Do Gardai check the back of your van?

Jimmy Bottlehead

Long story short, going to Belfast tonight from Dublin, three people in a two seater van, so one might have to go in the back.

Does anyone actually get stopped and checked? And what happens if you're caught?

SeaFields

you're executed by firing squad

Kiera

They can stop you for whatever reason and look in the back if they like. You're not covered on your insurance so i wouldnt risk it. You'll get a fine i'd say if you were caught.

Alun

I'd be more concerned with what would happen to the poor unfortunate in the back if you had a crash, or even had to brake really suddenly rather than technicalities TBH.

Hasmunch

Get the person in the back to act confused... acting as though he thinks he's on a bus.

Danbo!

Just play it cool if you're stopped and tell them you were just going over the border for some french fries and gravy

thebigbiffo

i'm from the country, we travel in the back of many, many mechanically propelled vehicles that are not designed for passengers..but hey, that's how we roll

CreepingDeath

SeaFields wrote: »

you're executed by firing squad

Only if you fail to stop at a Nordie checkpoint.

You might be stopped by customs on the way back though, they were doing random stops to curtail the booze buying up there.

Abrasax

Just tie him down in the back of the van, so if the Guards do check you can say you did your best to secure him and prevent injury.
Or roll him up in a carpet before placing him in the van.
That should keep you out of trouble.

Paulyh

just dress up in 1970's clothes, smoke ciggarette and have a strong smell of booze from you.
you can "it cool, Mr. Policeman, were from the 70's so where all safe.

SeaFields

CreepingDeath wrote: »

You might be stopped by customs on the way back though, they were doing random stops to curtail the booze buying up there.

I think this has come up before but...

They can do all the stops they want, them customs fellas, but both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are within the EU so there is the free movement of goods and services. Buy as much as you can carry!

Wolfe Tone

Considering there was a bombscare last night I would say that security will be heightened, especially for vans with southern license plates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/10347051.stm

Alun

thebigbiffo wrote: »

i'm from the country, we travel in the back of many, many mechanically propelled vehicles that are not designed for passengers..but hey, that's how we roll

Literally

Seloth

Bit off topic but they always pull over my friend!...He's only been driving for a few months now and is the first of us in the closer group of our friends to be driving...Its not even for driving fast or the L plates,just every time they search for drugs!!!wtf none of us do that hah.

Last time they searched his and another guys socks and waiste bands amd then broke his lil bros kite in the boot as the closed it :pac:]

But yeah my dads jeep has no seats in the back,But people always go in there.Rol on country life!

Jagera

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Long story short, ..

Tell the cops the long story, they'll be as bored as I was reading the short one & let you go.

Captain Darling

If you're stopped just say in your best nordie accent: 'I'm an innocent mon.'

Guaranteed to work.

Poly

It was acceptable in '80's.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Does it help that I am indeed a culchie?

Abrasax

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Does it help that I am indeed a culchie?

It'll help the Guards to be able to understand you.

Cookie_Monster

CreepingDeath wrote: »

You might be stopped by customs on the way back though, they were doing random stops to curtail the booze buying up there.

what can they do if the find booze though. Free movement of good is allowed and there are no limits

_sparkie_

just leave a pile of coats in the back and if you stop tell your friend to get under them.

ibarelycare

Captain Darling wrote: »

If you're stopped just say in your best nordie accent: 'I'm an innocent mon.'

Guaranteed to work.

Sounds more like a rastafarian accent

Mint Sauce

Poly wrote: »

It was acceptable in '80's.

it was acceptable at the time

ejmaztec

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what can they do if the find booze though.

They'll find nothing if the guy in the back hides it in his gut.

Captain Darling

ibarelycare wrote: »

Sounds more like a rastafarian accent

A rastafarian from the north. :cool:

OutlawPete

Think there are enough matching words in the title to make this somewhat relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0Esd1-ZEE

Seloth

Once saw this Black dude with dreads,Full rasta clothes..I mean hat and jumper like and driving a ferrari..How he was not pulled over every two mins is behyond me .

NothingMan

Just tell them it's one of those new really realistic sex dolls and have your mate stay like this :eek:.

Edit: Wasted my 2000th post talking about my a sex doll.

irish_goat

"There was never a guard or a customs man, put his nose inside a transit van"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgxMgEpcKIo

easyeason3

Seloth wrote: »

Bit off topic but they always pull over my friend!...He's only been driving for a few months now and is the first of us in the closer group of our friends to be driving...Its not even for driving fast or the L plates,just every time they search for drugs!!!wtf none of us do that hah.

