ever got a warning?

Femelade

i remember a few years back when i was in college, my and my friend were kicking a can up the street (in tralee) at 2 or 3 am.

this garda car pulled up after a while and we were at either side of the car, there was a ban garda on my side and she was a right b!tch, took down my name etc.

the other guard was funny, he asked my friend what course was she doing in college, codology or ballsology.

anyway they said if they caught us again, they would arrest us, i know they probably wouldnt have but anyway , just wondering who here has ever got a warning from the guards?

justsomebloke

same thing happened to me for playing football on my street when i was 8 or 9 and i didn't take it seriously then, so i wouldn't take it seriously now either

ferdi

yup, being a drunkard in town, got my name taken by a cop...he didnt seem too bothered, just told me to stop acting the gob****e. sound advice it was.

connundrum

For being too rowdy - there were 5 of us walking up the road to the nightclub, we weren't causing havok but we weren't the quietest bunch, bit of a joke really.. silly law enforcement :rolleyes:

In the space of 2 months I was stopped 24 times by the guards cos I had a 'boy racer' car, they never had a good reason to stop me but just liked annoying me from what I could make out. I didn't really help the situation by acting like a tool. Ah youth

Once I was stopped on the motorway at 2am, the Guard had me bricking it cos he was telling me that he was gonna do me for speeding, driving without due care, driving on a motorway without a full licence, driving without a fully licenced person beside me, no NCT, illegal car parts (under car neons). He insisted on searching the car for drugs, which was fun (I don't do the drug thing, but he insisted that a young lad like me shouldn't be able to afford the car). I went into the station the next day with proof of insurance and licence and he let me off the whole lot - he told me if he saw me driving again though he'd break my legs

tbh

I live in Swords, and there used to be a 24 hour garage about a twenty minute walk from my friends house. One Saturday night, after the pub, we were back in his place, and at around 4am or so, we decided to go for a walk to the shop to get cigs etc. While we were there, I bought a pint of milk, and was drinking it as we were walking back. There were four of us, two lads and two girls, and we were not making any noise or causing any trouble, just walking along (we would have been about 19/20 at the time). A cop car pulled in in front of us, and old guy got out - he walked up to me and said "whats your name" I told him, and he asked me if I had any ID. I said no. He asked me why not, I said I didn't think I needed it. I was being polite - didn't want any hassle. He said "Where did you get that milk" and I told him. he asked me did I have a receipt, and I said no I didn't think I needed one, but he was welcome to go to the shop and ask them. I was getting annoyed at this point. He said "we've been getting reports that people are having milk stolen off their doorstops. Its a bit of a conincidence that you are walking around drinking milk, isn't it?" I said "its Sunday. Milkmen don't deliver on Sunday". (again, as politely as I could). So he took out his book and wrote something in it, and said "I'll be checking on you, lad, consider this a warning". Never heard anything about it since...

connundrum

tbh wrote:

"I'll be checking on you, lad, consider this a warning". Never heard anything about it since...

LOL, a bit of a Magnum PI about him

lodgepole

tbh wrote:

He said "we've been getting reports that people are having milk stolen off their doorstops. Its a bit of a conincidence that you are walking around drinking milk, isn't it?" I said "its Sunday. Milkmen don't deliver on Sunday".

That's the thing with the Gardai. They must be watching American cop shows and think that they're supposed to out smart the criminal element. While in a group (I was 18 or so, so it's going back a while) the Gardai stopped us. After a couple of minutes they noticed one of our number had a bag on. "We have reports of a fella wearing a bag causing trouble". **** off will you.

tbh

ha ha yeah I know, its like "are you SERIOUS??" post script: two years ago I went into Pearce St. GS to get a passport photo signed. The Guard on the desk took it into the back room, and said "now, I've run your details through the computer and Gardai in Swords have a request in the system that you be held for questioning". I nearly lost my life, thinking "it's got to be a mistake" (I've never been in trouble in my life, mam excepted) but really wondering. I found myself thinking "That guy that night.....he didn't really do that did he??" but it turned out a guard in the backroom knew me from school and was winding me up. WINDING ME UP! Who's gonna pay my laundry bills thats what I want to know!!:D

