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Drink driver steals garda car in Dublin, drives to Armagh

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  • #32
    delta720
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭delta720


    280special wrote: »
    Did you look to see if there was a nice car shaped hole in the hedge anywhere near them?? :D

    Maybe they stopped for a chin-wag about what had happened or what they were to do next...AFAIK they can cross the border to the next turning point, as it is the border twists and turns like a snake around there so how they can definately say they are one side or the other beats me.

    Wasnt really a problem for the British Army in the old days they just ploughed on manys the time !

    Go onto google street view, you can see the break in the barrier just before the 'entering miles per hour' sign, and just past it the PSNI have bollards and cones.
    skinny90 wrote:
    Are you sure,i know they could get into bother with insurance if there was damaged caused and they didnt contact the psni but surely they can keep up if the psni are not their in time ot if they contact them and its autherised???im sure there has to be some sort of set up or conditions gathered as to when they can do so....i am only guessing here

    Nah they can't follow across, that's why everyone always makes for the border, it's like the Wild West up here man!!


  • #33
    mono_mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭mono_mac


    delta720 wrote: »
    280special wrote: »
    Did you look to see if there was a nice car shaped hole in the hedge anywhere near them?? :D

    Maybe they stopped for a chin-wag about what had happened or what they were to do next...AFAIK they can cross the border to the next turning point, as it is the border twists and turns like a snake around there so how they can definately say they are one side or the other beats me.

    Wasnt really a problem for the British Army in the old days they just ploughed on manys the time !

    Go onto google street view, you can see the break in the barrier just before the 'entering miles per hour' sign, and just past it the PSNI have bollards and cones.
    skinny90 wrote:
    Are you sure,i know they could get into bother with insurance if there was damaged caused and they didnt contact the psni but surely they can keep up if the psni are not their in time ot if they contact them and its autherised???im sure there has to be some sort of set up or conditions gathered as to when they can do so....i am only guessing here

    Nah they can't follow across, that's why everyone always makes for the border, it's like the Wild West up here man!!
    stolen squad car been chased . Now in north !!


  • #34
    Solnskaya
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well, I suppose if northern plod are about to take up the chase, there's no need for hope for the Gardai to carry on the high-speed chase and unnecessarily putting themselves in danger.and the PSNI can take over the craic of driving at high speed with a free pass that alleviates the boredom of a long, dull shift.
    FYP:D No wonder they went all out to get that nicked cop car back, the feckin things are scarce enough as it is. That one must have had low mileage.


  • #35
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Come to think of it I remember reading years ago about an incident (late 1990's) on the N1/A1 where the driver of an (Irish) army patrol vehicle suddenly realised he was approaching the border and made an over-hasty attempt at a U turn in heavy traffic (at the time it was a two lane single carriageway road and the main Belfast/Dublin route) only for a vehicle to plough right into him.

    Nobody was seriously hurt but there was a lot of damage to both vehicles and as the impact had occurred exactly on the border there was some confusion as to whether Dundalk district court or its counterpart in Newry had jurisdiction to hear the resulting civil case.

    Never heard what the eventual outcome was.

    ADDS: Technically wouldnt a PSNI officer entering (inadvertently or otherwise) the Republic's territory be liable for arrest for carrying unlicensed firearms ? And would an unmarked car have to observe the speed limit on crossing the border ?


  • #36
    m.j.w
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭m.j.w


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Come to think of it I remember reading years ago about an incident (late 1990's) on the N1/A1 where the driver of an (Irish) army patrol vehicle suddenly realised he was approaching the border and made an over-hasty attempt at a U turn in heavy traffic (at the time it was a two lane single carriageway road and the main Belfast/Dublin route) only for a vehicle to plough right into him.

    Nobody was seriously hurt but there was a lot of damage to both vehicles and as the impact had occurred exactly on the border there was some confusion as to whether Dundalk district court or its counterpart in Newry had jurisdiction to hear the resulting civil case.

    Never heard what the eventual outcome was.

    ADDS: Technically wouldnt a PSNI officer entering (inadvertently or otherwise) the Republic's territory be liable for arrest for carrying unlicensed firearms ?

    thats what i thought, there is no way they could have a firearm. just seen on facebook the cop car was stolen in dublin


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  • #37
    V_Moth
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEwYxv5UbM


  • #38
    ThePower11
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    It was RTE news there now, a man was arrested in Lusk Co.Dublin for drink driving, he was put in the Garda car but managed to jump into the drivers seat and drive it all the way to the North!


  • #39
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    ThePower11 wrote: »
    It was RTE news there now, a man was arrested in Lusk Co.Dublin for drink driving, he was put in the Garda car but managed to jump into the drivers seat and drive it all the way to the North!
    He probably just wanted to get to the off license because they close so early here, still a bit extreme though.
    You'd need a few drinks after getting done for drink driving.


