Pizza in 30 mins Garda in ????

Birneybau wrote: »

I reckon he meant Mixed Martial Arts shorts i.e, the guy was trained.

I know

phasers wrote: »

Tell them you think the guy's been murdered.

They'll figure he's not gonna get any deader so they can finish this episode of Glen Roe and cup of tae.

phasers wrote: »

Tell them you think the guy's been murdered.

They'd be there quicker if you said you think his tax disk is out of date

As a cop mate of mine said, "walk to a fight, run to a fire"

Should've called The Citizen instead OP.

You should have gotten Gerald Kean to call it in.

johngalway wrote: »

I used to have a lot of respect for the Gardai until about two years ago when I was rudely made aware, first hand witness to someone elses problems, of actually how apathetic, incompetent and uncaring quite a few of them are towards the troubles of the citizens they're supposed to uphold the law of the land for.

Can't blame them my arse. I can and I do.

Totally agree - A few years ago I was living in Cork City and one morning I found someone had crashed into my car while it was parked outside my house overnight - I called the Gardaí and they came, looked, and took away the wing mirror of the other car which had been left behind after the crash. There was a few thousand euros worth of damage to my car and so I was driving a borrowed car for a few weeks while mine was being fixed.

A couple of days later, I was on the other side of the city and noticed a car parked on the street - wing mirror missing, extensive damage along the side, same distinctive green paint that had been left on my car. I called the Gardaí - they came, looked, took the Reg. No. and said they would get back to me - I heard nothing more, called them a week or so later and was told that the owner no longer lived at the address at which the car was registered and so there was nothing they could do - I'd have to claim against my own insurance as they couldn't find the owner of the car that had crashed into mine!

I went back to the street where I'd seen the other car and it was still there - sat in my car for 15 minutes until someone came out of a particular house, got into the car and drove away. I wrote down the address and dropped it into the Garda station so they could trace the owner - never heard another word about it and so had to claim on my own insurance instead of claiming against the insurance of the driver who crashed into my car. The result? I paid every penny back to the insurance company over the years through increased premiums since I couldn't switch insurance companies for years as I had an expensive claim on my record. The Gardaí couldn't care less that someone had crashed into my car, that they had left the scene of the accident and that they didn't have the car registered at their current address.

Would I act differently today? You can be sure I would - make an official complaint in writing, it is the only way anyone will take any notice.

It seems like they have more important things to worry about like making sure your tax disc is up to date

Christ above, enough people. Probably one/two active patrol cars and a few Gardai to cover an area possibly several hundred square miles in size and you are bitching because they don't turn up as quickly as a Pizza order? Seriously get a grip and some perspective FFS. Whats more likely? They were answering one of many many other calls that night or they were just sitting in Supermacs having a burger and ignoring the radio?

There never seems be an end to people coming on here bitching and moaning about how poor the Gardai are. How many times have any of you seen a thread praising them for the countless daily, no hourly occasions when they do good, solve a crime, save a life or put their own well being on the line in the course of their duty.

Only yesterday two Gardai received the Scott Medal for bravery in facing down five armed individuals in the course of a Tiger raid in Galway.

That's one male and one female Garda taking on 5 armed men. Where was the thread about that one? Where were the other contributors posts on that thread saying how well the Gardai performed or stories of where they helped out or went above and beyond? No its easier to disregard and forget about those incidents. But when they fail to live up to our expectations or don't do things as we think they should be done (regardless if its the correct way or not) then its time to hit AH and start yet another Garda bashing thread.

They deal with the sort of situations and scumbags every hour of every day, nationwide, the majority of us would run a mile from. They are undoubtedly under manned and resourced, up until recently lacking in the most basic equipment (remember the radio system that could be hacked by a 12 year old?) and are unarmed. They are hospitalised, beaten, attacked verbally and physically and they are murdered all while standing between you, me, Joe public and the sort of fu@ks who would not think twice about sticking a pint glass in your face for looking sideways at them in a pub.

And yet we still feel obliged to have a go at them? Christ above.....

Weel, I thought I'd give a positive comment on the guards. Our house got broken into a couple of weeks ago and my husband managed to pin one of the burglar in the house, we called the guards and it took them maybe 15 minute (maybe even less) to arrive and haul the guy away. I'm a bit disapointed that they said they would get back to us but never did but appart from that I was really happy with the time it took them to get here.