ever got a warning?

Setun · 10-03-2006 07:29PM

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

LMAO

wiggle waggle

A few weeks ago we were busking outside some massive party that was getting shut down by the cops, they told us to put the music away. One of the lads started playing I Fought The Law on his guitar, and yer man comes back and says "if yis are not gone by the time I come back I'm gonna arrest yis". So me being the gentleman tried to ease matters - "Don't worry about it..." He walks right up to my face: "DON'T YOU GET CHEEKY WITH ME, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TELLING ME NOT TO WORRY? I'LL THROW YOU IN THE BACK OF THE PADDYWAGON!"

Never made much buskin that night.

xha1r · 10-03-2006 08:40PM

Coming back from a club one time, we were walking up the main road in the area. We'd bought a bag of chips and noticed a garda car stopped across the road from my avenue, in a pretty dangerous part of the road, and they were talking to someone.

We turned down onto my avenue anyway, and decided to sit on a wall opposite my house. Sure enough, one minute later, the cop car comes up and stops in the middle of the road. A woman gets out and comes over to us and in fairness, wasnt that bad.

The funny part was when she asked where we were from, and I said, just about to start a big story, "Its funny you should say that, you see..."

She interrupts and as they do, started going on about cheek and all that craic.

Anyway I took out my key, said goodnight and walked across the road and opened my door.

Thing is, it was so unnecessary to do what they did, we were only eating chips and didnt even look or act drunk...

They must of been bored..

Zapp Brannigan · 10-03-2006 11:24PM

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

funny fact: It's illegal to urinate in public places but there's no law against dropping your cacks and crapping.

Terry · 10-03-2006 11:36PM

Slurms wrote:

funny fact: It's illegal to urinate in public places but there's no law against dropping your cacks and crapping.

it's true. while drunk one night, a friend of mine decided to flaunt this law in the cops face. he dropped his bags and asked a cop to cover him while he took a dump. the cop laughed it off.

Zapp Brannigan · 10-03-2006 11:39PM

julep wrote:

it's true. while drunk one night, a friend of mine decided to flaunt this law in the cops face. he dropped his bags and asked a cop to cover him while he took a dump. the cop laughed it off.

I dunno if this is tru or not but I think the cop is obliged to clear it away after you.

Patricide · 11-03-2006 02:57AM

Many a warning was recieved when i was with my old band, Every night we would either get one for being drunk and disorderly, starting fights with homeless people(well that was our singer mainly) and so on.

My most memorable one was where everyone was ****ed and we were walking home, we ended up braking a few trees(exept me breaking trees is just retarded), a few lawn ornements and lawn lights.It was ****ing retarded looking back on it to do that but still it was funny cause we were 5 feet away from home when the gards pulled over.

They gave us the option to either admit to it or else wed have to go down to the station and because one of us had illegal substances on him he confessed straight away. The retarded thing was we caused a couple of hundred quid worth of damage and the guards only gave us a warning.

democrates · 11-03-2006 03:08AM

You must be a bunch of scumbags, I never have any trouble with the guards. In fact they've often helped me out dealing with scumbags.

Hal1 · 11-03-2006 03:38AM

Peace wrote:

I was pulled over one time for doing in the region opf 90-100 miles per hour ont he galway road. Was chatting to the cdop at the back of the car for a whle... few question like wher you going, where you coming from, name, licnse blah blah.

In the end he just said..'Slow it down lad, you were fairly tipping it'

.... tipping what?

c0w tipping

Hal1 · 11-03-2006 03:44AM

Scoops wrote:

When I was a good bit younger I was taking a leak against the side of a building on my way home from town as all the pubs were shut (not the nicest thing to do but nature called and I was young and drunk) the next thing I know a garda taps me on the shoulder and asks me - "Do you know it's an offence to wiggle your waggly in public?" I had to spend the next five minutes trying desperately not to laugh while he gave me a stern (stem?) talking to. I could see my friends nearly falling over from laughter over his shoulder the whole time!! Still makes me snigger when I think about it!!

You know what, its an old by-law that if you need a piss in a public place and there are no public toliets or pubs open, a gaurd is supposed to cover you with his coat while you have a piss and if you need to shít he has to give you his hat to do it in

. I never tried it myself but will consider it next time im stuck lol :P

Scoops · 11-03-2006 10:24AM

Hal1 wrote:

You know what, its an old by-law that if you need a piss in a public place and there are no public toliets or pubs open, a gaurd is supposed to cover you with his coat while you have a piss and if you need to shít he has to give you his hat to do it in . I never tried it myself but will consider it next time im stuck lol :P

Imagine asking a garda for his hat to sh1t in!!