Kinetic^

I had a classic one about a year ago, it was about 3 in the morning, myself and about 5 of my mates had just left a party were we're playing poker. We just got pulled stopped for walking down the street :mad: I had cleaned up that night and had about €50 in 20c & 50c pieces. So he looks in my bag and the look on his face was classic, he must have thought I'd robbed a sweet shop or something

We got stopped for no reason at all that night, names were taken and we were all searched.

tbh

actually, just thought of another one, but I think it shows the Guards in a good light. About 10 years ago, I was in a pantomime for my local drama group. Two lads who were carpenters were also in the play, one was the dame and the other was neptune. We had a matinee performance the Saturday before Christmas, and one of the sets got damage. The carpenters decided they could fix it but needed their tools -so the three of us got into the car and headed to Artane - the two lads still in full costume and makeup. When we were about five minutes away from the house, we came across a checkpoint. As the car pulled up, the young cop standing there looked into the car, saw the two lads, one in a flowing grey robe with beard and makeup, the other dressed up in a dress and hat, with big boobs - and he stuck the breathaliser in his own mouth! the three of us were cracking up.

blorg

Cycling up the contra-flow bike lane on Andrew Street when a pedestrian, without looking, suddenly decides to veer off the pavement right in front of me. So of course I stop very suddenly (didn't hit him) and he starts swearing at me for 'cycling the wrong way up the street.' So a garda saw this and he comes over and starts reading me the riot act about cycling the wrong way down a one-way street.

So I point out that it is a contra-flow lane. He has never heard of this concept. "Don't get cheeky with me" he says. I have to point out that (1) the lane is on the 'wrong' side of the road, (2) all the signs are contra-flow, and (3) all the bicycle graphics marking the lane are pointing contra-flow. Finally he just backs down with a "well, be more careful in future." (Of course without admitting that he was wrong...)

Having said that, this was a once-off and my experience with the gardaí as a cyclist has on balance been far more positive!

Terry

about 12 or 13 years ago i was with some friends and we were fairly drunk. three of us started play fighting and dropped behind the rest of the group. next thing i see is some big guy grabbing my friend out of the corner of my eye. my initial reaction was to throw a punch. i'm glad it didn't connect, because i would probably have been done for assaulting a member af the gardai. didn't stop him giving me a swift kick in the nuts. the other cop came over and asked why i was crouched down. i told him that his buddy had kicked me in the nuts. this was met by another kick in the nuts. my friends both ended up with black eyes. the cops then told us that they were here 'to clean up Leixlip', which was fair enough because the previous night cop was a completely inept drunk.
a few days later our parents got letters from the cops and they had something resembling a school report card in them. it had a list of offences with boxes beside them and some of them were ticked. there was a note at the end saying that the next time it happened, we would be taken to court. i still have it somewhere.
then there was my entire teen years, where i was searched for drugs at every opportunity. fairly embarassing when it happens in front of your neighbours. also, they never once found anything on me, but contined to search me for years. cops don't like long hair and i did look like a bit of a junkie. still, it was really annoying.

MorningStar

I would not worry about a warning at all. Really driunk one night during a Freashers week and I needed to go to the toilet when the cops drove up right behind me. They weren't impressed as I was going to the toilet on the door handle (driver side) of a rather expensive BMW. They took me in and kept me over night but let me go and did not charge me.

I should have paid a fine at least I was well guilty

Terry

a friend of mine was done for that. he was fined £5. great was to spend taxes.

stovelid

3 times :0(

Once cautioned in teens for carrying screwdriver. Twice for harmless ( i thought) drunken college escapades. Never fined thankfully.

