Kaizersoze81 wrote: » Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder to be honest. Did you get a speeding ticket maybe?
Johnboner wrote: » They are exempt same as everything else such as mobile phone use due to their superior genes. Gardai in Ireland are known as Mr. Hitler would refer to as ''Master race" so don't you dare questions your masters.
Johnboner wrote: » I had around 5 serious incidents where they are required and were called and never even bothered showing up and that is somehow acceptable? One of the accidents was where 5 cars were smashed in our housing estate during the period of 2 days. .
runawaybishop wrote: » Post history confirms massive chip. :rolleyes:
Hi all,I have popped in here now and then to read a thread but never needed to post till now. I am hoping to get some general information on what will happen next in regard to an assault. Here is what happened..... Saturday night, 14th jan, I heard a noise outside, looked up at my cctv and saw a guy leaving my front garden. Not being the hero type I waited till he was across the road and walking away before I took a look out. He had kicked the wing mirror off the car and just wandered off across the road. He seemed to be having an argument with another guy over some car that was damaged further down the street, the 1st guy seen me and came charging over. I asked them what was going on and went down in a barrage of punches and kicks. I got to my feet and ran for the house but when I got in my wife told me that my son and daughter had gone out to help me. I ran back out and they were fighting the two guys, I heard one say to the other "stab him xxxxxx" but I did not see a knife. I grabbed him and out him down hard. Then held him there till the guards arrived. we backed off and the guards put the both in the van, during this one of them punched a garda in the face. my son and I spent the night in hospital, he was released the next day but I was kept in and had to have surgery for a "bad fracture" to my chin and a break in the jaw up near my ear. The astounding thing is that in the A&E dept we met the same two guys, the guards appear to have just dropped them off at hospital an hour later. A helpful EMT contacted the station and asked what was going on and the guard said they had no evidence to hold them. We then had to suffer the added distress of hours of threats from these guys about what they were going to do to us when we got out. We just contacted the guard and arranged to make a statement, but what happens next? Do we need a solicitor? how likely is it they will get charged considering my cctv hard drive is broken so cannot record? Any advice of guidance would be most welcome.
Johnboner wrote: » No, I was never treated badly by the Gardai or got any kind of fine. It's just their lack of help that makes me angry. Since the criminals were not caught, I was forced to pay for the damages for my vehicle out of my own pocket and I didn't bother insurance as the quote would rise to the moon.
endacl wrote: » We had a similar incident. Guards arrived about 7 minutes after they were called.
razorblunt wrote: » Probably for the same reason as poor grammar.
Johnboner wrote: » I didn't bother insurance as the quote would rise to the moon.
Johnboner wrote: » I had around 5 serious incidents where they are required and were called and never even bothered showing up and that is somehow acceptable? One of the accidents was where 5 cars were smashed in our housing estate during the period of 2 days. Guess what they were called, around 11pm and showed up in the morning around 9.
runawaybishop wrote: » So they did, in fact, show up?
Potential-Monke wrote: » What i can't stand is people who claim that all the Gardaí are useless based on their interactions with a miniscule percentage of them. Like, just because you've had bad dealing with a few Gardaí, is it fair to call all 10,500 of them useless? Part of the reason i left tbh... More detail needed from OP with regards to these incidents. I find it hard to believe that there were 5 incidents and not a single Garda showed (until the following morning). And as for the ones sitting "waiting for trouble", maybe they're directed to be there? Can't move unless directed to again. And for the tax/insurance checkpoints? Guess what? They're directed too. And necessary, because there's a shed load of people driving without insurance (tax i'm not really bothered about), so it's necessary, and with the amount of drink/drug driving still going on, we could do with more checkpoints. And these are usually manned by Traffic Corps, whose job is (surprise surprise) traffic duties! Amazing that. And the chip on the shoulder complaint is valid, because the high majority of the time it is people with a chip on their shoulder who give out. God i don't miss the job at all!
Johnboner wrote: » Yes it's fair to call them incompetent because the incidents happened in different places around the country, so it is not related to one specific area.
Potential-Monke wrote: » So all 10,500 Gardaí are incompetent because of the dealings with, say, 10 Gardaí? (5 incidents, 2 in a car).
Johnboner wrote: » Using statistical information from countless other posts outlining same problems, it is safe to say that the majority are.
Boggy Turf wrote: » The Gardai have become more and more useless and corrupt since the mid 1990s. Their culture is rotten.
sharkfox wrote: » It's very easy to poke holes in other people's opinions. If you and a guard had an incident over anything and it was there fault and it went to court who do you think would win? They have a hard job dealing with idiots but most of them would lie in a heart beat in court to save themselves or a co-worker.
sharkfox wrote: » Average people used to respect the guards years ago. They don't bother with them now because they don't show up or if they do they do nothing. Courts don't help that but a lot don't even bother doing the work to get the criminal there.
