{"id":2275,"date":"2013-08-13T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:17:22","slug":"the-further-adventures-of-dumb-and-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"The Further Adventures Of Dumb and Dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Further Adventures of Dumb And Dumber: My Near Death Experience With A Sunday Life Journalist.<\/h1>\n<div>Posted on <a title=\"3:16 am\" href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/10\/the-further-adventures-of-dumb-and-dumber-my-near-death-experience-with-a-sunday-journalist\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time datetime=\"2013-08-10T03:16:25+00:00\">August 10, 2013<\/time><\/a> by <a title=\"View all posts by ulsternews\" href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.wordpress.com\/author\/ulsternews\/\" rel=\"author\">ulsternews<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/piggy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/piggy.jpg?w=300&amp;h=219\" alt=\"piggy\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>As most of the world knows Belfast City Centre was a hive of activity on Friday evening. On most Fridays people hurry home from work, others plan a social event with friends and then there is the dark under current of society, were men in suits run for their Friday night fix. Supposed professionals, pillars of society indulging in their dark pastime: feeding their, not so little habit.\u00a0 All this was interrupted last night when Republicans prepared to walk through Belfast City Centre.\u00a0 Loyalist incensed by recent events organised a number of counter demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dscf6676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dscf6676.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"DSCF6676\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This would make for a very interesting evening and I was tasked by Ulster News to cover the event.\u00a0 I hoped to get some pictures and a feel of events, then head home for a night with a good book and some relaxing music.\u00a0 This is what I had in mind anyway, but as soon as I arrived at the junction of Royal Avenue and Upper\/Lower North Street, a bizarre series of occurrences took place.<\/p>\n<p>I became aware of a strange man watching me, this was done in a surreal fashion: like Inspector Clueless. First he popped out of a door way then ducked back in. Next he was standing like a super sleuth behind traffic lights, like a two year old who believes they are invisible.\u00a0 I carried on with the task at hand aware of the cartoon style behaviour of my weird stalker.\u00a0 As time went on he became even more brazen holding his iPhone in the air like a bad take on Mr Bean.\u00a0 This lap dog behaviour became so tiresome, I told him I would take his picture if it did not stop, which I did.\u00a0 The super sleuth then belched, \u201cyou\u2019ve got a record.\u201d\u00a0 At this point I realized who my stalker was, why it was Big Jim McDowell\u2019s 2IC, super sleuth Sully.\u00a0 I informed him that he also had a record: as one of the biggest liars in the country and if he really wanted my picture he could get it in Ballyhome beach any time he wanted, as I always walk my dogs there.\u00a0 I told him again of his shameful and blatant lying in the Penny Dreadful he works for and that he should be ashamed of himself. He put his hands up and said, \u201cOk Clifford you\u2019ve made you\u2019re point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/s0096392.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/s0096392.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Invisible Man, Dick, Hiding Behind His Phone.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>I went back to what I was there for.\u00a0 A short time later, the terrible tag team arrived next to me, Dick had got backup.\u00a0 Why it was like the finals of the Biggest Liar In The Country, all taking place at the corner of North Street. This gruesome twosome hadn\u2019t finished with Peeples.\u00a0 Dick had sent for the Big Guns, straight from recovering from a bad dose of the chickens, Ciaran Barnes was ready, high on a mix of\u00a0 adrenaline and his own self-importance, he was ready for anything.\u00a0 Ciaran\u2019s addiction to danger is well known and he\u2019s been known to put a Bhoyo or two in their place.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dscf6681.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Dumb And Dumber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I snapped away at the worsening scenes, riot police, dogs, water cannon, smoke bombs, and a general m\u00eal\u00e9e going on but none of this interested Dick &amp; Barnes. The terrible tag team had slapped hands and Barnes was ready for his time in the ring, he twitched, rubbed his nose yet again, which is apparently a sign that you\u2019re ready for a fight or something.\u00a0 Like a bull with nostrils flared, Barnes fired his salvo.\u00a0 Screaming that I was a \u201cdirty fat bastard\u201d and continuing with threats of \u201cI\u2019m going to fix you, you Fucking Fat, Fucking Cunt.\u201d This continued as I tried to report on what was taking place. Police officers were being injured and a full riot was now about to engulf Royal Avenue.\u00a0 None of this interested Barnes as he behaved like a mad man.\u00a0 I told him to stop screaming obscenities and if he wanted he could talk to me later round the corner.\u00a0 He continued on his obscenity fuelled diatribe, making more threats of physical violence towards me. Something that was of concern to those standing around him. One woman was telling him to, \u201cstop behaving like some mad man on drugs\u201d. His disgraceful barrage became too much for one riot control officer, who broke away from keeping public order and publicly reprimanded him, telling him he would be arrested if he were to continue. The officer came to me and told me that he had warned him about his behaviour and that I should stay away from him. The officer then reengaged with the riot control team.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dscf6679.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ulsternews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dscf6679.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300\" alt=\"Ciaran Barnes reprimanded by a PSNI officer over the  disdainful scenes. \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Coco Barnes, AKA, Internet Stalker, Maradona, Being Warned By The PSNI About His Disgraceful Behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact is, \u201cYou can put a monkey in a suit but it is still only a well-dressed monkey.\u201d Dumb and Dumber slipped off after the officer\u2019s reprimand, no doubt to tell their war stories and think of how the tag team special ought to fill the Liar\u2019s Weekly.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m just glad I\u2019m alive, when someone is addicted to danger like Barnes and have that thousand yard stare, coupled with an itching nose, Bhoy it was close.<\/p>\n<p>This Article First Appeared On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulsternews.wordpress.com\">www.ulsternews.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" ><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\"); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_counters_lang=\"en_US\";var hupso_title_t=\"The Further Adventures Of Dumb and Dumber\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Further Adventures of Dumb And Dumber: My Near Death Experience With A Sunday Life Journalist. 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