Teller

Femmy wrote:

i remember a few years back when i was in college, my and my friend were kicking a can up the street (in tralee) at 2 or 3 am.

this garda car pulled up after a while and we were at either side of the car, there was a ban garda on my side and she was a right b!tch, took down my name etc.

the other guard was funny, he asked my friend what course was she doing in college, codology or ballsology.

anyway they said if they caught us again, they would arrest us, i know they probably wouldnt have but anyway , just wondering who here has ever got a warning from the guards?

That was a bit much isn't it? Getting a warning just for kicking a can? Unless there's a new law stating no cruelty to cans now...

lordsippa

I've been... *ahem* busted twice. Twas harmless goings on but both times there was a big chance of me going to jail. And to be completely honest the cops in both cases were pretty decent. Read me the riot act, tried to scare me (which is where you gotta act along), and let me go with a warning.

And seriously apart from those two times where I was a complete eejit I've never had any hassle with the ol' gardaí. Never get searched or stopped or hassled... which should amaze anyone who's ever seen me.

Gator

One day a mate and myself were waiting at the busstop when two guardai walked by..they were kinda looking at us as they were walking by....when they had passed us at the stop my mate poked his head around the shelter in their direction....of course the two of them had stopped and were obviously waiting for us to do this....they walked back towards us...

"so lads...what are you doing" one of them said
"waiting for a bus" I replied
"fúcking smart pair here we have.....Il give ya smart now....name..address etc""


ahhhh.....the Irish police force...:)

Siogfinsceal

used to get em all the tim ewhen we were kids...figured the guards had notjin gelse to do as it was a quiet little village - sides we were to young to be arrested - be we didnt know that!

um7y1h83ge06nx

Got into bits of hassle with cops about 3 or 4 times, all college related mayhem.

One time there was a few of us drinking in a house. We had the great idea to make our own cocktails. Our cocktail consisted of vodka jelly, absinthe and peach schnapps. We then starting drinking straight vodka that we had put in the freezer.

By the time we left the house to head into town, we were well oiled. One of the lads jumped into his car, revving it up and play a CD at full volume. Then we walked down to the bus stop, chanting "We are f**king mental, We are f**king mental, Dada, da, DA-DA!" while while in the middle of the road in the housing estate. This silver Xsara drives down the road, and one of the lads jumps out shaking his arse and dancing at it! The passenger rolls down the window, telling us to come over, I could just about see "GARDA" written on his jacket, it was an unmarked car.

We decided to ignore them and keep walking. Then they both got out and cornered us, asking why didn't we stop for them. I replied "Lads, we didn't know ye were guards. We didn't stop cos we thought ye were dodgy scumbags"

The guard then said we show have stopped anyway, to which I replied "Well lads, this is Lmerick in fairness. You don't stop for any car around here at this time of night" It worked and we got off.

Another time I may have been seen running around the middle of Limerick at 3a.m. trying to lose some cops that we had a disagreement with. I noticed an unmarked car with plainclothes in it, just outside a late bar at closing. I then got as many people as possible to repeatedly chant "Unmarked cop car!" at them. They didn't like. I lost them though.

Ah, the craziness of college

Megatron

Gator wrote:

One day a mate and myself were waiting at the busstop when two guardai walked by..they were kinda looking at us as they were walking by....when they had passed us at the stop my mate poked his head around the shelter in their direction....of course the two of them had stopped and were obviously waiting for us to do this....they walked back towards us...

