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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on January 03, 2023, 04:56:17 pm
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Teen helped wreck taxi in ‘mob mentality’ attack, court told
Boy (17), with 20 previous criminal convictions, joined gang jumping on top of vehicle causing thousands of euros worth of damage
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File picture. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Tom Tuite
Tue Jan 3 2023 - 16:27
A teenager got caught up in “mob mentality” when he helped a gang suddenly wreck a taxi after it stopped at traffic lights in central Dublin, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court on Tuesday to criminal damage on June 6th, 2021, at South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2.
Garda Conor Harrington told the court that the driver pulled up for a red light when two males, not including the accused, began jumping on his car roof. Four others, including the boy, then aged 15, joined in jumping on top of the taxi.
CCTV captured the incident, and the footage was shown to the judge. The court heard they caused €6,572 worth of damage and the driver was out of work for a week.
The garda agreed with defence Doireann McDonagh that the boy was not the main instigator, but he clarified that “the group as a whole” caused the damage. He did not believe the teen was intoxicated.
Two others are before the courts in connection with the incident.
The accused, accompanied to court by a family member, has 20 criminal convictions, including theft-related and criminal damage convictions, which resulted in the court placing him on supervised probation last year. However, he was not subject to that order at the time of the taxi incident.
Counsel told the court that the boy had not taken part in an offence like it before.
The defence acknowledged he “got caught up in mob mentality; there is no excuse” but also maintained that older peers influenced him.
Asked his thoughts about the incident, the teen said it was stupid. But he agreed with Judge Kelly that it was “more than stupid” for the driver who was making a living, and possibly had a family to support.
The boy was remanded on bail to appear again in February for sentencing. The Probation Service will prepare a report to assess suitability for community service.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Dublin_riots
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Migrant(s)?
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Migrant(s)?
Death to Covids. Why can't we give virtually free gaffs to our own?
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We can and we do. I know several men around my own age (most living in your neck of the woods) who've never worked a day in their lives.
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We can and we do. I know several men around my own age (most living in your neck of the woods) who've never worked a day in their lives.
In the battlecruiser 7 days a week though.
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... and taking taxis there and back thanks to the demise of the blacker!
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We can and we do. I know several men around my own age (most living in your neck of the woods) who've never worked a day in their lives.
857 gaffs are being built behind my house. Half of these are so-called affordable and social housing, the other 50% are for people willing to pay the market price [gobshites in other words].
The ones given brand-new houses will have to come up with as much as €33 per week no matter what. The ones with mortgages can expect to pay upwards of €400+ per week to keep up with their deprived neighbours!
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Its a 4 tier wedding cake society……like the one at the bottom is taking it all on the shoulders and the one at the top can eat the cream and watch the Sea Gulls passing overhead.Havent worked out what the other 2 are doing yet…Wheres John when you need him? ::fight :))
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Its a 4 tier wedding cake society……like the one at the bottom is taking it all on the shoulders and the one at the top can eat the cream and watch the Sea Gulls passing overhead.Havent worked out what the other 2 are doing yet…Wheres John when you need him? ::fight :))
Lanzagrotty or Skanger Ponsa. 8)
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Is that the thurd layer?