Garda caught rightly moments.

crazydax · 19-12-2008 12:58AM #1

Have seen a few people being caught rightly by the Gardai but the best was today. Was sitting patiently in traffic going into galway, their was a bus lane on the inside of me. I was watching the car in front of me pull checkelly into the bus lane,I thought to myself now this is the time when id love to be a Garda nd fly up after him. Suddenly i heard a siren go off and their they were just a few cars back,they flew up past me and pulled the fella over.ha

pipsqueak · 19-12-2008 01:58AM

crazydax wrote: »

Have seen a few people being caught rightly by the Gardai but the best was today. Was sitting patiently in traffic going into galway, their was a bus lane on the inside of me. I was watching the car in front of me pull checkelly into the bus lane,I thought to myself now this is the time when id love to be a Garda nd fly up after him. Suddenly i heard a siren go off and their they were just a few cars back,they flew up past me and pulled the fella over.ha

brilliant!!

ART6 · 19-12-2008 07:52AM

Similar thing happened with me recently. I was entering a dual carriageway off a roundabout. A guy on a motorbike came up behind me, tailgating six feet off my rear end, then he pulled out sharply and took off like a bat out of hell, almost taking my wing mirror with him and clearly going way over the speed limit. Like you I thought "Where are the Gards when we need them?" The siren of the squad car that appeared out of nowhere scared the s**t out of me as it went past:D

Duckjob · 19-12-2008 08:12AM

A couple of months ago, was sitting at the lights at KCR in Dublin facing towards terenure. As the lights went red for the traffic crossing us, a guy flew through the junction. Then, as the light went green for me and I started across the junction I had to jam on brakes as another maniac decided he's just going to 'slip though'. Fortunately, the Garda van to my right also had started into the junction and also had to jam on their brakes to avoid this nut. Flashing blue lights were deployed and they went flying after him

:D

Esel · 19-12-2008 09:24AM

Yep - the Garda flying squad.

mcguiver · 19-12-2008 08:22PM

Best I saw was a taxi jamming on outside the Palace nightclub to pick up a fare. Car behind beeps horn, and taxi driver puts his arm out the window and gives him the finger.
Blue lights come on and notebook was out straight away. Best part was that the crowd outside the nightclub gave the cops a round of applause!

Damn I hate bad drivers!!

timmywex · 19-12-2008 08:41PM

mcguiver wrote: »

Best I saw was a taxi jamming on outside the Palace nightclub to pick up a fare. Car behind beeps horn, and taxi driver puts his arm out the window and gives him the finger.
Blue lights come on and notebook was out straight away. Best part was that the crowd outside the nightclub gave the cops a round of applause!

Damn I hate bad drivers!!

Similar thing happened to me before! I was in an unmarked garda car(wasnt being arrested before anyone has ideas!) and an eircom van pulled right in front of us and jammed on brakes, natuarally he got beeped so he sticks out 2 lovely fingers for us to see, big angry face on him aswell (he was nearly perpendicular to traffic flow from his move), so without hesitation on come the flashers, man ****es himself, lovely jubbly, delighted!

Oh and i do love when people get caught for talking on phones in the car, especially professional drivers like truck drivers, they should have the sense to get a bluetooth thing

Geri Boyle · 19-12-2008 10:14PM

I love this thread!

Trojan911 · 20-12-2008 12:49AM

Yep, was cruising down my stretch of road into Cork one afternoon with Mrs Trojan911 beside me, when a car over took me, the car in front & the car in front of him on double white lines.

Mrs Trojan911 utters an obscenity at his driving. I frown at her obscenity & then grin to myself & inform Mrs Trojan to note the car in front of us because the car in front of us is the local unmarked Ford Focus. I see it most days.

The Blues 'n' Two's went on & the offending driver was stopped shortly later.

Local-womanizer · 20-12-2008 01:11AM

Driving home one night,Audi passes me out,in the 100s at least.In front of us a Police jeep sitting on the Hard shoulder,lights on and tears on after the audi.Only thing was one of the Gardai lost his hat running to the jeep to get in.Up the road he had the driver out in cuffs.

