Vehicle Gallery - No pic/No post *read rules on post one before posting*

Hat's off to the Garda that helped me get this shot;






I'm actually really fond of the above shot. I love how grim it is (dark street, no other cars/people around, rain clearly dropping in front of the lights, can't see in the windows, etc.).

Now, if only I could do the same with more ES vehicles.

Here are the others (and the above one, edited a little less extreme);

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(not my image)

Around the local Garda Station today was a "Road Safety Awareness" day. It was somewhat similar to the Garda Open Day that was at the station last September. For some reason, which I can't seem to figure out, last year was entirely Garda orientated (everything was Garda gear and equipment, with the exception of the Fire Service who showed up for an hour or two in a tender) and the day was marketed solely as a Garda Open Day. There were thousands at it.


Earlier Today/Yesterday (depending on when you read this) was much, much better. Garda, Civil Defence, Fire Service, Drogheda River Rescue, Boyne Fishermen's Rescue and Recovery, Coast Guard, HSE (unofficially) were all in attendance. Fire Service cut the roof off a car in a demonstration, there were a handful of rally, F1 and vintage cars, arcade-style driving/cycling simulators, a 360degree twirling car (to simulate a crash, barrel-rolling car), articulated lorry with motorbikes set up to demonstrate blind-spots, etc. pretty much, almost every service in the town (though for some reason no sign of the Voluntary ambulance units like St John or Malta) had something to show off and everything was much better than last year... but no one really showed up.

It doesn't make sense to me. I'd say if they got 1,000 people throughout the course of the day they'd be doing well, which is crazy, considering the amounts of people that were at the Open Day. Personally, I only found out about it the day beforehand, and no one I know knew about it, so I'd guess shoddy advertising is the obvious choice to blame.


That said, fair play to the ladies and gents of all the services. All very approachable and easy-going (as they always are).

Anyway, this is a picture thread, so I'll throw up a few snapshots from it (I took a fair few photos, so I'm too lazy to edit them all, so they're straight out of camera for the time being).


An Garda Sìochàna










Civil Defence




Drogheda River Rescue




Boyne Fishermen Rescue and Recovery Service




HSE




Coast Guard






Drogheda Fire & Rescue Service











Sorry the photos aren't the sharpest. In order to quicken the upload time, I used Pixresizer to resize them. It's a fast program, but it really robs the photos of detail to make the file size smaller.

Hat's off to all involved on the day. I hope the shoddy turnout doesn't put them off doing another emergency services themed day next year.

^ Great looking jeep.


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