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Travellers street racing with horses, Gardai involved

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  • #32
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,372 ✭✭✭kirving


    hondasam wrote: »
    You expect them to jump onto the horse and pepper spray them?

    No, but it sprays a god few feet. They could pull up beside them and give it a try.


  • #33
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    They should've shot at the horse's hooves to deflate them so they'd go down to rims and slow down.

    I'm sure it would work................maybe.


  • #34
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    No, but it sprays a god few feet. They could pull up beside them and give it a try.

    LMFAO Are you serious? have you any idea the speed these go?


  • #35
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    They should've shot at the horse's hooves to deflate them so they'd go down to rims and slow down.

    I'm sure it would work................maybe.

    Only after they set up a road block up the way with those spikes. Also there needed to be an oil tanker!


  • #36
    Mr Simpson
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    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    No, but it sprays a god few feet. They could pull up beside them and give it a try.

    What, so you're saying they should have temporarily blinded someone who's already acting in a dangerous manner. That's madness, if they'd done that and there had been an accident, you could guarantee it wouldn't be the traveller held responsible.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    what county is this ?


  • #38
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,773 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    They should've shot at the horse's hooves to deflate them so they'd go down to rims and slow down.

    I'm sure it would work................maybe.

    Shooting out the horse hooves to deflate them. I've seen stupid things on AH before but this is the worst.




    Everyone know that travellers horses use run-flat hooves :D


  • #39
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Only after they set up a road block up the way with those spikes. Also there needed to be an oil tanker!

    Beside said oil tanker there should be a ramp to which the horse & cart will fly over the inevitable explosion in slow-motion (guitar solo squeal optional) while the Gardaì cars smash aimlessly into each other.

    A garda should then crawl out of one of the wrecked cars, dust himself down and mutter "I'm too old for this shìt!"

    *Lethal Weapon sax solo*


  • #40
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    what county is this ?

    Few C reg'd cars, but sure it could be anywhere.


  • #41
    hondasam
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    what county is this ?

    Cork maybe going on the accent.


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  • #42
    Show Time
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    mmcn90 wrote: »
    Only in Ireland would you see these muppets doing this, absolute disgrace with no respect for others :mad:


    Dirtbags nothing more nothing less.

    A blight on society and Ireland in general.


  • #43
    kirving
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    mmcn90 wrote: »
    What, so you're saying they should have temporarily blinded someone who's already acting in a dangerous manner. That's madness, if they'd done that and there had been an accident, you could guarantee it wouldn't be the traveller held responsible.

    With that attitude, chasing them at all could be considered provocative, and could impact their safety. The fact is that they're on the wrong side of a road, putting others lives at risk. The cops in the US don't sit there and let themselves be made fools of. They end the dangerous situation, in the fastest way possible to reduce risk to the rest of the public.

    Harsh, I agree, but they clearly don't understand anything else.


  • #44
    Show Time
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    hondasam wrote: »
    Cork maybe going on the accent.
    It is on the Mallow road here in Beautiful Cork.


  • #45
    NiallFH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭NiallFH


    Time to get a few American cops over for some pit maneuver's


  • #46
    housetypeb
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    Dammit -I bet all my money on the bob tailed nag, my friend bet on the grey.


  • #47
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Show Time wrote: »
    It is on the Mallow road here in Beautiful Cork.

    Did you watch the video? :pac:


  • #48
    hondasam
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    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    With that attitude, chasing them at all could be considered provocative, and could impact their safety. The fact is that they're on the wrong side of a road, putting others lives at risk. The cops in the US don't sit there and let themselves be made fools of. They end the dangerous situation, in the fastest way possible to reduce risk to the rest of the public.

    Harsh, I agree, but they clearly don't understand anything else.

    This is not the US.
    Making a dangerous situation worse is not the answer, they were going to stop eventually.
    There is no way the guards could stop them on that road with the amount of traffic on it without causing an accident, probably to an innocent motorist.
    NiallFH wrote: »
    Time to get a few American cops over for some pit maneuver's

    They would just shoot the horses.


