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Where are you off to this evening?

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  • 30-09-2008 12:12am
    #1
    fasterkitten
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭


    If asked this at a checkpoint are you entitled to refuse to answer?
    I know the Garda may be asking to gauge your sobriety but surely you're not obliged to tell them anything?


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    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    "A pornography store... I'm off to buy some pornography".


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    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    fasterkitten wrote: »
    If asked this at a checkpoint are you entitled to refuse to answer?
    I know the Garda may be asking to gauge your sobriety but surely you're not obliged to tell them anything?

    Well you read the situation right anyway! Probably just outa Templemore...

    I'd love to do a comedy thing where you drive into a Garda checkpoint and start singin "Oh ro se de beatha bhaile" to a copper at a checkpoint, then you get breathalized, you pass that but then jump up on the bonnet and start singing "Betty Davis Eyes", then your tested for drugs, you pass that test and start singing the Benny Hill soundtrack and the cops have run out of tests....

    Fall out of the car, sober, and get done for wastin Garda time!


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    chickenhawk
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭chickenhawk


    My irish and history teacher in school was asked this once. Answered in Irish and gave his name in irish. Got a summons in the post a week later. Can't remember what happened in court.


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    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,322 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    You are not obliged to give any information except your name, address and possibly date of birth. You could try picking a spot on the dash and staring at it, or ask for a solicitor. Not advisable though, as the likelihood is you will just get a lot more attention that way.

    You could also try the comedian route: "Sure, even a policeman wouldn't ask me that!". Also not advisable. Why not just play the game?

    Not your ornery onager



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    Ferris
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭Ferris


    Guard: Where are you coming from?

    Driver: Up the road.

    Guard: Where are you going to?

    Driver: Down the road.


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    Biro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    chickenhawk wrote: »
    My irish and history teacher in school was asked this once. Answered in Irish and gave his name in irish. Got a summons in the post a week later. Can't remember what happened in court.

    Find this difficult to believe. You're entitled to communicate in Irish, this is Ireland. That's why the guards have to learn Irish.


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    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    I love people and the whole "A guard isn't entitled to ask me that".

    It's a Guard, they can ask you what they like. If you play up, they'll break your balls. If you just answer honestly, you'll be allowed go on your way with minimal fuss.


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    Homer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭Homer


    Holsten wrote: »
    "A pornography store... I'm off to buy some pornography".

    Oi! That's my line...:p


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    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I though you were only entitled to give them information of where you came from.

    You better not lie to them about where you are going because they can follow you about the city with all the strategically placed ANPR and high tech Gatsos. :eek:


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


    Will you ever give it a ****ing rest with the conspiracy theories? You're like a broken record always bleating about ANPR.


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


    Gone Drinking wrote: »
    It's a Guard, they can ask you what they like. If you play up, they'll break your balls.

    Papers please, Heil Hitler!


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,466 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    It's just like the awkward questions customs or immigration people ask you sometimes, They couldn't actually give a fig where you've come from or going to, they're just asking a question to see how you react, and if your whole demeanour suggests you've got something to hide.


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    furtzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭furtzy


    When asked this by British soldiers in the North I always replied "Home....where you should be going"....ah happy times :D


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,513 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    That would be an ecuminical matter.


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


    Gone Drinking wrote: »
    I love people and the whole "A guard isn't entitled to ask me that".

    It's a Guard, they can ask you what they like. If you play up, they'll break your balls. If you just answer honestly, you'll be allowed go on your way with minimal fuss.
    No offence, but that's a police state mentality.


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    fasterkitten
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭fasterkitten


    Gone Drinking wrote: »
    I love people and the whole "A guard isn't entitled to ask me that".

    It's a Guard, they can ask you what they like. If you play up, they'll break your balls. If you just answer honestly, you'll be allowed go on your way with minimal fuss.

    Read the OP. I asked if you're entitled to refuse to answer, not if the Garda was entitled to ask in the first place.


