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Petrol station owner and wife attacked by men carrying batons

The owner and his wife were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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THE OWNER OF a rural petrol station and his wife have been hospitalised after being set upon by three would-be robbers carrying retractable batons.

The incident happened last night at about 9pm at Bradley’s Topaz filling station at Fahan, near Buncrana, Co Donegal.

Speaking to Highland Radio, Garda inspector David Murphy said that three young men in their late teens or early 20s – wearing scarves over their faces, blue disposable gloves  and hooded tops – got out of a car and caused damage to the station’s windows using the batons.

They entered the shop, which was about to close at the time, and went behind the counter searching for money. When none was forthcoming they took instead a small amount of property, before assaulting the proprietor and his wife as they exited the store.

Both the owner and his wife were taken to Letterkenny General Hospital where they received treatment for non-life threatening injuries.

The thieves then exited the scene in the direction of Burnfoot on the R238 road.

Gardaí have asked for witnesses to come forward, and have requested information on a grey Nissan car which was seen in the area at the time.

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    Mute Jax Maxwel
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:41 AM

    No wonder they will rise up and fight us, oppressed and poked with a stick throughout their history. As an Irish man am sympathetic to their cause and I for one will stand side by side with our robot overlords.

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    Mute Ronan Matson
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:48 AM

    I believe that robots of the future will be so big and expensive, that only the five richest kings of Europe will be able to afford them.

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    Mute Old Gabby Johnson
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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:08 PM

    Love it.

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:31 AM

    SIPTU would still want it to join a union if it arrives here.

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    Mute Barry Davidson
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:46 AM

    Looks like it has a harder job the the luas drivers.

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    Mute Ben Gunn
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:34 AM

    So, we will all be employed assembling robots to do the jobs that we would have been doing if there were no robots; until, of course the robots start assembling robots……..

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    Mute Peter King
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:34 AM

    They’ll still need people to design them

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    Mute Cal Cryton
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    Feb 24th 2016, 4:46 PM

    The robots will assemble the robots that do the work. Humans will be the designers & technicians. The increased productivity that will result from robots being able to work 24/7 will translate into a much greater pie of wealth in society which can then be put to other use in ways we can’t even imagine, creating human employment in those areas.

    Remember, 200 years ago – 90% of people worked in agriculture, now 5% do but produce mutiple times the food. The people moved into other areas.

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    Mute Eel Knack Mole
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    Feb 24th 2016, 4:55 PM

    The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.

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    Mute Old Gordon
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:30 AM

    I suppose these lads won’t mind working zero hour contracts.

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:05 PM

    So that the globalist elites can heard the starving peasant humanoids into death camps.

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    Mute Old Gabby Johnson
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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:09 PM

    Heard?
    Also – super fun happy camps.

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:48 PM
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    Mute Kirsha Sova
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    Feb 24th 2016, 5:24 PM

    Don’t mind them John they think they are smart but are idiots.

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    Mute Shakka1244
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:26 AM

    When he’s walking through the snow, it kinda reminds me of making my way home after one too many.

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    Mute james
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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:45 AM

    The robots slowly biding his time, there will be no escape or mercy for any of us.

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    Mute Simon Quinn
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:54 AM

    Any one else feel bad for the robot, I was hoping it gave the guy a slap lol At the very least I would be reporting that behaviour to the robot equivalent of HR..

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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:29 AM

    RR?

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    Mute gordon larney
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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:11 AM

    The computers must be doing some amount of calculations to keep him walking in the rough ground and snow, very impressive.

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    Mute Cal Cryton
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:01 PM

    Was thinking the same, must be the most powerful chip on the planet in its brain…to react almost instantaneously like that.

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    Mute Guy Incognito
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:09 AM

    Yeah, let’s p1ss off the humanoid robot. I can’t see any potential issues there…

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    Mute roy turland
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:26 AM

    Can they drive the Luas?

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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:45 AM

    That vid needs the terminator music played over it.

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    Mute Michael Evans
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:32 AM

    Very cool but also a little scary!

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    Mute Brian
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:03 AM

    But can it handle smashing the box outta it’s hand and bashing it in the chest with a hockey stick ? Oh wait ….

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    Mute Gerard Doherty
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    Feb 24th 2016, 1:16 PM

    In a few years they will have robots to do everything, and we’ll all be sitting on our arses without any jobs…. Won’t have to worry about the USC then….

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    Mute Sean Kelly
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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:18 AM

    Robots replacing humans.. What next?

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    Feb 24th 2016, 1:14 PM

    Same last night on the leaders debate.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 3:14 PM

    Johnny five is alive!

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    Feb 24th 2016, 3:56 PM

    At the end when he’s walking out the door it’s as if he’s saying “f**k this, I’ve had enough of this bullsh*t!”

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    Feb 24th 2016, 2:53 PM

    That robot walks like me when I’m badly hungover

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    Feb 24th 2016, 3:45 PM

    anyone else think, that the Robot was going to figure out that if he grabbed the stick off the man he could pick up the box……#skynet

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    Mute Liam O' Leary
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    Feb 24th 2016, 5:09 PM

    Just teach them how to drive The Luas- problem solved

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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:50 PM

    Ahh
    “Cuddly little terminators”
    “Every home and business should have some”

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    Feb 24th 2016, 5:22 PM

    Sky net =Google =not good

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    Mute Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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    Feb 24th 2016, 3:10 PM

    When the robots take over the world they’ll remember being bullied!

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