Esel · 20-12-2008 02:21AM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Only thing was one of the Gardai lost his hat running to the jeep to get in.Up the road he had the driver out in cuffs.

That would be an illegal arrest then, unless he found his hat first! :pac:

Local-womanizer · 20-12-2008 03:58AM

esel wrote: »

That would be an illegal arrest then, unless he found his hat first! :pac:

There was 2 gardai,the one with the hat must have done the arrest wile the other sat in the jeep thinking what could have been if he had his hat!For some reason he wasent in the jeep to start.

Manic Moran · 20-12-2008 06:36AM

That would be an illegal arrest then, unless he found his hat first!

You're joking, right? What if there was a scuffle and the hat got knocked off?

NTM

TheNog · 20-12-2008 07:18AM

esel wrote: »

That would be an illegal arrest then, unless he found his hat first! :pac:

or he could got the emergency, backup cap always stored in the car!!! :pac:

Manic Moran wrote: »

You're joking, right? What if there was a scuffle and the hat got knocked off?

NTM

yeah it is a joke

My story:

I was about 7-8yrs old driving into Portlaoise. The auld fella was in his uniform cos he was gonna work in the prison that day. Stopped at the traffic lights (now roundabouts) and the lights went green. The auld lad stalled the car, got it started and stalled again. A woman behind us began beeping her horn, continuously. I could see her shouting at us. The auld lad: "Pass me my cap, Nog". Oh I jumped around in glee. The face on her was pure classic from anger to jaw dropper.

brayblue24 · 20-12-2008 10:59AM

esel wrote: »

That would be an illegal arrest then, unless he found his hat first! :pac:

Probably just as well really cos pal might have needed to invoke that other well known law and use his cap for a toilet.

samhail · 20-12-2008 11:32AM

same kinda thing happened to me ages ago - was in the car with my dad, not shi**ing myself just driving *extra* careful since he was there. coming up to the finglas road overpass over the N2 in finglas (obviously)... but we were all in the main lane, loads of traffic all doing the speed limit.
this lad from about 10 cars behind jumps in the bus lane and puts the put down. i turn to my dad and say wouldnt you love if there was a cop under the bridge (like there is a good few times!)
and there was !
he tried to dodge back into the traffic but the guard was already out after him pointing for him to pull in.

justice !

deadwood · 20-12-2008 12:36PM

TheNog wrote: »

I was about 7-8yrs old driving into Portlaoise.

Did they make little Nog sized booster seats back then?

TheNog · 20-12-2008 08:21PM

deadwood wrote: »

Did they make little Nog sized booster seats back then?

*pfft* booster seats and seatbelts were for pansies back then.

ScubaDave · 21-12-2008 02:19PM

TheNog wrote: »

*pfft* booster seats and seatbelts were for pansies back then.

Back when men were men, and sheep were scared!

deadwood · 21-12-2008 02:22PM

ScubaDave wrote: »

and sheep were scared!

...and not just afraid of an 8 year old Nogs' driving, either.

drunkmonkey · 21-12-2008 02:35PM

Driving out of Cork heading for Dublin, Garda speed checkpoint just on the top of the hill on the good stretch, passed the checkpoint and the guy infront of me took off like lightning as the road ahead was probably safe, Nope, another speeding check point around the corner this time the guys had the bikes all read to go....it brought out the true meaning of a speed trap, it's made me cautious passing checkpoints now as i'm worried there's another one hiding around the corner....:)

rua327 · 21-12-2008 02:51PM

Similar story drunkmonkey. Heading to Dub a while back and passed back to back speed traps and some SUCKER backed himself against the odds of passing another speedtrap straight away and boy was he wrong. Garda on a bike was after him like a hot snot. Made me feel all warm inside!

Random · 21-12-2008 06:59PM

Someone should rename this thread. I was expecting stories of Garda making mistakes, not the public

deadwood · 21-12-2008 10:36PM

Random wrote: »

Someone should rename this thread. I was expecting stories of Garda making mistakes, not the public

We all have a few of those too!
They all start with "I once worked with a guy who..."

