Crackbird, Dame Street, Dublin.
C writes:
Anti homeless sleeping measures cutely disguised as flower pots?
Top pic: Keith Thompson
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Crackbird, Dame Street, Dublin.
C writes:
Anti homeless sleeping measures cutely disguised as flower pots?
Top pic: Keith Thompson
Fair enough. I would not feel safe coming in to work if there were junkies sleeping outside.
Vastly preferable to Macken’s less talked about “Hard Target” restaurant initiative. Aimed at those select few who appreciated the sweet gamey tang of human flesh.
That gave me a chuckle.
Not all homeless are junkies.You probably know this.
I would not be conducting inspection. This is a private property so get the hell out.
FFS. It’s just a design. It might be to stop drunken revellers from sitting down. In all my time living near there I haven’t seem homeless people sleep in that particular window. So calm down.
YOU F**KING CALM DOWN FOR F**K SAKE LIKE DE WURLD GON MAD WIT DE POLITKAL CORRECTNESS XXXX WB HUN
It is an anti-homeless measure.
Is that not called a house?
Bravo
In all my time of not living near there, I’ve passed it early & often enough to have seen homeless people sleeping there. Nice design all the same.
Check the judgey ‘well look who’s worse than hitler’ tone on C.
Maybe it is anti-vagrant measure, maybe it’s not. They can hardly be blamed for it.
There’s has been homeless sleeping there regularly so I would guess it is a measure to stop that yes.
And I wouldn’t blame Joe Macken for doing it. Sick and tired of having to move homeless people on every morning from outside the office.
I don’t blame them. It’s the fault of the Fine Gael/Labour government for failed harsh policies that punish the poor. But the city centre is really badly policed and there’s angry junkies hassling people everywhere.
Feel like taking a baseball bat to a few heads sometimes. But again, it’s not all their fault.
yeah, its not their fault, enda kenny made them do junk and sleep on the streets
…check you out, eh
There was no homeless before this government.
They invited homelessness, just like the Greeks invented gay.
Should we all be racists now, Father?…
Yikes, there’s a lot of angry people on here. Like, take a chill pill.
Chill pills are a gateway drug you know!
No. Just someone with a bit of imagination, who’s taken the time to brighten up a street. You should try it sometime.
Great idea. The simple ideas are always the best!
Anti homeless chic?
Garden / Vagrant Deterent Fusion?
Hateyculture?
snarkytecture
De-cliners
Destitruth.
Crackbird crack down on crack birds. No craic. Down!
simply out standing
They tend to call it defensive architecture but I like snarkeytecture.
http://www.dismalgarden.com/archives/defensive_architecture
Is broadsheet now trying to troll us?
Yes. Just now.
I think it is a reasonable measure. Albeit not fitting with the hipster cool Crackbird image, but it’s the best I’ve seen… probably ever.
Now, if anyone complaining about this would like to pen a letter to Dublin Bus about the slanty narrow seats at bus stops….
Clampers calms down birds crack’s on crackbird clampdown on crack birds.
Heh :)
This fits perfectly with hipsterism.
Recognised a local homeless woman sit and then fall asleep in one of these windows while we dined there.
Some passerbys phoned the emergency services, who woke her up when they arrived. They decided she was fine and left her to it.
She was fine, but not to happy to be woken up.
Can see why Crackbird would not want their diners eating while a homeless person was sitting less than half a metre away.
Call yourself Crackbird then give out when a female junkie sleeps on your property? Seems harsh.
It was an interpretive piece. A little on the nose for me but looks like it went over Sheila’s head.
Its a hipster hangout
its a dump, where the staff think they are more important than the customers….too cool to even serve ya – oh youll be lucky if someone comes to take your order…..
Anyway i dont think the homeless would want to be seen outside this place.
Manky chicken. I liked it when it was a Chinese.
YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD
I was in d’other one- the barbecue in the underground carpark.
Very loud music.
The food was ok.
That’s a longer review than it deserved.
She wasn’t a junkie.
PS Hon Tipp!
Given my heritage I comfortably changed allegiances 20mins into the second half. Tipp Tipp Tipp…
The craic at crackbird was mighty in the aisles. Oh man.
Such a negative point of view…..maybe they are little slides….
Me arse! Their premises. Entitled to do what they wish in order to improve aesthetic – whether architecturally or in relation to their immediate environment. What I don’t like is the fact that their intentions have been realised with a pretty gacky cheap plywood job.
bloody homeless have they not go homes to go to instead of ruining my meal. …oh wait.
Anyone who dosen’t like it should leave a helpful map to their house for all the homeless people who are put out by this and need somewhere to kip.
Surely beats having to hose them away in the morning
Or kill and cook them. Too much gristle.
Curious as to where their private property ends and the public footpath begins. Is there a common measurement used or is it different for every premises.
Also on South William St – all the sandwich boards/outside tables on the footpaths – is that public property?
It is – I believe the Corpo charges you to set up sandwich boards/tables outside though (and there have been previous broadsheet posts complaining about that).
Well their property ends where the windowsill ends…which is the only area they have done anything to.
Sandwich boards and tables etc are allowed once a fee is paid to the corpo
Seeing as these are installed over a raised step that forms part of their facade I would suspect that they are well within their property line. Often you will see a brass line in the pavement, a change of paving or little metal studs that denote the property line.
Bloody cheek of the homeless, a good social problem is neither seen, nor heard, in fact it should have the basic common decency not to draw any attention to itself whatsoever, like that chap who died outside of our parliament, appalling manners, no wonder he was homeless.
All the same…
Why not have coffins instead? That way the homeless can sleep there but with a lid, so no one will see them, you could even install a night vision webcam so your customers can still have the choice to watch them as they eat with their pads, as an added bonus if any of them do happen drop dead, well they’re already in a coffin.
What was it Father Jack used to say about the needy?
He had a term for them.
A shower of bastards
“Anti homeless sleeping measures cutely disguised as flower pots”
A very cynical point of view. Not everything in this world is done with an underhanded ulterior motive. Maybe they just like flowers!
Flower pots would be lovely on their own. But why add wide sloped varnished crap wooden ramps over quite attractive marble ? The pots are taken in at night but the ramps remain.
I wonder if they require planning permission for them? It is technically a change to the front facade, Someone could complain to DCC
welcome to Ireland. Kicking homeless people in the face since whenever.
there be a great smell of piss out of em after the drunks water them