New TV Comedy Show

BigJonny

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/members-of-traffic-corps-to-star-in-tv-show-1616828.html

I see RTE are filming a new TV comedy show.

This will be brilliant. As there are no cars chases in Ireland, very little crime. I assume they will film Garda Tax inspections and the odd man with a dodgy light.

Expect filming to last for 5 years before they have enough material for a show.

R.O.R

^^^ I think somebody wasn't hugged enough as a child.

It's OK LittleJonny, let it all out, you'll feel better when you get it all off your chest.

Bazzy

its just going to be drunk farmers in tractors. Fella's speeding on bikes and life inside the gatso van. It will probably give tips on how the police with blue lights on make it to the fareplay garage in less than 3 minutes.

Even compare the cars, the uk versions have scoobys and evo's

Q red ford mondeo with no hubcaps bog standard engine trying to keep up with a white glanza !!!

Edge of your seat stuff!!

Beta Ray Bill

BigJonny wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/members-of-traffic-corps-to-star-in-tv-show-1616828.html

I see RTE are filming a new TV comedy show.

This will be brilliant. As there are no cars chases in Ireland, very little crime. I assume they will film Garda Tax inspections and the odd man with a dodgy light.

Expect filming to last for 5 years before they have enough material for a show.

I think that is going to be the stupidest show ever.

It is my opinion that the Garda Traffic Corps are nothing more than revenue collectors for the government. I'm not going to go into it why I feel this way.

I don't hate the them, at the end of the day they are there to do a job regardless of well they do it. But I think A LOT of people will feel anger towards the Garda Traffic Corps if they watch this show.

BigJonny

grahambo wrote: »

I think that is going to be the stupidest show ever.

It is my opinion that the Garda Traffic Corps are nothing more than revenue collectors for the government. I'm not going to go into it why I feel this way.

I don't hate the them, at the end of the day they are there to do a job regardless of well they do it. But I think A LOT of people will feel anger towards the Garda Traffic Corps if they watch this show.

Could not agree more.

Has anyone ever seen a speed check than is not around a blind corner, on a downhill slope and just inside a reduced speed sign????

This show will be pure propaganda.

Drummerboy08

Bazzy wrote: »

Q red ford mondeo with no hubcaps bog standard engine trying to keep up with a white glanza !!!

Unless its a very special Glanza, a 2.0 mondeo wouldnt have much trouble keeping up with it. Especially since a Glanza doesnt like taking corners at any kind of high speed.

Bazzy

on a straight road i'm sure the light weight glanza would p1ss all over the mondeo especially with all the extra equipment it would carry in the boot etc. my money would be on the glanza anyway,

Thats if the traffic corps are in a mondeo i've seen a fiat people carrier driving around the place with the traffic corps livery wouldnt say that would be up to catching much

Drummerboy08

Bazzy wrote: »

on a straight road i'm sure the light weight glanza would p1ss all over the mondeo especially with all the extra equipment it would carry in the boot etc. my money would be on the glanza anyway,

Thats if the traffic corps are in a mondeo i've seen a fiat people carrier driving around the place with the traffic corps livery wouldnt say that would be up to catching much

The Fiat is used to attend the scene of an accident AFAIK. Im sure a member of AGS will confirm that.

As for your other point, how many good, straight stretches of road have we got in ireland? Very few.

Bazzy

not a lot which is excatly why the programme will be a load of old pony. before i came to work this morning I was watching a rescue programme on BBC and there was a caravan jack knifed on a motorway.

The police were there road closed the ambulance got through no problem everything sorted and moving in about twenty minutes.

Ireland as a country will look stupid with our underfunded police severe lack of technology.

We are a long way behind other police forces especially in our traffic section.

Part of the article claim roads deaths are down in the past few years. This was at the height of the boom when joe bloggs had no problem getting credit so was buying a better car with abs airbags etc.

Rnat over progamme will be bad in my opinion and will show us all up.

Beta Ray Bill

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Unless its a very special Glanza, a 2.0 mondeo wouldnt have much trouble keeping up with it. Especially since a Glanza doesnt like taking corners at any kind of high speed.

I was in a Starlet Turbo (like a glanza) in the UK on a track day

took the corners very well.

way better than a Mondeo would

The reason the Garda chose the Mondeo are as follows:
Relatively cheap to buy (base models, which is mostly what GS use)
Cheap to run
Functional
Big
Quick enough in a straight line

they were never bought with the idea of high speed chases in mind.

A Glanza would tear a Mondeo apart in a high speed chase.

In any case that is not the issue here
The Issue is that this show will defo show up how far we are behind compared to other Police forces and that it will seriously annoy Irish people who watch it, and will DEFINITELY generate a lot of contempt toward the Garda

I'll put it like this:
you ever watch road wars?
Those guys are cool, their cars are cool, they are dam good at their Job and they fight "REAL" crime

Garda Traffic Corps don't do any of those things

McSpud

He said the force did not set out to catch people speeding or drink driving. Officers simply wanted to stop them doing it.

Good joke. Think this is going to be a hit. Will it be in the style of The Office?

JohnCleary

grahambo wrote: »

In any case that is not the issue here
The Issue is that this show will defo show up how far we are behind compared to other Police forces and that it will seriously annoy Irish people who watch it, and will DEFINITELY generate a lot of contempt toward the Garda

I'll put it like this:
you ever watch road wars?
Those guys are cool, their cars are cool, they are dam good at their Job and they fight "REAL" crime

Garda Traffic Corps don't do any of those things

Summed it up nicely there.

Also notice how professional the UK guys are (ok fair enough it may be only infront of the camera but still) and genuinly give the 'cop on' message to people as opposed to just quoting some law, slapping them with a ticket all with a frown on their face.

I'd love to be a UK Traffic Cop, would HATE to be an Irish one

Beta Ray Bill

JohnCleary wrote: »

genuinly give the 'cop on' message to people as opposed to just quoting some law, slapping them with a ticket all with a frown on their face.

Unfortunately the 'cop on' message doesn't make as much money as few penalty points and a fine. Therefore it will never be embraced by this country.

McSpud

I don't know if UK cops just peform for the cameras but they seem to make an effort to explain why they have stopped the person & why they are arrest or fined. Standard guard especially the motorcycle ones would just shout at offender telling the person how stupid he/she is & waves hands in the air.

Irish motorcycle cops always remind of...

Gregor Samsa

grahambo wrote: »

you ever watch road wars?
Those guys are cool, their cars are cool, they are dam good at their Job and they fight "REAL" crime

JohnCleary wrote: »

Also notice how professional the UK guys are (ok fair enough it may be only infront of the camera but still)

McSpud wrote: »

I don't know if UK cops just peform for the cameras but they seem to make an effort

I wouldn't go using what I see on Sky 2 as my source material when forming an opinion on anything.

JohnCleary

phutyle wrote: »

I wouldn't go using what I see on Sky 2 as my source material when forming an opinion on anything.

You're right, Sky 1 (which is where I watch Road Wars) is much better :pac:

zilog_jones

grahambo wrote: »

you ever watch road wars?
Those guys are cool, their cars are cool...

Vectras are cooler than Mondeos now?

donvito99

Gardai in Traffic mondeos drive 2.5l and 3l models, not the bog standard 1.6l district cars...

L-M

donvito99 wrote: »

Gardai in Traffic mondeos drive 2.5l and 3l models, not the bog standard 1.6l district cars...

Some do, more don't.