"so lads...what are you doing" one of them said
"waiting for a bus" I replied
"fúcking smart pair here we have.....Il give ya smart now....name..address etc""


ahhhh.....the Irish police force...:)

Hahahah , still it is funny :P


I got pulled ( no dirty jokes please :P) for walking around town with a trench coat on ( again no dirty jokes please) , They garda was going mental at me , so i replyed in in my best german acccent "So , you know way to GPO ?" , as i walked away all i heard from him was "F00king forgien bastards"

I did get a warning from a guard before , for going along the motorway ( well all 100 yards off it ( whitehall) with my rain gear on , i had forgotten my lights and it had gotten darkish. He was reading me the riot act , but he kept saying "do you think your smart dressed all in black" It took all i had to stop myself from saying "It's navy ... i'm in rain gear and it's Navy" ...
Anyway i go on my way ( i told him i live near by) he heads off into town direction , now i was cycling to Southcircular road by the boxing arena,

As i am coming up to the top of parnell square he has pulled some car over and is going them the speal ..... But he did see me as i shot past him .. he left the car got on his bike and started after me .
I popped up on the central part of O'connell street and then off down henry st. across the ha'penny brdige and every back way i knew to get home .

Sure i was 15 mins late , but i have had such a good laugh about cycling 12 miles in the drizzle on a cold sept evening ever

Lump

I was kicking a cone up the centre of Kilkenny, got stopped, they just told me to stop dicking around, I might get hit by a car. Never had my name taken, in England or Ireland. I did end up in court once.... As a witness

John

Femelade

Lump wrote:

I did end up in court once.... As a witness

ah, i've been in court quite a good few times, the joys of having a psychopatic ex!

Lump

Pfff, court isn't all it's cracked up to be. I was brought in as a prosecution witness... it'll all backfired when I sided with the defendant....

John

Peace

I was pulled over one time for doing in the region opf 90-100 miles per hour ont he galway road. Was chatting to the cdop at the back of the car for a whle... few question like wher you going, where you coming from, name, licnse blah blah.

In the end he just said..'Slow it down lad, you were fairly tipping it'

.... tipping what?

Nightwish

I've never had any trouble with the cops. However last summer my 13 year old brother came home in tears. He was cycling across to a neighbouring housing estate with a small bag, with playstation games, in it. The cops stopped and searched him for drugs. He is the quietest, shyest kid in the world. My parents were livid. I was so angry I was going to go down to the station and kick up murder but since my brother didnt know who the cop was, I thought there was no point.

Binomate

We were warned to "get the fuck off the beach" by two gardaí in Roundstone, Connemara at about 4:00am last Summer. Of course, because we were in the right we ignored them and they finaly went away after about half an hour of trying to get us to move along.

elurhs

Coming home from the club one night, fairly merry. There were four or five of us, and we saw a shopping trolley left on the footpath. So we took it and started messing around, one guy pushing, another guy sitting in it. Jesus we were all over the shop, out in the middle of the road and everything. Great craic though.

Anyway, we'd calmed down a bit and were walking further on, coming near home. I, of course, in my druken state, hadn't relinquished control of the trolley. We were passing a roundabout when a cop car pulls up, and out gets big cop and small cop. The small lad was on a major power trip.

"C'mere you"
"Who, me?"
"Yes you. Where did you get that trolley?"
"I found it at the side of the road."
"Where are you going with it?"
"Nowhere."

Wrong answer.

"Don't give me cheek. Ya must be going somewhere. etc, etc"
Eventually he comes out with "Put it back where you got it"
Fecked if I was walking all the way back with it, and I told him as much.
He was just about to kick off again, when big cop goes "Just stick it behind that sign there" *points to big road safety sign*

After a few more warnings they hopped in the car and took off again.

Got to love the guards!:D

Tar.Aldarion

Warned a few times for music, and the fabulous parties we throw.
Then I have to turn on the charm.

