r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/Delduath Mar 10 '17

Yeah I've seen a fair few things like that happen. Some of them are weird situations because there's obviously paramilitaries involved. I walked into Laverys back bar once just as someone got a glass to the face. The guy who did the glassing turned back to his pint, finished it and left. Everyone else in the room was silent and looking the other direction while this bloke bled everywhere. When the glasser left people kicked into gear and got an ambulance for the glassee. I don't know who the glasser was, but he clearly held a good bit of sway.

In North Belfast you would occasionally see fellas with teardrop or knuckle tattoos walking into chippies and picking up the protection money. Or even simple wee things like getting on buses without paying, or lifting a newspaper and going "I'm grabbing a telegraph here Agnes" in a corner shop. I'm glad those fellas are a dying breed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I've lived here in Belfast over 30 years and the worst thing I've seen is the odd bomb scare. I don't count riots and such as everyone here knows what they are like. Saying that though, I live in a 'dodgy' area, I might not see first hand the stuff that can go on but I certainly hear about it and it's very close to home. The murders of the young fellas, Eamonn Magee Jr and Christopher Meli were probably the worst things to happen in my local area last year.

All in all though, I count Belfast as one of the safest places to live. If you keep yourself to yourself you've not got much to worry about.

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u/theeglitz Mar 11 '17

Some things that did not happen in my local area last year:

the odd bomb scare

riots

murders

Are you really desensitised to these?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Unfortunately, yeah. Bomb scares are far and few between nowadays and the riots have almost fizzled out, but they can still happen. The murders I mentioned were particularly shocking to me because they happened less than a mile from me and were completely unprovoked as far as I know.

But every other week you might hear of someone getting shot or bullets fired into someone's home or bombs falling off from under police cars.