Random · 21-12-2008 11:57PM

deadwood wrote: »

We all have a few of those too!
They all start with "I once worked with a guy who..."

Start a thread for us would ya?

Eru · 22-12-2008 03:13AM

On the way to work one day, freeflowers all over the place. Car flies down the bus lane then gets stuck on a Q which had a freeflower at the top of it. He tried to duck back in but I pushed up and wouldnt let him but he got in behind me.

So anyway, he got away with it but a few hundred metres down the road he pulls back into the bus lane, pulls up beside me in traffic and starts giving me dogs abuse for being an ignorant prick.

Karlitosway smiles and produces his badge......

Steyr · 23-12-2008 01:32AM

Galway City, Shop St last wednesday ( maybe thursday ), I was passing by a Meteor shop and some guy comes bolting out with what looked like phones right into the arms of 2 Gardai about 10ft down left of the shop.

Priceless.:)

Our man in Havana · 23-12-2008 01:06PM

The M7 Kidare bypass was not long open, at the end of it there was a big sign saying what your speed was. This was located in the 50mph zone at the end of the motorway. I was driving back from Dublin one morning and this Honda Civic tore past me just at the end of the motorway where the good road ended. "Your speed is 92mph" flashed up for the civic. Next thing was a Garda car chasing after them into Monasterevin. They had been hiding near the sign.:D Oh how I laughed at the lads in the civic. It made my day.

Marcus.Aurelius · 23-12-2008 03:26PM

I had just finished first half of double shift (nice overtime) so headed into Tesco for grub in unmarked mondeo stolen from branch. Still wearing my uniform, but my epaulettes and shirt were covered by a jacket. Came out of Tesco and had to turn right onto main road (T junction).

Light goes green for my side, off I go. Immediately white van ploughs into the side of the car in front from the passenger side. Driver had overtaken stopped cars at lights queue from our left, driven on wrong side of the road, ran the red and hit the car in front of me as it exited onto the main road.

Out I pop, survey the damage, ask girl driver in front if she's OK. (She was) Mad van man unleashes flurry of abuse in broken english and russian. I let him at it for quite a while until the poor girl started sobbing.

Eventually I asked if it was OK to phone the Gardaí. He immediately went quiet and said that he and the girl could settle this without insurance etc., finding out.

"Oh" says I understandingly, nodding for his benefit while reaching into car to retrieve cap and notebook while removing jacket, switching on headlamp flash, blues on windscreen, grille and winglets.

Got him for no road tax, no insurance, dangerous driving, & breach of duties at an accident scene (made several attempts to get back into van and drive off while I was taking details), fined buckets in court by a visiting judge.

andrewh5 · 23-12-2008 03:32PM

House wrote: »

I had just finished first half of double shift (nice overtime) so headed into Tesco for grub in unmarked mondeo stolen from branch. Still wearing my uniform, but my epaulettes and shirt were covered by a jacket. Came out of Tesco and had to turn right onto main road (T junction).

Light goes green for my side, off I go. Immediately white van ploughs into the side of the car in front from the passenger side. Driver had overtaken stopped cars at lights queue from our left, driven on wrong side of the road, ran the red and hit the car in front of me as it exited onto the main road.

Out I pop, survey the damage, ask girl driver in front if she's OK. (She was) Mad van man unleashes flurry of abuse in broken english and russian. I let him at it for quite a while until the poor girl started sobbing.

Eventually I asked if it was OK to phone the Gardaí. He immediately went quiet and said that he and the girl could settle this without insurance etc., finding out.

"Oh" says I understandingly, nodding for his benefit while reaching into car to retrieve cap and notebook while removing jacket, switching on headlamp flash, blues on windscreen, grille and winglets.

Got him for no road tax, no insurance, dangerous driving, & breach of duties at an accident scene (made several attempts to get back into van and drive off while I was taking details), fined buckets in court by a visiting judge.

Excellent! Well done you

timmywex · 23-12-2008 04:32PM

Well done house

Genious stuff!

:D

Well played aswell

Garda caught rightly moments.

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