Guards in my town

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:05pm #1

I was talking to a taxi driver last night, and he told me something about the guards that didn't impress me one bit. He said he knows of many of them that spend their Saturday nights from around 2am-4am chauffeuring young woman home after their night out on the town and just arse around in general.

So some lad could be getting stabbed on the town and certain guards are too busy with chatting up and driving around drunken woman for the craic to pass the time.

I've noticed a lot of Guards to be useless at their job in Clonmel but that's just taking the buscuit in fairness.

And this isn't the first instance I've heard about this, word of this happening has been going around the town for quite some time now.

So, what are the Guards like in your area?

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:06pm

Free ride it's great.

dsmythy · 03-09-2011 9:08pm

What sort of drunk girl? The random ones or the incapable of taking care of themselves ones?

Kylo Ren · 03-09-2011 9:08pm

hondasam wrote: »

Free ride it's great.

What kinda ride we Talkin bout here?

kfallon · 03-09-2011 9:09pm

hondasam wrote: »

Free ride it's great.

Hmmmm I'm wondering if you used the correct word there

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:09pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

What kinda ride we Talkin bout here?

A ride in uniform, can't beat it.

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:10pm

kfallon wrote: »

Hmmmm I'm wondering if you used the correct word there

I did fallon.:p

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:10pm

dsmythy wrote: »

What sort of drunk girl? The random ones or the incapable of taking care of themselves ones?

''The incapable ones'' - I know the sort you're implying but that's not the case here.

It's more the good looking women with their short skirts who flutter their eye lashes at them just to avoid a taxi fare.

AnamGlas · 03-09-2011 9:10pm

Double entendre lads, a double entendre!

kfallon · 03-09-2011 9:11pm

hondasam wrote: »

I did fallon.:p

So did you let them take down your particulars???

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:12pm

kfallon wrote: »

So did you let them take down your particulars???

only after the handcuffs came out.

03-09-2011 9:13pm

Happens everywhere in the country I expect.

kfallon · 03-09-2011 9:15pm

hondasam wrote: »

only after the handcuffs came out.

I'd say you didn't go quietly

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:16pm

A fun thread about the guards for a change.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-09-2011 9:20pm

In before some wasted girl cries rape...

Sunnyisland · 03-09-2011 9:26pm

Maybe they want to be a ban garda.

charlemont · 03-09-2011 9:26pm

Ha, When I saw Clonmel mentioned I immediately had to laugh, You could make an awesome TV show about some of them there.

I remember being twisted drunk one night and getting a lift home off them too, All of ten years ago considering I was very well known to them I thought it was sound of them as it was pissing out.

Ally Dick · 03-09-2011 9:29pm

I live in Navan. Guards are very thin on the ground. You'd never see a patrol. I get the impression the number of police in the town didn't increase proportionately to the population explosion over the last ten years. It's a disgrace. No wonder muggings and drunk assaults are on the rise in Meath :mad:

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:29pm

realies wrote: »

Maybe they want to be a ban garda.

The banners are worse than the lads for giving lifts.

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:34pm

Ally Dick wrote: »

I live in Navan. Guards are very thin on the ground. You'd never see a patrol. I get the impression the number of police in the town didn't increase proportionately to the population explosion over the last ten years. It's a disgrace. No wonder muggings and drunk assaults are on the rise in Meath :mad:

This is it. We have a lack of guards in the town as it is and enough stabbings going on.

I don't think they should be giving free lifts to a few birds every weekend to lighten up their night:rolleyes:

nagolina · 03-09-2011 9:37pm

I need to start wearing short skirts when I go out

klose · 03-09-2011 9:38pm

Haha when I read the thread title at the main page I thought "jeez thats omething ya'd hear of in Clonmel"
Lo & behind 'tis about my lovely home town

The only time the guards are really needed are after the classy establishement that is O'Keefes churns out absolute creme de la creme of scobes etc..that Clonhel and its surroundings has to offer after fri,sat and sunday nights. Fights,people paralethicly drunk etc..orders of the night. The odd biting off of the ear also :pac:
I think they're fairly good to the job, some times they're a bit late but they are understaffed for a town the size and amount of people about at those times.

Some of the estates around here need to be nalpamed or something..

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:39pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

This is it. We have a lack of guards in the town as it is and enough stabbings going on.

I don't think they should be giving free lifts to a few birds every weekend to lighten up their night:rolleyes:

The current Garda Commissioner is Martin Callinan, write and complain to him. He will be just as interested as we are.

klose · 03-09-2011 9:41pm

Also, if Tipp win tomorow the town will be great fun for the guards to handle, should be good craic all day and night. Liquor HQ

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:42pm

whippedcream wrote: »

Haha when I read the thread title at the main page I thought "jeez thats omething ya'd hear of in Clonmel"
Lo & behind 'tis about my lovely home town

The only time the guards are really needed are after the classy establishement that is O'Keefes churns out absolute creme de la creme of scobes etc..that Clonhel and its surroundings has to offer after fri,sat and sunday nights. Fights,people paralethicly drunk etc..orders of the night. The odd biting off of the ear also :pac:
I think they're fairly good to the job, some times they're a bit late but they are understaffed for a town the size and amount of people about at those times.

