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Garda nearly killed me and my brother today.

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  • #62
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,151 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    Gunfire, car chases and drugs? Big deal. If you ask me, the biggest crime committed in connection with this thread is the awful grammar of the title.

    It's my brother and I, not me and my brother.


  • #63
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Gunfire, car chases and drugs? Big deal. If you ask me, the biggest crime committed in connection with this thread is the awful grammar of the title.

    It's my brother and I, not me and my brother.

    Lock the thread.
    Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.

    This vile transgression cannot go unpunished.


  • #64
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    AskMyChocolate wrote: »
    I believe on their heads,in accordance with standard operating procedure, according to an unnamed official source.

    Depends whether they had completed the advanced hat course :pac:


  • #65
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,030 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    connundrum wrote: »
    If I swerve to avoid a cop car which is involved in a chase, and assuming that the cop car would've hit me had I not avoided it, and I go into a ditch/hit a wall etc..

    Who is responsible for the damage to my car?

    I always wondered that.. like would I run (edit: run very quickly) after the cop car and insist on getting their insurance details or do you just call up the Ombusman and put in a claim?

    Your responsible. Your better off letting a car hit you then swerving to avoid it and hitting something else.


  • #66
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Your responsible. Your better off letting a car hit you then swerving to avoid it and hitting something else.

    Better to hit a car head on than swerve and hit a ditch? Is that good crack you're smoking?


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  • #67
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    What were they shooting at them with? Water pistols? Spud guns?

    Was there anyone injured?

    These armed Gardai are supposed to be the best of the best? Sounds like they couldnt a barn door with a shovel.


  • #68
    dirtypanties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭dirtypanties


    This thread is so going to be nominated for legendary thread status!


  • #69
    MagicSean
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    Op have you given your name to any Gardaí? They are probably looking for witnesses.


  • #70
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Gunfire, car chases and drugs? Big deal. If you ask me, the biggest crime committed in connection with this thread is the awful grammar of the title.

    It's my brother and I, not me and my brother.

    You are so very, very, very wrong. The kind of wrong the Inquisition justifiably tortured people for.


  • #71
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Your responsible. Your better off letting a car hit you then swerving to avoid it and hitting something else.

    I get the feeling you drive for Dublin Bus.


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  • #72
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    These armed Gardai are supposed to be the best of the best? Sounds like they couldnt a barn door with a shovel.

    I think you accidentally a word


  • #73
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    danger mouse wrote: »
    Anyway was driving back from Naas tesco towards Ballymore Eustace when a garda car speeding along the wrong side of the road rammed a car into a ditch 2 meters away from us. To avoid them we had to drive into the ditch on the other side of the road. Anyway the 2 garda in the car got out of their car and began shooting into the car they just ran off the road.. it was mad i couldn't believe my eyes. The car they were chasing just drove off towards naas. It was madness the garda car didn't even have their emergancy lights on we nearly ploughed into them.
    because of this.

    Im very annoyed right now as if we had have seen the garda car even 1 second later we surely would have been dead right now. Don't these guards have to flash there lights when they're driving like lunatics? Madness


    Was it an unmarked silver Vectra the cops were driving? We came on them and this is the car that was in front of the BMW in the ditch. But it had all manner of lights flashing when we came on it.....and I don't know if they were arresting the guy or searching the BMW when I came on it...just after 7pm.

    Myself and the missus were just saying to each other if we set off a few mins earlier we could have been caught up in it....and then I saw your post!


  • #74
    ferretone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ferretone


    Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Gunfire, car chases and drugs? Big deal. If you ask me, the biggest crime committed in connection with this thread is the awful grammar of the title.

    It's my brother and I, not me and my brother.

    No it isn't. The OP and his brother are the object of the garda's action in the title of the post, and therefore the accusative form, as used by the OP is correct. Normal usage dictates that he should have placed the reference to his brother before his own, so absolutely correctly the title would read:
    "Garda nearly killed my brother and me today."
    You could also say:
    "My brother and I were almost killed by Garda today."

    But you wouldn't say, "Garda nearly killed I." And so you also don't say, "Garda nearly killed my brother and I."

    It gets up my nose when people use "I" in these cases, regardless of the structure of the sentence. I hear it on radio and tv all the time, by those who should know better.


  • #75
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,151 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    ferretone wrote: »
    No it isn't. The OP and his brother are the object of the garda's action in the title of the post, and therefore the accusative form, as used by the OP is correct. Normal usage dictates that he should have placed the reference to his brother before his own, so absolutely correctly the title would read:
    "Garda nearly killed my brother and me today."
    You could also say:
    "My brother and I were almost killed by Garda today."

