lack of scumbags?

Gordon

Originally posted by MDR
Quite alot of them arn't homeless, there is alot of young girl's who do it (wearing Nike, underneath their blankets), it is a good way to earn good money, with very little effort. Its been going on in Dublin for years, we just seem to be more generous now or something ....

Yeah, thats what really gets my goat and is a main reason I don't give money. What also annoys me is the mess these people leave also. How can you justify me giving you money for shelter when you leave your blanket in the street after you use it :rolleyes:

Horsefumbler

Originally posted by MDR
we just seem to be more generous now or something ....

really? I never see anyone give them money tbh

Horsefumbler

i'd hate to see this thread die tbh

Caesar_Bojangle

Ah you're all prejudiced bastards, long live James Pice aka Blackie

tom-thebox

Fecken kids in tracksuits lets be afraid of them and their tracksuits and tar them off with the same brush as junkies and handbag snatchers actually lets just burn the track suits make a dress code in the inner city.

But then what about all the gothic and general smelly people …. Will they abide by the dress code maybe not.

I really think fearing the 15 year olds in their tracksuits is a good idea why not stick with that! Please continue.

vasch_ro

it is actually offence to beg in Ireland under a little known act known as they Vagrancy Act of 1824, so if some one does cone up and intimadate you into giving money you should report a copper if there is one around normally there are a few around town , temple bar etc
if u have time maybe go to the cop shop, because if enough people complain then they will enforce the law !!
Because if you are by yourself these people can be quite intimadating. Also if you can try and have ur monet organised before u go to town so u do not have to take money out when there is some one at the ATM, I think people have the right to withdraw money without intimadation which is why I would urge people to report these things, a quick call on the phone 999 from a payphone is free, if the police get enough calls they will have to do something !!!! Power to the people !!

MDR

if u have time maybe go to the cop shop, because if enough people complain then they will enforce the law !!

Your disillusional,
the law is un-enforceable,
sure the will arrest the person if you pressure them,
but as I have said before I know of some romian women,
living in Clontarf (at the states expense), who have been
arrested 28 times, the judge knows them by their first name,
and there has been no penalty imposed on them to date ...
their assylum application will be thrown out but in the
interim, between now and when they get deported,
whats the point in arresting them ... ?

vasch_ro

But thats not an issue with the police , complaints were obviously made and they acted within their remit, you mentioned that one person was arrested 28 times, because they have no conviction as yet is a matter for the judicary,
but at least that person has been removed 28 times and the police are aware that there is a problem in a certain area, thats the point they have been removed and when the police come they know that will be removed
and brought to the station and generally hassled,

I know a lot of people especially females who find romanian women who are begging to be quite intimadating and threatening
so I for one feel at least they are doing something in relation to this as much as they can, maybe we should lobby Mc Dowell in relation to a failure on behalf of Judges to protect people in our society

Corega

I think the scangers have evolved...it took them a decade to realise that their white trackies and piss-stained trainers weren't attracting the "burds" so now they're saving up for their Ralph Laurens and Armanis'.

Ever strike that whatever bus you hop on there are always scangers upstairs at the back. Last night I was going into town got on the bus and there they were. I came very close to "startin on them". God I loathe them.

Caesar_Bojangle

tbh there are some half decent skanger "burds", that you wouldnt mind "ridin" once, but certainly wouldnt take them home to greet your parents

Horsefumbler

Originally posted by Corega
Ever strike that whatever bus you hop on there are always scangers upstairs at the back. Last night I was going into town got on the bus and there they were. I came very close to "startin on them". God I loathe them.

I hear ya. I've stopped sitting down the back now, it just means yur gonna get yur head wrecked. Wouldn't advise starting on them unless u got back up though...

lordsippa

They're back. I've been in town over the last week and they're swarming all over the place again. The summer (breeding) season has come again and they're swarming the city (hive) looking for burds (mates) to shag... oh and also to prove they're big an' manly (yeps, I'm talkin bout the lasses here too) so be warned...

<sigh> and otherwise the summer's so nice.

NeRb666

Originally posted by Syd_Vicious
This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

I've seen that guy who is deaf with the card asking for money. He's always hanging around Crumlin Shopping Centre during the week hounding everybody who walks past him

He's come up to me twice showing me his card asking for money. I've never given him any

Hate that guy (not really hate but he annoys the hell out of me)

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

All you have to do is say "Why Sir, I am illiterate".

