Protest against bike thieves

Motorcycle riders of Ireland ride out en masse to try to bring attention to the problem of bike theft in Dublin & convince Government & Senior Garda Management to:

1. Give the Gardai the training they need to pursue bike thieves
2. Permission to engage & ideally, make tactical contact to knock them off the stolen bikes
3. Assurances that Gardai will be safe from prosecution (once proper procedure is followed) if the thief is injured as part of the pursuit

Please sign the petition: https://tinyurl.com/DubBikeSteal

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To heart feel Nice you soy I’m kill Yourself Oh so So there’s a couple of uh very impressive things about this protest one is the actual turnout is is way more than I thought it would be which is great to see the second one is uh we’re actually leaving pretty much on time the poster said stands up at 12

It’s now 70 7 minutes past 12 and we’re rolling out which if you attend any motorcycle anything in Ireland you’ll know that’s uh that’s kind of unheard of everything tends to run late with all the fluffing and all they messing around so yeah off to a great

Start for those of you wondering why we’re protesting we’re out today to try and get some attention around the fact that just the sheer volume of motorcycles being robbed in Ireland especially in Dublin is just absolutely out of control and it’s out of control because onard Shana do not have the powers to

Intervene to pursue to prevent like their hands really are tied it’s a small number of scro bags robbing the majority of the bikes and bike theft was you know not always a big problem in in Ireland it you know it was definitely there but just a sheer number of bikes

Been robbed over the last while is is unheard of and previously bikes would have been robbed and they would have been you know rallied in certain parts of Dublin whatever but then some of them also would been Rob for parts and spare part the whole Black Market that that

You know the kind of thing that exists anywhere really but what’s happened recently is that all the bikes that have been robbed just end up getting rallied and put on Tik Tock for clout by these scumbags and it’s really heartbreaking for people when you know your pride and

Joy is is taken obviously no one ever wants to get their bike robbed but then to see it plastered all over social media and you know this is a machine that you know you’ve probably given a lot of care and attention to looked after and then they just they

Don’t give a they just drive the absolute AR out of it until it explodes or they get bored of it uh want to RVE another bike and you know dump it in a river or set it on fire in a field and yeah it’s just it’s heartbreaking and unfortunately in Ireland nothing

Really changes until it’s too late you know and I really don’t want it to be a case that someone has to get seriously hurt or worse for some action to be taken so we had a thing last year where there’s an American Tourist was uh assaulted in Temple Bar if you don’t

Know Temple Bar is the main kind of tourist trap area of Dublin and for a long time we’ve been saying the streets were getting more dangerous and you know crime wasn’t the rise and nothing was really done about it there was always the feedback was oh there’s

No budget for overtime for the guards you know we can’t increase patrols yada yada and then an American Tourist gets uh robbed the absolute crack kicked out of him and it ends up in intensive care and suddenly you know the the story went viral almost around the world and

Ireland relies a lot on tourism as a big part of its uh it’s uh well revenue and yeah we have a massive tourism industry here and America is one of those is one of the largest parts of that so suddenly now we’re getting International attention we uh the Justice Minister

Helen mckinty was out doing these high-profile walk arounds in these dangerous areas say no the streets are safe you know and then quietly additional budget was freed up for additional patrols so you know I don’t want wanted to take someone getting put in a hospital for this issue to get the

Attention to serves and I hate to say it but I think it’s only a matter of time before that happens because the little Scout bags who are robbing the bikes they’re coming tooled up they have hammers and knives and you know iron bars and stuff and they they’ve taken

Swings of people who try to step in like sometimes the owners like sometimes the general public there’s a lot of videos surfacing online of uh of them just rolling up and robbing a bike you know and you know it’s case it gone in 60 seconds if you only have something like

A disc lock on it they just come up and lump Hammer the out of it till it falls off and like they don’t care if they damage your bike trying to Stealers they don’t give a they just want to take it and if anyone tries to intervene

Soly that H that hammer is getting swung at their heads you know so what we’re doing here we’ve met up on the long M Road we’re going to ride down in uh staggered formation to Moser Street I think where we’re going to park at a doll aand which is where

Where uh the Irish government sits and even though it’s like a Saturday and the government’s not there this was still a good idea to organize it on a Saturday because we are much more likely to get a better turnout like today because a lot of people only work M their

