Car chase up William street today.

bullets

Anyone got footage or pics of today?
talking to the OH she mentioned the car being chased mounted the footpath and some rough looking fella was dragged out from the car. Happened between 4-5pm. Thankfully nobody was run over.



~B

seachto7

lads, no offence to the copper in the leather pants, but I see him around, and he is an awful size. I would fancy my chances if he was on foot....

bullets

Just spotted on youtube:
(and munster images miss's nothing! :-) )

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

~B

Kev_ps3

state of the car, hardly going to get away in that yoke

phog

What a street to try and do a car chase on, there was only going to be one winner. Did the cops break the side windows to get access to the occupants?

bullets

Was not there myself. Notice the way the car used to be Red and was sprayed yellow!

~B

The Little Fella

Dat's Limerick Citttaaaaaaayy!

mad_shopaholic

3 squad cars chasing him up old clare street about half 4 was terrified he would crash into me glad he was caught and no one hurt

SarahBeep!

Happened just after half four but he'd been in town earlier trying to rob stuff. He'd definitely taken something. Security guard from lifestyle nearly got knocked down. All the cruises st security guards were called up to William st to
try contain it.

Oh, and the car was stolen.

fryup

two fire trucks:rolleyes: half a dozen cops

talk about over-kill:cool:

h3000

fryup wrote: »

two fire trucks:rolleyes: half a dozen cops

talk about over-kill:cool:

I'm fairly sure fire tenders must travel in two's in case a breakdown or accident happens with one of the units. It also takes a lot of Gardaí to stop a stolen vehicle safely.

Hardly overkill me thinks

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but there was no fire, it was a fairly minor incident so why were they there?

h3000

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but there was no fire, it was a fairly minor incident so why were they there?

The fire brigade don't only deal with fires. I'd imagine they were called before the drivers injuries if any were assessed.

Kess73

seachto7 wrote: »

lads, no offence to the copper in the leather pants, but I see him around, and he is an awful size. I would fancy my chances if he was on foot....

I know who he is. He is getting on a bit weight wise at this stage, but over the years if you were in trouble/danger from scum, he was defo a garda you would want to see arriving at the scene.

Very old school, but is a garda that would have even hardened scum shutting their months as soon as they saw him.

He is also a garda that is good at treating anyone caught for a crime the same way, regardless of whather they are in a tracksuit or a three piece suit. He goes by the crime committed and not the way a person looks.

Have not spoken to him in quite some time, but always found him to be a decent sort, no frills or bs.

celticcrash

Thats robocop, hes the same with and colour as the car.

Tefral

Ha ha thats robocop... as said above he is a by the book man... Many a time ive had a run in with him over me driving a modified car.

I lent him a minidigger i was using to get some hedges out of the front of his house.

phog

Kess73 wrote: »

I know who he is. He is getting on a bit weight wise at this stage, but over the years if you were in trouble/danger from scum, he was defo a garda you would want to see arriving at the scene.

Very old school, but is a garda that would have even hardened scum shutting their months as soon as they saw him.

He is also a garda that is good at treating anyone caught for a crime the same way, regardless of whather they are in a tracksuit or a three piece suit. He goes by the crime committed and not the way a person looks.

Have not spoken to him in quite some time, but always found him to be a decent sort, no frills or bs.

+ 1

You break the law and if he sees you you'll be done regardless of your status and proper order too.

Tefral

phog wrote: »

+ 1

You break the law and if he sees you you'll be done regardless of your status and proper order too.

A friend of mines car was broken into it was a GT starlet (lives up the road from Robocop) and the centre console was stolen out of it (it was painted up etc)

Robocop knocked on the door to the house one night and handed him back everything that was taken out of the car. He had stopped some random starlet in town, remembered the discription of the stuff, confiscated the car and got all my friends stuff back.

Kess73

phog wrote: »

+ 1

You break the law and if he sees you you'll be done regardless of your status and proper order too.

Yep, as it should be.

the bolt

Kess73 wrote: »

I know who he is. He is getting on a bit weight wise at this stage, but over the years if you were in trouble/danger from scum, he was defo a garda you would want to see arriving at the scene.

Very old school, but is a garda that would have even hardened scum shutting their months as soon as they saw him.

He is also a garda that is good at treating anyone caught for a crime the same way, regardless of whather they are in a tracksuit or a three piece suit. He goes by the crime committed and not the way a person looks.

Have not spoken to him in quite some time, but always found him to be a decent sort, no frills or bs.

correct me if im wrong but isnt that what hes paid to do.glad to see though.

