Take it easy John

[sutoka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D833vLSWI_g

So this story has been top news in Belfast over the past few days. A taxi driver for one of the main taxi companies pulls out a firearm on a guy who hasn't paid his drug debt. Seems the driver is also a UVF enforcer for a loyalist paramilitary group who make most of their cash from drug dealing and extortion rackets these days.

The video is from the drivers own dashcam, he's obviously been sacked. Arrested and now charged and due in court over the incident.


https://news.sky.com/story/arrest-over-taxi-gun-vi...

Edited by sutoka on Saturday 3rd June 05:04

[Jinba Ittai]

Jesus Christ. I like how he nearly shot Marvin in the face at 0.34

[The Rotrex Kid]

Imagine not turning the dashcam off

[gruffalo]

The Rotrex Kid said:

Imagine not turning the dashcam off

I guess that is why he drives a taxi and doesn't operate on people's brains.

[BikeBikeBIke]

Is the guy in a back just a normal passenger? He mumbles something about not being happy but I didn't catch it.

[Ian Geary]

sutoka said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D833vLSWI_g

So this story has been top news in Belfast over the past few days. A taxi driver for one of the main taxi companies pulls out a firearm on a guy who hasn't paid his drug debt. Seems the driver is also a UVF enforcer for a loyalist paramilitary group who make most of their cash from drug dealing and extortion rackets these days.

The video is from the drivers own dashcam, he's obviously been sacked. Arrested and now charged and due in court over the incident.


https://news.sky.com/story/arrest-over-taxi-gun-vi...

Edited by sutoka on Saturday 3rd June 05:04

These days?

I went to uni in the 90s (so pre gfa) with a chap from Northern Ireland.

He explained the paramilitary armies were basically organised crime, with a dash of politics thrown in to "legitimise" it.

Organised crime is everywhere of course (who else controls drugs, porn, protection rackets etc?) but in Northern Ireland, they were just more visible.

Edited by Ian Geary on Saturday 3rd June 08:31

[LimaDelta]

sutoka said:

who make most of their cash from drug dealing and extortion rackets these days.

To be fair, that's what it was mostly about back in those days too.

[gotoPzero]

Yeah thats not a real DEagle. If it was the guy would be missing teeth.
Its also probably the most unlikely firearm to be used by someone like this.

[Biggy Stardust]

gotoPzero said:

Yeah thats not a real DEagle. If it was the guy would be missing teeth.
Its also probably the most unlikely firearm to be used by someone like this.

Perhaps this:
https://www.magnumresearch.com/baby-eagle/

[KingNothing]

BikeBikeBIke said:

Is the guy in a back just a normal passenger? He mumbles something about not being happy but I didn't catch it.

He said: "You been busy mate? What time you on till?"

Also, nice Airsoft Desert Eagle.

[sutoka]

BikeBikeBIke said:

Is the guy in a back just a normal passenger? He mumbles something about not being happy but I didn't catch it.

He’s the debtors mate but also a friend of the taxi driver slash enforcer