Ten hours of video uploaded to site every minute
FEUDING Limerick gangs continue to copy their international counterparts by threatening each other on video-sharing website Youtube. This week, members of the Keane/Collopy gang were purported to have threatened a member of the McCarthy/Dundon gang in a video posted on Youtube.
It shows what is allegedly, a senior member of the Keane/Collopy outfit repeatedly threatening John Dundon, recently imprisoned for a period of six months for road traffic offences.
The video, which was posted last week, received over 7,000 hits before it was removed, but it has since reappeared under the title, “Gangsta Thickos from Limerick “.
Comments on this reposted video show what seems to be an alleged reaction from the McCarthy/Dundon gang under the username westongangsters.
It states, “ye won’t have no luck for slagging anyone in weston cos yere goin to be getting the bullets boys. see ye wudn want to be ye”.
The video seems to be a response to a video posted on Youtube earlier this year which purported to show John Dundon threatening rival Christy Keane.
Although new legislation has been brought in to tackle gangland crime it is impossible for the Gardaí or anyone else to police the internet.
Most video-sharing websites have a policy of removing threatening or intimidating videos, but they often re-emerge under a different user name.
It is also difficult to regulate these videos when every minute 10 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube.
Watching teenagers threatening to kill a man who recently threatened to kill a middle aged man on Youtube is unfortunately, not that unusual.
Gangs across the world have been using video sharing websites since they were established, to intimidate rivals, boast about activities and exhibit weaponry.
Street gangs in England have posted videos in which members brandish firearms, one video even shows a 14-year old cocking a pump-action shotgun.
In America, Mexican gangs and drug cartels have being using websites to threaten one another, but authorities have not asked that they be removed.
Instead, they have been monitoring them and are using these videos to pick up information about their activities.
