In a suburb on the southside of Cork city, there is a group of teenage boys and girls who have formed a gang dedicated to stealing Asian car imports and documenting their crimes on social media.
IN A SUBURB on the southside of Cork city, there is a group of teenage boys and girls who have formed a gang dedicated to stealing Asian car imports and documenting their crimes on social media.
In October 1998, Ian Ward from Knocknaheeny and Christopher Kearney from Hollyhill were killed when the stolen Honda Civic they were travelling in crashed into a pillar on Cork’s Carrigrohane Straight. This generation then not only has a new motivation – gratification on social media – but an easier method of obtaining the vehicles.
On the most popular account, which has been taken down in recent days, there were hundreds of likes and comments under the videos, there are also dozens of bookmarks or saved videos by users. Sources have said there is no evidence that the cars are being stolen to order or to be involved in burglaries.
The tone of the videos on TikTok changed the next morning. The boasting video was deleted and replaced with a mawkish dance version of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young with an image of the RTE report of the crash. The account shortly after returned to normal service with videos of joyriding again. The latest video posted on Sunday showed a rear view through the back window of a car as they are pursued by the blue lights of a garda patrol car along a country road. The camera shifts focus to the driver with 120kms per hour speed on the dash.Asian Market The Journal revealed in January that gardaí had seen a massive spike in the theft of cars imported from the Asian market.
Since the early 2000s, the activities of car thieves had been stymied because of the introduction of the immobiliser device. The modus operandi of their crimes are identical, as are the reasons for doing it: to generate likes on social media.
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