    But you wouldn't say, "Garda nearly killed I." And so you also don't say, "Garda nearly killed my brother and I."

    It gets up my nose when people use "I" in these cases, regardless of the structure of the sentence. I hear it on radio and tv all the time, by those who should know better.
    :pac:


  • #76
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLl-0I1mSKs


    I wonder how many complaints this car chase generated?


  • #77
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I think you accidentally a word

    I accidentally out a whole word. :o


  • #78
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    What were they shooting at them with? Water pistols? Spud guns?

    Was there anyone injured?

    These armed Gardai are supposed to be the best of the best? Sounds like they couldnt a barn door with a shovel.

    It's a good job nobody was killed or the ballymore eustace crew might have gone on the rampage making the London riots look like a tea party innit
    :D


  • #79
    danger mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭danger mouse


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Was it an unmarked silver Vectra the cops were driving? We came on them and this is the car that was in front of the BMW in the ditch. But it had all manner of lights flashing when we came on it.....and I don't know if they were arresting the guy or searching the BMW when I came on it...just after 7pm.

    Myself and the missus were just saying to each other if we set off a few mins earlier we could have been caught up in it....and then I saw your post!


    Yeah they only got one man. The other Garda car drove off towards naas chasing the rest of them. There is Garda all over Ballymore Eustace today and the ballymore to naas road was closed this morning. Must be very serious.


  • #80
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    ferretone wrote: »
    No it isn't. The OP and his brother are the object of the garda's action in the title of the post, and therefore the accusative form, as used by the OP is correct. Normal usage dictates that he should have placed the reference to his brother before his own, so absolutely correctly the title would read:
    "Garda nearly killed my brother and me today."
    You could also say:
    "My brother and I were almost killed by Garda today."

    But you wouldn't say, "Garda nearly killed I." And so you also don't say, "Garda nearly killed my brother and I."

    It gets up my nose when people use "I" in these cases, regardless of the structure of the sentence. I hear it on radio and tv all the time, by those who should know better.

    One could also argue that "and me" is correct as a subject due to its common usage. 'Et moi' is perfectly acceptable in French despite being technically incorrect.


  • #81
    ferretone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ferretone


    latenia wrote: »
    One could also argue that "and me" is correct as a subject due to its common usage. 'Et moi' is perfectly acceptable in French despite being technically incorrect.

    True enough. For some reason, "and me" in the subject has never irritated me the way "and I" in the object does :rolleyes: Just feels somehow snobbish in an ill-informed sort of way.


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  • #82
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    danger mouse wrote: »
    Yeah they only got one man. The other Garda car drove off towards naas chasing the rest of them. There is Garda all over Ballymore Eustace today and the ballymore to naas road was closed this morning. Must be very serious.

    Ya going back to Ballymore last night we'd to do a detour and I asked the guard who was on duty did it have something with the bmw we came on earlier and he told me what happened....though he never mentioned the one who got away!


  • #83
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Ahem
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056364714


  • #84
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Bunch of cowboys


  • #85
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,380 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Ya going back to Ballymore last night we'd to do a detour and I asked the guard who was on duty did it have something with the bmw we came on earlier and he told me what happened....though he never mentioned the one who got away!
    you must have really liked that BMW!!


  • #86
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Was it an unmarked silver Vectra the cops were driving? We came on them and this is the car that was in front of the BMW in the ditch. But it had all manner of lights flashing when we came on it.....and I don't know if they were arresting the guy or searching the BMW when I came on it...just after 7pm.

    Myself and the missus were just saying to each other if we set off a few mins earlier we could have been caught up in it....and then I saw your post!


    :eek::eek::eek:

    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Ya going back to Ballymore last night we'd to do a detour and I asked the guard who was on duty did it have something with the bmw we came on earlier and he told me what happened....though he never mentioned the one who got away!


    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #87
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Another thread about the Guards on AH.

    Maybe we should preface all of them with this tune:



  • #88
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Lux23 wrote: »
    Ha ha all you doubters look like total dicks now, not that some of you didn't already.

    In fairness what the OP described was something from a movie nothing like that happens often in Ireland :pac:
    I apologise for not believing danger mouse because sometimes in AH you see some tall tales... seen it on the news just now


  • #89
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Why did they unlock it ??

    OP - yeah I heard about this story in the news today.......- oh waiit.....no no I didn't. Funny that

    Can I win some sort of irony prize for this post please ???


  • #90
    Oscars Well.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    The smell of Bull**** off the OP's post is unreal!!


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  • #91
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Oscars Well. wrote: »
    The smell of Bull**** off the OP's post is unreal!!

    You havent read the whole thread then?????


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