_Kaiser_ · 11-03-2006 11:59AM

Without dampening the pretty funny mood (wonder if that bye-law is true, oh and "tipping" in this context means speeding basically

), the problem is the for-the-most-part incompetent, ignorant, inconsistent, keystone cops brigade we have in this country. :mad:

I mean (just using examples from this thread):
- Going off on power trips because they think they're somehow better than you
- Harassing people for "looking at them" (natural reaction) after they themselves gave the lads a good looking over in the first place
- Being proven to be in the wrong, but still coming out with the equivalent of "yea well, you're warned"
- Basically just throwing their weight around like some sort of playground bullies

Is it any wonder then that they've (deservedly) got such a bad image.

Slunk · 11-03-2006 12:29PM

Had one or two dealings with them mostly when i was younger, group of us sitting at the corner an in the garden to the side of the house( which is where i live). gaurds driving by always crawl by in the car staring so one day we all stared back, so they stopped and told us to move on, i said i lived here and they said just move on so i told them again, i live here where do you want us to move too, of course typical irish garda, wrong answer, gets out of the car and searches every one of us.

Another time in the summer we were on our way to a friends house with a few cans, seen some people in the park so went into them, gaurds pull up, didnt even get out of the car, just shouted in, " here fcuk off down the fields or we'll be getting complaints" . Hadnt even opened a can.

Hal1 · 11-03-2006 01:34PM

Going back a few years now, ahh yesh the good ole days of drinking in the grounds of the local girls secondary school.

Myself and two of my mates had gone and bought a bottle of vodka and about 12 cans of bulmers and had a bit of 'smoke'. Well I wasn't used to drinking vodka at all, at all. We had no mixer for the vodka. It was decided that I would drink half and the other lad would have the other half.

So we where having a great old laugh until we looked down the end of the road to the gates of the school, now we didn't make too much noise to bring any attention to ourselves.

Now this garda car rolls into the grounds with the flashing lights, no siren on. They spot us in one of the sheds. And roll up to us, the passenger side window slowly rolls down and that blinding flash light shines in our faces. "Lads", says the first garda. "You know this is private property and you are tresspassing". "Sorry gaurd we didn't reliese we where causing any trouble". He then notices the bottle and the few bags of cans we had on the ground.

They where fairly sound about it. But said he would have to confiscate the drink. MY mate was the cocky sort but not too much he was a good talker like. He pleaded with the garda, and we where just rubber standing there trying to stay upright.

They got out of the car and searched us and said. "Well ye seem to be keeping it quiet here but Im gone to have to confiscate the drink". Well my mate starting talking to one of the garda about bodybuilding and saying how fit he was etc. He said that if he could make it to the gates before they did could he keep his vodka the road was about 500mtrs long. The garda where like alright :P so they gave him a 10 sec head start and he took off, I never seen anyone run so fast. I couldn't believe my eyes, I could barely see as it was. He outrun the squad car he got his vodka back. They where like be on your way now though. We fell around the place laughing for about half an hour afterwards

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Naos · 11-03-2006 01:57PM

Lol at the vodka race.

The Gardai seem to be painted in a good light here, well most of them..

Tipping it : Refers to the accelerator.

Xha1r: The Garda in question didnt know you lived across the road. You were sitting on someone elses wall, they would have seen this as intimidation.

Myself, few warnings but only for silly stuff. One memorable one when I was about 12, I and two others got our names taken for... Building a tree house. Gardai came up to us, took our names and questioned us for a wee while. Then the aul lad brought me down to the station and proceeded to give them a bollicing

Terry · 11-03-2006 02:12PM

so many drink related stories.
the local cops told us to drink our cans up by the canal, because that way we were out of everyones way and they (the cops) wouldn't have to take our drink off us.

BigWilly · 11-03-2006 03:03PM

The thing about drink is that you don't really realise how much of a nuisance or whatever you're being and will think the garda is in the wrong if he gives out to you. But you have to understand that most sober people don't want you kicking cans/messing with trolleys up their roads etc

In general I find the guards to be an alright bunch. Although if I go up to the top of my cul de sac for a smoke I don't really want to be told to move on or whatever. Can they actually legally move you in in that case? It'll be like
"where do you live?"
"About 10 houses down the road"
"well go home"
"ehhhhh"

ever got a warning?

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