Friends in the Gardai

angelfire9

round tower huntsman wrote: »

cops are never off duty. when a mate joins the cops he'll say its just a job,im still me etc.........before long he'll be only hanging out with other cops and he WILL change. if it walks like a pig and grunts like a pig,it is a pig.

Lovely!
Its idiots like you that used to OINK at me when I was walking to school as a kid just because my father was a cop
My hubby is a cop now and I swear if someone started oinking at my daughter at school I'd be down at their parents complaining faster than lightning!

Cops are human they can enjoy a night off just as much as anyone else BUT if they are off duty and witness a crime (I think it has to be an arrestable offence) being committed they are OBLIGED to take action if they are fit and able (i.e. sober) enough to do so

Sugar Free

My good friend is a Garda. He's the exact same around us though I suspect he'd be different around other friends in the Gardaí!

HarryPotter41

scientific1982 wrote: »

Does anyone here have friends who are gardai and if so do they act differently around them. The reason im asking is because I was out a few weeks ago with a friend who isnt in the gardai, but who works for them. A few of them joined us later on in the night and they seemed like nice people but I felt I couldnt relax in their presence. It was like I was being monitored all night.

Have about 12 friends in the Gardai between personal friends and people I worked with over the years and we treat each other the same as we ever did after them joining AGS. I would expect them to give out to me as a friend if I was doing something stupid, not as a Garda.

K-9

CDfm wrote: »

Having a Dad a guard does not make a person more moral or law abiding than anyone else. I was expected to be great at Irish at school because my mother was a teacher and grew up in the Gaeltacht - Irish is not heriditary either

Yep, very true. It isn't as if being a Guard makes you a better parent or once you join, you get the law abiding gene to pass on to your offspring.

Logic doesn't come into people who go on that like.

Snap on the Irish thing. Dad was a Guard plus from Connemara, never could get the hang of Irish.

hondasam

scientific1982 wrote: »

Does anyone here have friends who are gardai and if so do they act differently around them. The reason im asking is because I was out a few weeks ago with a friend who isnt in the gardai, but who works for them. A few of them joined us later on in the night and they seemed like nice people but I felt I couldnt relax in their presence. It was like I was being monitored all night.

watch out the could be lurking around boards on their days of waiting to catch you out.

Son Of A Vidic

Madelynn Loud Underpass wrote: »

It's in your head dude. Gardai are people too believe it or not. They watch the same shíte on TV, eat the same shíte food, go out and get drunk and just want to have the craic aswell

The sound ones do alright, but then there's the other type....Thankfully friends of mine who are serving members belong to the former.

round tower huntsman

angelfire9 wrote: »

Lovely!
Its idiots like you that used to OINK at me when I was walking to school as a kid just because my father was a cop
My hubby is a cop now and I swear if someone started oinking at my daughter at school I'd be down at their parents complaining faster than lightning!

Cops are human they can enjoy a night off just as much as anyone else BUT if they are off duty and witness a crime (I think it has to be an arrestable offence) being committed they are OBLIGED to take action if they are fit and able (i.e. sober) enough to do so

if someone oinked at your kid your hubby and his thug work mates would probably just invade their home and beat them with their batons or make their life a living hell,like the mcbeartys in dun na gall.

user banned for this post, biko

sandra06

i got married in july and where we were having our reception there was a ret party upstairs for a guard,about twenty of them came down and asked to join our party,i said no worries we ended up with about 40 of them ,they were great craic ,:D

Sharkey 10

sandra06 wrote: »

i got married in july and where we were having our reception there was a ret party upstairs for a guard,about twenty of them came down and asked to join our party,i said no worries we ended up with about 40 of them ,they were great craic ,:D

Yeah thats one thing ive learned over the years is that in general gardai are mad for liquor

AlmightyCushion

angelfire9 wrote: »

Lovely!
Its idiots like you that used to OINK at me when I was walking to school as a kid just because my father was a cop
My hubby is a cop now and I swear if someone started oinking at my daughter at school I'd be down at their parents complaining faster than lightning!

Cops are human they can enjoy a night off just as much as anyone else BUT if they are off duty and witness a crime (I think it has to be an arrestable offence) being committed they are OBLIGED to take action if they are fit and able (i.e. sober) enough to do so

Banned.

CorkMan

I have a friend in the gardai.

Once I poked him with a stick, then he poked me with a stick. I then poked him twice with a stick and he gave me a whack of his baton.

Little Acorn

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Its that attitude that really pisses me off, being someone who enjoys the odd smoke if I was collared by such a hypocrite I would be furious. If you are a Guard you shouldn't break the law, why should I be subject to arrest for something that you are happy enough to indulge in yourself? It's not really a comfort to know that the arresting officer sympathises with you and likes the same substances when they are actively f@cking up your life by pursuing a charge against you.

I don't know how anybody with a conscience could stand up and give evidence in court against somebody, resulting in them getting a permanent record and possibly jail time, for something that they themselves do. I'm just talking about in relation to maybe small amount of weed being found on someone etc.
I don't even take any illegal drugs myself, but I still think that is hugely hypocritical.
If they want to engage in drugs themselves, that's all fine and dandy, but then they shouldn't choose a career that involves them getting people sent to jail for doing the same thing that they are doing.
There are thousands of jobs they could train for or apply for, why pick one that very likely will force them into having to act like a hypocrite--is it a power thing?

