F**King noise of that Garda Helicopter!!

mad m

Was in a lovely doze on couch where i think to the point i would of slipped into a deep sleep till morning,till that Garda copter woke me up.....jesus the noise of the thing....Does it have to hover so low!!!!!

robbie1876

It could be worse. I'm listening to my neighbours having sex.

SantaHoe

I know what you mean, I'm sleeping in a converted attic and the sound seems amplified through the roof.
Sometimes on a Friday or Saturday night, there's one circling around for what must be an hour (a police helicopter that is... not neighbours having sex).
Living a few miles from Dublin airport doesn't really help either... once 6am hits - forget about it. (meant in a NewYork-Italian way, not that you can actually forget you're living near an airport).

But in answer to your question...
Yes, I suppose it does.

Winters

robbie1876 wrote:

It could be worse. I'm listening to my neighbours having sex.

*fap *fap *fap

RuggieBear

mad m wrote:

Was in a lovely doze on couch where i think to the point i would of slipped into a deep sleep till morning,till that Garda copter woke me up.....jesus the noise of the thing....Does it have to hover so low!!!!!

Yep, it's a noisey ****er alright. Did they buy the cheapest loudest one they could get their bloody hands on. I've been kept up a few time by the bloody thing....

SantaHoe

I don't think it's even the fact that it's loud or flys low... I think it's more that it just hovers there for 20 mins, or goes around in circles for an hour.
I can handle things flying over, it's just when they won't shut up that it bothers me.

MrNuked

It never hovers where I am....maybe you people are under surveillance or something.

impr0v

Back when I lived in Belfast if there weren't a few helicopters hovering it was hard to sleep.

honeymonster

I've heard it a couple of times during the day, but i live in ringsend so yea know..........

Mercury_Tilt

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Victor

impr0v wrote:

Back when I lived in Belfast if there weren't a few helicopters hovering it was hard to sleep.

Ah, but that Gazelle was at a few thousand feet, loitering for ever over the city centre. The Garda guys insist on a midnight patrol over the city at a few hundred feet and the loitering.

FX Meister

It doesn't come out on patrols though does it? Surely if it's hovering it's looking at something?

Kêrmêttê

I remember when they got their first helicopter a few years ago.
For the first week that they had it, they had great fun flying over where I live and taking out their spotlight and beaming it into people's back gardens.
I went to sleep one night forgetting to close my curtains and was woken up about 3 am with huge beams of light blasting into my garden..
I thought aliens were coming to get me! :eek:

ro_chez

Try living beside Croke Park, the feckin thing does be hovering right over my bedroom window for several hours every Sunday morning-afternoon which is the last thing ye need when dying with a hangover :mad:

woosaysdan

report them to the guards for noise pollution!!!

loz_the_boz

FX Meister wrote:

It doesn't come out on patrols though does it? Surely if it's hovering it's looking at something?

No ! - they put it it autohover mode so they can eat thier lunch !

I saw it in a film

fletch

loz_the_boz wrote:

No ! - they put it it autohover mode so they can eat thier lunch !

I saw it in a film

And we should believe everything we see in films...Mmmm

loz_the_boz

fletch wrote:

Any we should believe everything we see in films...Mmmm

But they had silent mode - hmmm - maybe we could petition the guardas to go silent at lunch breaks ?

FX Meister

It cost about €5000 an hour to keep in the air so I doubt they eat their klunch in it

woosaysdan

i wouldnt put it past them!!! remember the series with the helecopter airwolf i think it was now that would be nice!!! is that the film you are on about loz?

Third_Echelon

that damn helicopter bugs the sh1t out of me...

It actually hovers over my building every weekend night constantly.. I live in temple bar, so it basically sits over my head so they can see dame st, temple bar, georges st etc...

Sometimes they are so low i can actually see the coppers in it... :eek: