Off Topic Shooting fatality at Dublin WBO weigh in?

Three armed men dressed in full Garda outfits burst into a weigh in at the Regency Hotel for the WBO bout and shot a man dead. Mental.

 

Saw the footage on Sky last night, "mental" is the right word.

Some sort of gangland assassination according to Sky. Mental.

 

Maybe the fact they were carrying AK47s should have attracted attention. Hardly standard issue weapons.

 

I think initially they were concealed under full Garda uniforms. I'm sure to most a gun is a gun and they wouldn't know an AK47 from a standard issue gun.

 

Yes, maybe they were concealed. But Inwould have thought an AK47 is the most recognisable gun there is. I can tell one but couldn't name any other automatic weapons apart from an Uzi.

 

Not when you're running away from it!

 

Doesn't seem they were hidden as they entered the building.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ttack-boxing-fans-Dublin-hotel-killing-1.html

 

How would anyone know they weren't legitimate police as they were in full Garda swat uniforms?

 

The Garda don't carry AK47s. The IRA, ISIS, Taliban and every other terrorist organisation use them though.

 

Probably some Fenian militia like CIRA or Real IRA. The guy killed was a ganster or former ganster involved in the drug trade, and Irish republicans these days don't like drugs at all. AK-47s aren't easy to get in Europe, unless you belong to an organisation that received loads of them by the Gaddafi regime.

 

I read a piece on a memory experiment where they asked a group of American students to remember a series of events. They scored well. A week later they performed the same experiment, but orchestrated a "gunman" to enter the classroom and they all had massively different recollections of everything they had heard and seen. Stress has a profound effect on the brain.

 

I was thinking of any security people on duty or watching on TV. This is in a country where they have more reason to observe these things than a lot of others.

I went on a speed awareness course where as a test of observation you had to count how many tines a basketball was bounced as a group of people passed it yo each other. Took a lot of concentration. Out of over 20 people, whose guesses ranged from twenty odd to forty odd only one person noticed that someone in a gorilla suit had walked through the middle of them, stopped, waved at the camera and strolled off.

 

One of my favourite books is 'Paranormality'. It's by Richard Wiseman who advised Derren Brown on some of his shows. It examines a lot of the same experiences that you describe.

 

Maybe, but there's no way the average person in the street would know that. I'm not having it at all.

 

You can have what you want but anyone growing up in Ireland is well attuned to these things. And anyone involved in security certainly is.

 

Clearly not otherwise they would not have gained easy entry to the building.

 

Pretty heavy stuff... http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...erm=155386&subid=10107068&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

 

Have there been many bombs set off in Dublin by terrorists trying to force the Republic of Ireland to rejoin the United Kingdom?

 

AK 47 has become the generic name for any big gun used by baddies. Much like a vacuum cleaner is a hoover and a digging machine is a JCB. The public in general couldn't tell an Uzi from an AK 47.