The Garda Helicopter is keeping us awake every night !!

Messed Up Mind · 30-07-2009 12:40PM

I live in Tallaght too and can hear the helicopter sometimes. Thankfully I don't live near Jobstown or Fettercairn so I don't hear it that often. I suggest that you become some sort of Batman or Dexter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/) figure and take out the bad guys yourself. After a few months, you'll have emptied half of the population of Tallaght leaving only the good guys and will get a good night's sleep. Sorted.

PS Yore ma keeps me awake every night (was gonna add something else but remembered I wasn't on B3TA)

jum4 · 30-07-2009 01:08PM

irlande_euroluv wrote: »

R.P.G....

one of those cheap laser pointers will do the trick!

stovelid · 30-07-2009 01:21PM

Well Joe, as much as I agree with a panoptical criminal surveillance presence in low-income areas......

chopperbyrne · 30-07-2009 01:25PM

It can be annoying, but it's generally only for about ten minutes or so. I can see why they laughed at you when you rang to complain.

O.A.P · 30-07-2009 01:39PM

ascend wrote: »

ah the good ole garda chopper, did ye know the thing has a bloody siren??? Its actually priceless when they turn it on

:rolleyes::D:D:D:D

milod · 30-07-2009 02:20PM

Is there only one chopper? because there's one that's been spending a lot of time in the Inchicore/Drimnagh/Crumlin area recently - had the windows rattling at one stage thanks to the Crumlin v. Drimnagh gang war shenanigans...

ascend · 30-07-2009 02:31PM

As far as i know there are 2 garda helicopters, the squirrel and the eurocopter. I know this because squirrel spent a lot of time in overhead in limerick!

PaulieD · 30-07-2009 02:59PM

brummytom wrote: »

That's Tallaght for you..

Says the brummie.......:pac:

senordingdong · 30-07-2009 03:20PM

Yeah, better the chopper wasn't there and you were just kept awake by regular old knackers.

max 73 · 30-07-2009 03:35PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I sued to live near to Tesco in Ballybrack and the chopper used to be over the estates (Ashlawn & Cooleven) on a regular basis at night. They followed one of my friends with the spotlight from his house to Tesco once:)

thanks to the gardai, he didn't become a statistic in crime report!!!!

An Fear Aniar · 30-07-2009 03:41PM

bigkev49 wrote: »

I wish I could RPG that bloody pointless second full stop at the bottom of every one of your posts.

There is a point to it actually, it makes it easier to read posts, especially on forums where people have big flashing images in their sigs.

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lostexpectation · 30-07-2009 03:50PM

irlande_euroluv wrote: »

I live in Tallaght (I know its a high crime area). I haven't got a good nights sleep since last week because of the late night hovering of the copper chopper every night. I've spoken to neighbours about this and its affecting them the same.
I rang the local Garda station to complain and basically got laughed at. Every time I hear the drone of the heli now, I get irritated and annoyed. I wish I had an R.P.G....

the **** attitude of gardai yet again

jumpguy · 30-07-2009 04:24PM

An RPG? Wouldn't be surprised if Tallaght started using flying explosives now. :P

How high are the choppers flying? If they're very low then they're probably breaking some laws, there's a limit on how high one can fly, unless the Garda are an exception.
The choppers are needed though, but I'm sure they don't have to be "on patrol". There's cars and legs for that. Awful waste of resources and fuel having a chopper flying around "on patrol".

Cookie_Monster · 30-07-2009 04:27PM

jumpguy wrote: »

An RPG? Wouldn't be surprised if Tallaght started using flying explosives now. :P

How high are the choppers flying? If they're very low then they're probably breaking some laws, there's a limit on how high one can fly, unless the Garda are an exception.

I'm sure the gardai have an exemption and would at time need to fly quite low to track people etc.

It has nothing on the noise generated by the coastguard chopper though, that one noisy beast!

tommyfitz · 30-07-2009 04:54PM

Maybe its Minister Cullen on his way home to his appartment after a night out on the town.

CreepingDeath · 30-07-2009 05:04PM

irlande_euroluv wrote: »

I wish I had an R.P.G....

