Disgraceful Scenes in Cork

[anon78624367]

I’d never get involved in a row. I tried once and got no thanks for it. I’d walk around the corner and discretely inform the authorities these days

[Lazarus]

I’m no hero but when I saw @Sidney massacre a cohort of wannabe Clint Eastwoods by pointing out their total hypocrocy on the Cork thread I knew I had to intervene. It’s wrong to just stand back and do nothing so please @Sidney lay off them mate. For the love of humanity man, they are harmless enough lads really, they know not what they say

[backinatracksuit]

If fellas are going to watch a man being brutally killed they deserve a warning

[anon78624367]

What is the legality of having your image taken and used without consent?

[Lazarus]

If its a familly feud I’m sure that won’t be the last episode. Just imagine what might be going through the deceasests families minds watching that video

[Sidney]

@flattythehurdler

Also sid, you don’t know youd have intervened. You hope you would, but circumstances and how you are feeling are different every hour of every day. What you do know though, is that you wouldn’t root in your pocket for your phone, fumble with it til it’s at the right setting, press record, and then send it to your pals for the crac.

I’m not really a phone person so I highly doubt I’d have recorded it

But the high likelihood is it appeared just like a lot of other fights that occur on streets

It appeared like two scumbags beating the tar out of each other and that they were well matched

There was certainly nothing in the video to indicate that what was about to happen would happen

I think it’s highly unlikely I would have intervened

Ironically the chap who filmed the thing, who some people here seem to be more down on than the actual perpetrator, will probably be responsible for the perpetrator being served justice

He should be thanked if anything

As long as everybody is videotaping everybody else, justice will be done, as somebody once said

[flattythehurdler]

Apart from the cameraman saying distinctly that one, who was clearly trying to get away, was getting an awful beating, nothing.

[Sidney]

@flattythehurdler

Apart from the cameraman saying distinctly that one, who was clearly trying to get away, was getting an awful beating, nothing.

The video has been taken down now but my recollection is that the first 11 seconds of the video strongly resembled a fair if pretty vicious looking fight between two ne’er do wells of the sort that is sadly not that uncommon on urban streets

Thankfully we have lads here that can make retrospective moral judgements about the cameraman and about how they themselves would have reacted to a very rapidly unfolding event, based on having the benefit of knowing the tragic end outcome and multiple VAR viewings

[gilgamboa]

Two Limerick lads up in cork for the night by all accounts

[Julio_Geordio]

@gilgamboa

Two Limerick lads up in cork for the night by all accounts

A disgusting attempt at sweep sweepery

[TheBird]

The best we can hope for is that the footage will help get the murderer convicted with a good long sentence.

[cowpat]

Remember in the mid to late 00s, outside Supermacs in Limerick city was a lethal place to get “jumped” on a weekend night.

[myboyblue]

@TheUlteriorMotive

The cunt recording it is clearly enjoying it. He’s recording in his own words “a bating” and should have tried to assist or stop what was happening.

If he was standing around recording a rape would you be as forgiving to him.

I think it reflects very badly on modern society that people stand idly back and watch such things

[anon61878697]

Breaking fights up is a dodgy business… I’ve broken a few up and got slaps for my thanks… I’d generally not get involved now unless someone was getting a battering , I probably wouldn’t think twice about stepping in then.

[Sidney]

@myboyblue

I think it reflects very badly on modern society that people stand idly back and watch such things

People have always stood idly back and watched such things

[anon61878697]

Correct. Only a certain type of person Would step in… 90% of people wouldn’t… Whipping out a phone is something I’ll never comprehend.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

He has a phone. He has 4 choices

a) record it and comment in an excited fashion about a bating

b) step in to assist a person in obvious need of assistance

c) call the police

d) none of the above

He chose the most cuntish option. He then shared the video.

He is a vile human being who I hope one day requires looking after and is stepped over.

[myboyblue]

@TheUlteriorMotive

He has a phone. He has 4 choices

a) record it and comment in an excited fashion about a bating

b) step in to assist a person in obvious need of assistance

c) call the police

d) none of the above

He chose the most cuntish option. He then shared the video.

He is a vile human being who I hope one day requires looking after and is stepped over.

Agreed

[Sidney]

@anon61878697

Correct. Only a certain type of person Would step in… 90% of people wouldn’t… Whipping out a phone is something I’ll never comprehend.

And the minority of people of would who would step into a fight they’ve chanced upon will only step in under certain circumstances such as if the odds are obviously stacked massively against a protagonist, or if it is close to them physically, like within ten yards or less, or if the protagonists are a certain “look”

In the fight shown in that video, I’d guess less than 1% of people would have stepped in, perhaps less than 0.1%, especially given the speed with hich it all happened

[anon61878697]

In fairness, no one could have seen what happened coming… Granted, instead of laughing at him getting an awful hiding, he could have put the phone diwn and shouted out for him to stop…