Kess73

the bolt wrote: »

correct me if im wrong but isnt that what hes paid to do.glad to see though.

Over the years he has always had the habit of going that bit further. A great example would be what Cronin_j said about him getting the stuff back for the guy's car and personally bringing it back to the guy's house.

The odd time you see a foot patrol nowadays in town it is not uncommon to see one of the new breed of Gardai turn and go down a different street when there is a group of scum up ahead. And it is not unusually to call a station for help and either have nobody turn up or have them turn up hours later.

At least with the garda in question in this thread, he would have the bunches of scum on the street trying to avoid him, and he has never had any hesitation in stoppiong them if he thought they were up to something.

Same goes for if he responded to a call, he would head straight for where the problem was in the hope of getting there whilst the criminals were still there.

Yes a garda should be doing what he does, but unfortunately many don't, so when one does so time after time he tends to stand out for the right reasons in my eyes.

The man has done his job for a number of decades and from the point of view of doing the job and doing it right, he will leave big shoes to be filled when he retires.

hightower1

He isnt a touch on te few new ban gardas based in Henry street though.... You know the blonde ones. Deadly!

_Conrad_

hahaha excellent. I was behind that monstrosity as i cross william street heading down towards the round house, pretty sure the moron on the bad shirt who was getting pulled out of the car in the video was driving it at the time. The damn thing has so much cut off the springs that it could barely get across the road.

Probably about 3 o'clock-half 3.... seems they really liked william street.

mgbgt1978

The car (which was allegedly stolen) was chased from Moyross, over to the dublin Rd/clare st area. There was a collision with a Taxi around Lelia st (apparently the taxi is technically a write-off....so that poor guy is now out of work for a few days) before finally crashing on William st.
Despite the obvious threat to public safety and total disregard for anyone but himself I would guess that this individual is free to walk the streets of Limerick right now.

In fact, he may even be eying-up your car at this very moment:eek:

concussion

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but there was no fire, it was a fairly minor incident so why were they there?

To provide assistance if people needed to be cut out of cars or to clean up any spillages such as fuel or lubricants.

The_Joker

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but there was no fire, it was a fairly minor incident so why were they there?

Parsley

i was cycling down by barrington's hospital, and the fella came flyin round the corner off the abbey bridge and nearly knocked me down, i just got out of the way. good few garda cars after him.

europa11

Was the car that colour before it was stolen??

I'd have happily paid someone to take a monstrosity like that away from outside the door.

A Chav babe magnet.

Amazotheamazing

Thought Robocop himself had in a run in with the law recently?

SarahBeep!

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Thought Robocop himself had in a run in with the law recently?

Did he abuse himself while looking in the mirror?

langdang

SarahBeep! wrote: »

Did he abuse himself while looking in the mirror?

That's George Michael you're think of...

CCSL

Here are a few of My photos of the Arrest I switched from Video to pics once they got him out so photos follow on from the end of the video ( The one time I dont have a proper Camera on me! )

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235947766442308.50753.136945626342523&type=1

flutered

2 car chases out in south co limerick no arrests, the one on tuesday had at lest 4 marked ans one unmarked garda cars, the one on monday i know zilch about.

Kess73

flutered wrote: »

2 car chases out in south co limerick no arrests, the one on tuesday had at lest 4 marked ans one unmarked garda cars, the one on monday i know zilch about.

Is that the Bruff chases you are on about?

flutered

only one was bruff, the other was garryspillane glenbrohane ballylanders galbally ballywire.

Kess73

flutered wrote: »

only one was bruff, the other was garryspillane glenbrohane ballylanders galbally ballywire.

There was one in Bruff this month and another in Bruff at the end of last month as well as one at the start of the summer in that area. Bit of a pattern forming, but I guess the rehousing of certain individuals in the surrounding areas and the jump in crime is mere coincidence, just as it is in the Fedamore/Carnane area, the Croagh/NCW area, Murroe/Newport and a few other spots that somehow saw crime levels rise when known and convicted criminals got rehoused there.

Maybe at some point the penny will drop that moving career criminals into new areas only causes the spread of crime.

Simon Adebisi

Didnt that Bruff one go all the way to toomevara before they got away from the police?

How no one got killed there is a miracle.

Insect Overlord

MarkR wrote: »

What details? Not in the article. If it's just what you heard on the grapevine, probably best to keep it off boards.

In accordance with recent sub judice guide-lines issued to mods, I have to agree with what MarkR has said above. Sorry, folks!