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Stories of Gardaí being useless.

Sykk

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day on how bad/slow the guards are.

Some examples.. One day when I was younger a fella in a balaclava broke into my house which was located down a little cul de sac. He was looking for money it was just myself and my ma in the house.

Eventually there was a struggle in which he accidentally cut her wrist (non life threatening) and ran off. I rang 999 and got diverted to the local guards who said they'd "Send a car down".

40 ****ing minutes later two fat cúnts in uniform arrived in the gate (The station is about a 3 min drive from the house), brought my mum down to the doctor to get stitches and left me in the house hysterical on my own.

He was caught in the end for those wondering.

A few years later the same house was broken into when there was no one home. I arrived there to see the window smashed so I rang the guards again (Was about 15 at this time). They arrived about a half hour later, gave me a hurley and put me in the window to let them in the front door...

Thinking back on it, it's unreal..

Just wondering if anyone has experiences of them taking their sweet time to do anything that actually requires urgent attention? Other than arresting lads on their way home eating a bag of chips for being drunk and disorderly.

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Wossack

house broken into a few months ago, brother at home, called the fuzz, said intruders in the house

there in about 2-3 mins

fonecrusher1

i think the garai are awriii

I deal with the Gardaí regularly in work and in every instance they've been with me within 2 minutes of calling.
(2miles outside of town)

Have nothing but good experience with them.

[Deleted User]

What's a garaí

CreepingDeath

Sykk wrote: »

Location: Meath

If you want to live away from civilisation you have to accept the consequences.

bonerm

I think she's a pretty good actress.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304801/

Lemsiper

bluewolf wrote: »

What's a garaí

Plural of Gary?

DOC09UNAM

bonerm wrote: »

I think she's a pretty good actress.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304801/

You have a very questionable taste in movies.

Sykk

Can a mod fix the title before the thread gets turned into pointless jibb. May be too late already :eek:

Sofa King Great

Sykk wrote: »

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day on how bad/slow the guards are.

Some examples.. One day when I was younger a fella in a balaclava broke into my house which was located down a little cul de sac. He was looking for money it was just myself and my ma in the house.

Eventually there was a struggle in which he accidentally cut her wrist (non life threatening) and ran off. I rang 999 and got diverted to the local guards who said they'd "Send a car down".

40 ****ing minutes later two fat cúnts in uniform arrived in the gate (The station is about a 3 min drive from the house), brought my mum down to the doctor to get stitches and left me in the house hysterical on my own.

He was caught in the end for those wondering.

They caught the guy. What the f*ck is your problem?

bonerm

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

You have a very questionable taste in movies.

Surely she's the one with the questionable taste in movies?

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Only problem with the Gaurdai is that some of them are power-hungry assholes who look for any excuse to arrest yeh. Most of them are dead on though.

DOC09UNAM

Sykk wrote: »

left me in the house hysterical on my own.

Did you want them to hold your hand?

Renn

I love how the first incident is most likely 10 years ago. Let it go man.

DOC09UNAM

bonerm wrote: »

Surely she's the one with the questionable taste in movies?

She makes them to get paid, you watch them :pac:

Sykk

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Did you want them to hold your hand?

Being 12/13 years old it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea to leave someone there yeah. Not all of us are accustomed to the hellish atmosphere of Limerick there, horse.

arybvtcw0eolkf

You think they just have their member's hanging up on hooks waiting for a call OP?.

Its a very busy job, one or two car's could be covering a huge area and no doubt dealing with other crimes.

Do I think they're "still useless" - I've never thought they were useless.

I think some individual members can be useless, but then that goes with every walk of life.

DOC09UNAM

Sykk wrote: »

Being 12/13 years old it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea to leave someone there yeah. Not all of us are accustomed to the hellish atmosphere of Limerick there, horse.

Haha you brought up Limerick, man that was a good one.

12-13 and you need them to hold your hand, in your own home?

topper75

CreepingDeath wrote: »

If you want to live away from civilisation you have to accept the consequences.

