Who was ever in a Garda Taxi?

Halfdog

Not including cops on this thread, who was ever driven around in the back of a squd car?

I was once when I was stopped in a defective vehicle and told to leave it where it was and then asked to hop in and took a lift back to where I was staying at the time.

AckwelFoley

Halfdog wrote: »

Not including cops on this thread, who was ever driven around in the back of a squd car?

I was once when I was stopped in a defective vehicle and told to leave it where it was and then asked to hop in and took a lift back to where I was staying at the time.

i was arrested in phibsboro and brought to Storestreet Garda station.

Good Times :pac:

Rb

I went around a travellers camp in the back of a garda car before (tinted windows) looking for a bike they'd stolen from our house.

Also 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.

Never for anything serious though, thankfully.

Fremen

Yeah, I got hauled into a car for wrestling with my friend outside a kebab shop. One of my other mates managed to talk himself into the car by sticking up for me, the fecking eejit.

I was on the probation act at the time, too, so I was bricking it. Thankfully, I made a phony apology and they turfed us out.

Miss Fluff

Yeah was in a taxi that knocked a really drunk guy down and then the driver told me to get out and sped off so I went to report it and then I was left home in a squad car, the SHAME:eek:

Heisenberg.

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woolymammoth

i was once taken away by the magic garda taxi van for stopping cars at the junction outside Eddie Rockets beside the GPO in Galway. And when the paddy waggon came along, I jumped out to stop it too!

ahh those cells have funny toilets!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

this is the type of thread, where you post in and then get googled by the future employer.

* btw future employers - never been arrested.

Krieg

woolymammoth wrote: »

ahh those cells have funny toilets!!

Like being in india I believe, hole in the floor
Wonder if all cop shops have them

Never arrested or robbed so I havent had the pleasure of cruising in a Garda car

woolymammoth

Roundtower2 wrote: »

this is the type of thread, where you post in and then get googled by the future employer.

sure, if you're stupid enough to advertise who you are! There are only 2 people on boards who actually know me personally!

Me = 1
Future Employer = 0

AckwelFoley

Roundtower2 wrote: »

this is the type of thread, where you post in and then get googled by the future employer.

* btw future employers - never been arrested.

I told my new employer about being arrested.

..granted i wasnt charged with anything and tec didnt do anything wrong as i passed the breathaliser in the station, but in future i recommend you dont sleep in the passenger seat of your car when you had a few pints.

Lesson Learned

AckwelFoley

woolymammoth wrote: »

sure, if you're stupid enough to advertise who you are! There are only 2 people on boards who actually know me personally!

Me = 1
Future Employer = 0

You'd be suprised.

L1011

snyper wrote: »

I told my new employer about being arrested.

..granted i wasnt charged with anything and tec didnt do anything wrong as i passed the breathaliser in the station, but in future i recommend you dont sleep in the passenger seat of your car when you had a few pints.

Lesson Learned

Keys out of ignition I thought they couldn't do you? Had a long, cold night in Portrush due to that - even in passenger seat if the ignitions on for the heater and you're the only person in the car you can be done for drunk in control. How was I to know that the Dunluce Avenue carpark doesn't have under-tarmac heating...

woolymammoth

snyper wrote: »

You'd be suprised.

Ya, i would be surprised! But there's always Murphys Law! But to be honest, would you tell a prospective employer about how you got a parking ticket once? Or how the cops dropped you home 'cos you were too hammered to make it yourself safely?

I think not!

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

woolymammoth wrote: »

ahh those cells have funny toilets!!

what do the toilets look like?

KBarry

Not Garda, but I've been in a couple of foreign cop cars. First time me and a mate were jumped by a gang of Turks in Germany. The Turks came second but I got a bad cut over my eye. The Polizei found me wandering the streets covered in blood and took me back to the station to get cleaned up and make a statement.
And in Australia I got mugged (kind of) my a couple of aborigines. The cops had in me the back of the car driving round looking for them.
It's not that exciting to be honest.

