Garda caught rightly moments.

deadwood wrote: »

Made your day? It made their hole weak!

(I know - another recycled one!)

Was that deliberate?;)

A number of years ago, I was at the Blackrock end of Mount Merrion Ave and waiting to turn right into Blackrock. (For those unfamiliar with the area, I was on a minor(ish) road, at a T junction, turning into a major dual carriageway; there are two right-turn lanes)

Anyway, there are traffic lights here, and on this occasion, despite the traffic lights being in working order, there was a garda standing in the junction directing traffic after a nearby accident.

This fella in a shiny new BMW or Merc or similar [i.e. fancy in comparison to my ten-year-old rustbucket] comes up behind me. Lights turn green. I stay put -- the garda is directing traffic on my road to stay, while he keeps traffic moving along the main road.

Mr BMW gives a quick flash of his lights. He then taps his horn. He then leans on his horn. It's clear he hasn't actually spotted the garda. Or the traffic still crossing in front of us. Or noticed that the traffic in the adjacent lane isn't moving either. However, Mr Garda has cast a glance in our direction, most likely attracted by the honking of Mr BMW.

Mr BMW gets even more impatient, and out of his car he hops. Tis a nice day, my window was already rolled down. I can hear him f---ing and blinding, his generous advice that I hurry to a nearby opticians to have my vision examined and also a quick lesson on how traffic lights apparently only have one shade of green, etc.

While this is ongoing, Mr Garda has stopped the crossing traffic. He looks in our direction and bellows "IS THERE A PROBLEM OVER THERE?!" Mr BMW stops mid-sentence, looks into the junction, and mumbles a simple "Eh... no... no problem here, guard," before turning on his heel and creeping back toward his car.

I was in pain trying to contain my laughter as yer man approached my car; I could see the people in the nearby cars all in stitches.

The last thing I saw in my rearview as I continued on my way was the garda having a chat with Mr BMW by the roadside. Made my day

kind of funny , i pulled up to a check point last night ,and was stuffing my face with crisps from a 24hr garage ,i,ve been on a low carb diet for 6months and got a mad craving for crisps around 1am , so i had to make an excuse to go to the garage and eat me crisps on the way home , the missus would kill me ,if she knew igot them and dont let her eat tha crap lol

so the AGS stop me and say have you been drinkin , i said NO but he didnt catch that and put his ear in and asked again but this time he got an ear full of hunkydorys with the answer NO I DONT DRINK GARDA
he was laughing @me and i was choking on crisps , and when we got to are senses i blew into the thingy and went on my way ,
nice to see them out getting the drink drivers , fair play to them
ive alot of respect for them and always am polite

yes they were if you can picture me with not a carb in my system then getting 2 bags and stuffing my face before i got back to the house , what a rush i was all giddy , suprised he didnt want to swap my for head probably thought ,bloody stoner with the munchies , ,
so funny

Driving from the bridewell a few weeks ago along the quays in half blues.Looked into my wing mirror and spotted this cheeky chappy in his red mini cooper flying up the bus lane on the mobile phone.There was a free flower up ahead at the Ormond quay junction. When cheeky chappy spotted the free flower he slowly dropped the phone and moved in behind me real sneekly, all the while i was watching this in the rear view mirror. As he passed the free flower he had a little check to see was free flower looking and lifted the phone again,thinking that he had pulled the wool over the eyes of the law...As he pulled up beside me at the next lights, still on the phone and after having a little giggle with his mate on the other end, I tooted the horn and introduced myself..On seeing the badge he nearly threw the phone into the liffey with the shock...The look on his face was priceless...

freeflower is a probationer garda who is attested and out of the college in time for operation freeflow, in Dublin that means 6 weeks of standing on an intersection directing traffic, and here in Limerick 6 weeks on beat,

half blue means wearing uniform but with a civvy jacket over it so the uniform cannot be seen, in other words the way you'd see a member on the way to or from work.

Ah sure it's only an €80 fine, and no points!

The wide line is not 'a continuous white line' in the sense you think it is.
Failure to comply with prohibitory traffic signs = Driving in a bus lane during a time prohibited.
Failure to comply with traffic lane markings = ditto.

So, one offence only, €80 fine, no points.

Deadwood there's no way around it, ill just have to come up to the big smoke and check coppers out for myself,, all ive heard so far is 1)its a bit of a dive 2) they charge a 10er in and 3) the women are about as easy as 1st class maths,, Deadwood, if i see you there ill buy you a drink, i take it you'll be the ont in the corner with your fone switched off, so mrs. deadwood wont be bothering you and you'll be watching blue movies on a conficated laptop....
..... and ohh no, i bet you wont be kicked out either for public indecency or offensive behaviour, as you have already appropriatly titled yourself ''deadwood''!!

This guy really has a grudge for people who drive in Bus lanes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k-M-yTb1CY&feature=related

...rightly so.

Doing a bit of a revive on this thread, but I gotta give credit to the lads involved on this.

I get the 78a home from Thomas St in Dublin most days (Or any of the 51's). At around the usual time, there's always the same lad up the top of the bus, down the back, selling heroin, or shooting up, or causing a nuisance of himself (I've mentioned to the driver or a Garda passing myself - I have a bit of a thing against junkies/dealers).

Anyways, popped up this evening with one of my friends to head home. Same lad down the back, myself and herself rolled our eyes up at each other as usual. There was two other lads down the back aswell, but didn't pay too much attention, until one of them got off in a bit of a rush, only to appear back up the top of the stairs a few seconds later. By the time I'd copped on it was the same fellah after running back up, the other chap down the back had yer man in cuffs before he could say a word.

Two of them escorted the scumbag off the bus before he could say a thing/scream murder. Just a look of pure shock on his face. I think it happened so fast he would have been in the back of the car before figuring out he was arrested.

I was absolutely delighted.

To the two undercover lads, well done, much appreciated.

This happened a few years ago to a member I work with. He and another mule were driving through a small village within our district. It was in the early hours of the morning and it just started snowing for about 10-15 minutes. Passed by a side road but when they looked could see wavy lines from car tyres going side to side on the road. About 1/4 mile down they could see back lights on the one and only car. You can guess the rest. The driver pi**ed as a fart.

Another one this time my story:

Was following a car down a small road which was just big enough for a car. It was swerving from side to side a little so thought he was maybe drunk. Put on lights and sirens and the car stopped. The driver get out straight away so at first I thought he was gonna do a runner so I jumped out of the patrol car. I saw the driver stumble a bit, got off balance and then fall into the ditch head first. I nearly cried with laughter trying to get him out of the 4ft deep ditch.

I think the garda must have been involved in a pursuit there cos theres no way he could have been on his tail that fast!