Fridays and you know even if we done it our Friday even if we gotten the same amount of turnado even bigger it’s not like the minister was going to come out and meet us like I didn’t see Helen mcky walking through the front Gates of the

Doll to go oh these these Lads want a words I better see what’s going on here that just wouldn’t happen you know but what this will do is hopefully the numbers that turn out today the spectacle of rolling through duin City you know the the pictures we’ll get the

Video we’ll get from outside the doll on MOS the streets it’ll bring more attention to it and I like that’s the only thing that seems to focus the politicians Minds because they’re very reactionary to stuff like this W I really like that smt it’s my favorite color as well in the white

I had the Super Moto version of that the 990s the non- touring and it was a I was talking to Harry the guy the owner there at the back at the Pet Station it’s the one bike I really regret selling you know had a guy come all the

Way from goway to buy it off me handing me a lump of cash outside my office and uh as I was watching him disappear at the gate on my on his new SM I looked at the work van I said if I jump in now I could probably

Catch him before he gets to the motorway and tell him I changed my mind but I didn’t do that so it’s one of those bikes I really regret selling and I always I always fancied the smt version as well because I took the the 990 Super Moto touring in Europe and it

Was great on anything but the motorways and unfortunately you just need to use some motorways sometimes so anyway back on topic let’s we here today there is a petition there’s an online petition uh I’ll link it in the description of the video or the bio if you’re watching this on Instagram

Or actually I’ll throw up a QR code and hopefully be able to to scan it not sure how that works for watching this on your phone but anyway yeah if you could sign the petition it’s just we’re so sick of the inaction and talking to some friends who

Are guards they’re sick of having their hands tied you know they they can’t get to the scene fast enough cuz the boys are in and gone so quickly and if they do come across them and they have to pursue them they can’t pursue them because a lot of them are

Lacking the pursuit training which sounds insane but it’s true there’s a waiting list going for for years I believe to get the actual Pursuit training that allows you pursue in a squad car lights and irons and even if they had the training and they were to

To be able to pursue they can to be because the scroll bags aren’t wearing helmets so the risk to life is too great and they have to call off the pursuit and even if that wasn’t the case even though they were pursuing them and they did chase them down and they caused

The The Lads to come off the bike if that if that scum gets hurt which is highly likely the guard will be held liable you think hang on that sounds bananas that can’t be true but it is and there’s a case from a couple of years ago where three burglars went the drove

The wrong way down to jel carage to evade a Pursuit the pursuit was called off but they still kept going and they crashed into the front of an Arctic lry coming out of the the road cuz they were going the wrong way and the car exploded and they all

Died a fiery death and the guard who initiated that Pursuit is now up for prosecution by the DPP it’s absolute bananas the guard was doing his job he called off the pursuit because of was getting too dangerous he acknowledged that and then yeah the lad still crashed anyway

And it’s still the guard’s fault and his livelihood is now at risk I mean I cannot I cannot begin to understand how stressful that must be like I have a pretty stressful job at times but nothing on the case of like getting sued for doing my job and trying to do the

Right thing it’s just it boggles the mind so yeah the guards need the power they need the support from government they need support from higher ups to be able to clamp down in this and I guarantee you once they start clamping down in a very short space of time the

The the amount of tests will drop because the gumbes will know it’s not worth it it’s not worth it they’re doing it now because they’re Tech they’re basically Untouchable you know if I could go commit a crime know that no one could touch me there’s no repercussions

Like well I wouldn’t because I’m a decent human being I’m not a scumbag but I it’s an it’s so easy for them you know roll around the little gangs of threes and fours and Swinging hammers of people and saying and then putting it up on Tik Tok and getting all the clout and

All aren’t we deadly on our little robbed vesa Unfortunately they are stealing some nice bikes not that vesas aren’t nice if you’re into your vesas but yeah it’s just it’s heartbreaking and if if like me like you work hard you work hard to afford the bikes and you look after them you keep

Them even though the KTM is kind of filthy from commuting um yeah it’s just it’s heartbreaking I know uh I know epha who’s who’s here on the run she had her Super Moto Rob last year and it was just I just saw what the she went

