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Stranger than Folk

Woody's Gun and Sun in Dublin: 7 weird (and wonderful) pics our readers sent us

Sometimes we are sent really useful news tips and pictures, other times we are sent really weird – but wonderful – things like this.
10.00am, 22 Feb 2014
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OVER HERE AT TheJournal.ie headquarters we get sent some really random stuff via email.

Some of it is hilarious. Some of it is heartbreaking.

While more of it is, well, just plain weird.

Since we started doing this post last year, you all copped on and started sending in even more weird sh*te, as well as some wonderful shots.

So here’s a look at some of the surprises we got when we opened our inboxes over the past seven days. Keep ‘em coming.

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  • Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

  • File under 'W' for 'Wonderful'

    Cracking morning down by the river," says Donnchadh MacCobbSource: Facebook

  • Really, really clamped

    Tom Deane snapped this in UCD on Tuesday. Poor feckers.

  • Woody's Gun

    Security staff at Heathrow Airport confiscating a gun...Source: James Lyons

  • Dublin Bay on a Sunny Day

    Jason says: "Taken from Central Park apartments in Leopardstown. Picture doesn't convey how windy it was on my balcony, I risked life and limb for that picture."Source: Jason Walsh

  • Gender Olympics

    A play on the gender testing rules in Sochi?

  • O'Connell Bridge

    Positively tropic it was this week...Source: Eimear McPartland

If you’d like to send us some news tips or pictures email us at tips@thejournal.ie or pictures@thejournal.ie.

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    Psyarron
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    Apr 14th 2018, 7:07 AM

    Chinese k unts and their fantasy medicine causing havoc in the natural world. Brutal shower of fuuckers!

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    tae
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    Apr 14th 2018, 7:12 AM

    @Psyarron: considering they have dog eating festivals over there, then their belief in magic medicine shouldn’t be a surprise.

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    Tara Tevlin
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    Apr 14th 2018, 7:40 AM

    @Psyarron: totally agree have the planet destroyed

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    Ronan O Connor
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    Apr 14th 2018, 7:26 AM

    A great bunch of lads

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    John Cassin
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    Apr 14th 2018, 10:13 AM

    Fish bladders, tiger bones, rhinos horn, what next from these crazy superstitious people.

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    Thomas Devlin
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    Apr 14th 2018, 11:27 AM

    @John Cassin: tripe and onions,st Bridget’s cross,the child of Prague,blessed ashes,banshees,.oh.these superstitious foreigners!

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    Ron North
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    Apr 14th 2018, 1:03 PM

    @Thomas Devlin: What magical powers is tripe and onions supposed to have? The others I have heard of but not this one and Google isn’t telling me anything.

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    Peter Jo
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    Apr 14th 2018, 7:43 AM

    Why don’t they look for an alternative before this species are gone forever, is there nothing generic.

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    Tom
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    Apr 14th 2018, 8:52 AM

    @Peter Jo: Well the article suggests it’s rarely used now because of its value so it’s just a trinket to show off or privately feel good about.

    Those Mexican cartels are in the same business as the Rathkeale Rovers.

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