Gardai

ecdl07 · 26-12-2008 06:01PM #1

Have you ever being in trouble with the gardai? If so for what?

rhapsody! · 26-12-2008 06:03PM

You like posts about defying the law.

Anyway nope not me, I'm good lol, I know a fair whack of people who have though. :P

ninty9er · 26-12-2008 06:05PM

it's been, and the answer is not for anything requiring paperwork, a warning to change the lightbulbs on my car when the Garda was in a foul mood....yes.

PrivateEye · 26-12-2008 06:06PM

I've had mates get lifted for things as small as going for a wee up a laneway, if they're in a bad mood you'll pay for it....

i took my little brother to a demonstration once, he's only 14 and felt passionate about the issue (Shell,blahblah) anyway,he was the first one the Branch man aproached for the name/address business. I'll never forget that.

Late at night stay out of their way, and 90% of us will be grand. A good night doesn't have to end in a cell

If they're in a bad mood you can pay for it. Dads a fireman and says some nights you can tell when the copshop phones rang more than their own based on their attitudes...

arybvtcw0eolkf · 26-12-2008 06:10PM

I was banned from the Emergency Services forum, the Mod is a copper, does that count?.

I wasn't banned, I'm just saying that

Sharpshooter · 26-12-2008 06:16PM

Mairt wrote: »

I was banned from the Emergency Services forum, the Mod is a copper, does that count?.

I wasn't banned, I'm just saying that

Aren't they all.:D

I'm scared of the Ban Hammer

No , Ive never been in trouble with the law.

AckwelFoley · 26-12-2008 06:19PM

both here and in the US.

PrivateEye · 26-12-2008 06:21PM

Anyone else think of Gardai COMPLETELY differently to how you think of coppers in other countries? Probably years of D'unbelievables/Father Ted but the 'lovable community-worker gob****e' idea is in most of us I think.... Even see it in town on Saturdays with English stag parties etc., completely different attitude to the police here to how I imagine they'd be at home, though that could be down to booze(!)

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00083/gardai_83354t.jpg

versus

The lads in Greece, France etc.

Hogzy · 26-12-2008 06:22PM

Interesting to see if this thread turns into a debate on whether someone should or should not have gotten penalty points!

ejmaztec · 26-12-2008 06:27PM

One, fresh from Templemore, screamed at me a few weeks ago. I spotted him standing in the middle of the road waiting for traffic to appear from a car-park so that he could direct it. There was no sign of any traffic and he had his arms by his side. I decided that I should carry on driving as he hadn't signalled me, or anybody else, to stop. As I drove slowly behind him, he decided that I wasn't going anywhere and melted my ear-drums with abuse. He was obviously under severe stress. He saw that everyone else in the car just stared at him with their mouths open and turned away.

Unfortunately you're in trouble if you get out of your car and whack em with a car-jack.

minidazzler · 26-12-2008 06:58PM

Never been in trouble with the Guards, and never likely to be caught anyway.

But, I am not in anyway intimidated by Gardai, they are too small and delicate these days,

What happened to the big, Bacon and Cabbage eating, 6 foot 5 inches tall, Size 13 boot, Tipperary Sh1t-kickers that used to be, now they would put the fear of god into ya!!! These newer baby gardai they are coming out with are utterly useless. And don't get me started on the amount of small dainty female Gardai!!!!

Run_to_da_hills · 26-12-2008 07:04PM

minidazzler wrote: »

What happened to the big, Bacon and Cabbage eating, 6 foot 5 inches tall, Size 13 boot, Tipperary Sh1t-kickers that used to be, now they would put the fear of god into ya!!! These newer baby gardai they are coming out with are utterly useless. And don't get me started on the amount of small dainty female Gardai!!!!

The big, Bacon and Cabbage eating, 6 foot 5 inches tall, Size 13 boot, Tipperary Sh1t-kickers of the past weren't equipped with Tazer and pepper spray. :eek:

minidazzler · 26-12-2008 07:05PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The big, Bacon and Cabbage eating, 6 foot 5 inches tall, Size 13 boot, Tipperary Sh1t-kickers of the past weren't equipped with Tazer and pepper spray. :eek:

True, but they did have real nice Ash Batons.

Vain · 26-12-2008 07:11PM

Out side my local night club one night , its a know hot spot for fights and in the middle of the huge crowd were three female gardai felt sorry for them because if anything kicked off really doubt they woulda been able to handle it on there own especially with the off there face scum bags in my town.

