Stories of Gardaí being useless.

mikemac · 17-09-2010 4:50pm

You live in Meath OP

There could be two squad cars expected to cover a huge area of the county.
Call the gardai and the nearest squad car might be 20km away

CorkMan · 17-09-2010 5:02pm

One night I was going to sleep,
I was lying in my bed falling off,
I heard a big bang in back garden,
I immediately rang the gardaí,
they said they'd send out a unit immediately,
I waited 5 minutes with my brush in hand,
they didn't show up so I went outside,
then let out a very big sigh,
I saw a witch cooking up some magic,
then the police arrived and put her in the wagon.

This is not a dream, she is still being processed ATM.

Jonesy101 · 17-09-2010 5:06pm

A taxi driver friend of mine was parked in a rank in Dublin city center. While there a Gard as the usually do ask them a couple questions and look at there license etc. Everything was alright so the Gard having nothing better to do informed him that he could "do him" for not being clean shaven. Said its against the law for a taxi driver to have stubble. So said taxi driver asked what if he was growing a beard as theyre not illegal. Gard said "well that is a grey area". What the hells that about?

Six Gards came into my hotel last night as I work on reception, it mustve been a prank call or something, they went on their way. Its reassuring to know theyre there in case of some trouble in the hotel.

talla10 · 17-09-2010 9:02pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

I was on a night out in a West Clare seaside town one night. Left the night club, 2 fellas beating the living daylights out of each other on the footpath, two male gardaí walk down the street............ and step off the footpath to get around them and continue walking! no joke! The Garda van was apparently full and drving a few to the nearest open barracks and the 2 didnt want to have to deal with the ladds and remain near the nightclub til the van came back!!!

dont believe this for a second!!

deisedave · 17-09-2010 9:07pm

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

They didn't rob it as an organisation, but some of them were members. I also didn't say '95 specifically, all I know is I was young at the time. Early 90s.
I will interrogate my father the next time I see him if you wish!;)

Being from Waterford I know this happend, I think it was the bank in Lisduggan your talking about.

deisedave · 17-09-2010 9:14pm

talla10 wrote: »

dont believe this for a second!!

I live next to a night club unfortunately and I have seen this happen with people fighting and guards ignoring it quite a few times.

On another note, From my view alot of guards can be very hostile towards young males for no reason, I have had a few dealings with them and was harassed searched and told lies. When I complained about what had happened there was no record of me ever having any dealings with any gardai.
But thats tends to be by the younger male gardai, Most of the cops are grand and do there best to help and make the country better.

RockinRolla · 17-09-2010 9:15pm

Garda gave drunk guy keys to a new car just so he could sleep.

/thread.

AckwelFoley · 17-09-2010 9:16pm

Lets not paint all members of our esteemed force with the one brush.

There are arseholes in all cross sections of society

Lets look at some of their good work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCznvywH9G4

m.j.w · 17-09-2010 9:20pm

Girlfriend works in a shop, they were robbed (her purse and some goods were taken). Gaurds were called and they showed them the cctv and it was done by romainians. The gaurd said "no point trying to look for them, we will never find them"

lynski · 17-09-2010 9:26pm

talla10 wrote: »

dont believe this for a second!!

i do! they are constantly over stretched and have to ignore stuff.
we watched a guy high on angel dust going ballistic on the main street of a small town one night, breaking windows on houses and cars, terrorising a half dozen elderly people in their homes. He spent 20 minutes head-butting a plateglass window trying to break it, until he did. 40 minutes or more of this guy going wild.
The local station, which was one of the windows he broke, was closed. all gone home for the night. we were on the phone to 999 4/5 times panicked in case he came to our house as he had it in for my dad. we were told they were on their way from next town 10 mins away. after 30 mins we called the lads mother and she and her bf came down and get him and took him to hospital. the guards arrived over an hr after first call. never charged him, did not talk to the terrorised old folks, nothing. we ended up with 6 shaky pensioners in our kitchen for a few hours. the butcher whose window went in sold up and retired as a result.
There are members of the travelling community in the town who are driving new land rovers at 15! said it to one of them one night in the pub and he said sure i have all the papers to prove i am over 18, wink wink. i know how old they are and i have not lived there for 20 yrs, and the guards dont? yeah right.
on a personal level, i have had mostly good experiences dealing with them tho, just hate the lazy ones who cant be bothered dealing with anti-social behavior of certain members of the community

lynski · 17-09-2010 9:33pm

m.j.w wrote: »

