New Employee Got Mugged

YFlyer

Our new employee from China got mugged on the Groody Road at approximately 7:30 pm Wednesday evening.

They threatened him with a screwdriver. Took his cash. Luckily they didn't take his laptop, memory sticks or bank cards.

He was fairly shaken since it was his first time ever getting mugged.

Yurt2

YFlyer wrote: »

Our new employee from China got mugged on the Groody Road at approximately 7:30 pm Wednesday evening.

They threatened him with a screwdriver. Took his cash. Luckily they didn't take his laptop, memory sticks or bank cards.

He was fairly shaken since it was his first time ever getting mugged.

Very sorry to hear your colleague went through that, and it must be traumatic for him.

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

Going by where it happened and the nature of the mugging, I'd wager that it was a native ethnic type that was the perp. Very little in the way of crime out that way bar the usual suspects.

Grab All Association

He was most likely mugged because he was a very easy target. Dirty scumbag(s) hopefully he got a good look at them and gave a good description to Gardai of what they looked like. Let’s hope the next person they target is able to take the screwdriver from them and stab them right in the balls.

YFlyer

Yurt! wrote: »

Very sorry to hear your colleague went through that, and it must be traumatic for him.

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

Going by where it happened and the nature of the mugging, I'd wager that it was a native ethnic type that was the perp. Very little in the way of crime out that way bar the usual suspects.

True, it normally quiet there.

Yeah I knew exactly who did it as I passed there before 7 pm and one of them was training his equine breed.

YFlyer

Grab All Association wrote: »

He was most likely mugged because he was a very easy target. Dirty scumbag(s) hopefully he got a good look at them and gave a good description to Gardai of what they looked like. Let’s hope the next person they target is able to take the screwdriver from them and stab them right in the balls.

The chap was well shaken. Shouldn't have been totally wet behind the ears as he is currently studying for his PhD at UCD.

Yurt2

I won't speculate.

YFlyer

Yurt! wrote: »

I won't speculate.

I was talking to the Chinese student this morning. He is over the initial shock.

Yurt2

Yurt! wrote: »

I won't speculate.

Don't believe those were my exact words but I'll accept the mod-snip!

YFlyer

Yurt! wrote: »

Don't believe those were my exact words but I'll accept the mod-snip!

I was replying to your earlier version of the post ðŸ˜

AllForIt

Yurt! wrote: »

Very sorry to hear your colleague went through that, and it must be traumatic for him.

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

Going by where it happened and the nature of the mugging, I'd wager that it was a native ethnic type that was the perp. Very little in the way of crime out that way bar the usual suspects.

Are you saying that when I lived in south London and I was robbed 3 times and intimidated 3 times all by people of colour that those incidents should have been recorded as a racist attack?

Yurt2

AllForIt wrote: »

Are you saying that when I lived in south London and I was robbed 3 times and intimidated 3 times all by people of colour that those incidents should have been recorded as a racist attack?

I don't know if you were explicitly targeted because of your race, but if you have reason to believe you were, I see no reason why it shouldn't be recorded by the police and serve as an aggravating factor in the crime. I'm honestly unaware of the legislative position in the UK with this; but I believe it should be introduced in Ireland for sure.

Cookiemunster

It's obvious not a nice thing to happen, but I'm not sure of the point of this thread. The OP has told the story and left it open ended. Are you looking for help in finding the attackers? Advice on what the victim should do? What's the fact that he's a new employee got to do with anything?

DrGreenThumb82

These scumbags are opportunists plain and simple.

If they saw a young Irish student in the same situation they'd have pounced too.

Racism is not the reason. They've never needed that to motivate their criminal behaviour.

YFlyer

Cookiemunster wrote: »

It's obvious not a nice thing to happen, but I'm not sure of the point of this thread. The OP has told the story and left it open ended. Are you looking for help in finding the attackers? Advice on what the victim should do? What's the fact that he's a new employee got to do with anything?

To mention that these attacks still occur.

Cookiemunster

YFlyer wrote: »

To mention that these attacks still occur.

In fairness it's not exactly news that muggings occur. They happen every day all over the world and as long as there are criminals and junkies will continue to happen. I'm still not sure why it was relevant that the victim was a new employee in your company though. It could happen to anyone.

YFlyer

Cookiemunster wrote: »

In fairness it's not exactly news that muggings occur. They happen every day all over the world and as long as there are criminals and junkies will continue to happen. I'm still not sure why it was relevant that the victim was a new employee in your company though. It could happen to anyone.

It was a local incident that happened to a foreign student.

consulatory

Yurt! wrote: »

Very sorry to hear your colleague went through that, and it must be traumatic for him.

