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Irish banker goes berserk in New Jersey pizza parlor says cops

Drags woman across floor by her hair, assaults another customer

JAMES O'SHEA,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7:08 AM

Updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 10:46 AM

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Irish banker goes berserk attacking customers at a Hoboken pizzeria

Photo by NJ.com

An Irish banker in the US on business went berserk in a New Jersey pizza parlor dragging a woman across the floor by the hair on her head and punching out another customer.

Police say the episode began when the Irishman, who was not named by police but said he worked for an Irish bank, got into an argument with the other customer in an Hoboken pizzeria, named by locals as Impostos.

He allegedly punched the man in the head and left him bleeding, according to NJ.com reports.

As he was leaving, a 25-year-old local woman tried to stop him but he grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across the pizzeria floor.

Cops were called and when they arrived they confronted the 29-year-old man from Ireland who had deep scratch marks on his neck and blood on his shirt. He claimed he was trying to break up a fight.

The man said he was staying in nearby Montclair and worked for an Irish bank and was due to return to Ireland in two weeks He was arrested and held.

His two victims were treated in a nearby hospital.

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Scrivner | Apr 19, 2012, 02:57 PM EDT

Have to agree with J.B. Raftree: Damn those Jersey Pizzas!

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ciaradexy | Apr 18, 2012, 11:02 AM EDT

Bogside, you may have gotten your user name from being a skanger from the Bogside who starts fights and has 9 welfare kids but this is not indicative of Irish people.

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patto69 | Apr 18, 2012, 05:52 AM EDT

Edward Mc Donald, that was pure class.

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IrelandNorth | Apr 18, 2012, 05:27 AM EDT

[f]ogside[f]anny! You're talking through your arse again. What parallel universe Ireland do you inhabit - the Waterside? But wow, just after they casino capitalists of the Irish private banking sector wrecked the Irish economy by giving themselves €160,000,000 loans and 100% mortgages to credit dubious borrowers, now they go on a rampage in the land of laissez faire capital. Geez! What can one expect but a free for all?

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bogsidebunny | Apr 18, 2012, 01:43 AM EDT

This is normal behaviour in Ireland. He'll try the "Irish Gambit" in court. 1) I was off the rails with "drink & prescription drugs". 2) I show genuine remorse. 3) I'll pay any medical bills incured. 4) Me partner is 7-months pregnant with our 9th child. And he'll expect to hear a blithering idiot judge pronounce sentence: "The probation act", which is basically saying: he did it but his excuses get him a "get out of jail free" card. One big problem, You ain't in Mullingar now lad!

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irishcoffeekid | Apr 17, 2012, 11:16 PM EDT

thus proving yet again the quality of irish banks has reached its all time low - in how they do their business and in the quality of some of the people they hire!!

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STEVENSTAR | Apr 17, 2012, 07:25 PM EDT

Probably the Genetically modified food over there!!

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Murph46 | Apr 17, 2012, 06:12 PM EDT

Remember when going berserk was going Postal?

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rpmschevy | Apr 17, 2012, 05:06 PM EDT

Citizen of what I may ask? Maybe you should be checked for delusional tendencies. "hackneyed right wing comments" Get your head out of MSNBC and read the comments. You even had a former Jersey guy talk, which indicates he knows or has history. And Nico, I was always warned about not driving in Newark when I was back in the area working, due to crime, especially against white people. But then again Newark is West of NYC and South of Boston, so maybe that is what you meant.

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Greendays | Apr 17, 2012, 04:30 PM EDT

How much for a slice of pizza? I like pizza...

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MCCOLGAN1492 | Apr 17, 2012, 04:23 PM EDT

Stock Market is making everyone a little cranky....

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Nicomax | Apr 17, 2012, 02:24 PM EDT

Quit dumping on the so-called criminality of the New York Metro area. If the bloke wanted to find real US crime he needed to go south and west in the US where the crime rates in places like Miami, Phoenix, Atlanta, are way ahead of anything found in NYC, Boston, Philly, etc.

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sirpeter | Apr 17, 2012, 02:22 PM EDT

This 25-year-old New Jersey women must be stupid.This was an argument between two guys that ended up in fisticuffs.She obviously tried to physically stop him from leaving.The guy he punched might be a victim of assault.But not her.She caused the second altercation.

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JBRAFTREE | Apr 17, 2012, 02:02 PM EDT

Damn those Jersey Pizzas!!

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MCCOLGAN1492 | Apr 17, 2012, 12:13 PM EDT

Probably does work at a bank, slow day beating customers out of money so he decided to beat a few at lunch!!! Wonder if he had a pitcher or two prior to his desert?

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