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  • A man (in his thirties, not a teenager) crept up, phone poised and recording, to within ten feet or so of a car where we were trying to extricate the driver while the ambulance crew were treating him. The driver died en route to hospital. Why do people do this? It’s ghoulish, thoughtless and extremely distasteful.
    We could fill this page with photos of the injured and dead that we see. But we don’t. Sometimes it’s enough to know that horrible things happen without having to see them.
    Most obviously there’s the matter of respect for the dignity of the people involved and the desire of paramount importance to not add to the grief and anguish felt by their families and friends.
    So if you know somebody who considers this kind of thing alright ask them to think about it just a little more.

    Waterford City Fire Service in a post on their Facebook page, where they said emergency crew members were “astounded” by the number of people who attempted to capture video and images of a fatal road incident in which a two-year-old girl died. Daenerys Crosbie, was struck by a lorry on Manor Street in Waterford city shortly after 10am yesterday. Her mother, Carole-Ann Crosbie (30), suffered minor injuries. The crew at the scene “were astounded by the number of people trying to capture the incident on their phones”. It said this had been an “ongoing trend for a number of years now”.

  • Flowery vodka … not for whisky drinkers.

    A less-than-flattering summary of David Beckham’s Haig Club whisky. Haig Club, a collaboration between Beckham and his wife Victoria’s former manager Simon Fuller, originally retailed at £45 but you can now pick it up for a bargain £37 at Asda and Amazon.

  • On a previous occasion I requested the distillery to desist from making this connection on the grounds that the estate does not wish Orwell’s name to be appropriated for any merchandising, and in any case there is no recorded connection between Orwell and this whisky. He is much more famous for celebrating a strong cup of tea.

    Bill Hamilton, managing director of AM Heath & Co, executor of George Orwell’s literary estate, expressing his displeasure at the implied connection between the new Jura 1984 whisky and Orwell. 

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  • A bullet will be put in his head before the end of the day. And we’ll come down and put a bullet in your head too, you rich f**k. We won’t be paying water charges.

    A caller to Alan Kelly‘s constituency office. We’re really outdoing ourselves with this whole clusterfuck. 

  • kateoplis: Meanwhile, in Buffalo: 5 dead, 100+ trapped, 70 inches of snow with much more on the way.

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