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[pothead pixie]

Paul Bunbury


From Boards.ie: "Paul Bunbury, a DCU Student has recently gone missing. Paul hasn't been seen since Thursday at roughly 4pm in DCU and nobody has been able to contact him. His family are very worried, and are appealing to anybody with information to contact Whitehall Garda Station on 01-6664500.

Please pass this message on to anyone you know. Hopefully someone has seen him.

So please, if anyone has any information, please contact the Gardaí at Whitehall or post in the DCU thread to keep everything together."


I thought I should post this here as lots of forums, Facebook etc have been covered in Ireland, this is to spread this UK wide and Europe too, as Paul apparently had an out of date passport so he could still travel to the UK by ferry without the need for one.  This is basically aimed towards Sonisphere and Download posters as I have worked out that Paul liked metal music through some of the posts in Ireland.

Edited by pothead pixie, 09 February 2012 - 03:12 PM.

[The Nal]

We've had a few people disappearing in Dublin over the last 10 odd years. Really weird. And sad. There was a guy called Trevor Deely about 10 years ago, left a pub on Friday night, turned a corner and was never seen again.   No fights, no cars pulling along side him on the CCTV etc.

Hope this guy just fell and has amnesia or something.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I was reading that some people just walk away leaving everything behind and start afresh elsewhere. Could be a breakdown or not, but it is still more common in men. It does seen strange that with all the information stored about a person that a trail is not left, but I do know that the police did not have a right to access tax records/dole records etc without a court order. At least families could know a loved one was alive.

[pothead pixie]

Ill bump this again, as this guy is still missing and its twelve days now.

Edited by pothead pixie, 14 February 2012 - 12:42 PM.

[The Nal]

This 16 year old girl has been missing for 5 days now in Dublin

[pothead pixie]

Sadly Pauls remains was discovered in the Liffey 13th March.  RIP and codolences to the family.
http://www.boards.ie...hp?t=2056539301

Edited by pothead pixie, 15 March 2012 - 02:10 AM.

[Barry Fish]

Very sad stuff

[The Nal]

Just bizarre. Happens a lot here. Theres been a few more missing persons since Paul Bunbury too.

[eFestivals]

The Nal, on 15 March 2012 - 10:18 AM, said:

Just bizarre. Happens a lot here. Theres been a few more missing persons since Paul Bunbury too.

there's also an awful lot of people around here (Bristol/Bath) who go missing, who are later found in the river.

The majority of them are "last seen leaving the pub", so either there's something weird going on which attracts the pissed to water (a most unwise thing to do), or there's something even weirder going on.

[The Nal]

eFestivals, on 15 March 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:

there's also an awful lot of people around here (Bristol/Bath) who go missing, who are later found in the river.

The majority of them are "last seen leaving the pub", so either there's something weird going on which attracts the pissed to water (a most unwise thing to do), or there's something even weirder going on.

Yeah thats the theory, we have a canal in Dublin too which is regularly drained looking for people. Drunk bloke leaves pub, walks to the river for a piss or to play with the swans etc and falls in.

Murder victims are also dumped in there too.

[Barry Fish]

Drink, Depression and Suicide go hand in hand unfortunately...

While I am not suggesting it is the case here ( I know nothing of this man ) it is certainly a common explanation on how people end up being found in rivers.

[eFestivals]

Barry Fish, on 15 March 2012 - 10:54 AM, said:

Drink, Depression and Suicide go hand in hand unfortunately...

While I am not suggesting it is the case here ( I know nothing of this man ) it is certainly a common explanation on how people end up being found in rivers.

that's supposedly been nothing to do with the instances around here, from what's been reported on the local news.

But then again, who really knows what's going on in people's heads?

[Barry Fish]

eFestivals, on 15 March 2012 - 10:57 AM, said:

But then again, who really knows what's going on in people's heads?

Yup...

Also, sometimes family don't want to accept how unhappy their love ones where. that they missed the "warning" signs (not that they where ever there to spot) and so on...  Then again, it might not be that at all either in these particular cases.  I don't think you can ever rule it out though.

[The Nal]

eFestivals, on 15 March 2012 - 10:57 AM, said:

But then again, who really knows what's going on in people's heads?

Especially here. We've quite a high suicide rate and due to the (in general) closed nature of our Catholic culture its not seen as acceptable socially to be open about mental disorders. I know/have heard of a few people who have killed themselves and its been totally out of the blue.

Again, not saying thats the case here.

[eFestivals]

Barry Fish, on 15 March 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

Also, sometimes family don't want to accept how unhappy their love ones where. that they missed the "warning" signs (not that they where ever there to spot) and so on...

Yeah, I know all about that one after a friend of mine chucked himself out of a 13th story window about 20 years ago.

His family fought like crazy against the possibility of a suicide verdict at the inquest (I can't actually remember which way the verdict went now).

I'm personally not sure whether it was or wasn't suicide. There were reasons why it might have been, but he was also the sort of guy who might have just thought "I wonder if I can fly?" and did it without another thought, or even just had the urge to jump without any thought about it (in the way that people say they do when stood on a cliff edge and the like).

[Rufus Gwertigan]

There could be loads of reasons. The remains of a bloke missing were found near Stockport recently after 6 or 7 years. They where in a wooded verge or something. Police think he was clipped by a car and went over a barrier and rolled a bit.
No stretch of the imagination to think someone has fell or was mugged and pushed into a canal.