FearDark

Me and my buddy were flamin drunk asleep in his fiat chinquento which was loaded with many many signs, traffic cones and garden furniture (Drunks Gold), gardai seen us and made us fill up the paddywagon (boot plus backseats full up with the crap) and us sitting on top of all our treasure, they then drove us around and made us bring back all the stuff we had borrowed and also had to make donation to wheelchair association. Aah yeah.

AckwelFoley

Reminds me of the time we got nabbed for collecting a few of those "Cifford T Reid" election posters/...

U kno the ones.. "Stop the Paedophiles" eletion posters

EdgarAllenPoo

I got a lift to college in the back of a garda car once, one of those fancy Mondeos. You should have seen the look on people's faces (my brother was driving by the way).

Neamhshuntasach

Just the once in Ireland for being intoxicated in public. Mind you i was just walking up the street alone after leaving a friends house where i only had a few bottles. Ended up going to court and having to make a donation of 50 euro. Ridiculous.

But the worst was in Mexico. Someone put speed in my hood and then i got arrested. It was all a scam. But being put in the back seat of this 1960's beetle and having 2 sweaty cops holding machine guns on either side of me was enough to convince me to never wear a hoody in Tijuana again. The cell was also the biggest sh!thole i've ever been in.

Peared

Maybe not exactly the same thing but a few years ago I got attacked outside a pub. The next week I went around pubs in the back of an unmarked car with plainclothes guards to see if we could find the fella. While sitting outside a pub with back window open a young fella came up and tried to sell me some grass. He got lashed out of on the back of the car, face squashed against the glass within seconds. Was praying he wouldnt remember my face. Kinda funny though.

Dord

Nope, never been in a Garda car. Never been arrested either.

emeraldstar

Nope, never. I'm a good girl, I am!

whatsgoinon

living in asia, my friend and I were in a new part of town looking for a sauna to sweat out the previous evenings booze. My friend wanted me to ask the guy selling mobile phones from a corner stall, I insisted on asking a police man, 2 seconds later we were being chauffered around town looking for a sauna, we found one, really wanted somebody to see me, the boys didn't speak much english and my local lingo was very basic, I thought i was going to pee my pants laughing at the whole scenario.

A few years back there was an incident in a nightclub, I had to go to the station to make a statement with my sister. I rang home to tell the olds I would be late back. Got dropped off in front of the house at 6.45am just as mam was opening the curtains. I thought she'd burst out through the window. Dad hadn't gotten round to waking up and passing on the message

Once, it was all very boring.
My faith in the force definitely took a knocking though, garda ****etalk makes Dougal appear like a highbrow intellectual.

Toto Wolfcastle

Never been in one myself, me being a good girl and all, but my cousin couldn't get a taxi home one night and asked the Gardai to bring her home. They obliged.

AckwelFoley

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

But the worst was in Mexico. Someone put speed in my hood and then i got arrested. It was all a scam. But being put in the back seat of this 1960's beetle and having 2 sweaty cops holding machine guns on either side of me was enough to convince me to never wear a hoody in Tijuana again. The cell was also the biggest sh!thole i've ever been in.

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.

DEmeant0r

janeybabe wrote: »

Never been in one myself, me being a good girl and all, but my cousin couldn't get a taxi home one night and asked the Gardai to bring her home. They obliged.

Lol I should do that instead of forking out the tenner for the cab back home

Victor

A guy had kicked in the front door at work. We went around St. Stephen's Green South / East at over 100km/h.

qhatever about the cops, I was putting on my seat belt.

irlrobins

Wasn't in a Garda car, but did a ride along with police in Texas. Serious muscle car, equipped with stuff we'll never see over here in Garda cars. (Shotguns for one). Also had a laptop that allowed the cop to run plates and names through the police computer, map car location and incoming calls, and best of all IM all the other patrol cars. Good times, espec doing 120 down the freeway after a speeding Porsche.

Although he didn't appreciate me singing the theme tune to Cops....

Sully

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!

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!

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.

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.

Mossy Monk

Once but it is not a very interesting story.

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.

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...

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.

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)

Run_to_da_hills

In America when I was involved in a minor crash.

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

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.

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.

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!!

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!

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!!