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    omega man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭omega man


    A few weeks ago on the N3 a garda at a speed check clearly directed my wife to pull over into the hard shoulder. He also pulled the car behind us in (both similar people carriers). He went to the car behind us first and after about 10 minutes came to us and said 'are you waiting for directions or something' in a real smart ass tone. Now although my wife was relieved not to have been done we were both shocked. I told him he waved is in but he proceeded to 'demonstrate' what he would have done if he wanted us to stop. Now i thought of a million responses but i simply knew we had to just leave it or he would find something 'wrong'. He was quite young and i am sure he pulled both cars over because he was unsure which was the offending car. To get back to the OP's comment i think you just answer and bite your tongue.


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


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I though you were only entitled to give them information of where you came from.

    You better not lie to them about where you are going because they can follow you about the city with all the strategically placed ANPR and high tech Gatsos. :eek:

    In Soviet Russia, television watches YOU!


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    You
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭You


    omega man wrote: »
    A few weeks ago on the N3 a garda at a speed check clearly directed my wife to pull over into the hard shoulder. He also pulled the car behind us in (both similar people carriers). He went to the car behind us first and after about 10 minutes came to us and said 'are you waiting for directions or something' in a real smart ass tone. Now although my wife was relieved not to have been done we were both shocked. I told him he waved is in but he proceeded to 'demonstrate' what he would have done if he wanted us to stop. Now i thought of a million responses but i simply knew we had to just leave it or he would find something 'wrong'. He was quite young and i am sure he pulled both cars over because he was unsure which was the offending car. To get back to the OP's comment i think you just answer and bite your tongue.

    I would have thought the introduction of the Garda Ombudsman would have gotten rid of these gobsheens


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


    You wrote: »
    I would have thought the introduction of the Garda Ombudsman would have gotten rid of these gobsheens
    If people don't report these things...


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    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,322 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    You better not lie to them about where you are going because they can follow you about the city with all the strategically placed ANPR and high tech Gatsos. :eek:
    Jebus, mate! Go back to the previous page and read post 11. Note the associated Thanks list. Now cop the fup on.

    Not your ornery onager



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    eringobragh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    esel wrote: »
    Jebus, mate! Go back to the previous page and read post 11. Note the associated Thanks list. Now cop the fup on.

    X2!!

    I found it entertaining to a certain point and often wondered whether he was taking the piss?? ANPR mad!! You should really check the abbreviation OCD :pac:

    Well I've just finished constructing my tinfoil hat so the ANPR can't read my thoughts. :rolleyes:

    tinfoilhatbo2.jpg


    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you! "


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    gyppo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gyppo


    Answer = Off to meet your wife.


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


    esel wrote: »
    Jebus, mate! Go back to the previous page and read post 11. Note the associated Thanks list. Now cop the fup on.
    How about you decide what you post and let Run_to_da_hills do the same? I read a lot of things I don't agree with here too, that doesn't give me the right to muzzle others.


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    #26
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,322 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Right, Ted.

    Not your ornery onager



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    mickey mac
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭mickey mac


    omega man wrote: »
    A few weeks ago on the N3 a garda at a speed check clearly directed my wife to pull over into the hard shoulder. He also pulled the car behind us in (both similar people carriers). He went to the car behind us first and after about 10 minutes came to us and said 'are you waiting for directions or something' in a real smart ass tone. Now although my wife was relieved not to have been done we were both shocked. I told him he waved is in but he proceeded to 'demonstrate' what he would have done if he wanted us to stop. Now i thought of a million responses but i simply knew we had to just leave it or he would find something 'wrong'. He was quite young and i am sure he pulled both cars over because he was unsure which was the offending car. To get back to the OP's comment i think you just answer and bite your tongue.

    Well seeing as the Garda entrance system weeds out anyone with above average intelligence, you are bound to incounter these situations! I always smile and agree with everything the gardai say to me, I think it's better in the long run.


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