Girlfriend works in a shop, they were robbed (her purse and some goods were taken). Gaurds were called and they showed them the cctv and it was done by romainians. The gaurd said "no point trying to look for them, we will never find them"

can tell you the opposite of this. i had wallet taken in temple bar one evening. went to pearse st garda station, they took me into the cctv room (wall of screens, 2/3 men on duty) and to showed me the roma working the area. they went and rounded up about 15/16 women and children to see if they could find anything. not a bean. the guards had seen them 'working' all day, but i was the first to complain and it was after 6. they had guards down there, but there was too many of the roma around. the children rob, pass back to moms, and dads take the stuff away, real easy to see, not the actually robbery, but the chain. dads swiftly leave the area and come back routinely.
Wallet showed up next morning, all cash gone, cards etc. untouched.

mfceiling · 17-09-2010 9:43pm

Best one...........there's a club beside me and one sunday night about 11.30 i hear a banging and wrecking outside it.
I open the bedroom curtains and there is a garda bashing the shít out of the metal gates from the inside.
The club closes at 11 and the 2 lads must have parked round the back for a kip and then got locked in!!
The gate was chained and the lads are out trying to get it open.
Me and the missus are watching this from the window (i'm filming it on the phone)........then they start reversing the car at speed into the gates and eventually the gate breaks open and out the pair of boys go.

I wondered then what the lady who opens up in the morning would do when she sees the gate forcibly opened.........call the garda to report a break in when it was actually the garda breaking out!!

mikemac · 17-09-2010 9:50pm

Got assaulted and a few punches to the head from some wino in Eyre Sq, make a statement in Mill St, never heard anything again.

Scooter vandalized three times in two years, was promised a phone call every time, never did heard back.
Wrote a letter to the super with my pulse number just asking for an update. No reply.
They took a part of the scooter to Phoenix Park for fingerprints and lost/misplaced it. I never got that returned.

But realy, my little scooter is as important to me as a 50k BMW is to someone richer then me. The only transport I own

If you say you'll call someone and don't do it, we think nobody gives a damn. One two minute call in an eight hour shift , even if the gardai hasn't any news I'd appreciate it.

However, I did work as a night porter in a few hotels and me being small and weak I couldn't eject realy anyone on my own.
Called the local gardai and they'd be there in two to three minutes.

Exceptionally good at some things but maybe not the resources for others

Chaotic_Forces · 17-09-2010 9:53pm

I've yet to see one Garda ever do something useful with my own eyes.

Granted, I have seen only the bad side of them but let's face it... can you honestly ever say (if you remember all the times you saw a Garda) "they're good at their job"? I'm not counting things like on news where there is a fu*k up, I'm talking about every single time in person, with your own eyes, there's at least a few times where they are no good at all.

mikemac · 17-09-2010 9:55pm

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

I've yet to see one Garda ever do something useful with my own eyes.

You've never come a serious traffic accident with road blocked off?
Lucky you

wolfpawnat · 17-09-2010 9:58pm

talla10 wrote: »

dont believe this for a second!!

Of course you dont, I assume by your username you are in Dub, in an area that has a large Garda presence.:rolleyes: These are country gardaí who do not want to have to deal with drunken (probably drug fuelled) men. Especially with several shipped off to the nearest station already, why add to numbers and to the hassle?

Son Of A Vidic · 17-09-2010 10:03pm

There's good and bad in all professions, the problem I have with the Garda is the waste of resources. Don't waste your time haunting the best strecthes of road with speed traps ffs. These aren't the spots were the body bags are piling up.

Chaotic_Forces · 17-09-2010 10:08pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

You've never come a serious traffic accident with road blocked off?
Lucky you

I don't drive TBH. And I have seen a car crash or two. Nobody seriously injured though. I've seen more junkies or alcos giving abuse to the Gardaí that caused the damn accident and the Gardaí basically saying "no point in talking them in, too much bother". Most of them are looking for one of two things: power to abuse it or to do fu*k all.

You can say I'm bitter, go ahead. I'm not bitter, I'm just talking about what I've seen.

Actually wait, there is something good I've seen about the Gardaí! One time the great and loyal to the city Garda would not leave his post, fair play to him!

