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A DART TRAIN from Bray to Howth was delayed this afternoon after a fight broke out over people aggressively selling packets of tissues.
The 12:55 service from Bray to Howth was stopped at Shankill station as gardaí were called to the incident.
It’s understood a fight broke out over a scam involving people aggressively selling packets of tissues at inflated prices.
The train was delayed for around 20 minutes however normal service resumed when the incident was resolved.
A spokesperson for Iarnród Éireann said the practice of people illegally selling tissues crops up sporadically on all its rail services.
The sellers, who target off peak trains, leave a packet of tissues along with a note saying that they are for sale.
Anyone who touches the packet is then told they have bought the tissues and is aggressively pursued for payment.
The spokeswoman encouraged anyone who witnesses the anti-social behaviour to contact a member of staff and they will endeavour to have the person removed from the train.
I would give them a reason ti use the tissue…
@Tomas: a poignant anecdote, moving them to tears?
@Tomas: it’s not to be sneezed at.
It’s not a scam, it’s extortion.
@Griff: AKA theft
I reported that one morning to the station-master at Sydney Parade and he just shrugged his shoulders and said “it happens”. What’s the point?!?
@Brian Lenehan: in fairness, yer man doesn’t care about anything.
@Maria Hickey-Fagan: oh and the language out of him! You wouldn’t hear it from a docker!
@Billy-Bob White:
Multicultural tissues anyone?
we need transport police
@Kevin Moylan: you’d think being on a small island border control wouldn’t be an issue.
@Kevin Moylan: they will still get in
@Kevin Moylan: have you seen what happens on trains and bus
@john: anto and deco smoke heroin
nah, lazio
Who are these sellers? Anyone know?
@Dj: Absolute chancers.
@Honeybadger197: Agreed. I’ve never heard of this been done before.
@fachtna: same group who stick the air fresheners on your car at the traffic lights and demand to be paid for them. Wonder did the pay for their train ticket??
@Dj: Me either. You touched the tissues so pay me? F.O.!!
@Dj: Romanian gypsies
@fachtna: I’m certain we’ll have a group at hand shortly to defend their culture and their right to scam as an inherent part of it.
@Honeybadger197: Reminds me of the time I was in the Canieries and you would get Moroccan women asking me if wanted to buy a lucky bracelet. After i said no they would just tied it around my wrist while i had my back turned and immediately ask for €10,since it could only be removed by cutting off. They were throwing awful abuse at me and the girlfriend. Some cheek. I told them I’d give €10 if I could crack the bottle I was holding off one of their heads! They weren’t long running off looking for another victim.
@Dj: yer man whacker can you 3 packets for price 1
@Dj: what a hero
Why quality of tissue are we talking here? Kleenex or Tesco Value?
@Benny: *what!
@Benny: the ones I seen were Kleenex. They are trying to attract a higher brow of snot blower.
@Eleanor of Aquitaine: that it exactly who it is. Have witnessed it myself numerous times
Snot the sort of thing one expects on the Dart.
@Rosemarie F Martin: I think the joke was in the ‘snot’ bit, Rosemarie. ‘Dort’ would be the start of a whole other joke but it wouldn’t be a good start cos, if you’re goin’ for “southside phonetics”, it’d be ‘dorsh’.
No need to thank me
@Joe Phillips: …greash
@Ronan McDermott: I’d love it if they tried to pursue me, I’d have no hesitation in being more aggressive back but I doubt they’d target someone who could handle them.
Just give one a knuckle sandwich
@Alan McCartney: must have been a tray of knuckle sandwiches given the dart was delayed
@Billy-Bob White: I’d say you’re spot on there
@Billy-Bob White: be careful. You might upset the leftwing libtards and be considered a racist
They’d need the tissues back for the burst lip I’d give them if they got aggro
WTF, has the world gone mad, O, I’d love to be travelling on that route, this F@$KERS would need more than a few tissues
@Joseph Dempsey: oooh, you’re hard.
They do this at traffic lights too if you open the window they drop the note and tissues on your lap
Aggressively selling packets of tissues is nothing to be sneezed at
Happy tissues or sad tissues?
They are on every country’s transport. You just ignore them.
Gardaí were called to DEFUSE (not diffuse) the argument.
Happened to me in Spain. It wasn’t much of a fight.
@Jon Stynes: sorry to hear that next time let me know and i,ll drag her off yeh
@Jon Stynes: yes me too nearly did me out of €50 (don’t ask) but thanks to my quick witted friend sorted it and a few years later they tried the same thing on my teen kids, I was walking a bit behind them and what I didn’t shout and roar at them you wouldn’t hear on Moore St
@Evelyn Hughes: So what you did shout, you would hear on Moore Street? Was it bananas?
Tell them you’ve already ordered on line. https://www.carrierbagshop.co.uk/roma-coloured-premium-tissue-paper.html
I had a shit day…. really wish I was on that train…. might take the day off tomorrow and spend it riding the train
@Billy-Bob White:
Irish criminals deal in human tissue.
@James Connolly: Brilliant response
I’d give anyone a hand but scams and extortion no way
@Stephen Winterson: I’d say you’re a real tough guy Stephen
Omg my family…..!!
Yeah there are bigger scams in this ‘country’. Than some poor immigrant selling tissue to feed their slumdwelling uneducated cursed children, their grandmothers are hassled by country Garda who don’t know what poverty is when it’s staring them in the face.
@Sean Fitzgerald: if I put me hand on someone else’s snot rags and got harassed for it I’d be holding up more than a dart. Fcuk that siht, I only have one life too and I want to live it, the way I want. Without being harassed and harangued at every turn.
@Sean Fitzgerald: By supporting their way of life you keep those children in poverty.
@Sean Fitzgerald: The Roma are not poor. Far from it.
Take the tissues wipe ur arse with said tissues return to face of seller.
Oh for god sake I bought this packet of tissues for one euro…hardly a scam journal?!? It’s like give my to the needy and a packet of tissues always handy!
@Tweeter: Same story. I was on a train and she left me a pack of tissues. On her way back i gave her a euro. She thanked me politely and went on her way. Hardly the crime of the century.
@Tweeter: They are not needy, it’s organised begging and the cash goes up the chain.
Anyone who supports them by buying off them is supporting and encouraging this lifestyle to continue for further generations.
Ha ha, they’re targeting the very people who go on about multicultural integration blah blah! Karma
Just wondering why my comment was removed
@Me: I probably didn’t meet the standards of the PC police.
Tissues for issues.
I have seen the tissue sale thing many times. But I have never seen any aggressive behaviour or people being told they have to buy because they touched them. Obviously, selling stuff it not allowed on the DART. But I find the ads constantly dinned in my ears when I listen to the radio far more annoying.
@Mícheál Mac Donncha: You have a choice to either listen to the radio or turn it off.
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