  • #40
    Sgt. Bilko 09
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    can anyone get the article/or website were it says this


  • #41
    Mike 1972
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    skinny90 wrote: »
    a better question would be can they arrest someone accross the border??

    IIRC anybody* can perform a "citizens" arrest although not for traffic related offenses.

    (* Highly inadvisable to attempt to do it though unless one really knows what one is doing)


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  • #42
    twistedsoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭twistedsoul


    ThePower11 wrote: »
    It was RTE news there now, a man was arrested in Lusk Co.Dublin for drink driving, he was put in the Garda car but managed to jump into the drivers seat and drive it all the way to the North!

    nothing on the rte website about that !


  • #43
    ThePower11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 553 ✭✭✭ThePower11


    twistedsoul wrote: »
    nothing on the rte website about that !
    I heard it on the midnight news on RTE1.


  • #44
    bmcc10
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    Seen this the guards had the helicopter out aswell last i heared the chase was in Banbridge with the PSNI how the fck did he manage to get from Dublin all the lights looked mad on the motorway


  • #45
    Saila
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    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    can anyone get the article/or website were it says this

    it was on the midnight news on rte 1


  • #46
    ThePower11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 553 ✭✭✭ThePower11


    ThePower11 wrote: »
    I heard it on the midnight news on RTE1.
    Saila wrote: »
    it was on the midnight news on rte 1
    Well spotted.


  • #47
    Abi
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    ThePower11 wrote: »
    It was RTE news there now, a man was arrested in Lusk Co.Dublin for drink driving, he was put in the Garda car but managed to jump into the drivers seat and drive it all the way to the North!
    All the most of us have to worry about in the morning is a wild post or text, imagine when yer man comes to in the morning :D


    I bet he felt like a fuckin' hero :pac:


  • #48
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    A driver stopped in Dublin on suspicion of drink driving, stole the garda car he had been placed in and drove it to south Armagh. The suspect was stopped in north Dublin at 9pm last night when he undertook his daring escapade.

    Embarrising for the Gardai but funny, I thought that anyone under arrest irrespective of crime were supposed to be hand cuffed when transported in the back of a squad car.? They are in the UK.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/drink-driver-steals-garda-car-in-dublin-drives-to-armagh-2960767.html


  • #49
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Funny??
    I hope you or yours are never involved in a crash with a drunk driver. Will you think thats funny.

    Grow up.


  • #50
    Frank Black
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    Those crazy drunk drivers eh?

    What'll they get up to next?


  • #51
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Here on it suspected drink drivers will be handcuffed and transported in the back of a paddy wagon like any other common criminal


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  • #52
    Ghandee
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    Stopped in North County Dublin, but escaped to South Armagh,........

    Which is it?

    Paddb, lighten up dude, your in AH now baby!:pac:


  • #53
    tuxy
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

    Embarrising for the Gardai but funny, I thought that anyone under arrest irrespective of crime were supposed to be hand cuffed when transported in the back of a squad car.? They are in the UK.

    No, if they were cooperating up to this point it's normal for them not to be cuffed. But they should have another garda sitting in the back with them.


  • #54
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Stopped in North County Dublin, but escaped to South Armagh,........

    Which is it?

    Stopped in N Dublin, put in squad car. Stole Squad car and escaped to South Armagh.


  • #55
    Coriolanus
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    tuxy wrote: »
    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

    Embarrising for the Gardai but funny, I thought that anyone under arrest irrespective of crime were supposed to be hand cuffed when transported in the back of a squad car.? They are in the UK.

    No, if they were cooperating up to this point it's normal for them not to be cuffed. But they should have another garda sitting in the back with them.
    Or possibly NOT LEAVE THE KEYS IN THE CAR. love to be a fly on wall for the bollicking that pair get off their sgt.


  • #56
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    What happens with cross border jurisdiction? If you get to the border and don't commit any crimes once passed, can the Garda/PSNI actually do anything?


  • #57
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    antodeco wrote: »
    What happens with cross border jurisdiction? If you get to the border and don't commit any crimes once passed, can the Garda/PSNIi actually do anything?

    Free to shop til he drops.


  • #58
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    tuxy wrote: »
    Stopped in N Dublin, put in squad car. Stole Squad car and escaped to South Armagh.

    Edit, read the extract from the link. (explained much clearer)
    Fair play to him, the Garda were lax a dazy, he took advantage.

    Stupid is as stupid does.


  • #59
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    He's in for some fun hangover, "I did what?"


  • #60
    hoorsmelt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭hoorsmelt


    Says alot for recruit selection standards when a drunk can outwit two officers and steal their patrol car. Spanners


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  • #61
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Funny??
    I hope you or yours are never involved in a crash with a drunk driver. Will you think thats funny.

    Grow up.
    This could well have been an extract from the recent movie the Guard. LOL.


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