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Abuse from a Garda member

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    #32
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    No Pants wrote: »
    Probably a diesel to boot.
    My next car will be an M6 diesel coz' I wrote to Herr Santa at BMW HQ. :cool:


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    #33
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    whatever yee say lads.
    Started off just asking a totally different question and you started on about cars which you have no clue about


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    #34
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    crossy wrote: »
    you started on about cars which you have no clue about
    There are a few people here from the motors forum who might have a idea or two.


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    #35
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    No Pants wrote: »
    There are a few people here from the motors forum who might have a idea or two.

    This post wasnt about cars. If I wanted to have a discussion about cars I would do it in the motors section not in a post about something else


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    #36
    TCP/IP
    Subscribers Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭TCP/IP


    crossy wrote: »
    A 3 litre m spec bmw.

    An msport BMW is not high performance my friend. So it's a 330 is it certainly not high performance.


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    #37
    red john
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭red john


    I think both you and the guard should be horse whipped


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    #38
    red john
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭red john


    I think both you and the guard should be horse whipped


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    #39
    Vision of Disorder
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Vision of Disorder


    red john wrote: »
    I think both you and the guard should be horse whipped

    Twice apparently. :D


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    #40
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    OP, his use of the word 'spa', most likely places him in the 35-45 age bracket, as this word would have peaked in popularity in playgrounds of the early to mid '80's.
    I hope this helps in the search for him.


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    #41
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    TCP/IP wrote: »
    An msport BMW is not high performance my friend. So it's a 330 is it certainly not high performance.

    More high performance than a 90% of the cars that were around me. Its a 530.


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    #42
    usernamegoes
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭usernamegoes


    Regardless of the rights and wrongs of what the OP did, the police should conduct themselves professionally. If a police officer made a minor mistake and I told him to stop being a ****ing spa, would he let that pass as easy and would people support me on these forums?

    While being called a ****ing spa isn't the end of the world and I certainly would have brushed it off, by allowing it we engender a culture that they are above us and we should just take it. Much like the Commissioner's attitude in the PAC the other day


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    #43
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    crossy wrote: »
    Its a 530.
    I think I just might have to sit down.


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    #44
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    Honestly there's nothing that will or even should come out of it but the guard shouldn't have done that. Its unprofessional and uncalled for.
    Case closed move on (you spa ;) )


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    #45
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    No Pants wrote: »
    I think I just might have to sit down.

    Lucky I wasnt driving my other cars so haha


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    #46
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    Boskowski wrote: »
    Honestly there's nothing that will or even should come out of it but the guard shouldn't have done that. Its unprofessional and uncalled for.
    Case closed move on (you spa ;) )

    Im willing to move on :) was just a topic of discussion for boards haha:o


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    #47
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    crossy wrote: »
    More high performance than a 90% of the cars that were around me. Its a 530.

    530D or i ?

    Ive a 530i and i put alloys on it so maybe you could class it as modified,but one thing for sure is id never call it a high performance car,quick yes,but come on its only a 3ltr.


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    #48
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    530D or i ?

    Ive a 530i and i put alloys on it so maybe you could class it as modified,but one thing for sure is id never call it a high performance car,quick yes,but come on its only a 3ltr.

    Remapped 530d


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    #49
    Beelzeboss
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Beelzeboss


    No Pants wrote: »
    You don't know who the guard is and you have no Garda number, but you should make a complaint anyway. In cases like this, you write a letter of complaint to the Garda Commissioner to express your outrage and explain how offended you were by the guard's behaviour. He'll then arrange for every guard in the country to stop what they're doing and line up. You can then walk down the line, inspecting each guard until you find the one responsible. Here's an example from 1961 after a member of the public complaining about being called "an ignorant, four-eyed bollix":


    1961-14-04-Garda-Passing-Out-Parade-B805-9775.jpg


    More recent examples can also be found. This one ended amicably when the offended party accepted that the phrase "Dundalk prick", although inappropriate, was more fact than insult. They agreed to shake hands and leave it at that.


    Cropped-photograph.jpg

    I concur: this is the funniest ever. An award is in order.


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    #50
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    crossy wrote: »
    Remapped 530d

    So its not a high performance car then.

    But back on topic,i do agree that the guard should not of spoke to you like that but i doubt it was because of the car you were driving


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    #51
    TCP/IP
    Subscribers Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭TCP/IP


    crossy wrote: »
    Remapped 530d

    Oh please stop this is getting embarrassing the words 530 diesel tractor should never be mentioned in the high performance. Please stop your killing you own credibility.


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    #52
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    TCP/IP wrote: »
    Oh please stop this is getting embarrassing the words 530 diesel tractor should never be mentioned in the high performance. Please stop your killing you own credibility.

    Ok maybe not very hi-performance but it is modified like this one http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8197000674_19872eb9d3_c.jpg


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    #53
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    crossy wrote: »
    ... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8197000674_19872eb9d3_c.jpg
    Ooooh. ultra chav-tastic innit, eh, innit? White base-ball cap with intact price-tag and white stripey runners to match, eh, know-wot-i-mean bruv, innit, eh?


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    #54
    shleedance
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭shleedance


    Regardless if he is in the wrong or not, the guard acted unprofessionally. I would complain if it happened - not because it offended me, but because their job is to uphold the law and to protect the peace.

    The cynicism of people is astounding. Hate to appear hyperbolic, but the same attitude is why everyone's being screwed in the first place.:rolleyes:


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    #55
    crossy
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭crossy


    mathepac wrote: »
    Ooooh. ultra chav-tastic innit, eh, innit? White base-ball cap with intact price-tag and white stripey runners to match, eh, know-wot-i-mean bruv, innit, eh?

    Ye thats it good man. Im into my cars and I collect them so everyones taste to their own


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    #56
    bajer101
    Registered Users Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    crossy wrote: »
    Ok maybe not very hi-performance but it is modified like this one http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8197000674_19872eb9d3_c.jpg

    I'm beginning to like this Guard.


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    #57
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Bloody rubberneckers.


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    #58
    irishgrover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    crossy wrote: »
    Ok maybe not very hi-performance but it is modified like this one http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8197000674_19872eb9d3_c.jpg

    sorry, but that photo really does not help your position....it's enough to make a car designer cry :-)
    back on topic, regardless of what you were or were not doing. The Garda has not right whatsoever to speak to a member of the public like that in such circumstances. It's idiots like him that make life much harder to the better majority of his colleagues.


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    #59
    bobwilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    dpofloinn wrote: »
    Would you get over yourself.Gardai at the scene of an accident have enough to be dealing with, least of all being pleasent to rubberneckers.If you had got his number what would your complaint have been? He gave you a legal order to keep your eyes on the road ,fair enough he shouldnt have added the 'you spa' at the end but do you know what its like to have to attend the scene of an accident and the stress that comes with that

    r u for real,the garda was a prick,they want respect but on the whole don't give it


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    #60
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I have a complaint to make against some sp*s which I have come across on different occasions where they have called me names or shouted at me who do I complain to?:rolleyes:


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    #61
    Vision of Disorder
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Vision of Disorder


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I have a complaint to make against some sp*s which I have come across on different occasions where they have called me names or shouted at me who do I complain to?:rolleyes:

    You're the Punisher man, you deal with that sh1t yourself! :cool:


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