DAMN GUARDS

conorhal · 18-03-2010 04:01PM

genericguy wrote: »

what i saw yesterday were huge groups of gardaí strolling around stephen's green stopping well dressed and seemingly well behaved randomers and smelling their soft drink bottles, then when i reached the central bank/temple bar area there were 2 scummy looking people passed out on the ground, and also 2 incidents of scummy teenagers starting fights with passers by while gardaí stood in full view and did nothing.

while i agree with xavier that this is indeed a shyte thread and not all gardaí are cnuts, i'd say the gardaí were definitely picking their battles yesterday.

That in fairness is my major issue with the Guards, and it's an attitude not exclusive to them either, it’s bloody endemic at all levels of society and it’s generally making a mockery of the very notion of a fair and just society.

For example, whenever I’m on the Luas and a ticket collector gets on they don’t even bother asking the skobies to produce a ticket but rather bypass them and make a bee line for me instead. A mate of mine got so furious about this practice that he refused to show his ticket to an inspector once. When the flabbergasted inspector insisted that he needed to have a ticket to ride, he simply said, “Oh I have one alright, and you can see it once you’ve asked for a ticket off everybody that you just bypassed”. Naturally the guy just rolled his eyes and walked on.
You wouldn’t mind so much enduring a little imposition now and again if you saw the letter of the law applied to everybody, but the lip service to the law paid by most of those in authority, be they the guards, or say the financial regulators that blithely ignore real offenders and harasses the law abiding public infuriates folks and only reconfirms the fact that the system is broken because the system is a lazy, bureaucratic mess.

coldwood92 · 18-03-2010 07:13PM

The guards don't give a damm

Korvanica · 19-03-2010 11:22AM

.SONIC. wrote: »

but waht were we doing, nothin!!!!

So you were standing around on the street doing nothing?... hmmm i wonder why the guard stopped to talk you you lot...

i dont think i have ever seen a bunch of young lads standing on a footpath doing nothing and thought to myself "Hmm, they are doing nothing, that definitely doesn't look suspicious/dodgy"...

AnonoBoy · 19-03-2010 11:37AM

drdeadlift wrote: »

you know what you sound like

A really cool dude?

Liam Byrne · 19-03-2010 11:41AM

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

I seen several gardai man-handling someone I had seen ejected from a bar for no good reason

Maybe they've started imposing the rules of grammar ?

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

was told if I didn't **** off I would be arrested.

Maybe they'd seen your username ?

Prof.Badass · 19-03-2010 12:05PM

.SONIC. wrote: »

I have to say he was very intimidating, did anyone else have any problems yesterday??

No, but last year a gaurd told me there'd be nitelinks and then there wasn't :mad: (just thought i'd hop on the bandwagon).

Fuhrer wrote: »

I saw too many young people around drinking, I wish the Guards had stopped and threatened more of you.

I noticed coca-cola stopped doing those gold and silver bottles they used to do around paddy's day, I liked to think they were cashing in on young'uns desire to drink stealthily on that particular day :pac:.

Reganio 2 · 19-03-2010 03:53PM

Camilo Rapping Belly wrote: »

Kettle, pot? :rolleyes:

Racist.

DaveyDave · 19-03-2010 04:08PM

Hanging around eh? I hate when people do that, I don't see the appeal in it. When I'm in town I'm either waiting at a bus stop or walking from one street to another, there's no point in just hanging around, it's cold out.

I do find the Gardai to be rather useless though. The amount of times I've been assaulted only for them to do feck all.

marko91 · 19-03-2010 06:12PM

we got stobbed yesterday started asking questions and sh!t...paddys day everybodys drunk go arrest some rapists not teenagers having a bit of craic for god sakes

DubMedic · 19-03-2010 06:23PM

marko91 wrote: »

we got stobbed yesterday started asking questions and sh!t...paddys day everybodys drunk go arrest some rapists not teenagers having a bit of craic for god sakes

Are you upset that they won't appoint you field marshal and give you pitchforks and burning tires?.

By the way, yesterday was thursday.

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marko91 · 19-03-2010 06:52PM

DubMedic wrote: »

Are you upset that they won't appoint you field marshal and give you pitchforks and burning tires?.

By the way, yesterday was thursday.

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yes we got stopped yesterday and i was on bout the teens on wensday...is it a crime to walk to the shops now is it:rolleyes:

Doyler92 · 19-03-2010 06:55PM

Stee wrote: »

Can someone PM the garda, I'd like to hear his side of this story

Could somebody actually PM a link to this thread so his views with be expressed publicly and not just with one being.

DubMedic · 19-03-2010 07:46PM

marko91 wrote: »

yes we got stopped yesterday and i was on bout the teens on wensday...is it a crime to walk to the shops now is it:rolleyes:

I wouldn't know, I'm not a Gard :cool:.

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stovelid · 19-03-2010 07:49PM

Counselling may help you get past this OP, but you may well be left a recovering "intimadatee".

tech77 · 19-03-2010 07:53PM

super_furry wrote: »

I lost my keys.

Class

I wanna hear more about this poor guy's keys.

cafecolour · 19-03-2010 08:29PM

I never have any problem with the guards.

I'm always decently dressed, and respectful and polite when I engage with them. That's what allows me to get away with blatantly illegal behaviour

landsleaving · 19-03-2010 08:39PM

^^^^^

Seán Fitzpatrick.

donvito99 · 19-03-2010 09:01PM

old_aussie wrote: »

You should have told them(the guards) that there was free donuts down the road. They would have disappeared faster than a free beer at a piss-up

Thats the funniest thing I've ever read...EVER.

Pause not.

donvito99 · 19-03-2010 09:04PM

marko91 wrote: »

we got stobbed

p goes like this <<<

TheZohanS · 19-03-2010 09:12PM

I think this thread has gone as far as it can go.

Case closed.

DAMN GUARDS

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