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Garda Checks

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭MaxFlower


    It's not exactly in a remote area. I'm sure someone else has reported it anyway.

    Terrible attitude, you should have reported it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Just been stopped for the third time, in three days, at the same time & place. There must be a rota of checkpoint sites :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    Discodog wrote: »
    Just been stopped for the third time, in three days, at the same time & place. There must be a rota of checkpoint sites :)

    Yep, they can't all be in the station so have to be out. Doing the same spot multiple times should catch out a few of the chancers on our roads....

    Sligo Metalhead



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    The missus was stopped going to and coming from work today.
    Meanwhile in Enniscorthy a local amenity is busier than it ever was as people drive to it,park up and go for a walk.Ignoring the rules completely and not a Garda seen.
    Did you report it or feel that was unnecessary because Gardai can be everywhere at all times?

    what would the response be if you did say it to the Guard that stopped you, I wonder?


  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Discodog wrote: »
    Just been stopped for the third time, in three days, at the same time & place. There must be a rota of checkpoint sites :)

    Did they take down details of reason stated for travel and number of car occupants? That’s what they did with the local checkpoint I ran into on Monday - didn’t note car Reg but definitely noted my response and checked and noted number of car occupants- I reckon this will all be number crunched somewhere in the coming days.
    I’ve noticed A LOT more occupants in cars of late- like parent and 2-3 teenagers sort of thing- reckon cabin fever is happening out there and people are using the car as a way to get out for a few hours


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Did they take down details of reason stated for travel and number of car occupants? That’s what they did with the local checkpoint I ran into on Monday - didn’t note car Reg but definitely noted my response and checked and noted number of car occupants- I reckon this will all be number crunched somewhere in the coming days.
    I’ve noticed A LOT more occupants in cars of late- like parent and 2-3 teenagers sort of thing- reckon cabin fever is happening out there and people are using the car as a way to get out for a few hours

    Nope not on any occasion. The Guard today looked desperately bored


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    what would the response be if you did say it to the Guard that stopped you, I wonder?

    I wasn't stopped because I wasn't out driving. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,156 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    tis be loverly weather for it though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I wasn't stopped because I wasn't out driving. ;)

    the question was more for niner, how would he respond if someone asked him 'what are you stopping me for, when theres a crowd down the road there...?'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    the question was more for niner, how would he respond if someone asked him 'what are you stopping me for, when theres a crowd down the road there...?'

    This is the point. The checkpoints aren't reducing travel. The Gardai would be of much better use patrolling & enforcing social distancing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    the question was more for niner, how would he respond if someone asked him 'what are you stopping me for, when theres a crowd down the road there...?'

    Sorry,I took it up wrong. :)

    The missus was stopped again this morning,she has an official ID and so far no problems until one cantankerous Garda said she needed a letter which would basically say 90% of the information that's on the ID.
    He turned one of her colleagues back who simply took a back road and went on to work.


  • Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't think its wise for Gaurds to be posting unofficial Garda info and advice here. Either just refer to the Garda website and Twitter account or stay anonymous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    I don't think its wise for Gaurds to be posting unofficial Garda info and advice here. Either just refer to the Garda website and Twitter account or stay anonymous.

    I would agree but there is a particular poster on this and many other threads that loves to let it be subtly know that they are a member of the chosen ones .


  • Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the question was more for niner, how would he respond if someone asked him 'what are you stopping me for, when theres a crowd down the road there...?'

    But the crowd wasn't down the road from a checkpoint was it?


  • Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    scwazrh wrote: »
    I would agree but there is a particular poster on this and many other threads that loves to let it be subtly know that they are a member of the chosen ones .

    Upsets your anti Garda nonsense?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Paddygreen


    Discodog wrote: »
    This is the point. The checkpoints aren't reducing travel. The Gardai would be of much better use patrolling & enforcing social distancing.

    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

    How about inserting an explosive device into every smart phone and if people go beyond 2km then the phone explodes and blows them to smithereens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

    You could leave your phone at home !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,593 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

    Catch 22... easily avoided by going for a walk and leaving phone at home.

    Iif there were enough Gardai to check that people were always carrying their phones we'd have enough Gardai to enforce the current regs.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Nal wrote: »
    How about inserting an explosive device into every smart phone and if people go beyond 2km then the phone explodes and blows them to smithereens.

    Didn't work against Arnie, he came back.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.


    Fucck, with a capital F, that kind of surveillance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Breezin


    The Nal wrote: »
    How about inserting an explosive device into every smart phone and if people go beyond 2km then the phone explodes and blows them to smithereens.


    A more humane approach for the first offence would be to trigger auto-posts in all of the culprits' social media apps, confessing to having selfishly breached the 2km limit. Add to that a deepfake video of them apologising profusely, Japanese-style, before committing harakiri.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,246 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

    That's fantasy man.
    And how exactly did the South Koreans track?

    So many variables. Wouldn't work.
    Apart from the obvious leave your phone at home. But how track?

    Cell phone triangulation? That only works within a few meters. Go into an apartment complex and it will say "150 people all together" - that doesn't work. What about GDPR over here? Does the likes of Vodafone even have systems in place to mass track and relay thousands upon thousands of cell usage in real time back?

    Google phones tracking? Yes Google does track android phones. That's how traffic jams are displayed in real time information on certain apps. Not everyone has an android phone.

    The government "magically" installs app on everyone's phone? That only happens in the movies lol.

    And after all that. If you found a way to make it work. Someone just leaves their phone at home or switches it off. Doesn't mate sense dude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    In any event the 2km achieves little & will hopefully be gone in a week or so along with the need for checkpoints.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    Discodog wrote: »
    In any event the 2km achieves little & will hopefully be gone in a week or so along with the need for checkpoints.

    Eh, have you seen how many people have been caught by these checkpoints??
    They should be a permanent sight on our roads with the amount that fail to be road legal. (Garda stations don't have social distancing so they HAVE to be on the roads. (That won't change after May 5th either!)

    Sligo Metalhead



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    Paddygreen wrote: »
    The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

    Some of them may escape by turning off GPS! (the phone triangulation is not accutate)
    I would suggest put an electronic tag on everyone (as for the convinced criminals during the probation)
    Or beat anyone outside the house with the baton as they do in India


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    Fucck, with a capital F, that kind of surveillance.

    Most people happily give facebook/Google etc that information every day without realizing, they use it for ads

    Why the outrage when the government want to use that information to curb a pandemic?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,031 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    BronsonTB wrote: »
    Eh, have you seen how many people have been caught by these checkpoints??
    They should be a permanent sight on our roads with the amount that fail to be road legal. (Garda stations don't have social distancing so they HAVE to be on the roads. (That won't change after May 5th either!)

    I haven't seen the official figures. Can you give a link to them? I have seen a very small number of headline offences.

    Neither the Gardai nor the wage bill will allow 12 hour shifts to continue just to tell, one in a hundred drivers, to turn around.

    They should be focusing on social distancing not people sitting safely in cars.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Breezin


    Discodog wrote: »
    I haven't seen the official figures. Can you give a link to them? I have seen a very small number of headline offences.

    Neither the Gardai nor the wage bill will allow 12 hour shifts to continue just to tell, one in a hundred drivers, to turn around.

    They should be focusing on social distancing not people sitting safely in cars.


    This. The whole emphasis on stopping people travelling by road is inexplicable when we are next to bumping into each other in supermarkets and on the footpaths.


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