My mountian bike was stolen this evening, was in secure underground carpark, double locked in Donnybrook.
Please keep and eye out, if you could RT and encourage your friends to do like wise. Details in photo.@GardaTraffic pic.twitter.com/HYUIQd18gf
— Adrian Shanahan (@adrianshanahan) August 6, 2019
August 6, 2019
Update:
This theif stole my bike from apartment building in Donnybrook last week. Do you recognise him? I’d really like to have a chat with him.
Please contact me or @GardaTraffic Donnybrook.
More details.https://t.co/8uinOD5Keu pic.twitter.com/U9M59MeYrV
— Adrian Shanahan (@adrianshanahan) August 13, 2019
Do you know this bobble-hatted bike half-incher?
Anyone?
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I know him, he’s King Ladypart!
Your excellent joke was RUINED by the mods, Clamps, and that’s a damn shame.
Sounds like Swat?
Or bunt?
As a play on the King Canute type joke?
And there’s three grand worth of bike, in 3….2….1….poof.
Shanahan’s On The Bus.
At the side of the creche? Has Tusla opened a file yet on this little tyke?
“I’d really like to have a chat with him”
I wouldn’t be getting too carried away, you might have nothing in common except the same taste in bikes…
I’m torn between my hatred of bike thieves and my extreme distaste for people who buy €3000 mountain bikes to trundle around Donnybrook
On the gripping hand I just saw his tweet there about eating an entire microwave spanish omelette by yourself and now I relate too him too much to dislike him.
You made me proper laugh out loud there.
For what it’s worth this bike was used for actual mountain biking, I use a dickhead fixie / singl speed junket for cycling around town.
The Spanish Omelette was from Aldi, highly recommended.
the beard suits you, adrian
hope that’s some consolation for losing the bike
Well said man. 3 grand for a bike seems reasonable if you keeps you from adding to the climate and commute misery by pay 150 grand for an SUV… #andacyclist
The resolution of these security cameras are unreal. You almost forget your not looking through a window. You can even see the sweat coming from his pores. I thought the Marble Arch Conor McGregor CCTV footage was impressive but this.. ,,wow!!! I wouldn’t want to be in the bike thief shoes. Its only a matter of time before he’s caught by the superstar team of defectives in Garda HQ (working in shifts) and a judge imposes a fair and reasonable sentence. Don’t worry Adrian, your bike as good as recovered. Let that be a lesson to all you budding bike thief’s. Theirs state of the art CCTV in most buildings and you WILL be… BUSTED!!!
(working in shifts) – i effing love the dude
+1
the most consistently entertaining and interesting commenter in here
The DPC is investigating a GDPR violation…
“I’d really like to have a chat with him” – maybe give him a chatterbox on the ears.
3 grand for a really ugly bike? I’m toying with the idea of buying a Gtech Sport bike. It’s just under a grand from Halfords. I would never be tempted to ride/park it (if ever I buy) in Dublin. What is the story with bike thieves in our fair city? I recall a video a few years ago on BS where a guy, Handsome Ben spotted a bike thief in the process of robbing a bike from his office window – ran out and grabbed the perp. Perhaps there should be more Handsome Bens?
my one proper decent bike that i had from new was robbed from a dart station a few months ago – a focus mares. now i cycle a second hand carrera from halfords that i got for a hundred blips. i wouldn’t leave a decent bike locked up anywhere in dublin now.
Surely the Guards know who this individual is Adrian?
Sadly what postmanpat said is spot on though. I dropped my wallet on a forecourt a few weeks ago.
Cops knew who it was from camera and he admitted the theft. I got the wallet back with no cash in it.
He went to court and case was adjourned. He doesn’t have the money any more but he is sorry and he wants to give it back to me apparently. The thing is I’m going to find out who he is when the court date comes up again and have the money directly taken out of his dole or whatever other sponger check he’s on.
I have to say the cop concerned handled it extremely well. But I still don’t have my money, for the timebeing.
Don’t get me started on the Gardaí. Back in 2003 when Tyrone were playing at Croke Park every week-end, my friend, Barry who is the size of an out-building was picked up by the guards in Stephen’s Green – he was drunk – the guards emptied his wallet – he had @1,000 euros – he’s a scrap-dealer – always cash. Good luck with trying to get your cash back.
Every weekend the guards took €1000 from Barry, at Croke Park?
Not so much – once. It was St. Stephen’s Green. He didn’t pursue the case to court, it appears he dealt with it personally.
I’ve many friends who are in the Gardaí they and others do an often thankless job and not paid enough, because of this I’d be slow to criticise Gardaí.
However….. the investigating officer in this instance has been somewhat sub par.