Last time they searched his and another guys socks and waiste bands amd then broke his lil bros kite in the boot as the closed it :pac:]

But yeah my dads cheap has no seats in the abck and we all go in there our put peeps there...as sadi above..Just how the country rolls

What are you trying to say here?

Degsy

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Only if you fail to stop at a Nordie checkpoint.

You might be stopped by customs on the way back though, they were doing random stops to curtail the booze buying up there.

The booze buying up there is on its last legs with the euro/sterling exchange rate.
The amount of people buying booze up north has dwindled as places like tesco down south have gotten thier act together.

Unique User Name

Seloth wrote: »

But yeah my dads cheap has no seats in the abck and we all go in there our put peeps there...as sadi above..

This bit that people have had difficulty understanding is what the country accent sounds like to people in Dublin!!! No specific county either. They all sound like this.

easyeason3

Unique User Name wrote: »

This bit that people have had difficulty understanding is what the country accent sounds like to people in Dublin!!! No specific county either. They all sound like this.

What?

Unique User Name

easyeason3 wrote: »

What?

Ha I meant that I couldn't understand the post written in an outside of Dublin accent. But my post wasn't much clearer

Was this you Op?:- http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0618/tyrone.html

Just realised I hadn't included this:- Originally Posted by Seloth
But yeah my dads cheap has no seats in the abck and we all go in there our put peeps there...as sadi above..

easyeason3

Ha ha ha no it wasn't me anyway.

I still can't figure out what that young lad was trying to say.
What was in the back of the fathers van? Or what did they put in it?

Wicklowrider

Seloth wrote: »

amd then broke his lil bros kite in the boot as the closed it :pac:]

You are joking? Broke the little chap's kite? thats cruel alright.

Unique User Name

I'm at a loss on that one too. No clue at all what was in the back of the Fathers van.

SEPT 23 1989

You will get done for overloading if they are quick enough to catch you

Banned Account

OP - it's unusual to be stopped now so under normal circumstances, the chances are slim - plus you have a ROI license and ROI plates.

BUT - there has been quite a bit of activity in the North of late - amother device yesterday so it may not actually be 'normal circumstances' at the moment.

Now that I have been somewhat serious, I will now give an AH answer and suggest that you tape your friend to a nice wing back chair, rivet it to the roof and tell him to say Nee Naaw Nee Naaw Nee Naaw at the top of his voice whilst flashing one of those new star wars lightsabres.

Not only are you unlikely to get stopped but you may also find that other motorists pull out of your way thus speeding up your journey significantly.

easyeason3

easyeason3 wrote: »

Ha ha ha no it wasn't me anyway.

I still can't figure out what that young lad was trying to say.
What was in the back of the fathers van? Or what did they put in it?

I have a feeling "our" was meant to be "or" and "peeps" is "people"...

easyeason3

bluewolf wrote: »

I have a feeling "our" was meant to be "or" and "peeps" is "people"...

Thank you!
Obviously that poster is a black rapper from America given the use of language.

MaxFlower

Get a coffin, lash it in the back with the 'offending body' in it.

If you are stopped, tell the garda that due to these recessionary times your undertaking business is struggling with the home trade and having to look for international business.

If he is particularly persistant, tell him he can keep the body as it was only a Nordie anyway.

Capt'n Midnight

Penalty points for not wearing a seatbelt. Depending on the age of the passenger as whether the driver or passenger gets them.

I'd be very sure that you could get done for carrying more passengers than the vehicle is designed for.

I'd love to see you get done for not having valid insurance, because you don't If you had an accident you aren't insured and your insurance company will come after you for any payouts to others.

Seloth

Unique User Name wrote: »

This bit that people have had difficulty understanding is what the country accent sounds like to people in Dublin!!! No specific county either. They all sound like this.

Gawd my terrible typing strikes again..the message is tottaly changed now

Wicklowrider wrote: »

You are joking? Broke the little chap's kite? thats cruel alright.

Basterds arent they :P.I think the kite was just popping up as they pushed down the boot and must have snapp from that.*L* The image of a guard going over to a 10 year old with a kite in the park,pushing the kid away and then snapping the kite while laughing and walking away is not stuck in my head heh.