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Can Gardai ask you where you're going?

Jimmy Garlic

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

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jive

I get stopped at the same checkpoint probably twice a month (every other weekend it seems to be there) and always get breathalysed. Gets ****ing annoying after a while so I know where OP is coming from. People can argue that they are just doing they're job but when they ask you "where are ya heading?" every time they stop it gets a bit ****ing tedious - if I've been travelling home every weekend for the last 2 years where do you think I'm heading this weekend. And if it's to test if I'm slurring my words I must be sound like a right dope because I'm breathalysed without fail every time (male, 22). I don't mind being breathalysed but why ask me the same question the whole time and breathalyse me anyway.

If it's a guard that hasn't seen me before then I don't mind but a guard that has stopped you 2 or even 3 times pisses me off. Third time is the charm, however, that's the occasion where I don't bin their plastic breathalyser. It's my gift to them. Two guards have received gifts from me.

Logical Fallacy

cronin_j wrote: »

Guards are like Mushrooms feed em sh1t and keep em in the dark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTaVxTmB5k4

upandcumming

What right have they to ask people where they are going?

Well how fucking dare he. Get the ombudsman on the phone! He had the audacity to ask you, Jimmy Garlic, where you were going on a BH weekend. The bastard.

Why do people have to be so difficult? People like the OP have to complicate every fucking thing at every opportunity. Why? I don't get it.

mikemac

Oranage2 wrote: »

I know this story wont go down to well here but:

Clip clop clip clop clip clop

I hear the high horses approaching.
Beg for forgiveness Oranage2

CrazyRabbit

Pretend that you can't understand him and ask him to speak with a Dublin accent.

Oranage2

Reminds of the time i seen a check point after driving home from the pub -

I know this story wont go down to well here but:

Drank 4 pints, drove around a corner - seen a check point and about 2 cars at it so i did a U-Turn, drove back around the corner, parked the car in some random garden, me and another guy then hopped over 3 walls and hid under a bush in somebodies garden for about 15 minutes - got up and then walked around for about hours then I parked the car at the kerb and got a taxi home-

never drank drive again

jimpump

AgileMyth wrote: »

Someone I know recently taxed a car for the first time in four years. It covered over 100000km in that time and was never NCT'd either. Every Garda checkpoint they just waved it on :eek:

but the thing is i rolled down the window for the bean guarda and was ****tin it cos i thought she would search us for weed...but she just sent us on our way

she must be a stoner herself!

K-9

It's a rather stupid question. "Yeah, I'm going to the local arms dump".

Still, it's a fecking checkpoint, it involves checks!

AgileMyth

jimpump wrote: »

they either dont have a clue or dont give a crap

Someone I know recently taxed a car for the first time in four years. It covered over 100000km in that time and was never NCT'd either. Every Garda checkpoint they just waved it on :eek:

jimpump

sure i got stopped at a check point a few days ago in coolock after smoking some skunk in the car......and they just let us on our way. they either dont have a clue or dont give a crap

deco nate

deco nate wrote: »

cant belive anyone said this but...just tell him you are "im goin on my way"

oh,oh and just ad SON. at the end,you know....for ****e an giggles:D
just to see what happens

DirtyBollox

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

what age are you 18? dont act the bollox with the gards and they wont act the bollox with you.

the_syco

mikom wrote: »

In soviet Russia you ask guard where he is going.

It'd be funny, though. You roll down the window, and ask the copper "and where are you going tonight?"... :pac: Would probably confuse the hell out of them :P

mikemac

"I pay your wages"

Use this line at the next checkpoint OP
They love hearing it

deco nate

cant belive anyone said this but...just tell him you are "im goin on my way"

Mr Jinx

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

I suggest if your ever unfortunate to be the victim of a crime, to tell the guards to mind their own business and let then carry on helping people who want to be helped.

mikom

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

the Guard asked me where I was going. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?.

In soviet Russia you ask guard where he is going.

LETHAL LADY

Well considering there has been alot of road deaths over the bank holiday weekends in the past, I think it is just a small annoyance to have to put up with. Okay you dont want to have to tell them where you are going, but I think it is a standard line of questioning, nothing really to get too pissed off about.

jimbobaloobob

Cerocco wrote: »

You should have said you were headin home for a poo!!! :eek:

I think that would only work if you had a bale of jacks roll in the back seat!:D

CatFromHue

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

then the Guard asked me where I was going

would you prefer if he asked you "soooo do you come here often?"

pebbles21

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

Would you be so smart if your house was getting broken into ???

Biggins

There is a number of reasons why they ask you something.

1. They listen to your voice to see if your slurring your words!
2. They might be seeking someone that resides in a particular area.
3. They might actually be advising people to avoid an area once in a while and do so when they hear your direction!
4. They might be delaying you while they check out your details and try spot the tax/insurance dodgers...
...and so on!

For gods sake, if all it takes to get your gall up is a simple question, you really need to grow up OP.
Gardi don't particularly like standing out on cold nights, on dark roads, having to stop people - but once in a while they do actually catch folk that are out of their heads on drink and/or drugs that are driving. Folk that maybe might have otherwise got away and injured/killed someones son/daughter/mother/father!
I hope its not your family effected some day OP.
...Just answer the question, drive on and get on with your life!

johngalway

You could tell them anything you like, but it only gives an excuse for a closer examination of your veh-hikle and any possible defect said veh-hikle may have.

Better thing to do is just spout off any old nonsense that vaguely resembles an answer to the question, doesn't have to be true, he's not going to follow you :pac:

Tefral

Guards are like Mushrooms feed em sh1t and keep em in the dark...

You should have just told him you were on your way home or something. Its not worth the hassle being all stuck up about it.

fabbydabby

I meant that they have the power to go through your car with a fine tooth comb, looking for something to sting you for, and will do so if you piss them off, why draw that on yourself? Just play ball and go on your merry way.

hondasam

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

He said "show me your licence" in a cranky way.

I suppose if you were nice he would have been nice as well. he is just doing his job.

El Weirdo

fabbydabby wrote: »

Who cares what right they have to ask? They have the power...

I don't think they do.

Jimmy Garlic

hondasam wrote: »

what did he say ?

He said "show me your licence" in a cranky way.

orourkeda

fabbydabby