Any guards I've spoke to have been very sound lovely people,[don't know any as friends, only spoke to them whilst they were doing their job]
and I'd like to think that the ones breaking the laws themselves regarding drug use are very rare, but I don't know, there are piles of stories and a lot of people seem to know at least one guard who is less than lawful themselves.
If it's true that they do drug testing on them, maybe they need to increase it?

What happens if they are found with drugs in their system? Are they fired or suspended? If some weed fell out of their pocket/handbag in front of their colleagues, would they have to go to court to stand in front of the judge and await a fine and record like anyone else would, or do they deal with it internally through suspensions etc? Just curious as to what the procedure would be.

CorkMan

TBH I think a Garda can do a lot more worse in his power than smoke some cannabis, possibly cannabis he takes from civilians or utter scumbags.

He could ask for bribes etc.

mawdz

My ex girlfriends best friend was going out with a guard before. Never felt comfortable around him. Seemed like he was constantly judging everyone e.g telling me and my friends to slow down with the drink and such on night out(especially when he was with his friends). One night i collect my ex and her friend and the guard from the pub about 11pm. First time ever in my car and he tells me to turn my music down its loud for that time of night. I ask is he on duty. He says no. I asked would he prefer to walk. That promptly shut him up
Music wasnt that loud anyway like i dont like unbarable loud music. Im not saying all guards are like this cos i no a good few who i get on great with but this is jsut an example of how some can be weird

seamus

mawdz wrote: »

this is jsut an example of how some can be weird

If he was a rookie, then they can be a little righteous to start out with, but they calm down quickly enough. If he's been a Guard for a while, then his colleagues probably consider him a pain in the ass.

I know lots of Gardai, friends and family. They're all the biggest party hounds going. You don't feel in any way "uneasy" in their presence, and you get to hear loads of funny stories about scumbags and travellers.

mawdz

seamus wrote: »

If he was a rookie, then they can be a little righteous to start out with, but they calm down quickly enough. If he's been a Guard for a while, then his colleagues probably consider him a pain in the ass.

I know lots of Gardai, friends and family. They're all the biggest party hounds going. You don't feel in any way "uneasy" in their presence, and you get to hear loads of funny stories about scumbags and travellers.

Nope he wasn't a rookie in the Garda for a couple of years at the time.
I have the same experinece as you tho i no lots of them now and all are fun and great to get along with!

stovelid

Gardai enforce the law: they don't legislate it or necessarily even agree with it. I don't see anything that hypocritical about Gardai taking drugs and having to arrest other people for same unless they, say, get off being charged because of being a Guard.

MagicSean

round tower huntsman wrote: »

if someone oinked at your kid your hubby and his thug work mates would probably just invade their home and beat them with their batons or make their life a living hell,like the mcbeartys in dun na gall.

The least you could have done was look up how to spell it. That's is some awful Irish spelling.

Orando Broom

I've a friend in the Guards.

I take down scores, that's what I do. He tries to stop me taking down scores. That is what he does.

We are so terribly cool.

Our exchanges are terribly cool.

ottostreet

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Banned.

I think round tower huntsman has been far more insulting than angelfire has.

Sorry for going OT.

Blazer

cursai wrote: »

Your a very simple person aren't you. With images of tj hooker running around in a Garda uniform!!:)

mmmm..Heather Locklear

Cheap Thrills!

I don't know any Guards. I don't even know anyone who knows any. They scare me tbh. Alien species!!!

kowloon

A friend of mine used to live with a guard who was a bit of craic. Anyway, the guy left police themed porn in the dvd player once. There was no end of to the slagging he got for it.

AAAAAAAHHH

sandra06 wrote: »

i got married in july and where we were having our reception there was a ret party upstairs for a guard,about twenty of them came down and asked to join our party,i said no worries we ended up with about 40 of them ,they were great craic ,:D

Free bar was it?

CDfm

I have nodding friendships with two guards.

One of them I know was hugely helpful to a family I know with a suicide and was genuinely caring. The guy is hugely ethical and a bit dry but I like him.

The other guy is a stereotype country guard who I had the privelege of being beside in a train when he put a foreign guy of at a stop for abusing a female passenger. Larger than life.

I reckon when you are younger guards may seem like they have two heads but as you go on in life and have kids etc they are different.

Now teachers bug me

consultech

Yep. Dunno why I do. I'm not usually socially awkward but I get cringily akward n make silly jokes about them nickin me the whole time. It's weird...

JohnCleary

I've been at some ridiculously messy parties with pigs. Some who've been in the limelight before. I won't mention name

snubbleste

JohnCleary wrote: »

I've been at some ridiculously messy parties with pigs. Some who've been in the limelight before. I won't mention name

Peppa pig? Miss Piggy? Babe?

jackiebaron

Eileen Disgusting Necktie wrote: »

Hopefully in Beirut in the new year.

The women there are stunners!

Bosco boy

JohnCleary wrote: »

I've been at some ridiculously messy parties with pigs. Some who've been in the limelight before. I won't mention name

Are you a pig farmer?