Giving cops the fingers. Anyone hear of anyone ever done?

Run_to_da_hills · 10-09-2008 10:43AM #1

Just reading in the UK press yesterday where a guy gave a cop the fingers from a bus, the cop entered the bus and done your man, he denied doing it and persisted that he was only pointing at something. Apparently it is now going to court at a cost of over £5000 which some would regard as a total waste of tax payers money. The force are adamant to pursue the case and state that money is no object when it comes to tackling abuse to the force.

About 10 years ago I was pulled over for giving two cops the fingers from a van on Henry St Limerick, (Unintentionally) I was trying to edge my way out from a parking spot with poor vision when a van came up behind me and beeped the horn aggressively, I just stuck my fingers up without looking not knowing they were cops. Two cops hopped out and read the riot act and went through every nut and bolt on the van and said that I will hear from them about the "obscene gesture". About six months later I got a summonses for no seat belt but never heard about the other thing

Dudess · 10-09-2008 11:08AM

When I was in school, a guy I knew did the very same thing as the bloke in the UK. Gave a cop the two fingers from a bus and the cop climbed on board and took his details. I don't know what happened after that.

copeyhagen · 10-09-2008 11:09AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Just reading in the UK press yesterday where a guy gave a cop the fingers from a bus, the cop entered the bus and done your man

jesus he rode the fella just cuz he gave him the finger? harsh!!

chin_grin · 10-09-2008 11:11AM

copeyhagen wrote: »

jesus he rode the fella just cuz he gave him the finger? harsh!!

In soviet Russia, buses ride you.

Drift · 10-09-2008 11:13AM

copeyhagen wrote: »

jesus he rode the fella just cuz he gave him the finger? harsh!!

Well in fairness he gave the cop the finger, the cop was entitled to assume yer man was up the roide!

Nehaxak · 10-09-2008 11:33AM

Where I'm from their existence is not even recognised and most people look straight through them as if they didn't exist so sticking up your fingers at them would only show you noticed them in the first place so why bother at all

KTRIC · 10-09-2008 11:34AM

Nehaxak wrote: »

Where I'm from their existence is not even recognised and most people look straight through them as if they didn't exist so sticking up your fingers at them would only show you noticed them in the first place so why bother at all

Dublin ?

Dragan · 10-09-2008 11:37AM

I robbed a cops hat once. Was really drunk on O Connell Street in Limerick, wobbling up home. Passed these cops who to my drunken eyes were good lads so whipped one of their hats and proceeded to run up the road.

Being hammered they caught me fairly easily, took the hat back and left me on my way after one of them recognised me.

Pretty lucky it was a chap that knew me!

10-09-2008 11:42AM

Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

Run_to_da_hills · 10-09-2008 11:47AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

If you give a cop the fingers with out his hat on he can do nothing about it.

passive · 10-09-2008 11:49AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

Yes, that is completely true. It makes far too much sense not to be.

Nehaxak · 10-09-2008 11:50AM

KTRIC wrote: »

Dublin ?

Well yeah but Ballymun being more specific.

Can't say I condone it but I do at least understand the reasoning why.

Wood · 10-09-2008 11:57AM

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Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

By that logic, undercover guards can't arrest anyone. Yes they can arrest you. It's just an urban myth.

How many people had drinks taken from them in their youth by gardai only to find last week that they had no powers to do so. I reckon everybody should stick in a claim form for the return of liqour.

Sugar Drunk · 10-09-2008 12:05PM

god I did this by accident.
was driving up a road and took what I believed to be the correct lane only to have some fella ram up behind me blaring the horn, flashing the lights etc so I gave him the finger.

Turned out to be an under cover guard in a plain car. He pulled me over and started giving me abuse and asking me 'how dare I be in his lane and gave him the fingers'. So I told him anyone can make a simple mistake (on the paticular road theres two lanes on the roundabout,I took the lane I always do (same one anyone else I know does) but apparently I was 'in his lane'), there was absoloutely no harm done and there was no need what so ever to start acting like an agressive driver and blaring the horn and flashing the lights at me and then to get so upset over my response!

he let me off and got back in car and drove off.. I was shocked! funnily enough I havent given the finger to anyone since.

Nehaxak · 10-09-2008 12:13PM

To be honest though, myself I hated being given the finger by anyone when I was driving. If they were behind me then I'd stop the car and get out to them, regardless of who they were. So I can understand anyone else doing the same thing, cop or not.

Honey-ec · 10-09-2008 12:17PM

Sugar Drunk wrote: »

god I did this by accident.
was driving up a road and took what I believed to be the correct lane only to have some fella ram up behind me blaring the horn, flashing the lights etc so I gave him the finger.

Turned out to be an under cover guard in a plain car. He pulled me over and started giving me abuse and asking me 'how dare I be in his lane and gave him the fingers'. So I told him anyone can make a simple mistake (on the paticular road theres two lanes on the roundabout,I took the lane I always do (same one anyone else I know does) but apparently I was 'in his lane'), there was absoloutely no harm done and there was no need what so ever to start acting like an agressive driver and blaring the horn and flashing the lights at me and then to get so upset over my response!

he let me off and got back in car and drove off.. I was shocked! funnily enough I havent given the finger to anyone since.

Let me guess, you were in the outside lane but trying to go straight on?

10-09-2008 12:19PM

So is it also not true that if a pregnant woman needs to urinate, a the guard has to offer his hat

ibh · 10-09-2008 12:25PM

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So is it also not true that if a pregnant woman needs to urinate, a the guard has to offer his hat

Was that not just in England???

