… so if you *witness* the type of scumbags who set playgrounds on fire, please report to the gardai so the gardai can expect to pit you against the scumbag in court, as evidence ?
… and so the cycle continues.
But I mean, ya, call the gardai. They’ll at least be aware of what’s going on, even if nothing gets done about it.
Unfortunately this is not shocking, in fact it’s not surprising to hear about vandalism like this.
One corner of the city – āDublin is a dump.ā Yawn.
“We need more flame retardant amenities”
Unfortunately not a Dublin centric issue. Iāve seen similar living in Carlow & Limerick.
Dublin will certainly have a higher proportion of instances like this owing to its larger population & urbanised environment but itās certainly a national issue.
Arseholes like everywhere.
Some of Dublin is a dump
Itās time to catch the culprits and when they find that they have at least 37 previous convictions they will make the 38th conviction really count with at least a suspended sentence of 2 weeks. That will show them
And what happens when you call the Gardai about suspicious activity? Absolute zero.
No one is wondering. We all know what the problem is. The problem is, the law won’t enforce itself and if you try to stop it you’ll end up in prison for assault or something equally stupid.
The poor kids only act up because there is nothing for them to do.
*builds kids a playground*
Spike island should be reopened for those scum bags.
This is my local park. Iām absolutely fuming. No other nice playgrounds around except Stephens green and that gets mobbed on a nice day. This was a gorgeous amenity and it had just been cleaned up a few months ago.
This shit happens all over the country not just Dublin.
Crap environment and lenient sentencing = scrotes doing shit like this.Also, just plopping down a playground won’t make the issue better. Advocating for vigilante justice DEFINITELY won’t make things better.
The solution is far more complex and costly, something which sadly the current Irish government won’t do properly. You’d need to do things like:
* increase job opportunities – local training centres and facilities etc.
* tackling the drug problem properly – have actual drug clinics (not half arsed ones like what we have at the moment) to rehabilitate people, decriminalise usage of drugs in general (which has been proven to reduce drug use over time) and even make some drugs legal eg. hash/weed
* better education opportunities – a lot of secondary schools/FETAC places are frankly woeful and underfunded at the moment, especially for poorer kids or kids that have special needs
* actual laws that allow actual punishment (as in jail time), and also better rehabilitation facilities to reduce further crime (a lot of these kids are from broken homes, so breaking the cycle = less scrotes) – this also ties in with job opportunities and better education facilities, anything to stop people walking out as more skilled criminals (which commonly happens at the moment in prison)
* etc. etc. etc. I could go on all day.
Why does this happen in Ireland I go abroad countries and see cool public amenities and it dawns on me with great sadness that it would never work in Ireland in a million years
Yes thatās because your crotch goblins are burning them down.
Can’t wait for a local Councillor to blame crime in the area on a lack of amenities
I donāt think people wonder why any more. I think they know why and have just resigned themselves to it.
Who the fuck sets fire to a playground?
More community outreach is needed. How do I reach these kiiiids?
The reason why we have so much teenage crime and violence is due to lack of amenities and facilities… Sure..
That’s actually heartbreaking. I hate that now I’m a parent that when I see these types of things I immediately go full Helen Lovejoy and think ‘will someone please think of the children’ but what drives someone to just take that away from the local kids. What type of divilment consumes them to just ruin things for kids?
Wait ā¦ you guys keep DOLPHINS in your barns?
Imagine being a poor family in one of these areas, especially one that just wants a normal life, who kids can’t even enjoy a playground because a group of yobs thought it would be funny to burn it to the ground
I’ll never understand this kind of stupidity.c
What happened to the days of using CCTV? This is during the day. A camera would capture plenty… assuming the idiots who did it don’t post the evidence in Snapchat
It’s not just a case of shitting on your own doorstep, it’s incinerating it and the house. I grew up beside Ballymun in the 1980s and even with the area semi-regenerated the mentality of a lot of the residents is still to destroy their own neighbourhood. A lack of community and amenities could definitely be a cause, but constructive funding and a personal need/want for change are seriously underdeveloped. :/
āBUT THERES NOTHING FOR KIDS TO DO ROUND HEREā š« š« š šš
Hey, It’s not the kids fault their 13 Y/O father never taught them responsibility.
