Ryanair CEO – “Take cyclists out and shoot them”

I think all ignorant, money-grabbing CEOs who commute 50+ miles should be taken out and shot.

Is O'Leary gaelic for dildo?
 

Stop Killing Cyclists have been asked onto Radio 5 Live this morning at 8.35am to give a response to this outrageous statement.
But I agree O'Leary knows how to get millions of pounds of free publicity by making such statements.
However, I guess we should take advantage of it and get millions worth of free publicity for our cause, which benefits everybody, rather than the 15% of society who generally fly.

you f**king little migit and your stupid airline..

Odd that at a conference called Creative Minds his appears to be so closed

He's the Donald Trump or the air. Isn't he also the owner of the horse Victoria Pendleton did so well on?

Upthread was the phrase "wank puffin".

I don't know what it means or where it comes from, but it is a fabulous description of the annoying O'Leary.   Though I prefer titbilled fuckgannet.

This is basically someone who has elected to live many miles away from the city, who chooses to drive a private car for 100% of their commute to work or for social visits to the city and then has the audacity to demand a greater share of publicly funded transport infrastructure than the people who actually live in the city, pay their council tax to that city and as a consequence of their choices to live there have the more practical options of public transport, cycling or walking. Personally I'd brush the 'cyclists should be shot' comment off as a cognitively disregulated outburst from someone who should know better, but understands the marketing image of being seen as a bit of a bad boy firebrand. At the same time, announce on twitter that you would like to shoot the incompetent airport staff who work for Ryan Air (they are not by the way I'm just illustrating a point) and see how quickly an armed response team turn up on your doorstep and just how lacking a sense of humour the legal system has in prosecuting you as a terrorist.

Someone should put us all out of our misery by taking O'Leary out and shooting him. Tosser.

dick-cuntosaurus

Mungecrundle at least understands the point I was (obviously badly) trying to make. What happens to that guy a few years back who tweeted he had a bomb when he was frustrated at the airport? Rightly he was arrested, I can't remember if any further action was taken. But some millionaire tw@t says a group of folk should be shot & it's "banter" or he's a clever self publicist. I'm sorry in my opinion that does not compute.

One rule for the rich, an infinite number for the rest of us.

"I can't do it by bicycle ... I want to drive and I expect Dublin City [Council] to come up with a smarter way for me to get around Dublin and be able to park my car somewhere in the middle of Dublin"

I am sure the children of Africa are dusting down their guitars to hold a charity concert for you.

Oxygen thieving cock womble!

Dildo crested marsh winnit.

I liked this thread better when people were making up rude names:

Deciding between Easy Jet and Ryan Air just became a lot easier.

O'Leary's a Lesser Spotted Cunty Warbler.

L.Willo: just 'cunt' will do.

This is a man that 'bought' taxi plates (and him the only 'hire'...ever) so that he could use the bus/taxi lanes to get around the place in front of joe public in their metal boxes...his time is money, why should he have to spend it in traffic amongst the 'serfs'....????CNUTwHOLE

I just realised I have never flown on ryanair ... I think I'll keep it that way!

OK to attack cyclists but not certain religious groups,     For some of us cycling is our religion.

When are we all to wake up to the damage caused by motor vehicles.?    We are advised to stay off the bike this weekend due to high air pollution levels.     Nothing about suggesting motorists do not drive.  

Suggest that the legal response by every cyclist and their family/friends is to never fly Ryan Air.  We have avoided for years due to the crap service.

Weary O'Leary.

Cyclist...Vote with your wallet DO NOT FLY Ryan Air...EVER

Having a chat with my elderly mother this afternoon, various chit chat. Then she got on to if I was going abroad? I said not with Ryanair, she asked the question, I answered. Then she said, 

"What would happen if you changed the cyclists to Jews, or to any number of ethnic minority's, he obviously isn't update with the latest news. Sounds like an amoeba."

Smart women my mother.

one word is against the law, and the other, well, just try not to run them over.

Here we go

https://irishcunts.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/michael-oleary/

Easyjets Head of Marketing? Maybe that's true, I'm sticking with Easyjet!

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This kind of selfish, arrogant, attitude is common among high net-worth individuals.  It's almost certainly the attitude where the rules that apply to the rest  of us, don't apply to them, and must surely be related to tax-evasion [*], and much more (e.g. the legal-system). It also explains why these people become rich, because they just do not care about the effect of their behaviour upon others, irrespective of how severe those effects are.

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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior, Piff et al. 2011 [Note this is US english where 'class' means 'wealth'.]

Abstract

Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full

* [Irvana Trump: 'only the little people pay taxes'. - Which is code for the rich hide their wealth offshore, from the taxman].

Should take his horse that's just won 'The Grand National' and shot that, they are more of a hazzard to cars and cyclists when there out on the road.

Appalling comment, on so many levels:

- wouldn't it be nice if this turned out to be his Ratner moment* (his employees all suitably safeguarded, of course); colourful entrepreneur makes tongue-in-cheek comment" doesn't wash for me.
- To avoid getting shot, let's all jump in our cars**, those that can, and solve Dublin's traffic problems that way;
- btw, strange that the car advert I saw never mentioned all these traffic queues, pot- holes, MSCPs, etc : it was all clear, sweeping ocean drives and luminous city centres: who can I blame for this?
-  Most worryingly, he's not the first person I've heard, in an era where bar-room talk is increasingly translating into official policy, to harbour this kind of underlying hostility to others 

*younger readers may want to look this reference up on the inter-web

** for which as "hard-pressed motorists", we have paid our road tax, etc which means everyone else needs to get out our way, especially those pavement-riding, traffic light jumping, mobile phone using, road hog cyclists***

***yes, I mean you - I was held up by nearly by 30 seconds by a group of you on a Sunday morning, on a country lane - this happened once in 2012 and again last year

I think anyone who uses Copenhagen as a verb should be shot. Where do I turn myself in for "incitement to murder"?