Anyway, I gave 2 guards the fingers once when i was on my bike just on the outskirts of Dundalk. They had a flat tyre and the 2 of them were inspecting it. I gave them the fingers accompanied by my best Nelson from Simpsons impression, "Haaaa-Haaaaa". Called me a cheeky bastard and 1 of them told me he's break my neck when he got me..

Sugar Drunk · 10-09-2008 12:27PM

Honey-ec wrote: »

Let me guess, you were in the outside lane but trying to go straight on?

cant remember exactly I think O was on inside lane trying to go straight but he said it was the wrong one. Im not saying I was not wrong - i know I probably was but I was no where near his car and his reaction was way out of line simple flash of the lights would have been enough. flashing lights, driving up close and beeping horn is being unnecessarily agressive

latenia · 10-09-2008 12:42PM

Outside the Village on Wexford St one St Patrick's day the large crowd was being moved on by about 4 cops. I did the old stick my nose in the air and started sniffing while asking "Does anyone smell bacon?" One cop took my full pint, poured it down the gutter and kicked me up the arse.

stovelid · 10-09-2008 12:45PM

If this is real, it's the only way to go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ8Zh-mhqYM

Zangetsu · 10-09-2008 02:21PM

I always give the garda the aul flyin V when I see them, granted my hands are in my pockets but it makes me feel good inside :pac:

jayteecork · 10-09-2008 02:27PM

Cops aren't all bad.

When I was very young and stupid I stole a hoodie. I was caught by security and legged it!

Anyway I was chased and caught. (can't believe the security guard ran after me)

So the cops were called and a few months later I got a summons.

Anyway the cop never told the judge I legged it and I got off Scot free.

If he told him I legged it I was getting a conviction.

Ps: I never did anything like that before and certainly never since.

HalloweenJack · 10-09-2008 04:28PM

I know of two incidents where this kind of thing has happened.

Once, my school team were on the way back from a hurling match. We were driving up the N11 in the van and the lads on the back seat were giving the finger to every car in sight. Next thing, one of the cars pulls out a cherry and the siren goes. The van's pulled over and two detectives get in and take the names of the lads down the back. They said stuff along the lines of "you're in big trouble", etc.

When we got back to the school, the lads at the back were marched into the principal's office and were given a bollocking. The Guards never got back to the school or the lads about the incident.

Another night, I was out in Bray. We were standing outside the chipper at the end of the night and a Garda van pulls around the corner. Some lad was standing in the middle of the street so the Garda van beeped at him. He got out of the way and as the van went by, he yelled "****ing pigs". The van stopped, reversed and pulled up beside him. Two Guards hopped out and got right up in his face, threatening him. he apologised and they just drove off.

IMO, when Guards get treated like that, they just want to save face and tried and scare people into not doing it again.

biko · 10-09-2008 04:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

If it evident they are police they can arrest you legally. A plain clothes cop can arrest you after showing ID, or even by shouting "The fuzz, stop!"

Fringe · 10-09-2008 05:51PM

My friend got a JLO for underage drinking or something. I can't remember. Within a week, he got another one for abuse. Funniest thing ever.

MagicMarker · 10-09-2008 05:58PM

Fringe wrote: »

My friend got a JLO for underage drinking or something. I can't remember. Within a week, he got another one for abuse. Funniest thing ever.

Not from where i'm sitting.

PrivateEye · 10-09-2008 06:28PM

I've a friend who gets mouthy with the guardians of the peace when he's had a few drinks. Last week a copper asked him to 'be movin' on now, good lad' and he told him to back to Mayo and push old people around :rolleyes:

He told another culchie copper that 'i hope your farm floods, ya culchie' :pac:

I would NEVER reccomend giving a Garda the fingers. Most of them won't bother with you, and might actually go and fight some crime or something similar, but you meet the odd big man who will pull you up on it. I seen a young lad (and we're talking 12-15) at one of our (St.Pats) matches get pulled out of a stand by a Garda for calling the REF something cheeky. Some of them are very hung up over the manners

Charlie · 10-09-2008 06:34PM

Anyone ever see that video that was doing the rounds on Bebo, of some lad running up behind a Guard, and pushing him into a river, and then legging it off.

Peleus · 10-09-2008 06:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true that the cops cant arrest you if they don't have their hat on, as they wouldn't be in full uniform?

They could just put the hat on and then arrest you.

charlie mchugh wrote: »

Anyone ever see that video that was doing the rounds on Bebo, of some lad running up behind a Guard, and pushing him into a river, and then legging it off.

Ye saw that. very funny

mumhaabu · 10-09-2008 07:17PM

Peleus wrote: »

Ye saw that. very funny

Linky please!

I was out one night with group of mates, anyway after kicking out time we were all hanging around and the Guards were walking by and told us to move along as one or two were singing and as they walked by two of the lads started making pig sounds like "snort snort oink oink".

The cop then pulled him up on it and asked him for his name which he duly provided a false name. I then immediately intervened being sober (pulled short straw as designated driver that night) and told the guard that he was telling him a lie and then the guard went to arrest my friend until I literally ate the head of my friend and made him apologise and shake hands to the guard. I knew the guard and when were talking later he said how he could have arrested him but was only doing it for to teach the lad some manners and frighten him.

The guard said they use common sense on the likes of this and finger giving and the idea is to scare sh1tless the individual in the hope of them not doing it again. Guards are generally ok only stay out of their way and they usually do the same.

Giving cops the fingers. Anyone hear of anyone ever done?

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