Sam Vimes

i was fairly drunk in town one night and one of my mates said "lets go for a swim". i of course said ok, took my shoes off, hopped over the wall at o'connell bridge and walked down the steps. got to the bottom and realised it would be a bit silly so i was about to come back up when a light shone in my face. there were about ten gards there and one of them took my name and said i'd be getting a summons. i'm still waiting for it three years later

Scoops

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

Setun

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

LMAO wiggle waggle

A few weeks ago we were busking outside some massive party that was getting shut down by the cops, they told us to put the music away. One of the lads started playing I Fought The Law on his guitar, and yer man comes back and says "if yis are not gone by the time I come back I'm gonna arrest yis". So me being the gentleman tried to ease matters - "Don't worry about it..." He walks right up to my face: "DON'T YOU GET CHEEKY WITH ME, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TELLING ME NOT TO WORRY? I'LL THROW YOU IN THE BACK OF THE PADDYWAGON!"

Never made much buskin that night.

xha1r

Coming back from a club one time, we were walking up the main road in the area. We'd bought a bag of chips and noticed a garda car stopped across the road from my avenue, in a pretty dangerous part of the road, and they were talking to someone.

We turned down onto my avenue anyway, and decided to sit on a wall opposite my house. Sure enough, one minute later, the cop car comes up and stops in the middle of the road. A woman gets out and comes over to us and in fairness, wasnt that bad.

The funny part was when she asked where we were from, and I said, just about to start a big story, "Its funny you should say that, you see..."

She interrupts and as they do, started going on about cheek and all that craic.

Anyway I took out my key, said goodnight and walked across the road and opened my door.

Thing is, it was so unnecessary to do what they did, we were only eating chips and didnt even look or act drunk...

They must of been bored..

Zapp Brannigan

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

funny fact: It's illegal to urinate in public places but there's no law against dropping your cacks and crapping.

Terry

Slurms wrote:

funny fact: It's illegal to urinate in public places but there's no law against dropping your cacks and crapping.

it's true. while drunk one night, a friend of mine decided to flaunt this law in the cops face. he dropped his bags and asked a cop to cover him while he took a dump. the cop laughed it off.

Zapp Brannigan

julep wrote:

it's true. while drunk one night, a friend of mine decided to flaunt this law in the cops face. he dropped his bags and asked a cop to cover him while he took a dump. the cop laughed it off.

I dunno if this is tru or not but I think the cop is obliged to clear it away after you.

Patricide

Many a warning was recieved when i was with my old band, Every night we would either get one for being drunk and disorderly, starting fights with homeless people(well that was our singer mainly) and so on.

My most memorable one was where everyone was ****ed and we were walking home, we ended up braking a few trees(exept me breaking trees is just retarded), a few lawn ornements and lawn lights.It was ****ing retarded looking back on it to do that but still it was funny cause we were 5 feet away from home when the gards pulled over.

They gave us the option to either admit to it or else wed have to go down to the station and because one of us had illegal substances on him he confessed straight away. The retarded thing was we caused a couple of hundred quid worth of damage and the guards only gave us a warning.

democrates

You must be a bunch of scumbags, I never have any trouble with the guards. In fact they've often helped me out dealing with scumbags.

Hal1

Peace wrote:

I was pulled over one time for doing in the region opf 90-100 miles per hour ont he galway road. Was chatting to the cdop at the back of the car for a whle... few question like wher you going, where you coming from, name, licnse blah blah.

In the end he just said..'Slow it down lad, you were fairly tipping it'

.... tipping what?

c0w tipping

Hal1

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern (stem?) talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

You know what, its an old by-law that if you need a piss in a public place and there are no public toliets or pubs open, a gaurd is supposed to cover you with his coat while you have a piss and if you need to shít he has to give you his hat to do it in . I never tried it myself but will consider it next time im stuck lol :P

Scoops

Hal1 wrote:

You know what, its an old by-law that if you need a piss in a public place and there are no public toliets or pubs open, a gaurd is supposed to cover you with his coat while you have a piss and if you need to shít he has to give you his hat to do it in . I never tried it myself but will consider it next time im stuck lol :P

Imagine asking a garda for his hat to sh1t in!!