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

Oh FFS. Not everything is racially motivated. The word racist is on the verge of losing all meaning.

bb1234567

Yurt! wrote: »

Very sorry to hear your colleague went through that, and it must be traumatic for him.

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

Going by where it happened and the nature of the mugging, I'd wager that it was a native ethnic type that was the perp. Very little in the way of crime out that way bar the usual suspects.

If the sole purpose was to rob the victim, then why do you think the the criminals chose to rob him because of his race? You havn't even met the lad or know what he looks like, (there are dozens of ethnic groups in China), and your'e bringing race into it without knowing anything about the crime beyond the very basic details. It may be very relevant, who knows, but saying it likely is racially motivated based on absolutely no evidence and then going onto criticise the police force for poor reporting of this type of crime is pretty ridiculous. When you posted that, you didn't even know whether the crime had been loged with the gardai, or what information the gardai looked for if it was.

6541

Limerick is a bad place.

bazz26

6541 wrote: »

Limerick is a bad place.

Stop using your parent's boards.ie account little one.

osarusan

Tbf, I'm assuming the idea that he might have been targeted because he was Chinese is just because he'd likely be an easier target (less familiar with muggings, less familiar with escape routes, less understanding of the actual physical danger he was in, more likely to be carrying large amounts of cash) that some race-based dislike of any Chinese ethnic groups.

That is to say, his race, or his foreignness at least, may have made him a target.

Muggers the world over target tourists/foreigners for the same reasons.

YFlyer

Sadly the guy got such a bad experience, he has left Limerick and gone back to UCD to continue his studies.

antix80

Yurt! wrote: »

To my understanding, the Gardai don't log such incidents as racially aggravated assaults / thefts, even though he was likely picked out because of his race. They should really start doing so.

They certainly should not.

callaway92

YFlyer wrote: »

Sadly the guy got such a bad experience, he has left Limerick and gone back to UCD to continue his studies.

Grim really. Scumbag doing the same to so many others no doubt.

Cookiemunster

YFlyer wrote: »

Sadly the guy got such a bad experience, he has left Limerick and gone back to UCD to continue his studies.

As I said before it's not a nice thing to happen, but it's not unique to Limerick. He's as likely to be mugged back in Dublin (or anywhere else) as he is in Limerick.

callaway92

Cookiemunster wrote: »

As I said before it's not a nice thing to happen, but it's not unique to Limerick. He's as likely to be mugged back in Dublin (or anywhere else) as he is in Limerick.

True, but how often do you hear of someone coming back from a city (eg Barcelona) and had a close call/mugged and their opinion of Spain is 'it's rough'. That'll be the guy's thought on Limerick now.

If never mugged in Dublin he'll obviously have that opinion of Limerick exclusively.

Cookiemunster

callaway92 wrote: »

True, but how often do you hear of someone coming back from a city (eg Barcelona) and had a close call/mugged and their opinion of Spain is 'it's rough'. That'll be the guy's thought on Limerick now.

If never mugged in Dublin he'll obviously have that opinion of Limerick exclusively.

I'm aware that this individual won't have a good memory of Limerick, but my point, in all my posts in this thread, is that this unfortunately happens everywhere, isn't unique to Limerick, isn't newsworthy and definitely isn't worthy of a whole thread.

banie01

callaway92 wrote: »

True, but how often do you hear of someone coming back from a city (eg Barcelona) and had a close call/mugged and their opinion of Spain is 'it's rough'. That'll be the guy's thought on Limerick now.

If never mugged in Dublin he'll obviously have that opinion of Limerick exclusively.

I've previously lived in Spain for a while, speak fairly good spanish, spent quite a bit of time travelling to Spanish cities still(Covid obviously stalled this) and Barcelona is bloody notorious for street crime, muggings and pick pocketing.

The student in question was unfortunate in that he was mugged.
The chances of him being mugged because he was Chinese are IMO near nil.
He was targeted as being coming from student accomodation or estate along with heading towards UL.

Easy mark for any quick mugging tbh.
Likely carrying a laptop, phone headphones and other electronic gear that would all be fairly quickly sold on.

If there was a modus to the targeting of the victim, it was far more likely to be that they were young, alone and carrying a backpack than it was they were Chinese.

I'm sorry Yflyer lost their employee, and that the kid had such an awful experience.
But this was far more likely a "student" victim in the eyes of the perpetrators than a Chinese one.

Anyone remember that family from Syria that said they'd rather go back to war torn Syria than stay in Limerick?..

bazz26

Were they sent back?

bb1234567

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone remember that family from Syria that said they'd rather go back to war torn Syria than stay in Limerick?..

And I would hazard a guess that they didn't leave:pac: