how to get shot.

EL_Loco · 30-10-2009 05:38PM #1

If I dress up tomorrow as a provo with an airsoft assault rifle what are the odds the garda special branch gun me down? (assuming I don't try to knock off a pharmacy or something, or halifax, seeing as they open on saturday, cheers Colm Meaney).

5/1?

Please feel free to start a book, If I don't post on sunday, they got me.

SV · 30-10-2009 05:39PM

7/5f

FlutterinBantam · 30-10-2009 05:40PM

What kind of clothes does a Provo dress in?

orourkeda · 30-10-2009 05:41PM

You probably deserve to be arrested

EL_Loco · 30-10-2009 05:42PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

What kind of clothes does a Provo dress in?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/03/article-1052085-0053DDA400000258-366_233x360.jpg

EL_Loco · 30-10-2009 05:43PM

orourkeda wrote: »

You probably deserve to be arrested

I 80% agree.

ScumLord · 30-10-2009 05:46PM

Well if you go around town with an airsoft gun which looks just like the real thing you can expect to be arrested the same way you'd be arrested for going out in public with an actual gun. I think you should go for it.

trad · 30-10-2009 05:47PM

You could call yourself a Provisional Liquidator

SEPT 23 1989 · 30-10-2009 05:48PM

once you dont point the airsoft rifle at anyone and threaten to blow their heads off you are within the law

jimoc · 30-10-2009 05:51PM

You won't be shot, cause the guards have to do paperwork after using their weapon

chillin_penguin · 30-10-2009 05:52PM

Its actually illegal and you will be arrested for disturbance of the peace. Having said that if your going get away with it 2maro would be your only day.

You also have to remember that even though to you its just for the laugh, many people may take offence to this either because they are victims from crimes committed or they are members and feel you are making a laugh out of them.

Just stick on a bit of face paint it will give the same affect and you will have less trouble

Dar · 30-10-2009 05:53PM

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2009/2909/b29b09d.pdf

9A.—

(1) Where a person, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse (the onus of proving which shall lie on him or her), has a realistic imitation firearm with him or her in any public place, that person shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under this
section shall be liable:

(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both, or
(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.

EL_Loco · 30-10-2009 06:03PM

could be a fun night between the gards arresting me or the local drug dealer thinking they're about the get whacked and start shooting first.

I was aware of using a replica in a crime you would be treated as if you used the real thing. Seems it extends to just being out and about. I suppose I'd be relying on "reasonable excuse" or "just having the craic"

My name is URL · 30-10-2009 06:09PM

If the real provos with real assault rifles and real rocket launchers can set up a roadblock in South Armagh and not get shot or arrested when real Police officers seen it, I would say the chances of you been gunned down are slim, really

artanevilla · 30-10-2009 06:17PM

If you do you're a fvcking idiot.

CreepingDeath · 30-10-2009 06:21PM

EL_Loco wrote: »

If I dress up tomorrow as a provo with an airsoft assault rifle what are the odds the garda special branch gun me down?

More than likely the customs will get you for importing all those cheap cigarettes.

Kiera · 30-10-2009 06:25PM

Why would you want to do that? Risk being arrested and taking up the guards time with your silly idea?

SV · 30-10-2009 06:26PM

Kiera wrote: »

Why would you want to do that? Risk being arrested and taking up the guards time with your silly idea?

I'm pretty sure he's not serious.

Kiera · 30-10-2009 06:28PM

SV wrote: »

I'm pretty sure he's not serious.

You just never know these days....

FlutterinBantam · 30-10-2009 06:33PM

Yep, might be thinking of going to Bolivia....

Stop some real ones there I hear.......hmmmm:cool:

EL_Loco · 30-10-2009 06:54PM

have a good weekend anyway people whatever you get up to!

o1s1n · 30-10-2009 07:00PM

You also run the risk of getting the head slapped off you by an airsofter for putting his hobby in danger.

rainbowdrop · 30-10-2009 07:02PM

EL_Loco wrote: »

could be a fun night between the gards arresting me or the local drug dealer thinking they're about the get whacked and start shooting first.

I was aware of using a replica in a crime you would be treated as if you used the real thing. Seems it extends to just being out and about. I suppose I'd be relying on "reasonable excuse" or "just having the craic"

Dress as a provo, but have a supersoaker water pistol instead of an airsoft rifle. That way, the local drug dealers/gardai/branch of the IRA, will know your only messing.

You'll have less chance of getting arrested or shot......:)

MementoMori · 30-10-2009 07:14PM

Saw Guards warning/talking to some guys in camo gear in the city centre the year before last.

JohnCleary · 30-10-2009 07:46PM

One of the lads did it last year, except when we went to the house party after he got his shot-gun (obviously not loaded) and burst through a window. It was fcuking epic, I think a girl actually pooped a little

ScumLord · 30-10-2009 08:03PM

Wasn't there a thread in AH where some guy in the UK got arrested for exactly this same thing?

triple-M · 30-10-2009 08:09PM

thats the stupidest idea ever,so i'd say go for it :rolleyes:

Manic Moran · 30-10-2009 08:16PM

MementoMori wrote: »

Saw Guards warning/talking to some guys in camo gear in the city centre the year before last.

If they were in Irish DPM, it's technically unlawful. A lot of people do it, but that doesn't mean you can't get a chatting to by the law.

Defence Act 1954.

264.—(1) If any person (not being a member of the Defence Forces) wears, without permission granted by or on behalf of the Minister, any uniform of the Defence Forces or any colourable imitation thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

265.—(1) If any person wears any uniform of the Defence Forces or any dress, having the appearance of, or bearing any of the regimental or other distinctive marks of, any such uniform, in such a manner or in such circumstances as to be likely to bring contempt upon that uniform, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.
.

NTM

DipDab · 30-10-2009 08:25PM

provos sure their gone youd probably get a lift off them

Neamhshuntasach · 30-10-2009 08:26PM

I'm going as a British soldier. Managed to find a poppy today after 4 hours of walking around. I have my gun rigged so it shoots out when i pull the trigger.

wudangclan · 30-10-2009 08:27PM

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

I'm going as a British soldier. Managed to find a poppy today after 4 hours of walking around. I have my gun rigged so it shoots out when i pull the trigger.

keep your eyes peeled for the provo.

how to get shot.

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