Never been in trouble myself i go outa my way to avoid trouble when iv drink in me.

Vain · 26-12-2008 07:14PM

Had to post this sorry:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8k1d8uX9Gw

Oswald Osbourne · 26-12-2008 07:17PM

I once told a copper to flip off. He gave me a clip round the ear and then tried to make peace by offering me a room in one of the 8 houses he owns.

Terry · 26-12-2008 07:25PM

Yes I have. Why do you ask?

Mark200 · 26-12-2008 07:31PM

Never been in trouble. The only 'encounter' that I can think of was when I was going to a concert in August I took a piss on a tree, before noticing police on the other side of the road directing traffic. They came over but there was a good few of us so it was grand, just told me to throw out my drink

Vain · 26-12-2008 07:32PM

<3BeingIN6th wrote: »

Yes I have. Why do you ask?

I think his a off duty gardai and needs a rush from finding out all the naughty stuff we have done and by doing so he will be all hyped up for his next shift and become a super gardai cleaning our streets of drunks and other non law abiding people or things.

galwayrush · 26-12-2008 08:09PM

Once when i beat the **** out of a burgler with a hurley stick, scumbag made a complaint but i convinced the Garda i had no idea what he was talking about.

ejmaztec · 26-12-2008 08:12PM

Vain wrote: »

I think his a off duty gardai and needs a rush from finding out all the naughty stuff we have done and by doing so he will be all hyped up for his next shift and become a super gardai cleaning our streets of drunks and other non law abiding people or things.

Does the non law-abiding refer to the "people" not declaring their bed and breakfast earnings, or income from other jobs on their tax returns?

arse..biscuits · 26-12-2008 08:31PM

Lots of trouble when I was younger, arrested loads of times and an 18 month prison sentance when I was 19. I was just a bit wild. I'm the complete opposite these days, model citizen now.

craiginireland · 26-12-2008 08:42PM

The nearest i've been to being in trouble for anything was with a security guard in a shopping centre. Santa was arriving by helicopter. All i did was point out that if santa had any style he would have used his reindeer.

galwayrush · 26-12-2008 08:48PM

craiginireland wrote: »

The nearest i've been to being in trouble for anything was with a security guard in a shopping centre. Santa was arriving by helicopter. All i did was point out that if santa had any style he would have used his reindeer.

The Style Police are always the worst.:P

briantwin · 26-12-2008 09:28PM

me and my identical twin brother were both put in the cells in Pearse St station for drunk and disorderly. Gardai trying to find out the name of one of our friends. We didnt tell them....long silly story.
Funnily enough 2 weeks later had to make a follow up statement,during this meeting i had to tell the Garda the reason i was laughing so much the night of the arrest was cause he sounds like the goat off that Bóthar advert "milk and cheese i can do but calves,you must be kidding!!" He was highly unimpressed but i still laugh about it.

Darragh29 · 26-12-2008 09:30PM

I used to be in an amateur drama group, and traditionally at the end of every play we did, we'd have a p*ss up. Anyway, one play we did, we got a lock in back in the local pub that we put on a performance for. As it happened, our stage director was having an ongoing petty dispute with the local Garda Sargent, who got wind of our little knees up in the function room of our local on this particular night, so didn't he arrange to have it raided that night.

I'll never forget us all told to line up to have our names taken for whatever law we had broken to do with drinking afterhours in a pub, but how we didn't all p*ss ourselves laughing when every single one of us gave our stage names to the Garda! The names he wrote down in his little black book were all from a Rogers & Hammerstein play!

Darragh29 · 26-12-2008 09:33PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Once when i beat the **** out of a burgler with a hurley stick, scumbag made a complaint but i convinced the Garda i had no idea what he was talking about.

Ya musn't have taken out enough of his teeth with the hurley if he was able to make a statement to the Garda!

galwayrush · 26-12-2008 09:36PM

Darragh29 wrote: »

Ya musn't have taken out enough of his teeth with the hurley if he was able to make a statement to the Garda!

Sadly true. I only whacked him hard in the legs and arse a few times.

crosstownk · 26-12-2008 09:54PM

I've had a few run-ins with the boys in blue but, thankfully, I've never been arrested. I have managed a caution but that was much ado about nothing.

flushje · 26-12-2008 10:51PM

yes,went to court, but for some reason he was a sound chap when the crazy judge entered.

SV · 26-12-2008 10:55PM

flushje wrote: »

yes,went to court, but for some reason he was a sound chap when the crazy judge entered.

Probably because they also get ate the bollocks off by the judge..

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