I'm rather keen old chap to know where is this place that you speak of?

bennyc

Sister in law held up at knifepoint and till robbed, she called the Garda who was in the same town, he wouldnt go up to her as he was in the station on his own, said a couple of hours till the others would be back, She had to call the Garda from another town who landed within 20mins. Other Gards took all the details and were pretty good (and still have been getting the prick to court) her local boys called the following day and reckoned sure yer man is from a good family and the parents might give you the money back and everyone will be happy.

kielmanator

OP, I'm going to have to totally disagree with what you said. If you take a little walk with your mouse over to the Emergency Services forum, you'll find a nice little thread started by me this morning.

Link if you want.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056034791

regards,

kielmanator

dilallio

GOING to bed the other night, I noticed
people in my shed stealing things.
I phoned the gardai but was told
no one was in the area to help.
They said they would send someone
over as soon as possible.
I hung up. A minute later, I rang again.
‘Hello,’ I said, ‘I called you a minute ago
because there were people in my shed.
You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve shot them.’
Within minutes there were half a dozen
squad cars in the area, plus the garda helicopter
and the emergency response unit.
They caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the gardai said:
‘I thought you said you’d shot them’
To which I replied:
‘I thought you said there was no one available.’

Then again, it might have been just a dream ...

fonecrusher1

Meh.....you get a certain percentage of incompetency in every profession.

Some people are sh!t at their jobs, doesn't mean every single person in that particular area of employment is equally useless..

Ive encountered a few idiot gardai in my life, but most of them are sound enough.

charlemont

DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS, thats the magic word , if you ever need gardai to come quickly, just say that word and before you know it , loads of them will be there.

kylith

When I was about 12 my grandmother's house was broken into. Gardai were called and said not to touch anything cos they'd be down to dust for prints. They never did.

My moped was stolen a few years back and I went to report it to the Gardai, they gave out to me for going to the nearest station instead of the one for my area, which was 2 miles away down an unlit lane.

More recently I witnessed two scumbags rigging an ATM with a scanner so I called directory enquiries and asked to be put through to whichever Garda station was responsible for Liffey St. They put me through to Store St, who again lambasted me for calling the wrong station and told me to hang up and call the one at Four Courts. I explained to the Bangarda that I didn't have the number for there, and that I was trying to do the decent thing by reporting a crime, and that she could call Four Courts herself.

So, yes, I'd call them if I needed to, but I wouldn't hold my breath for them to actually do their jobs.

ILA

Suspected burgalry of neighbours house during the night a while ago, phoned the local station and there was a car on scene within six minutes, two miles outside town.

I think in many areas they've improved significantly, and are really making good efforts to combat the most common crimes and certainly have been very visible in the past few months with more patrols operating, both regular and Traffic Corps.

arybvtcw0eolkf

kylith wrote: »

More recently I witnessed two scumbags rigging an ATM with a scanner so I called directory enquiries and asked to be put through to whichever Garda station was responsible for Liffey St. They put me through to Store St, who again lambasted me for calling the wrong station and told me to hang up and call the one at Four Courts. I explained to the Bangarda that I didn't have the number for there, and that I was trying to do the decent thing by reporting a crime, and that she could call Four Courts herself.

Maybe because there is no 'four courts' garda station?.

Kasabian

I have found that the Gardaí are often in places that does not suit me .

chin_grin

dilallio wrote: »

GOING to bed the other night, I noticed
people in my shed stealing things.
I phoned the gardai but was told
no one was in the area to help.
They said they would send someone
over as soon as possible.
I hung up. A minute later, I rang again.
‘Hello,’ I said, ‘I called you a minute ago
because there were people in my shed.
You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve shot them.’
Within minutes there were half a dozen
squad cars in the area, plus the garda helicopter
and the emergency response unit.
They caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the gardai said:
‘I thought you said you’d shot them’
To which I replied:
‘I thought you said there was no one available.’

Then again, it might have been just a dream ...

Copypasta formatting eh? I was all excited that I was going to read a witty poem.

FreudianSlippers

Have only had one bad experience with a Garda (and it wasn't even that bad)