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Travellers street racing with horses, Gardai involved

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  • #92
    Grobbelaar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭Grobbelaar


    It happened Over a year ago : http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-hunt-travellers-after-horse-race-on-major-road-2349485.html How come we are all just talking about it now?


  • #93
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    If I was driving that truck.....


  • #94
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Grobbelaar wrote: »
    It happened Over a year ago : http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-hunt-travellers-after-horse-race-on-major-road-2349485.html How come we are all just talking about it now?
    That was a different expression of a wonderful culture.


  • #95
    Grobbelaar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭Grobbelaar


    Padraig Mor wrote: »
    That was a different expression of a wonderful culture.

    Oops sorry my bad! Thanks for that!


  • #96
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Grobbelaar wrote: »
    It happened Over a year ago : http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-hunt-travellers-after-horse-race-on-major-road-2349485.html How come we are all just talking about it now?

    Don't think it's the same one.


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  • #97
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    hondasam wrote: »
    I definitely heard a Cork accent. I would put money on it.

    It is on the Mallow Road. It happened last Saturday, I saw them all arriving at the starting point at about 7.45am on my way to work. I just thought it was a bunch of travelers trying to find some place to trash live for a few months.


    This is where the race began.
    http://g.co/maps/jgtjz

    And this seems to be where it finished, according to their video.
    http://g.co/maps/5hy3b


  • #98
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Apart from anything else, it's cruelty to horses, they are not designed to travel at high speeds in tar roads with traffic all around.


  • #99
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    what law did they break they were hardly speeding


  • #100
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    laoch na mona wrote: »
    what law did they break they were hardly speeding

    Wrong side of the road, reckless behaviour, failure to comply with a gardas direction. Then the vans, careless driving, dangerous driving, failing to stop, the list goes on.


  • #101
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    laoch na mona wrote: »
    what law did they break they were hardly speeding

    Did you not notice the fact that the people taking the video were on the wrong side of the road, with oncoming traffic? So much on the wrong side they eventually ended up in the opposite verge?


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  • #102
    tahina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭tahina


    BornToKill wrote: »
    Does Russian Ladie = Russian Lady?

    Ya they are not the best at the auld spelling lol


  • #103
    tahina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭tahina


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    tahina wrote: »
    Its not often you see trotters so well cared for the even had on tendon boots! Alot of money goes on them races. But going at that speed on the road will ruin the horses joints not to memtion if the breaked suddenly the guards were even worse trying to slow down the travellers in that way its not the horses fault they are going that speed or even pulling a sulkie if they were smart the shades would have called for back up driven on abit and barracade the road giving the animals time to break instead of letting the horses crash into them like that and they say the tinkers abuse horses what the shades did was far worse

    Their could have been a fatal accident at several points there. The horses should have been killed to save human lives.

    I think the 2 eejits driving the sulkies should have been killed if anything not the poor horses they cant help who there owners are


  • #104
    Happy Monday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Happy Monday


    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.

    Gardai display power best when intimidating others.
    These boys were not intimidated.
    Gardai knew that they would respond.
    Amazing how you and I can get penalty points doing 10 miles over the speed limit and these boys walk away.


  • #105
    MagicRon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭MagicRon


    And travellers wonder why some people hate dislike them and their ways. They can't argue here that the 'majority' of travellers are fine.

    Whatever about the horses, I feel sorry for all the people who came across that convoy covering the whole road and heading for them!


  • #106
    Rango555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Rango555


    mmcn90 wrote: »

    Is there going to be multiplayer on the PS3 version with net access or is it just on the Wii?


  • #107
    TomBeckett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭TomBeckett


    Solair wrote: »
    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!

    I agree 100% The gardai need to take action with this problem aldough its not an easy job they have they have little way to defend themselves i mean pepper spray come on!! they need to be armed to get respect... If that happened anywhere else id like to see the outcome:D:D


  • #108
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Apart from anything else, it's cruelty to horses, they are not designed to travel at high speeds in tar roads with traffic all around.

    maybe someone should write a strongly worded letter then to the manufactures of the horses then about future design decisions


  • #109
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Where was the Russian Lady?
    All I saw was horses and vans.


  • #110
    Completionist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Completionist


    haha the fella that starts talking at 5:55-6:05 is hilarious!

