Gardai invest in hurleys - Pepper spray plans shelved.

connundrum

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0223/westmanstown.html

This story is just what I needed this morning, guards disarm two men by kicking a gun out of one's hand and battering the other with a hurley.

Bleedin savage!

And I'm not taking the piss with this one, I really think this is a good news story. Fair play to the two cops involved.

I always heard them Moldovans were shady

Nodin

Feudin and grudge bearin...sure theres none of that here before the EU....

Actually, I'd prefer the cops to have hurleys rather than pepper spray meself. Less likely to be abused. And its home grown technology.

DonkeyStyle \o/

then a garda from Tallaght got a hurley and subdued him.

LOL, what a great sentence
Reminds me of how the yanks sugar-coat taser use with phrases like "gain compliance".

Fajitas!

Lol, I love how they added in he was from Tallaght, but nout about the other chaps background.

Fair play to the two lads.

Ste.phen

I think they were insinuating that because he was from Tallaght, he wouldn't know how to handle any piece of GAA equipment ;-)

Ross_Mahon

Ste.phen wrote: »

I think they were insinuating that because he was from Tallaght, he wouldn't know how to handle any piece of GAA equipment ;-)

We use guns, Like real men :cool:

Nodin

Ste.phen wrote: »

I think they were insinuating that because he was from Tallaght, he wouldn't know how to handle any piece of GAA equipment ;-)

I'm sure they could stuff it inside a jacket as quick as the next thing.....

Agamemnon

Fair play to Dublin hurling, it's really coming along. They've beaten Cork and Galway and now this guy from Tallaght is showing real promise. This is the badly-needed shake-up that Leinster hurling needs.

Rb

Wow, this is priceless, would have loved to see that scene!

Screw the Moldovans though, let them kill eachother off as far as I'm concerned.

Dyr

I hope dat garda had a legitimate reason for having a hurley on him :pac:

lostexpectation

ban hurleys

22moomoo

A friend of mine had his hurley taken off him on the way to a junior league game by a garda on patrol. She was even going to charge him with posession of an offensive weapon!!
I'm not even joking and he wasnt a shady bloke at all, was genuinely going to a game. Think she was one of the foreign nationals that recently passed out of templemore!!

ShooterSF

So any word which hurley manufacturer has won the mulit-million euro contract off the government to design and produce retractable hurley sticks?

Mossy Monk

Great news story.

Dyr

22moomoo wrote: »

A friend of mine had his hurley taken off him on the way to a junior league game by a garda on patrol. She was even going to charge him with posession of an offensive weapon!!
I'm not even joking and he wasnt a shady bloke at all, was genuinely going to a game. Think she was one of the foreign nationals that recently passed out of templemore!!

Do these wonderous creatures exist now? What happens when you start speaking irish to them if they're giving you any guff like the above? fordin coppers...only in ireland..

John Mason

i think you are missing the more serious part of the story

how in flips name can you shoot someone 7 times in a confined space and not kill them

Terry

Hey, I know. Let's go to a place where the Gardaí work out in a gym, some get pissed in the bar and where others are playing hurling. Then let's have a shoot-out.
****ing idiots.

biko

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

how in flips name can you shoot someone 7 times in a confined space and not kill them

With a Moldavian gun

2qk4u

Terry wrote: »

Hey, I know. Let's go to a place where the Gardaí work out in a gym, some get pissed in the bar and where others are playing hurling. Then let's have a shoot-out.
****ing idiots.

+1

connundrum

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

i think you are missing the more serious part of the story

how in flips name can you shoot someone 7 times in a confined space and not kill them

biko wrote: »

With a Moldavian gun

I tried yer man that €2.20 was too much of a bargain.

Seriously, one gun can't kill a guy with 7 shots and the other gun jams. Of all the poxy luck!

The_Minister

Rb wrote: »

Screw the Moldovans though, let them kill eachother off as far as I'm concerned.

What can you possibly have against Moldovans?

We only have about twenty of them.

Dardania

The_Minister wrote: »

What can you possibly have against Moldovans?

We only have about twenty of them.

Still, despite one members best efforts