  • #49
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Only in Ireland would the Gardai hammer seven shades of sh1te out of innocent honest law-abiding students yet allow the likes of these detritus of society run amok on the public roads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LTQGXTx4Y


    The Gardai have their priorities all wrong and how I'd like to see them baton charge these scumbags and hammer them senseless.


  • #50
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Only in Ireland would the Gardai hammer seven shades of sh1te out of innocent honest law-abiding students yet allow the likes of these detritus of society run amok on the public roads.

    The Gardai have their priorities all wrong and how I'd like to see them baton charge these scumbags and hammer them senseless.

    Yeah..... It's still funnier watching them baton charge the innocent honest law-abiding students though.


  • #51
    hondasam
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    Stinicker wrote: »
    Only in Ireland would the Gardai hammer seven shades of sh1te out of innocent honest law-abiding students yet allow the likes of these detritus of society run amok on the public roads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LTQGXTx4Y


    The Gardai have their priorities all wrong and how I'd like to see them baton charge these scumbags and hammer them senseless.

    Hardly the same thing tbf. Some law-abiding students but not all law-abiding.

    If the gardai hammered the travellers in the clip everyone would applaud them, I think not.


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  • #52
    fasttalkerchat
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    Fair play to them for providing 10 mins entertainment for me!


  • #53
    Solair
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    If you ignored a police car like that in most other countries in Europe, you'd be opening yourself up to serious consequences.

    If you tried that in France for example, you could be 100% assured that the police would :

    1) Absolutely bring the situation under control (with serious physical force)
    2) The horses would have been impounded / confiscated.
    3) Everyone involved would have been arrested, if necessary with the riot police involved - tear gas etc.
    4) YouTube footage would have been used to bring prosecutions.

    The US police would probably have just opened fire!

    This isn't funny, it's just total lawlessness and it put hundreds of road users in danger, not to mention that it's extremely cruel to the horses.

    Given that this is on YouTube, there are plenty of images of regs etc, the entire traffic law book should be thrown at them!


  • #54
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    The arseholes in the "camera car" were more dangerous than the horses. And surely the cops could ID the riders from this video alone?

    NB. Needs subtitles. I couldn't understand a word.


  • #55
    hondasam
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    Solair wrote: »

    This isn't funny, it's just total lawlessness and it put hundreds of road users in danger, not to mention that it's extremely cruel to the horses.

    Given that this is on YouTube, there are plenty of images of regs etc, the entire traffic law book should be thrown at them!

    Are you assuming the guards did nothing? I would assume they will be charged with lots of things.


  • #56
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    Well, based on that video, it looks like nothing happened and I've heard nothing on the news (and that would get coverage).


  • #57
    chin_grin
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    Solair wrote: »
    Well, based on that video, it looks like nothing happened and I've heard nothing on the news (and that would get coverage).

    You've heard nothing on the government-approved news station(s)? Fancy that! <puts on tin foil hat>


  • #58
    Solair
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    chin_grin wrote: »
    You've heard nothing on the government-approved news station(s)? Fancy that! <puts on tin foil hat>

    Eh, we've a LOT more than "government approved" news outlets...
    Do you think you live in China or something?


  • #59
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Solair wrote: »
    Eh, we've a LOT more than "government approved" news outlets...
    Do you think you live in China or something?

    I was just making a sarcastic point that some (most) local occurrences are conveniently omitted from reports. No need to be jumping down my throat.


  • #60
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Solair wrote: »
    Well, based on that video, it looks like nothing happened and I've heard nothing on the news (and that would get coverage).

    Are you serious, you think every time the guards summon people it should be on the news. You can be sure they threw the book at them.


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  • #61
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    hondasam wrote: »
    Are you serious, you think every time the guards summon people it should be on the news. You can be sure they threw the book at them.

    I didn't see it being thrown in the vid. Good tactic though, confuse them with words.

    /sarcasm.


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