What a pack of scumbags , nothing else but toe rags who set this park ablaze .
If the kids had playgrounds etc this sort of behaviour wouldn’t happen.
Lived on Cork Street for 4 years during my time in Dublin. Absolutely loved living there, close to the city centre, plenty of amenities close by, neighbours were always very helpful. But, it is also the only place Iāve had a knife pulled on me. By a wee lad no older than 13. In broad daylight outside Lidl. Refused to give him anything and just walked away. The next evening him and a bunch of his other scrote mates fucked a wheelie bin at my front door and broke the glass.
Unfortunately for them, our next door neighbour was a gentleman who was also of a rough persuasion, and knew at least half of them. Had one of them by the neck at the door apologizing to us within half an hour. Never had an issue around there ever again.
The point Iām trying to make is that older heads from these areas need to make more of an effort to tell the young scumbags to calm the fuck down, theyāre not going to listen to the gards, community workers or anyone like myself whoās simply not from round the area, but they will listen to people known to them and their families who are also just dog sick of seeing the little cunts ruin everything they touch.
I donāt and have never understood the mentality to do something like this. I mean, your destroying something toddlers enjoy? Isnāt that psycho behavior?!
Other countries can have playgrounds and teens donāt destroy them. Perhaps because theyāve played in them themselves and have some sense of community or respect. Wtf, Ireland?!
Not just a Dublin issue unfortunately, huge amounts of vandalism and destruction of public amenities like benches, playgrounds, picnic tables. And not always in what people would could consider āroughā areas.
A lot of the time it seems to be bored teenagers and a bit of mob mentality that leads to this kind of stuff
I’ve been all over Europe – Eastern Europe included. You wouldn’t see this anywhere else but Ireland (maybe the worst parts of the UK). The level of nihilistic, nasty savagery in this country transcends generations – has been present here ever since I can remember. There’s something in the mindset that speaks a deep, deep resentment for and hatred for other people, for the way they might want to live, and an inability to relate to peace and prosperity and good feeling.
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… so if you *witness* the type of scumbags who set playgrounds on fire, please report to the gardai so the gardai can expect to pit you against the scumbag in court, as evidence ?
… and so the cycle continues.
But I mean, ya, call the gardai. They’ll at least be aware of what’s going on, even if nothing gets done about it.
Unfortunately this is not shocking, in fact it’s not surprising to hear about vandalism like this.
One corner of the city – āDublin is a dump.ā Yawn.
“We need more flame retardant amenities”
Unfortunately not a Dublin centric issue. Iāve seen similar living in Carlow & Limerick.
Dublin will certainly have a higher proportion of instances like this owing to its larger population & urbanised environment but itās certainly a national issue.
Arseholes like everywhere.
Some of Dublin is a dump
Itās time to catch the culprits and when they find that they have at least 37 previous convictions they will make the 38th conviction really count with at least a suspended sentence of 2 weeks. That will show them
And what happens when you call the Gardai about suspicious activity? Absolute zero.
No one is wondering. We all know what the problem is. The problem is, the law won’t enforce itself and if you try to stop it you’ll end up in prison for assault or something equally stupid.
Damn, this park looked gorgeous.
Weaver Park
(01) 222 5278
https://maps.app.goo.gl/erJoPJstfixKZn1Z6
The poor kids only act up because there is nothing for them to do.
*builds kids a playground*
Spike island should be reopened for those scum bags.
This is my local park. Iām absolutely fuming. No other nice playgrounds around except Stephens green and that gets mobbed on a nice day. This was a gorgeous amenity and it had just been cleaned up a few months ago.
This shit happens all over the country not just Dublin.
Crap environment and lenient sentencing = scrotes doing shit like this.Also, just plopping down a playground won’t make the issue better. Advocating for vigilante justice DEFINITELY won’t make things better.
The solution is far more complex and costly, something which sadly the current Irish government won’t do properly. You’d need to do things like:
* increase job opportunities – local training centres and facilities etc.