    Abadadadun...mike..mike... nehundaquweq


  • #111
    mackattack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭mackattack


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Needs Benny Hill theme tune music.

    http://bennyhillifier.com/?id=Rc5JsMn0LRQ


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  • #112
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    Happy Monday wrote: »
    Gardai display power best when intimidating others.
    These boys were not intimidated.
    Gardai knew that they would respond.
    Amazing how you and I can get penalty points doing 10 miles over the speed limit and these boys walk away.

    The majority of Gardai are fat lazy cowards and bullies. We see plenty of footage of them battering students and ordinary local people down at the likes of Rossport (or Ballinaboy...See The film "The Pipe"). Funnily enough, I've never seen any footage of them going into gang areas like Moyross or Drimnagh and using similar force to break up those gangs. Battering protesters is a day out for them and something to laugh about with their mates afterwards.

    The footage of the unconscious girl in the student protests being dragged out and dumped on the side of the road is disgusting.

    A lot of them are as bad if not worse than the criminals. That's my personal experience of them.


  • #113
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    donegal_road wrote: »
    give a guess how many Gardai were assigned to the Anglo Irish Bank investigation?....

    Godwin Boardwin's Law strikes again :pac:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78416394&postcount=38


  • #114
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    2 Points... 1: that's a reason right there why we need more Gardi
    and 2: i think the officers there, i counted 2 patrol cars, 1 traffic corps car, made the best out of the situation by alerting all the law abiding citizens to the utter lawless that was unfolding ahead of them


  • #115
    Happy Monday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Happy Monday


    Shane_ef wrote: »
    2 Points... 1: that's a reason right there why we need more Gardi
    and 2: i think the officers there, i counted 2 patrol cars, 1 traffic corps car, made the best out of the situation by alerting all the law abiding citizens to the utter lawless that was unfolding ahead of them

    And why not then arrest the travellers involved at end?
    Because they were intimidated.
    A little frightened it appears.


  • #116
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Happy Monday wrote: »
    And why not then arrest the travellers involved at end?
    Because they were intimidated.
    A little frightened it appears.

    yeah lets get more gaurds to do nothing


  • #117
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    Shane_ef wrote: »
    2 Points... 1: that's a reason right there why we need more Gardi
    and 2: i think the officers there, i counted 2 patrol cars, 1 traffic corps car, made the best out of the situation by alerting all the law abiding citizens to the utter lawless that was unfolding ahead of them

    How many do you think it would have taken?
    Double the amount of cops in the country and they still would have done nothing in that situation. God forbid though that you do over 1 kilometer over 50 kph on some some clear straight, ridiculously speed-limited, deserted road at 3am in the morning. Especially if it's near the end of the month and they need to get their quotas filled.

    And no, I've never been done for speeding or any traffic, or any other offence. However I have been pulled over and physically pulled out of a car by gardai.......because the girl in the passenger seat beside me rolled her eyes when they pulled up along side us and made obscene gestures at her. They spent a good 10-15 minutes (which is a long time to be standing out in the cold on a winters night) interrogating me with nonsensical questions and threatening to being me to a garda station about 25 miles away for a breath test just to be cunts, having spent 5 minutes going around the car trying to find something wrong. They thought they'd hit the jackpot because the car had no NCT cert....despite the fact that it wasn't old enough to have one. Of course, me pointing this out to them was not allowed. I was raging i didn't take their ID numbers, but at the same time I know I'd have been wasting my time because they'd have made some sh1te up saying I was dangerous driving or something.


  • #118
    gutterdublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭gutterdublin


    We often say "Only in Ireland". We just don't know, other countries have "only's" too... :-)
    I'm new here anyway. I'm from Dublin 2. It is nice to meet all of you here.


  • #119
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Hi :)


    1294718518650.jpg


  • #120
    Korvanica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAFSVu941s


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  • #121
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    donegal_road wrote: »
    give a guess how many Gardai were assigned to the Anglo Irish Bank investigation?....

    Answer:.... 11

    The worst financial scandal in Irish history and perhaps even in the entire history of Europe is being investigated by a smaller team than most countries would assign to investigate a rural post-office robbery. Is it any wonder that Anglo staff have failed to assist the investigation and in some cases deliberately obstructed it?


    Meanwhile we have a couple of squad cars chasing 2 horses down the road
    How many guards have the education/skills necessary to understand the Anglo investigation? There's probably only a few dozen people in the country who could actually make sense of it.


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