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Cardboard Cops

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  • 01-07-2008 9:07am
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    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,749 ✭✭✭


    Was driving in to work this morning and noticed a lifesize cardboard cutout of a cop car with a garda leaning out the window with a speed camera at the side of the road....

    Is this the new solution to low garda numbers??!!


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    You just know they are going to be vandalised or stolen! :D


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    Slig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭Slig


    Hell have a moustache, glasses and horns when you see him on your way home.
    Alternatively he could be engaged in a high speed chase around Tallagh stuck to the side of a Honda Civic


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    Homer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Homer


    smokingman wrote: »
    Was driving in to work this morning and noticed a lifesize cardboard cutout of a cop car with a garda leaning out the window with a speed camera at the side of the road....

    Is this the new solution to low garda numbers??!!

    Pics or it never happened! New one on me?


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    See thread in AH
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055325492
    or
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0630/roads.html


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    Homer
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    'the car is a heavy robust wood cut-out and is not cardboard by any means' according to police spokesperson!


    only in kildare so far? where did you spot yours OP? I stand corrected!


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    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,749 ✭✭✭smokingman


    industria wrote: »
    'the car is a heavy robust wood cut-out and is not cardboard by any means' according to police spokesperson!


    only in kildare so far? where did you spot yours OP? I stand corrected!

    Funny enough...in Kildare a few miles before the M9/N7


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    pburns
    Registered Users Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    O yeah that's a fantastic idea:rolleyes:

    Until somebody panics, jams on the brakes and ends up being hit from behind...

    What's the betting that the sneaky bastards will wait until the locals get used to the sign and then replace it with a REAL cop car:D;)...


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Another sure sign of a downward economy, replacing cops with bits of wood :pac:


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    You just know they are going to be vandalised or stolen! :D
    These would also make a great rave prop. :D


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    tw0nk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭tw0nk


    Have had these in Austria for years, some of them are like the manicans you see in shops


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    ojewriej
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    industria wrote: »
    'the car is a heavy robust wood cut-out and is not cardboard by any means' according to police spokesperson!


    only in kildare so far? where did you spot yours OP? I stand corrected!

    It's Kildare Town Council's initiative, so it will be only there all right.

    Here is the article about it.


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    chickenhawk
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭chickenhawk


    What's the point? After the first day people will know it is cardboard and just keep speeding.


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    ojewriej
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    chickenhawk wrote: »
    What's the point? After the first day people will know it is cardboard and just keep speeding.

    Not if they'll be moved around and replaced with real guards every once in a while.

    I think they will just be vandalised/stolen.


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    _feedback_
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    Is it just the photo, or is the car in mid-air??!!

    Flying garda cars?


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    Bluefoam
    Registered Users Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    pburns wrote: »
    O yeah that's a fantastic idea:rolleyes:

    Until somebody panics, jams on the brakes and ends up being hit from behind...

    Great logic, using that thinking we should take all Garda cars off the road in case people react to them... :rolleyes:


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    RobAMerc
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    Feckin stupid idea if you ask me.

    Judging by the amount of cars doing less than the speed limit on the M50 jamming on the brakes when passing the Camera - this is going to cause a big one on the roads of Kildare somewhere.

    Accidents are caused by bad driving not speeding and this will cause bad driving.


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    elviscostello wrote: »
    Is it just the photo, or is the car in mid-air??!!

    Flying garda cars?

    The Jetsons! :pac:


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    JimmyCrackCorn!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    I just can t help but want to go there and mount it upside down late at night.:D

    Lots of bad ideas so little time:D

    .


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    Zube
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭Zube


    chickenhawk wrote: »
    What's the point? After the first day people will know it is cardboard and just keep speeding.

    That's the idea. It means the real cops can show up every now and then and make loads of money in fines.

    You'll even ignore flashers coming the other way: "Hah, it's just that cardboard car again..."


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    [Deleted User]
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    RobAMerc wrote: »
    Accidents are caused by bad driving not speeding and this will cause bad driving.

    Ridiculous statement tbh.

    Dunno where to begin taking it apart.


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    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭mondeo


    A copper car made of wood?? Who's the plank who came up with that idea??


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    alo1587
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭alo1587


    Anyone got a photo if it?


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    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ridiculous statement tbh.

    Dunno where to begin taking it apart.

    I'd like to hear what you have to say about it so ?

    Let me guess - the usual RSA rhetoric "Speed Kills Slow Down" bs.


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    Homer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Homer


    alo1587 wrote: »
    Anyone got a photo if it?

    Last post on page one of this thread... :rolleyes:


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    #26
    Steve
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    I think this is a great idea - fair play to them.

    It beats the balls off guards hiding in bushes and covert gatzo's that do absolutely nothing for road safety.


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    #27
    ART6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Let's all drive 2-dimensional wooden cut out cars. No engine, no CO2, no VRT:D


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    #28
    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    These would also make a great rave prop. :D
    Was just thinking that same thing myself!


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    #29
    HungryJoey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    This was in the paper the other day, it was first introduced in mayo .. or the likes.

    It gave me a great laugh personally.


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    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    I wonder how long it will be before theirs one on ebay haha!

    Thats brilliant!


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    Omcd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Omcd


    Zube wrote: »
    That's the idea. It means the real cops can show up every now and then and make loads of money in fines.

    You'll even ignore flashers coming the other way: "Hah, it's just that cardboard car again..."

    Rule of thumb : If it looks like he's trying to tazer a squirrel, then it's probably a cut out....


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