Some of the estates around here need to be nalpamed or something..

I 100% agree with the bolded comment. If parts of the Wilderness and Elm Park were nuked, crime rates would drop significantly.

However, I do disagree the guards do a good job in general. I think they're a bit of a joke tbh.

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:44pm

hondasam wrote: »

The current Garda Commissioner is Martin Callinan, write and complain to him. He will be just as interested as we are.

Thanks for the advice, but I'm way ahead of you. Already done.

mikemac · 03-09-2011 9:45pm

Clonmel isn't a bad place

It's no Tipp Town, now there's a rough spot, the worst in the county
Maybe we can give it to Limerick

C-J · 03-09-2011 9:46pm

Op if your username reflects your age then i'm going to assume you're a virgin/cool dude who hates the powwwlice?! You will discover in life that taxi drivers know EVERYTHING. Every taxi i get consists of a driver who 'could have been James Bond' and whose sharp economic mind would get us out of any recession with a click of the fingers. Grow up like a good lad

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:47pm

mikemac wrote: »

Clonmel isn't a bad place

It's no Tipp Town, now there's a rough spot, the worst in the county
Maybe we can give it to Limerick

Clonmel may not be as bad as Tipp Town but that's hardly a ringing endorsement.

I've lived in Limerick before and I personally think Clonmel has surpassed it now. It's gone to the dogs these past few years.

mickac · 03-09-2011 9:47pm

just gave up driving a taxi in dublin myself. regurlarly saw guards pick up 5 or 6 "mates" in a mondeo or something just as unsuitable in the wee hours. always seem to be having great fun and who is gonna say anything ,they're the men in charge

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:49pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, but I'm way ahead of you. Already done.

Did it occur to you the taxi driver was just pissed of because he missed out on a fare. How many garda cars are in the town every night?

stupidusername · 03-09-2011 9:50pm

That's great stuff altogether. I'd love a lift home some nights, often think the guards would be perfect to ask.

mikemac wrote: »

Clonmel isn't a bad place

It's no Tipp Town, now there's a rough spot, the worst in the county
Maybe we can give it to Limerick

Clonmel is a bad place. it's just not widely known, as much as Tipp Town or Limerick.

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:51pm

C-J wrote: »

Op if your username reflects your age then i'm going to assume you're a virgin/cool dude who hates the powwwlice?! You will discover in life that taxi drivers know EVERYTHING. Every taxi i get consists of a driver who 'could have been James Bond' and whose sharp economic mind would get us out of any recession with a click of the fingers. Grow up like a good lad

I am not going on the word of the Taxi driver, he merely reminded me of the shenanigans. This is something the Guards are known to be doing here for a long time now. You could almost say it's common knowledge throughout the town.

So get down of your high horse before you fall. You could get a bad injury from those heights.

PseudoFamous · 03-09-2011 9:52pm

Two Gardaí were called in to a pub in Arklow due to a fight, and as the fight had dissipated before they arrived, they decided to get involved with the karaoke and sang a great rendition of "Don't Stop Me Now".

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 9:52pm

hondasam wrote: »

Did it occur to you the taxi driver was just pissed of because he missed out on a fare. How many garda cars are in the town every night?

As said already, I'm not going on just the word of the taxi driver. He merely reminded and highlighted something that I already knew was going on.

hondasam · 03-09-2011 9:54pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

As said already, I'm not going on just the word of the taxi driver. He merely reminded and highlighted something that I already knew was going on.

Seriously don't believe all the crap you hear about the guards. It's usually from people who have an issue with them.

C-J · 03-09-2011 9:56pm

Aw don't worry i'm sure one of those lovely drunken girls will pop your cherry soon. Or one of the guards you're fantasising over

AnamGlas · 03-09-2011 9:58pm

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Two Gardaí were called in to a pub in Arklow due to a fight, and as the fight had dissipated before they arrived, they decided to get involved with the karaoke and sang a great rendition of "Don't Stop Me Now".

A great bunch of lads!

klose · 03-09-2011 9:58pm

Aye now Tipp town is a mighty hole, just drive straight thru that place all together

Clonmel isint that awful the ratio of nice people to scum is very small but it only takes a few people to tarnish the name of a place! Im lucky to be living in a nice part . Ya can debate weather they're good at their work or not, theres not a whole lot of em and are constintly dealing with sh!t off the same people the whole time, probably fed up because the law system isint keeping the scobes out for long enough.
Was getting paperwork stamped in there once and a local lad whos known for trouble walked in and acted like he was freinds with em, knew there names, they knew his. Thats how often they were dealing with him, plenty like him aswell.

