The guards are absolute f**kin....Gents

tech77 · 15-02-2010 12:50AM

jonny24ie wrote: »

Guards aren't all that bad in fairness.

Last week I drove from Longford to Waterford and back again, hit a checkpoint on the far side of Kilkenny and the guard walked over and asked why I wasn't displaying an insurance cert. (I dont have to as its a government vehicle and under the same policy as the gaurds cars.) Just told him where i worked and it was their van and he just waved me straight through.

That has happened me a tonne of times and not once do they bother with any big checks like licence etc and I find it great.

Fcuk the insurance.
What did they say when you hit them?

TrixIrl · 15-02-2010 01:00AM

its very easy to let one experience with a guard (or anyone else) colour your judgement on the entire force. I'm pretty much on the fence with them as :
1. Grew up in a tiny village in KK, when we were all 16/17, a friends dad died in an accident and a few days later after the funeral the guards caught us drinkin (oh those were the days!) We were sure we were in trouble but they just asked us not to drink too much and to pop into them if we needed a lift home. Warm shiny feelin just thinkin about it - really decent guys!
2. On the other hand, I was driving to work last year, music blaring and suddenly a squad car pulls out of a garage as i drive past, follows me for 15 mins and then turns on the lights, signalling me to pull over. I do so (slightly freakin out due to the bottle of wine from the night b4 which just could have still been in my system). He gets me out of the car, breathalyses me (all clear), checks licence, tax and insurance and then tells me I have a flat tyre that I shouldnt be driving on. Its lashing rain and although I know how to change a tyre, I dont have the strenght so i ask him for help. He sniggers, points to the right and says Thomastown is 5km that way and BBridge is 5 km the other way and thats all the help you'll get off me girlie..... :mad:

discus · 15-02-2010 03:54AM

TrixIrl wrote: »

He gets me out of the car, breathalyses me (all clear), checks licence, tax and insurance and then tells me I have a flat tyre that I shouldnt be driving on. Its lashing rain and although I know how to change a tyre, I dont have the strenght so i ask him for help. He sniggers, points to the right and says Thomastown is 5km that way and BBridge is 5 km the other way and thats all the help you'll get off me girlie..... :mad:

Lets face it, you'd blame him instantly if there was a problem down the road (literally and metaphorically) involving your tire/car.

Bonito · 15-02-2010 03:56AM

discus wrote: »

Lets face it, you'd blame him instantly if there was a problem down the road (literally and metaphorically) involving your tire/car.

That's a bit petty. She was tired and it was pouring rain and she needed a hand changing her tyre and he refused. Not a gentleman at all in my books and he most likely had waterproofs on or at least in the car!

brendansmith · 15-02-2010 05:03AM

OP i hope you checked everything was where you had it before he got in.

Never trust the filt!!

funk-you · 15-02-2010 11:50AM

kraggy wrote: »

I don't get this thread. Or why so many thanked the OP.

Has modern society gone so bad that a garda talking in a civilised manner and dealing with the situation in the correct manner warrants discussion on the internet?

Not really but when people have a bad experience with anything, they'll tell maybe 10 people and they'll tell 10 and so on? The perception that this is the norm is spread with only anecdotal evidence. (All garda are bastards/Foreigners are scroungers etc.)

On the other hand, when someone has a good experience they'll walk away satisfied/happy/indifferent and tell less people about the experience. This further adds to the above perception.

Wouldn't you like our society to discuss and share a good feeling/story once and a while rather than sit in misery with Polititions/Banks/Recession/Broke/Scumbags/Joblessness/Pricks etc...etc..dominating every fucking conversation and broadcast?

I dunno, maybe I'm an idealist but I'd like to hear something happy once in a while or be happy every now and then while I try and leave this place a little better than when I came in.

-Funk

Bonito · 15-02-2010 11:54AM

Nail on the head there Mr. -Funk

kraggy · 15-02-2010 09:14PM

Just to clear things up, I wasn't having a go at Bonito. I was just wondering if there was something I was missing in the story.

Maybe it's because I've been on this place for so long that I've turned into a hardened, bitter boardsie

It's very true that it's nice, and important, to hear good stories.

Fúck knows, there's enough depression in the air at the minute.

thetonynator · 15-02-2010 09:47PM

Dartz wrote: »

I said hello to a Gard once.

He said hello back.

I hadn't even realised he was a Gard until afterwards, I mistook him for a colleague.

Are you serious??? He said hello???

This may come as a shock but guards are actually human!!!

Thay have lives, wife and kids, they go out at night, go on holidays, use facebook, they may even be on boards!!! ( shock horror!!!:eek:)

I said hello to a Gard once.

It's not that big a deal, get over it!!!

and by the way, i'm not a guard.

sesna · 15-02-2010 10:46PM

thetonynator wrote: »

Are you serious??? He said hello???

This may come as a shock but guards are actually human!!!

Thay have lives, wife and kids, they go out at night, go on holidays, use facebook, they may even be on boards!!! ( shock horror!!!:eek:)

.

LOL

Dean Roche · 17-02-2010 02:01AM

As people the garda get my respect, they do their very best with what they have, and like all police they have to keep a bit of edge, its all part of the job. The problem with the Irish garda is they are grossly underpowered and under resourced. But that’s not the gardas fault; it’s the joke of a government that are running this island and the nation of fools that keep voting them in.

The joke of a soft justice system laid down by the corrupt dimwit government in this country will never alou to draw the line in this crime ridden land. Combined with their inadequate lack of funding and resources from Ireland’s notorious corrupt and incompetent FF government you have a police force that is limited in power.

The amount of crime in this country is disproportionate for its small native population which is an embarrassment: if this lawlessness is aloud to carry on any more,Irelands crime and social problems will get worse as time goes on. It’s really not fair on the Garda: they have to tackle the height of scum and filth in this country with limited resources and powers, and when they do manage to bring the thugs and scum before the courts they only get a slap on the wrist!. Their hard work is all in vein.

With lawlessness and lack of Garda powers and resources like this, it’s no wonder thugs and scum are running amok with impunity in this country. So think about that before you all complain about garda going after small time stuff like out of date Tax NCT and other various minor things: it’s the only way they can build up their points to meet the requirements to keep their job. The Garda are not given any proper power to tackle the scum and the serious stuff thanks to the government and their stupid voters.

Will this all change? “NEVER”, because a large chunk of the native population are tribal FF voters and vote them in no matter what.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 17-02-2010 02:14AM

^^^ They are definitely under resourced which is where the big problem is, lack of presence

But they certainly aren't underpaid

pah · 24-03-2010 06:08PM

LOL good thread. You know I once met a complete as5hole in Dunnes Stores. True Story

Liam Byrne · 24-03-2010 10:57PM

Erika Shapely Brow wrote: »

^^^ They are definitely under resourced which is where the big problem is, lack of presence

But they certainly aren't underpaid

Debatable.

People argue that the **** bank heads deserve their OTT pay.....

I'd like to see them out on the streets at night dealing with ignorant, drunken/drugged assholes spitting, puking and throwing punches at them, or maybe even pulling a knife.....

.....and then seeing the same asshole out on the street 2 weeks later because of our pathetic sentencing.

One guard is worth a million bankers.

The guards are absolute f**kin....Gents

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