A taste of their own medicine

Berkel

Driving northbound on the M50 last night - the southbound lane clogged from the Finglas exit up to the toll bridge... Next thing I see loads of blue flashing lights - about 5 cop bikes - all forcing the traffic out of their way so that 3 black mercs could get up the M50 without delay. In my head I was thinking that if I saw them approaching behind I'd love to just sit there in the lane for a little while just to give them a little taste of what we motorists have to put up with every day... would be such great satisfaction!! Which got me thinking, if I was to do that, and the guards pulled me over, what would I be charged with?

WizZard

Probably preventing a garda from carrying out his duties.

And being a tit.

Hagar

If everybody did it....:D

Seth Brundle

Hagar wrote:

If everybody did it....:D

The gardai would arrest us all and have to bring everyone back to the station like this...

unkel

LOL @kbannon

Happens to me al the time around Baldonnel. Just means Bertie or whoever wants to go home a bit quicker than the rest of us

ciarsd

ah sure whats another 10 mins in the traffic - as long as ehh eh eh eh Bertie gets home for his eh tea on time.

prospect

afaik,

you are under no obligation to pull over for a guard, fire engine or ambulance.

Berkel

kbannon! - excellent stuff!

Yes I could be charged with "obstructing Bertie's ability to view Coronation Street" or something. Ah know, of course I wouldnt do it, but its nice to have those little 'moments' in your head I wonder do the politicians think 'look at all those plebs in stuck in this traffic' as they are whisked though without a hitch.

_Kaiser_

Don't be silly.. they don't see us "ordinaries" at all! :rolleyes:

Paul (MN)

in Moscow there is a dedicated traffic lane for use by politicians, so don't complain.

i've seen Bertie being driven around a few times. He's just in a Merc and can use the bus lanes.

They were probably foreign visitors or something.

Hagar

I wonder does this magical ability of being able to get from A to B in a jiffy give them a false idea of how badly congested our roads really are?

Cyclonium

Haha. Actually blocked bertie off not so long ago. Himself in the pass seat of a merc and two others in a car behind.

Going in the finglas road, he was coming up the buslane and i was like who the **** do they think they are, so as it happened the bus lane ended just as they got up along side me and nosed ahead. I just said not a chance is he getting in ahead of me and kept goin.

Got stopped at a set of stopped traffic lights and had a good eyeball back to see who was there, and who was it but Bertie. First time I seen the lad in real life, caus im only from down the country. Didnt seem to happy bout being stuck in the lights

WizZard

Haha :rolleyes:

blastman

I don't see why they should be exempt from the effects of their actions (or in this case, inactions). He keeps banging on about being a man of the people, well....

elexes

has bertie passed his driving test yet ?

Lump Basher

kbannon wrote:

The gardai would arrest us all and have to bring everyone back to the station like this...

How is that funny? Did you just find that picture recently, and were looking for any vague excuse to use it? The motorcycle is the only relevance to the topic....

knifey_spoonie

Lump Basher wrote:

How is that funny? Did you just find that picture recently, and were looking for any vague excuse to use it? The motorcycle is the only relevance to the topic....

And whats your relevant topic.........hmm, Now move along.

Sangre

prospect wrote:

afaik,

you are under no obligation to pull over for a guard, fire engine or ambulance.

Of course you have to stop for the Gaurds

ciarsd

Sangre wrote:

Of course you have to stop for the Gaurds

he aint talking about being flashed to pull in for inspection from the Garda... this is 'in traffic' scenario

Cake Fiend

Haha, "don't run from the Po-lice, boy" (... but officer, prospect on boards.ie said I didn't have to stop for you shower...)