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 10:00pm

C-J wrote: »

Aw don't worry i'm sure one of those lovely drunken girls will pop your cherry soon.

Sorry, but your Mother has already done the job.

LETHAL LADY · 03-09-2011 10:03pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

As said already, I'm not going on just the word of the taxi driver. He merely reminded and highlighted something that I already knew was going on.

I am currently a serving member of An Garda Siochana in Clonmel. Your IP address has successfully tracked through operation TRACE and boards admin. We will be sending out a member of the force to take a detailed statement from you in the morning. I would now like to remind you that anything you say will be taken down and used against you in a court of law.

C-J · 03-09-2011 10:07pm

Oh how i worry for the future of this country! Can i remind you that you are making accusations against the police in a public forum from which your personal details are very easily obtained?? In the meantime I'd suggest you go confront the guards with these allegations i'm sure they'd love to see you coming!

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 10:08pm

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I am currently a serving member of An Garda Siochana in Clonmel. Your IP address has successfully tracked through operation TRACE and boards admin. We will be sending out a member of the force to take a detailed statement from you in the morning. I would now like to remind you that anything you say will be taken down and used against you in a court of law.

Cheers,any chance of a lift down to the station so I can make the statement?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 03-09-2011 10:09pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

I was talking to a taxi driver last night, and he told me something about the guards that didn't impress me one bit. He said he knows of many of them that spend their Saturday nights from around 2am-4am chauffeuring young woman home after their night out on the town and just arse around in general.

It sounds like your just sore that you had to pay for a taxi home on your own after failing to pull on a night out...so you partook in the national past time of blaming the guards for your failures.

And as for your ridiculous comment about someone possibly getting stabbed....well someone could get stabbed in the area where they were going to and they'd be on it within seconds rather than having to hang around the town baby sitting all the drunken idiots who arent capable of going out for a night, having a few drinks and leaving again in a civilised manner....but sure thats probably the guards fault too.

charlemont · 03-09-2011 10:17pm

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I am currently a serving member of An Garda Siochana in Clonmel. Your IP address has successfully tracked through operation TRACE and boards admin. We will be sending out a member of the force to take a detailed statement from you in the morning. I would now like to remind you that anything you say will be taken down and used against you in a court of law.

If so have ye still got the FREE THE WEED posters up in the upstairs interview room, I thought it was fair ironic to see but I reckon ******* himself probably put it up, Ha Ha.

LETHAL LADY · 03-09-2011 10:25pm

charlemont wrote: »

If so have ye still got the FREE THE WEED posters up in the upstairs interview room, I thought it was fair ironic to see but I reckon Hennebry himself probably put it up, Ha Ha.

No we have replaced them with your arrest sheet. Covers all the walls in the interview room like wallpaper makes interesting reading especially the indecent exposure caution.:p

PS I am not a member of An Garda Siochana.

charlemont · 03-09-2011 10:36pm

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

No we have replaced them with your arrest sheet. Covers all the walls in the interview room like wallpaper makes interesting reading especially the indecent exposure caution.:p

PS I am not a member of An Garda Siochana.

Ha Ha I love the last bit about indecent exposure, I was being strip searched in an inappropriate location by the small hall that connects the cells/backdoor stairs and public office there over ten years ago and I was completely naked and a BanGarda opened one of the three doors and copped an eyeful, Sure we're all adults and anyway it wasnt my fault, We all just laughed, Fairly sound BanGarda too. At the same time I could hear a lad I knew being spoken to about a stolen keg outside cell 1 and he saying it was up in the Holla.

LETHAL LADY · 03-09-2011 10:37pm

charlemont wrote: »

Ha Ha I love the last bit about indecent exposure, I was being strip searched in an inappropriate location by the small hall that connects the cells/backdoor stairs and public office there over ten years ago and I was completely naked and a BanGarda opened one of the three doors and copped an eyeful, Sure we're all adults and anyway it wasnt my fault, We all just laughed, Fairly sound BanGarda too. At the same time I could hear a lad I knew being spoken to about a stolen keg outside cell 1 and he saying it was up in the Holla.

:eek: Too much information.:p

RMD · 03-09-2011 10:53pm

Never heard of this happening. Sounds more like a rumour spread by some person with a dislike to the Garda. Then again, I'd say it's much easier to get away with that down the country.

If this was as common spread as you make it sound, I'd be sure some idiot would have made allegations of rape by now.

klose · 03-09-2011 11:01pm

charlemont wrote: »

the Holla.

They should fill that place in with cement, id say ya'd get change out of a 20 for a property there these days

willmunny1990 · 03-09-2011 11:03pm

whippedcream wrote: »

id say ya'd get change out of a 20 for a property there these days

You'd get one for a couple of Bucks.

Guards in my town

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