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Who was ever in a Garda Taxi?

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    #32
    DEmeant0r
    Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    Sully wrote: »
    A bit when I was younger as the father was a guard.. very rarley ever since.

    I do believe if a female asks the guards for a lift home for her own safety, they have to. So iv been told many a time anyway!

    What about a male? Free taxi! score! :D


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    #33
    Krieg
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    Sully wrote: »
    A bit when I was younger as the father was a guard.. very rarley ever since.

    I do believe if a female asks the guards for a lift home for her own safety, they have to. So iv been told many a time anyway!

    Actually there is some truth to that I believe, I know of a "lady" who uses them in this manner, only not in that context.
    When shes out, she gets plastered. Then when she wants to go home she looks for the nearest garda car/van and starts falling all over the place. The garda have to give her a lift for her own 'safety'. She's used this so often that the majority of the force know her by name.


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    #34
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    rb_ie wrote: »
    got a ride in a Garda van, myself in the back with two guards who talked about roughing me up before I got home.

    Another ride in a Garda van with two friends.
    Lol at innuendo.


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    #35
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Once but it is not a very interesting story.


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    #36
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    rb_ie wrote: »
    Also got a ride in a Garda van, myself in the back with two guards
    I got a lift once after someone stole my Lambretta and the cops found it and brought me to it.
    Never had a roide in one though.


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    #37
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Was walkin down to pub in my village and it started pissin rain halfway. Cop car was going past, stopped and he gave me a lift. And he didnt dropped me off just before the pub so that no-one would see me gettin out. Sound out.

    Pity they are so crap at enforcing the law in my area. And before someone says it, it has nothing to do with lack of resources...


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    #38
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Neamhshuntasach


    snyper wrote: »
    Little did you know - it was 90% likely the cops put the speed there..

    they were looking for you to buy yer way out of bother.. a bribe.. absolutely notorious crooked bastards.. mexican cops.

    Ah yeah i know that. That's what i meant by the "it was a scam" part. I had heard of them doing things like that but i went down with the "it will never happen me attitude". A drug dealer drops it in and then tells the cops. The cops take the bribe and the dealer gets the freedom to sell drugs. The thing was he wanted 100 dollars. I only had 40 on me.


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    #39
    Leeby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭Leeby


    Sully wrote: »
    A bit when I was younger as the father was a guard.. very rarley ever since.

    I do believe if a female asks the guards for a lift home for her own safety, they have to. So iv been told many a time anyway!

    I thought that too but was laughed at when we tried it. Four of us girls, when we were about 18 got locked out of a friends house (in town) her brother was supposed to be home to let us in so we were stuck in town, drunk, not enough money to get home. We asked a garda to help us but he just laughed so we slept in the atm room thingy on Grafton Street.

    (Turned out her brother was home all along but too drunk to care about answering the door, it took all three of us to hold her back from bashing his head in with a fire poker)


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    #40
    Run_to_da_hills
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    In America when I was involved in a minor crash.


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    #41
    timmywex
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    Asbad wrote: »
    Actually there is some truth to that I believe, I know of a "lady" who uses them in this manner, only not in that context.
    When shes out, she gets plastered. Then when she wants to go home she looks for the nearest garda car/van and starts falling all over the place. The garda have to give her a lift for her own 'safety'. She's used this so often that the majority of the force know her by name.

    free taxi, but is t worth being arrested possibly?
    and a male can be bought home either btw


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    #42
    Quality
    Registered Users Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    when I worked in a pub years ago, I used to get a lift home with them the odd time..

    My mam used to go bananas "what will the neighbours say"

    I'd have them doing the lights going down the road.


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    #43
    allybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭allybhoy


    Been in squad car's and the meat wagon.... mostly involving alcohol.

    1. At a stags in the Aran Island's a Garda that was drinking in the pub dropped 3 of us home, us all doing the D'unbelievables crimebusters sketch in the back.

    2. After two of my friends got in a scuffle involving traffic cones we were all brought to Pearse Street in the paddywagon.

    3. After a taxi from a to b, the driver tried to charge me like 20euro more than it should have been cos he thought I was drunk, called him a robbing so and so etc, got out, had a pushing match, Gardai called,the two of us went to the station back at location b and pressed assault charges against the other, nothing came of either of them.


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    #44
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,220 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Yup, got arresterized one night, Gardai turned out to be 3 Cork men and 1 Dub.

    Briefest little mention of GAA and it turned into the cheapest way of getting home from Quinns of a rainy thursday night!!


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    #45
    She Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭She Devil


    Myself and my best friend used to find it impossible to get a taxi out of a town we used to socialise in, so the guards used to tell us if we couldnt get a taxi by 5am when the town would have quietened down they would give us a lift home (it was 15 miles) and we used to wait around for the lift home ... twas great craic ... sure the rumours in our home place were flying ....
    Now i'm offered the whole time of being picked up in a squad car and i decline each time out of sheer mortification its diff when its your other half :) takes the thrill out of it! :)


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    #46
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    been brough home by the guards 4 times, but I was never brough to jail or got a court sentence, thank god. It was funny though, here was me absolutly loked out of my head and the guard asking me about my leaving cert haha!

    It's an alright experiance if you're caught for no real reason, especially if you're a girl, all I get is that "I don't want to see you around that area again" and that's that.

    one good thing though, is that the car is sooooo warm haha and there's always loads of bags of drink beside you, never been so tempted in my life!!


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