The Herald ran a piece yesterday about the collection of drunks, junkies and all-round malcontents at the Connolly stop on the Luas Red Line. A few passengers recounted their experiences at the stop, where groups of booze-hounds gather every day to discuss English Romanticism and the fallacy of youth, while throwing empty cans and dog droppings at passers by. Then follows the usual guff blast from top brass at Veolia Tranport, who remind everyone how much they’re aware of the problem and how they’re doing everything they can to remedy the situation.
Joe and Jane Public are not that stupid though, anyone who has ever travelled on the Red Line is familiar with the feeling of helplessness and frustration at the intimidation of these menacing morons, with their alien language and puffy pink faces. I am certainly tired of how little is ever done about these kind of people, openly drinking, dealing and harassing in full daylight. Of course it’s not just around Luas lines that the pond-life accumulates; someone more familiar with Dublin than I could easily compile a list of hootch hotspots to avoid as you go about your day. These places are their own little enclaves of anarchy, no patrolling policeman in sight, as people desparately try to avoid any meeting of eyes, for fear they might be going home in an ambulance.
I suppose it’s all part of a wider disillusionment with law enforcement in Ireland. We’re all aware of the brainless brutes in Limerick, strutting around in high spirits holding a permanent two-finger salute to society. There’s a feeling that the thickos have won; all we can do now is hope that they’ll continue to take themselves out of the gene pool with unbelievable stupidity.
THOMAS DUMBRELL UPDATE – 8TH JUNE:
Another shit-for-brains does his best to win a Darwin Award.
You can’t spell Dumbrell without DUMB.
stupid drunks why don’t the police just lock them all up.i live in Texas and have a concealed handgun permit. if any drunks like these tried to assault me and mine things would get very bright and very loud very fast..
Yeah, that’s wonderful. We all need to load up on guns, so we can sort out all the crime, just like America has.
You do realise that the dumb shall inherit the earth as they are the only ones breeding at the moment (and doing quite a lot of it!!)
Sadly that’s where we’re heading. People will vote in presidents by text and soapstar biographies will be studied for Leaving Cert.
I hate those scum, especially the ones begging at Middle Abbey Street. We need a good glacial winter to freeze them all to death
why do some people get upset at me for wanting to protect myself?
self defense is a human right.criminals are going to have guns no matter what the law says.some people like to think a no guns allowed sign takes care of this problem.in your dreams it does.
And people like you like to think that guns solve problems. They don’t. Take a look at YOUR country. Whatever else happens over here, at least every second dimwit won’t be armed.
what stops bad people with guns? answer is good people with guns.also every 2nd dimwit wont be armed you have to have a background check and pass a lot of tests. your answers are Juvenile and naive bmd you need to be realistic and understand that guns are here to stay. of course i guess if we didnt have guns we could all carry knives like in YOUR country.also guns do solve things.if someone tried to car jack me i would shoot him problem solved. i could call the police and they could find my dead body if i didn’t have a gun like in YOUR country.
Your answers are very amusing. I hope one day we can be like America, where only good people own guns and the streets are full of dancing children. Typical gun-mad numskull. Why are you called stormbringerr? Do you perhaps bring a storm of justice down upon bad guys? Yee Haw.
i said good people need guns because criminals have them. also you know nothing about America.would you rather shoot someone invading your home or call a time out w/the bad guys so you can call the police?the answer is painfully obvious to everyone except maybe you.although if anyone invaded your home they would probably run away screaming since you look like you could haunt a house anyway..
You don’t know what I look like, you stupid hillbilly. Go fire your guns into the air. You know you don’t need a fucking gun; nobody is invading your home. What would they steal anyway, your Dukes of Hazzard boxset?
ha,ha,ha, struck a nerve? nobody is invading my home? wow that’s a brilliant statement.its something that can and does happen and people are better off being prepared for it.im also pretty sure that you know a lot more about these dukes of hazzard people than i do or ever will.dont need a gun? another brilliant statement.ill just call the police im sure that will scare home invaders away.it only take 20 minutes for the cops to arrive.why cant you figure this out?
here is a real 911 call you should watch.i don’t know if it will go through though
You didn’t really strike a nerve, you just made a stupid comment. You just can’t face the truth, that the level of gun crime would be drastically lower if every uneducated idiot didn’t have easy access to firearms. Stop going on about intruders. If your police force is incompetent that’s your problem. It still doesn’t give you an automatic right to do the policing for them.
I suppose you need to have your gun in case the Queen of England decides to invade America…
you’re just too hard headed to understand. god you’re dumb.
Note to Stormbringerrrrrr: please take your hillbilly white trash stupidity back to the white power American Idiot message boards you’re a member of. Despite your best attempts to make your own country look like an absolute joke, I’ve met many Americans who are intelligent and interesting so I won’t let dunderheads like you spoil my opinion of the country too much. Stop wasting time on the internet, you should be out on your porch rocking back and forth with a shotgun shouting at your imaginary intruder friends. The sad part is, if you have children and they accidentally blow their brains out with your gun, it will be the emergency services you call, even though, from what you say, they’re about as effective as the Iraqi police force.
And another tip, if things on here anger you so much, maybe you should stop reading them? You’re a regular Bill O’Reilly, you are. With poor grammar.
@bigmentaldisease Well said! Thats all I can say
It would be nice to own a gun though, if no one else had one that is…
that picture is fake! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105×9596287
I don’t need you to tell me that, I made the bloody thing.