours is another one.

    What? That statement is so contradictory I won't even bother getting into it.


  • #104
    eladnova
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭eladnova


    Reading this thread has made me realise I need to be more cautious in Dublin. I feel for you guys and girls who have experienced hassle and assault. I can't imagine how scary that is or how it affects your confidence and trust in people. Sending you good thoughts!

    I've never had any physical hassle but that's probably a result of sheer naivety (when I was younger) and I've always been tall for my age. 22 years ago I would have been coming out of Fibbers off Parnell Street or various gigs round the Point in the AM hours. 22 years later and my partner gets very concerned if I've to be in town at night time. I always laugh at her and in the back of my mind I'm thinking "I'm tall. I've FROM the north side. I've never had any real hassle". Of course I can see how stupid that is in the face of random assault.

    In all my years in living in Dublin I've only had one incident. Looking back it was the 'ole size em up routine but I didn't realise at the time and was probably one of the reasons I escaped without a broken face. Our college had access to a swimming pool down down at Sean McDermott Street (off Gardiner Street). God knows why - it was miles away. I went once one winter night around 6pm. Pitch black. Street deserted. it's got that wierd tension you can pickup sometimes when your spidey senses are working. Sure enough some guy appears out of nowehere, blocks my path and to be honest I didn't understand completely what he said (which probably helped). It sounded like "Heorrrr bud, you wann smack?". I tried to understand the question. Did I want a smack? Or did I want smack (to but some)? Either way, the answer was no and I got out of there. I always think back to that day and how lucky I possibly was and how quickly it can happen.

    Funny you mention Galway. It's the only place I've ever been to where I consistently experienced random hassle. Is there a particularly big drug problem there or maybe I stayed in the wrong hostels when I was younger?

    First time I was in a chipper around 3AM with a mate. Some guy came in and stood at the opposite end of the counter. We took no notice of him but were watching the TV above his head. I think he intrepreted this as us looking at him because he started to get real aggressive very quickly. He didn't actually approach us but he was quickly escalating from "What the f**k do you want? Are you looking at ME?????" etc. I realised he sweating profusely and when het tried wiping his face with the laminated menus we bailed.

    Second time was walking back to hostel in the early hours with a mate and some guy started to scream at any/everyone for zero reason. He then proceeded to kick the **** out of several cars at a red light. It seemed completely random as he was walking somewhat calmly down the road on front of us just before he kicked off. One of those cars was a Garda car which he hadn't noticed so his episode didn't last long.


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