Blood on the streets of Cork

exactiv · 01-09-2005 8:32pm #1

I was in town earlier (about 6ish) and was parked (illegally) outside roaches. The fire brigade came roaring up the street and stopped outside easons... I thought, feck, it's on fire... so I whipped out my camera and this is what was going on... anyone know what happened? there were no Gardaí around... just the fire engine...

http://www.windpoweredireland.com/temp/blood-on-the-streets.jpg

rymus · 01-09-2005 8:37pm

freaky... maybe there was a gang war there 10 minutes previous?

dahamsta · 01-09-2005 8:41pm

How do you know it was blood?

exactiv · 01-09-2005 8:44pm

Good point. It looked like blood to me... There was a lot of it...

What else could it be? I don't think it was oil cos it washed away easily...

Necronomicon · 01-09-2005 8:47pm

Woah, that's odd.

dahamsta · 01-09-2005 8:48pm

Ribena spillage. That non-toothkind stuff'd burn it's way through anything, hence the firemen.

rymus · 01-09-2005 10:28pm

thermite flavoured ribena?

damien · 01-09-2005 11:06pm

There's probably a post about it on PeoplesRepublicofWaa's

Blood outside easons LIKE. Daycent. Jammy. Gammy. Feen.

dudara · 02-09-2005 9:42am

Sunday morning, there was a heap of blood on the passenger side front door of our car! Charming!

Femelade · 02-09-2005 9:43am

well easons sells biro's yeah?
maybe, just maybe someone was making a delivery of RED pens , slipped (on a banana skin or something) and all the biro's smashed to the ground and then one of those street sweepers came and ran over it, thinking it would clear it up but it just burst all the ink out onto the street!

yeah , i think thats what happened.
or else there was a fight or something....

i'm gonna go with my first idea though.

exactiv · 02-09-2005 9:43am

Did you take a photo?

boardy · 02-09-2005 9:53am

Yeah, I saw a chugger collecting money right outside Eason's doors yesterday. A good-looking Eastern European-type-guy. And people were lining up to put money in his can, which was very funny to watch. But he was right in your face as you came out of Easons. Maybe someone took exception to that.

It wasn't me; I was well out of town by then.

Femelade · 02-09-2005 10:02am

boardy wrote:

It wasn't me; I was well out of town by then.

are u sure?

can u tell us your whereabouts at the time of this bloody ordeal?

boardy · 02-09-2005 10:10am

errr ..... I was heading to the cleaners at the time of this incident. (I slipped on some red biros outside of Easons and spilled the bottle of ribena that I was carrying on my clothes).

Femelade · 02-09-2005 12:55pm

gotcha!

people we have the culprit!

caught him - red handed..

boardy · 02-09-2005 8:22pm

"Red handed". Of course it was "red". I just slipped on the red biros and in order to block my fall, I held my hand out, and it got covered in the red stuff.

Femelade · 02-09-2005 10:22pm

yeah yeah,

likely excuse, can u prove it though?

damien · 02-09-2005 10:33pm

Get a room kids.

Femelade · 02-09-2005 10:49pm

damien.m wrote:

Get a room kids.

sorry?

since when did this place become so serious? huh?

Roar · 04-09-2005 1:18pm

i reckon its the Ooze from ghostbusters 2...

so shortly the father matthew and echo boy statues will be coming to life to fight an evil painting from the crawford

axel90 · 07-09-2005 11:50pm

did ya ever hear the term blood turns orange when you wash it..... not blood far too red and if it is blood then someone's dead and authorities are covering up.

stag39 · 08-09-2005 12:08am

ok... who stole my 10 gallon drum of ketchup.... :rolleyes:

Fysh · 08-09-2005 8:13am

One of the guys I'm living with said he walked past shortly before six o'clock on the day and saw some old lady lying in a heap on the floor outside Easons. The weird thing about this is that there seems to have been no mention of it in the news anywhere if something did happen...

tomthevet · 08-09-2005 11:51am

Certainly something did happen - given the amount of blood - it was all the way to the junction by the music shop going north from easons difficult to believe it was from one person. - I was amazed that nobody here has an idea what happened - or that there was no account in the media

invincibleirish · 08-09-2005 5:53pm

let me clarify what happened:

an old lady outside easons suffered an apparent ruptured ulcer on/in her leg, the security guard from easons went to her aid and called an ambulance,the security guard tied her leg with his tie to stop the blood and stayed with her until the ambulance came,an aggressive drunken american was there harassing the crowd and the old lady but the security guard saw him off and the cops arrested him.

how do i know all this,well at 20 past six i met my friend 20 minutes late after he finished work, i enquired as to why he was late and he told me this story for he is the easons security guard! next time you are in there and see a tall blonde security guard by the door go up and congratulate him for he is a hero.

Fysh · 08-09-2005 6:01pm

And suddenly it makes sense. Still seemed like a lot of blood, but would explain the presence of the cops and the apparent lack of newsworthiness of what happened.

dahamsta · 08-09-2005 6:07pm

What was the yank playing at I wonder?

invincibleirish · 08-09-2005 6:18pm

indeed there was a lot of blood,said old lady nearly passed out apparently, my mates shirt was thrown away,as for the drunken yank, the gist of his drunken argument was "why wasnt anyone helping, in the states we help"etc,he got aggressive,more to do with excessive alcohol consumption then any great compassion i'd imagine, he got testy with security guard after the ambulance left and was then carted off in cop car.

boardy · 08-09-2005 8:31pm

Fair dues to the Security Guard.

solice · 09-09-2005 11:02am

Absolutely, well done him

exactiv · 09-09-2005 11:17am

Excellent. So the mystery is solved!

That lad from easons surely should have gotten a mention in the paper...

Blood on the streets of Cork

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