Or else whisper real quietly at him that he's a useless bum.

Tyrrial

yeah... that guy freaks me out!but i sware next time he comes up, i'll tell him i can't read and ask him for money!

NeRb666

Actually, I'm just gonna kick him in the eardrum.

lordsippa

I'm gonna give him a plastic ring, tell him he's my wife, and demand a divorce. See what his reaction to THAT is...

Jim

ur all horrible horrible people, bad dog, i condem u to hell.



had a bit of a reversed situation the other nite on ze bus!
load of skangers got on and sat down the back. then this pretty respectable lookin guy got one with his girlfriend, they were about 20 years old. all seemed to be running as usual. then i noticed one of the skangers was wearin a korn hoddie over his tracksuit, unusual, but i didnt think much of it. then the guy and his g/f got off, but b4 going down the stairs the guy went up to the guy in the hoddie, pressed their forehead together [in typical aggressive fasion] and said " u startin on me !? korn? ****ing ejiat, hahaha" him and g/f got off the bus in histerics, then the skangers spent the rest of the journey talkin about how people should mind their own business, and leave each other alone etc.....

i was pretty bewildered after that experience....

Horsefumbler

Skangers don't wear Korny clothes tbh. Perhaps they weren't skangers, maybe just inner city korn-heads?

lordsippa

Actually, I was looking for this place I was meant to meet someone a few weeks back and I went up to these rough looking blokes... i mean they looked like the kind who'd been drinkin all morning and would kill you for their smack fix... and they gave me the right directions all nice like. Now keep in mind that I dress a bit oddly and have long blonde hair... My mate was freaked out. Complete culture shock. He was expecting me to get hopped on.

I try not to be too judgemental nowadays... I dunno why. Before I wouldn't have gone ANYWHERE near those blokes...

dendenz

Ask the skangers, "parlez vous skanger" , if they reply say sch-wa-arrrreee like that and they will know you speak skanger

dazberry

Bit of a gig down my bus stop this morning at 8.30. One bloke passed out on a seat, two girls sitting on the ground looking a bit fecked, and one guy sitting in front of them banging out a few tunes on a guitar, all surrounded by cider cans. Priceless

D.

Gordon

Originally posted by MDR


we should get a photo of him ....

As requested...

zAbbo

Tbh i was expecting a rough looking bloke, he looks quite normal.

/me opens wallet

tom-thebox

funneh stuff.

MDR

I am afraid, I am very afraid ....

DaithiSurfer

I like the fact that i can spot the skanger uniform before they get close.
Then i can just tell them to **** off before they even start their shpeel.
If they've stolen some decent chlothes and they're not wearing their uniform i have to wait til i hear the word 'Bud' before i know they are skangers (assuming they don't have that in-bred wrinkley frown on them).

dazberry

Originally posted by Gordon
As requested...

Sorry to pull this thread back up, but thanks Gordon for the photos. This guy was in serious begging mode at the bottom of Grafton St. this evening and when he came up to me I recognised him instantly from your photos. I nearly bust out laughing because he was in the exact same pose as in the first photo.

Did the Jedi - "these are not the droids you're looking for" hand movement and he went away

D.

MoosemaN

As a swedish person coming over here these "scangers" are a shock to me..

Took me 1 hour in dublin to start hating them though ...

Caesar_Bojangle

Gordon, those pictures are hilarious. How did you take them without being detected?

NeRb666

I like those specs he has....very Deirdre Barlow-esque (circa 1994). The mans fashion sense alone deserves a handful of my totally useless 1,2,5, an 10 cent coins.

xx

Originally posted by Gordon
As requested...

I go to Trinity college and during last college term, I seen this goit about twice a day on either grafton street or dame street (and sometimes temple bar). He's a real fcukin' pain if you are trying to have a coffee outside a cafe or something. I find a growl/scowl or giving him the whole "not working" speil usually work. Funny thing is though, you can say that without looking directly at him and he knows what yer saying. Deaf, my ringpiece!!!
I think there was a thread like this on Afterhours a while ago actually. The Corinthian made a good point about those guys/guurls that beg between ATM's. Why should you dish out your cash that you've probably worked yer arse off to these people. Charity is one thing - being gutless is totallly another.