Through and she could see it try she basically track it all over Tik Tok and the guyss weren’t able to do anything unfortunately like they’re like oh it’s going down this street now it’s in this area we can’t like even if we did come across them we can’t intervene we can’t

Stop them because a risk of life like we’ have they’d have to catch them parked up fueling the bike up you know when there’s no real risk everyone’s a mobile oh it’s just heartbreaking see yeah if you hate scum bags if you hate people who ride bikes please do sign the

Petition doesn’t matter where you are every voice every name counts we just need to get government to to take this seriously the guards need the training and the resour forces and the supports to go after them and like and it will very quickly decline it will very quickly come under control

Because they had a similar Problem in London years ago where you know scooter crime and two whe crime was was absolutely out of control and as for the same reasons the police couldn’t intervene they couldn’t pursue risk to life so they tried like asbo orders for those who were caught didn’t work they

Tried tagging people who were in found in the found involved this didn’t work and next thing they authorized tactical contact to be made and what tactical contact means is knocking someone off a bike in such a way to minimize the risk but at the same time knock them off the

bike and guess what scooter crime and two wheel crime in general absolutely plummed it so yeah please do sign the petition other than that I’m just going to leave some footage going of uh the protest right in here and yeah scumbags man bike thieves dogs love dogs I miss my

Dog I was going to bring the H2 in today just to get it out for a spin But Not only was it kind of bucketing rain on and off uh out where I live but I also knew this would be quite a slow protest into town I didn’t think

We’d be a I knew we wouldn’t be getting in at any kind of quick pace and I was just a bit concerned cuz she she runs a bit hot if you’re not moving now I’ve taken it in I used it for Community out of the office on on nice days and it’s

Been absolutely fine but yeah even like commuting in at least you can filter you’re very rarely stopped and slow moving like this is this is consistently slow which is exactly what you want for a big group yeah it was the right decision I know that but at the same time such a lovely

Day I wish I could have uh Gone In done the protest and then just tipped off for a spin on it a proper spin stretch your legs anyway KTM was the right choice it was the sane Choice it was a logical choice but it was not the emotional

Choice it’s pity I’m not at the back cuz I’d love to get a shot of uh the entire procession now I have seen people pulled over and taking footage so find that online afterwards I’ll uh I’ll throw it up here and I’ll credit the people as well cuz I don’t only be stealing

Footage yeah I say I tell you this is some sight Lads well done to the organizers for today they got the message out there they got the people to turn up not an easy thing to do calm down what the does that mean and I love Dublin I love Dublin in

The sunshine as well that’s very special very pretty place rare enough that we get us when we do you always appreciate It Still coming around the corner over there there a lot of bikes So right now we’re on Steven’s green going to turn on to D Street right and then right again size that and that’ll be on us on Mosa Street W R Oh One more Motorcyclist Road on mass to ler house today to submit a petition calling for more resources to T tackle vehicle theft they say it’s on the rise and depriving many of them of their only form of transport and causing emotional and financial hardship every year hundreds of motorbikes are stolen across Ireland

Campaigners say it’s an epidemic that’s growing they want guard the to have more resources to tackle this crime we’ like to submit a petition on behalf of the motorcycl ofland today they rode through Dublin to make sure their message is heard they’re now getting more Brazen where they’re attacking the security on

These motorcycles with lump hammers with battery powered angle grinders with crowbars and when people try to intervene they’re threatening them with physical violence the petition organizers say Riders without helmets are a particular issue because they don’t have a helmet on the guardy are very very reluctant to try and intervene

With them because if they have an accident and they’re injured the guardi may be held liable for that today the gy told Virgin Media news they are currently drafting a Revis Pursuit policy and the Department of Justice say they understand the gy have initiated a number of operations targeting motorbike

Theft but for many like EA kugan it’s already too late after her bike was stolen as she slept she tracked it through social media but it was too dangerous to recover it it was in a housing estate but it it it was chaos it was like a street party with the bike

Going up and down a you know a a residential area on the back wheel so have you changed your behavior because of what’s happened yes absolutely I found myself checking every day like you know even if I was away from business I would look at my phone you know check

The cameras Etc fact that they’ve been to our home it felt like an invasion of personal space um and it’s it’s it’s quite scary actually they hope today’s outing will help stop motorbike crime in its tracks by bromes Virgin Media news e