_Kaiser_

Without dampening the pretty funny mood (wonder if that bye-law is true, oh and "tipping" in this context means speeding basically ), the problem is the for-the-most-part incompetent, ignorant, inconsistent, keystone cops brigade we have in this country. :mad:

I mean (just using examples from this thread):
- Going off on power trips because they think they're somehow better than you
- Harassing people for "looking at them" (natural reaction) after they themselves gave the lads a good looking over in the first place
- Being proven to be in the wrong, but still coming out with the equivalent of "yea well, you're warned"
- Basically just throwing their weight around like some sort of playground bullies

Is it any wonder then that they've (deservedly) got such a bad image.

Slunk

Had one or two dealings with them mostly when i was younger, group of us sitting at the corner an in the garden to the side of the house( which is where i live). gaurds driving by always crawl by in the car staring so one day we all stared back, so they stopped and told us to move on, i said i lived here and they said just move on so i told them again, i live here where do you want us to move too, of course typical irish garda, wrong answer, gets out of the car and searches every one of us.

Another time in the summer we were on our way to a friends house with a few cans, seen some people in the park so went into them, gaurds pull up, didnt even get out of the car, just shouted in, " here fcuk off down the fields or we'll be getting complaints" . Hadnt even opened a can.

Hal1

Going back a few years now, ahh yesh the good ole days of drinking in the grounds of the local girls secondary school.

Myself and two of my mates had gone and bought a bottle of vodka and about 12 cans of bulmers and had a bit of 'smoke'. Well I wasn't used to drinking vodka at all, at all. We had no mixer for the vodka. It was decided that I would drink half and the other lad would have the other half.

So we where having a great old laugh until we looked down the end of the road to the gates of the school, now we didn't make too much noise to bring any attention to ourselves.

Now this garda car rolls into the grounds with the flashing lights, no siren on. They spot us in one of the sheds. And roll up to us, the passenger side window slowly rolls down and that blinding flash light shines in our faces. "Lads", says the first garda. "You know this is private property and you are tresspassing". "Sorry gaurd we didn't reliese we where causing any trouble". He then notices the bottle and the few bags of cans we had on the ground.

They where fairly sound about it. But said he would have to confiscate the drink. MY mate was the cocky sort but not too much he was a good talker like. He pleaded with the garda, and we where just rubber standing there trying to stay upright.

They got out of the car and searched us and said. "Well ye seem to be keeping it quiet here but Im gone to have to confiscate the drink". Well my mate starting talking to one of the garda about bodybuilding and saying how fit he was etc. He said that if he could make it to the gates before they did could he keep his vodka the road was about 500mtrs long. The garda where like alright :P so they gave him a 10 sec head start and he took off, I never seen anyone run so fast. I couldn't believe my eyes, I could barely see as it was. He outrun the squad car he got his vodka back. They where like be on your way now though. We fell around the place laughing for about half an hour afterwards .

Naos

Lol at the vodka race.

The Gardai seem to be painted in a good light here, well most of them..

Tipping it : Refers to the accelerator.

Xha1r: The Garda in question didnt know you lived across the road. You were sitting on someone elses wall, they would have seen this as intimidation.

Myself, few warnings but only for silly stuff. One memorable one when I was about 12, I and two others got our names taken for... Building a tree house. Gardai came up to us, took our names and questioned us for a wee while. Then the aul lad brought me down to the station and proceeded to give them a bollicing

Terry

so many drink related stories.
the local cops told us to drink our cans up by the canal, because that way we were out of everyones way and they (the cops) wouldn't have to take our drink off us.

BigWilly

The thing about drink is that you don't really realise how much of a nuisance or whatever you're being and will think the garda is in the wrong if he gives out to you. But you have to understand that most sober people don't want you kicking cans/messing with trolleys up their roads etc

In general I find the guards to be an alright bunch. Although if I go up to the top of my cul de sac for a smoke I don't really want to be told to move on or whatever. Can they actually legally move you in in that case? It'll be like
"where do you live?"
"About 10 houses down the road"
"well go home"
"ehhhhh"