Like to see those Garda helicopters flying on Halloween, when practically every kid in Dublin has an RPG in the form of fireworks.

Cookie_Monster · 30-07-2009 05:10PM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

There is a point to it actually, it makes it easier to read posts, especially on forums where people have big flashing images in their sigs.

.

Or you could report them since they aren't allowed anyway?

SIGPO

donkey balls · 30-07-2009 06:45PM

How high are the choppers flying? If they're very low then they're probably breaking some laws, there's a limit on how high one can fly, unless the Garda are an exception.

1000ft above mean sea level(amsl) 1000 ft above object clearance thats for civilan acft.
as for the noise just get on with it i live directly under the main flight path for Dub airport so hear every thing from little turbo props to large jets taken off/landing every couple of mins

angel01 · 30-07-2009 07:28PM

I am afraid it is the price you pay ... I don't have a problem with it, if it helps stop crime, I am all for it.

currythis · 30-07-2009 07:41PM

I live in clondalkin just beside where the helicopter is based in baldonnel aerodrome,it usuallys fly's over 7 or 8 times during ther night and never affects our sleep,you get used to it after a while.

No point ringing the local Garda station as they have no say about anything regarding the chopper (bar calling it for assistance) as it's operated by the air corps,try complaining to the air corps or give Garda hq a call and complain to them.
If all else fails contact your local T.D.

Neonlight · 30-07-2009 07:54PM

Dont get me started i live in finglas for me sins, its like close encounters of the third world kind!!

Sofiztikated · 30-07-2009 08:03PM

I'm going to suggest a nice tall glass of deal with it.

Trying blaming the scumbags for bringing the Gardi out in the copter in the first place.

Arktos.as.l · 30-07-2009 08:07PM

Used to live next to Sarsfield barracks where the Limerick branch's helicopter was stationed. Helicopters were constantly coming and going. Didn't mind the garda one so much because it was probably being put to good use but whenever I saw its air corp counterpart I always had a suspicion it was just generalissimo O'Dea on his way down from Dublin.

bug · 30-07-2009 09:38PM

I always suspected there was a high proportion of North Siders on boards, most of whom it seems from this thread haven't crossed a mile over the liffey since Tallaght developed in the passed few years.;)

Anyhow everyone thinks they are actually chasing crime or assumes that they are looking for someone or at something when in the helicopter.

I doubt this is always the case.

Having a cigarette out my back garden late one evening a few years back the 'copter cops went by quite low, circled, and then came back to laugh at me - I assumed it was because I was in my pj's.
That's how low they were. I couldn't believe it.
Busy guys.

Lorrs33 · 30-07-2009 10:57PM

I'm in Tallaght too and two nights in a row it's been hovering over my house this week. Then I'd call my boyfriend, who lives in another part of Tallaght and he'd report it arriving over his. What can they do up there? Shine lights on suspicious looking people??

pebbles21 · 30-07-2009 11:09PM

Could be worse

Ross_Mahon · 30-07-2009 11:14PM

I'm going to invest in one of those huge industrial spotlights and take down da choppa!

Hell Toupee · 30-07-2009 11:18PM

Can they not put it on silent mode like they do in Airwolf?

Lorrs33 · 31-07-2009 05:35PM

Messed Up Mind wrote: »

I live in Tallaght too and can hear the helicopter sometimes. Thankfully I don't live near Jobstown or Fettercairn so I don't hear it that often. I suggest that you become some sort of Batman or Dexter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/) figure and take out the bad guys yourself. After a few months, you'll have emptied half of the population of Tallaght leaving only the good guys and will get a good night's sleep. Sorted.

PS Yore ma keeps me awake every night (was gonna add something else but remembered I wasn't on B3TA)

It doesn't keep to those two housing estates, it goes over all of Tallaght. Tallaght gets picked on by the rest of Dublin, and Jobstown gets picked on by the rest of Tallaght. It never ends.

room18 · 31-07-2009 05:49PM

I recall that the Gardai were training (when they first started using the chopper) over Leixlip and Celbridge at like 3/4am. It was extremely noisey at the time. They would train on weekdays when everyone would be working the next day. All they did was hover over and turn on the spot light.

The Garda Helicopter is keeping us awake every night !!

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