Dublin the most dangerous city in Europe
Posted on | March 21, 2007 | 29 Comments
Listening to the radio yesterday morning I was surprised to hear a new statistic: You’re more likely to be killed in Dublin than any other European city.
Obviously the hordes of gun-toting, LA Gangsta wannabes are bumping up the numbers, and as I’ve said before I couldn’t care less if they kill each other all day long, but it was interesting to hear some Fianna Fail guy say that while the government were making great inroads into all the criminality that surrounds us, ‘crime wasn’t falling as fast as they would like’.
Now, if previous to this statistic Dublin wasn’t the most likely city in Europe to meet your maker then I would respectfully suggest that crime isn’t really falling at all, so much as escalating. In that sense I can very much understand the government’s frustration at the rate of falling. Negative falling, I think it’s called. Maybe they can use that in their election campaign. Crime is falling negatively.
In fact, it might spark a whole series of double negative electioneering.
Reverse extra pay for nurses!
We’ll be contrarily tough on gun crime!
Thousands more manufacturing jobs vetoed!
It is a worry though. Statistics are easily written off and ignored but it’s you and I that make up those statistics. We’re the ones most likely to get killed living here not the government ministers in their reinforced cars. If the radio had said “Dublin is the place where you’re more likely to be killed that any other city…if you’re a politician” then I really wouldn’t have too many objections.
Like drug dealers and all the rest there’s always another shite-talking cunt to come along and take their place.
So what can we do? One school of thought says we should learn self-defence in case you’re attacked, keep a baseball bat under the bat and cave in the head of anyone that breaks into your house or hire private security firms to protect you and your family. That’s rather passive though, isn’t it?
The more proactive way would be to get them before they get you. The main problem with that is that you don’t know who exactly is going to get you but if you go on a spree then the law of averages says you’re bound to hit paydirt sometime. So let’s all go out and try and kill someone today. Eventually someone’s going to get you so you might as well knock off as many potential enemies as you can first.
With so many dead it’d make house prices cheaper too.
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March 21st, 2007 @ 6:43 am
My guess is ; you are not paranoid , they’re all out to get you.I
March 21st, 2007 @ 7:25 am
Now Twenty dont be going and Frightening your readers. We are not the most dangerous place in Europe we are the 7th worst place although the report did say we are moving up.
One of the interesting things was that we put less people behind bars than other countries 81 per 100,000 compared to 139 in England and Wales. This statistic explains why you get served pints quicker in Wales.
March 21st, 2007 @ 8:21 am
Hmm, just a question Twenty, but did you, yer little rascal, have anything to do with Bush and Cheney’s ‘pre-emptive strikes’ policy. Yer little tinker, I knew you had friends in high places but really, I hadn’t appreciated how high you go.
March 21st, 2007 @ 8:51 am
If you’re toying with the idea of forming some sort of vigilante group for ‘The greater good” of the community, I’d heartily recommend viewing “Hot Fuzz” at a cinema near you, A lot of pointers as to who should be ‘taken out’ first.
March 21st, 2007 @ 8:51 am
“In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.” — Hugo Rossi
March 21st, 2007 @ 9:27 am
I knew there had to be a reason for that growing sense of unease I’ve been feeling of late, the prickling of the hairs on the back of my neck and the growing belief that someone is watching me wherever I go out and about this city. It’s not an ex-girlfriend, it’s 20 trying to beat the statistics before they beat him.
March 21st, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Sound advice Twenty. I just killed my manager and got promoted into his job. Can’t post anymore though, have to watch my back. Some of these cunts’d kill you as soon as look at you.
March 21st, 2007 @ 9:31 am
Brian Lenihan (the dead one!) was once asked to justify the cutbacks in a Fianna Fáil budget… He replied…
“They’re not cuts – they’re non-constructive re-allocations”
So it’s nothing new…
March 21st, 2007 @ 9:55 am
Suicide might be the best option, you subversive society-poisoner!
March 21st, 2007 @ 9:59 am
We need some kind of vigilante to clean up the scum. A rich playboy with the means to get the equipment he needs but also knows the harsh realities of the streets, A Bruce Wayne type.
Hmmm…. Bill Cullen? He could be known as “The Golden Apple”.
March 21st, 2007 @ 10:15 am
I’ve killed fourteen people already Twenty but I still don’t feel safe. Should I just keep going till the sense of foreboding subsides or should I just leave it at that for now?
Maybe I just need to get out of here for a couple of days.
Oops…make that fifteen. This is quite habit forming.
Pop….. sixteen.
March 21st, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Maybe I just need to get out of here for a couple of days.
Cunt. I’m coming to get you.
March 21st, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Shit, some fucker just killed me – now what am I meant to do – gonna haunt that fecker Walter Ego ahat’s for sure
March 21st, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Not un-less you are heavily armed, proficient in self defence and immune to getting the shite kicked out of you. You might, however, need your fingers for future reference so be forewarned.
Have at you, you cad!
Kerrpowww!!!! That’s nineteen now. Guess who’s next?
March 21st, 2007 @ 10:46 am
Dublin is Nº.1? How did that happen? Has Limerick just given up trying or what? Dear me, I hate to see a people letting go of their traditions. Come on Shannonsiders, we’re counting on you. Pull yourselves up by the bootstraps, go out there tonight and kill someone. Show the world that you haven’t lost the gift.
March 21st, 2007 @ 11:28 am
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March 21st, 2007 @ 11:33 am
Cardsharp, I’ve tried to turn my back on that particualr chapter of my life and I would thank you to stop raking it up in front of all these people. I was young(er) and needed the money…. shit…… please don’t delve any deeper. My face is sooo red right now.
March 21st, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Walter, yer kerpow missed, yer canadian sitcommunist
March 21st, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
Galways about to become the number one place for mice to be killed…just spotted on on my fridge eating a slice of wholemeal..am going to use him as target practise for popping the real thing
March 21st, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
Nyet commerade, I ain’t never done nuthin’ to nobody ya hear?
Anyway, I thought a Canadian situational comedy was a bit of an oxymoron. Perhaps I am wrong about that but then again maybe that’s why nobody heard of the show ever, ever, ever again.
Shazzammmm !!!
March 21st, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
Ego…Are you any relation to Walter Wall-Carpeting?
March 21st, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
Sid Twotter are you that scumbag from Dundalk who was nicking all those street signs?
March 21st, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
Twenty, did I detect a quote from seminal nineties gloom mongers Tool in today’s post? If so, I tip my vans & 501 wearing head to you…
March 21st, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
no
March 21st, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
There’s not enough rage in the comments these days.
March 21st, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
It was in the Argus that some bloke called Sid Trotter was had up for nicking road signs, street signs and shop signage.
March 21st, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
It’s time for the Irish Prison system to stop recidivism the way they do in the UK. This item noted below must be a proven crime-fighter and should be introduced to the Joy immediately:
“Britain’s Home Office decided recently, in the course of remodeling at the Brixton prison in London, that, because of Muslim inmates, all the toilets should be re-positioned so that users would be respectfully facing perpendicular to Mecca as they answered nature’s calls. [The Sun (London), 1-30-07]“
March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:06 am
twenty—— mateeeeeeeeeee this fuckin sucks ok fix this blog or fuck off ok —— fuckin shite all over the place
April 9th, 2007 @ 10:16 am
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