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A SHIPPING CONTAINER containing all the equipment of a Dublin scout troop has been stolen in its entirety from the troop’s base in Harold’s Cross, south Dublin.
The thieves removed the container from its berth in broad daylight using a flatbed truck on 23 April between 11am and 1pm.
One witness approached a man in a high-visibility jacket who appeared to be operating the truck and asked him what was happening, but was ignored.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, scout leader Achille Martone said that the loss of the equipment is more keenly felt than the financial impact.
“The container was right beside the den and had been there for a good three years,” he said.
It was fitted with electricity so was more of an extension of the den.
The equipment taken included very expensive tents, worth probably €3,000 each. All told we had about €25,000 worth of scouting gear taken.
Kimmage native Martone, himself a scout for 18 years, has no idea what could have happened to the container.
“We actually don’t have a hunch. It was obviously well planned and involved probably the rental of the truck, but much more than that I can’t say,” he says.
Without the equipment we’ve had to cancel programmes because we have no resources left.
We’re one of the last youth clubs in the area and have been left high and dry by this theft. This has and will impact the scout group for years.
The scout troop in question, the 45th Dublin Mount Argus, has been around since 1929. They have over a hundred members aged from 6 to 17 years.
The missing container had a large logo on the side spelling CAI, with serial number 247880.
Anyone who may have seen such a container on a flatbed truck in the south Dublin area on 23 April is asked to contact gardaí at Crumlin Garda Station (01 666 6200).
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Apple makes products the whole world wants to buy. What does Malawi make? Not being facetious but African countries need to up their game.
Apples technology is perfect for pacifying us and addressing the trivia of life.
Apple is becoming the opiate of the masses, the supposed must have, the have to have, the “I want”, the gimme, the mugger’s preference, the shiny and glitzy toys, the trinkets of life.
Consume or die.
I worship the power of the brand! It gives my life meaning.
@Fiona deFreyne,
You don’t have one then?
Aye comrade, away with your western decadencies and their corrupting influence. A day of hard labour and a bowl of borscht brings meaning to my life and glory to the mother country…
Go off and join the Amish if you’re that unhappy with the modern world, it would spare us the sanctimonious scorn you heap on the rest of via The Journal.
@Marg. Many of the metals and natural resources needed in technology are mined in Africa by multinationals and it is hugely exploitative. Taxes are paid off shore and the workers are paid an absolute pittance.
I have to, begrudgingly, agree. Seeing everyone on the dart, bus and street with their phones reminds me of the ketheads upstairs in button factory
@annemarie. True, it’s a governance issue. That’s why I said African countries need to up their game.
Isn’t it great GDP 10 times bigger than a country and probably pays less tax than a county….
@LITTLEONE,
It is up to governments to make them pay tax, no one voluntarily pays it.
Eamon, no body is forcing those companies to hire teams who work on the best way to avoid taxes or to practice lobbying or to threat governments of closing such factory for example in case they’re not left alone. Fight the right enemy.
They need to get a refresh, almost cut & paste products lately and their product line is now huge and daunting with lots of very similar products for any new comers looking to make a purchase
The past number of years they’ve just been tinkering with the ios, jacks, colour, size and weight while battery life is still crap and water residue can still wreck it. If the sales continue to cool it might inspire them to actually innovate again
ios up dates are killing apple, Forced to buy a new phone to use an App is crazy.
Malawi’s culture still holds voodoo priests and Ju-Ju in high regard. Apple does not.
Why shouldn’t Apple make more money than Malawi?
These people are so backward they are still murdering “witches” and albinos.
http://latesttori.com/in-malawi-mob-set-couple-ablaze-on-allegations-of-witchcraft/
I aspire to own an Apple for truly Apple is the way and the truth, the path to meaning, the recorder of verities, the staff of daily existence, our crutch and our strength. Know this. If it is a 2016 version, it is truly blessed but if it is an earlier model it means that you are not worthy. Hear the words and tunes of Apple. Bow down and worship the great White little things which are even more beautiful in Rose gold, for we are truly blessed.
Genuinely the weirdest comments from one person I read on here .
“Sent from my iPhone “
The people of Apple make technological marvels that the people of Malawi couldn’t make if they tried to do so for a billion years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybgQJlYRrZs&ab_channel=GuyCockcroft
Calm down Eamon. We got it, you love Apple! Well done, your special
I think if they gave it a billion years the people of Malawi could indeed make an iPhone or even something better. But the results from the first quarter of 2016 aren’t looking promising. Malawi is “off track”.
@Rúairí O’ Sullivan,
No, I couldn’t care less about Apple and I don’t own one either. I’m just sick and tired of hearing about these African hell holes.
Maybe Malawi and Africa in general should get its act together then. Wait..no. It’s all our fault.
APPLE rotten to the core
I Apple, therefore I am.
Wrong on every level
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