* tackling the drug problem properly – have actual drug clinics (not half arsed ones like what we have at the moment) to rehabilitate people, decriminalise usage of drugs in general (which has been proven to reduce drug use over time) and even make some drugs legal eg. hash/weed
* better education opportunities – a lot of secondary schools/FETAC places are frankly woeful and underfunded at the moment, especially for poorer kids or kids that have special needs
* actual laws that allow actual punishment (as in jail time), and also better rehabilitation facilities to reduce further crime (a lot of these kids are from broken homes, so breaking the cycle = less scrotes) – this also ties in with job opportunities and better education facilities, anything to stop people walking out as more skilled criminals (which commonly happens at the moment in prison)
* etc. etc. etc. I could go on all day.
Why does this happen in Ireland I go abroad countries and see cool public amenities and it dawns on me with great sadness that it would never work in Ireland in a million years
Check out this public outdoor pool in Austrailia
https://youtu.be/Hoxwsk70udU?t=89
āThereās no facilitiesā
Yes thatās because your crotch goblins are burning them down.
Can’t wait for a local Councillor to blame crime in the area on a lack of amenities
I donāt think people wonder why any more. I think they know why and have just resigned themselves to it.
Who the fuck sets fire to a playground?
More community outreach is needed. How do I reach these kiiiids?
The reason why we have so much teenage crime and violence is due to lack of amenities and facilities… Sure..
That’s actually heartbreaking. I hate that now I’m a parent that when I see these types of things I immediately go full Helen Lovejoy and think ‘will someone please think of the children’ but what drives someone to just take that away from the local kids. What type of divilment consumes them to just ruin things for kids?
Wait ā¦ you guys keep DOLPHINS in your barns?
Imagine being a poor family in one of these areas, especially one that just wants a normal life, who kids can’t even enjoy a playground because a group of yobs thought it would be funny to burn it to the ground
I’ll never understand this kind of stupidity.c
What happened to the days of using CCTV? This is during the day. A camera would capture plenty… assuming the idiots who did it don’t post the evidence in Snapchat
It’s not just a case of shitting on your own doorstep, it’s incinerating it and the house. I grew up beside Ballymun in the 1980s and even with the area semi-regenerated the mentality of a lot of the residents is still to destroy their own neighbourhood. A lack of community and amenities could definitely be a cause, but constructive funding and a personal need/want for change are seriously underdeveloped. :/
āBUT THERES NOTHING FOR KIDS TO DO ROUND HEREā š« š« š šš
Hey, It’s not the kids fault their 13 Y/O father never taught them responsibility.
What a pack of scumbags , nothing else but toe rags who set this park ablaze .
If the kids had playgrounds etc this sort of behaviour wouldn’t happen.
Lived on Cork Street for 4 years during my time in Dublin. Absolutely loved living there, close to the city centre, plenty of amenities close by, neighbours were always very helpful. But, it is also the only place Iāve had a knife pulled on me. By a wee lad no older than 13. In broad daylight outside Lidl. Refused to give him anything and just walked away. The next evening him and a bunch of his other scrote mates fucked a wheelie bin at my front door and broke the glass.
Unfortunately for them, our next door neighbour was a gentleman who was also of a rough persuasion, and knew at least half of them. Had one of them by the neck at the door apologizing to us within half an hour. Never had an issue around there ever again.
The point Iām trying to make is that older heads from these areas need to make more of an effort to tell the young scumbags to calm the fuck down, theyāre not going to listen to the gards, community workers or anyone like myself whoās simply not from round the area, but they will listen to people known to them and their families who are also just dog sick of seeing the little cunts ruin everything they touch.
I donāt and have never understood the mentality to do something like this. I mean, your destroying something toddlers enjoy? Isnāt that psycho behavior?!
Other countries can have playgrounds and teens donāt destroy them. Perhaps because theyāve played in them themselves and have some sense of community or respect. Wtf, Ireland?!
Not just a Dublin issue unfortunately, huge amounts of vandalism and destruction of public amenities like benches, playgrounds, picnic tables. And not always in what people would could consider āroughā areas.
A lot of the time it seems to be bored teenagers and a bit of mob mentality that leads to this kind of stuff
I’ve been all over Europe – Eastern Europe included. You wouldn’t see this anywhere else but Ireland (maybe the worst parts of the UK). The level of nihilistic, nasty savagery in this country transcends generations – has been present here ever since I can remember. There’s something in the mindset that speaks a deep, deep resentment for and hatred for other people, for the way they might want to live, and an inability to relate to peace and prosperity and good feeling.