Last year coming out of the social welfare in Dublin 1 where it used to be I think it was Cumberland street, I saw a polish fella I think that two dublin one (typical skangers) fellas (I'm from Dublin one myself, so don't get any wrong ideas ) basically saying he owes a few hundred, I couldn't do much, there was two of them, soon joined by another 2 fellas. So I left (I'm not risking a battering) and I saw a garda at the post office on parnell street and I told him. He said and I quote "Ah sure what can I do? I can't leave my post, best call the other guards (not gardaí...) to deal with it". So I paused and looked him up and down and said "are you ****ing serious mate, (i know, not the best idea, but I was in complete shock) you've got a radio, your man is about to get a hiding, you can get a car here in no time".
So his reply was "watch your mouth, don't think about swearing at me again".
I took about 3 steps back and said "if I calling you an effing idiot, would you arrest me?"
"of course I would" was the reply.
"So why can you leave your post for that but not to save someone from a hiding".
"move alone there" was the reply.*

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Of course you dont, I assume by your username you are in Dub, in an area that has a large Garda presence.:rolleyes: These are country gardaí who do not want to have to deal with drunken (probably drug fuelled) men. Especially with several shipped off to the nearest station already, why add to numbers and to the hassle?

You have to be joking! Nothing like seeing people drinking on the streets or shooting up here in Dublin (city center) and having a few Gardaí just ignore it.

A better point is: what's easier for a person to deal with, the 20 year old college kid that has a can open or a joint than the junkie that's stoned and drunk and will end up causing all sorts of murder if they get stopped?

CorkMan · 17-09-2010 10:44pm

m.j.w wrote: »

Girlfriend works in a shop, they were robbed (her purse and some goods were taken). Gaurds were called and they showed them the cctv and it was done by romainians. The gaurd said "no point trying to look for them, we will never find them"

What should be done is when the Gardaí/Army/etc finish work, dress out of their work clothes, put on a hoodie and torch wherever the Roma's live.

Orange69 · 18-09-2010 12:21am

Last Saturday at approximately 3 p.m I was walking down o connell street listening to the Spice Girls on my iPhone, when I was jumped from behind. As I stumbled forward, a guy ripped the headphones out of my ears and ran off. I stood there a moment, dumbfounded, when another scumbag jumped me, wrestled the phone from my hand, and took off in the same direction. For reasons that surprise me still, I bolted after them, I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror if anything I can say that this cab was rare but I thought 'Nah forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'. I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

YouTalkinToMe · 18-09-2010 12:29am

We would be a hell of alot worse off if we didnt have the Guards.

YouTalkinToMe · 18-09-2010 12:31am

Orange69 wrote: »

Last Saturday at approximately 3 p.m I was walking down o connell street listening to the Spice Girls on my iPhone, when I was jumped from behind. As I stumbled forward, a guy ripped the headphones out of my ears and ran off. I stood there a moment, dumbfounded, when another scumbag jumped me, wrestled the phone from my hand, and took off in the same direction. For reasons that surprise me still, I bolted after them, I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror if anything I can say that this cab was rare but I thought 'Nah forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'. I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

I actually believed that up until Nah forget it.:rolleyes:

lisaface · 18-09-2010 12:32am

I've only ever had one bad experience with ONE individual garda.
On another occasion, they've been pleasant - It took them 20mins to get to the situation & they did everything they could.

There are many power hungry people, who work within/for the gardaí (force is not the correct term hmm) network? but, 80% of that are just decent people, doing their job.

"There's always one" (in all walks of life) just remember that

kowloon · 18-09-2010 2:24am

Never had any problem with an individual, but I've had problems that stemmed from admin. Getting anything processed take much longer than it should.
I think this is down to Gardai having to split time between office work and policing. A lot of their work should be done by other sections of the public service.
A good example of this (which is partially fixed now) was the firearms cert. Every year, at the same time, every firearms cert in the country had to be renewed. This pulled a lot of Gardai into the office to process the paperwork.

Balfie · 18-09-2010 2:32am

Gardaí have always been there when I've needed them, my old house was broken into, I found things the day after the incident so I rang the local station, told them I got back to find the house had been burgeled and even still a car had arrived 2 mins later,

another occasion, which I posted to Boards,

having a few drinks in the house one night, bout 4 am, everyone had left, I was watching crap on tele, not wanting to go to bed, and some idiot had got over the back garden, seen a light on, started trying to get into the house thru the back door which was locked, I called the Garda station, got 2 cars up to the house within a minute, one came in to search the backs, while another went looking around the area for the bloke by the discription I gave, dunno if they ever caught them,

The Gardaí get tons of abuse from lots of people with the usual "scum, pigs," all this kinda non-sense, BUT where would alot of us be without them? first thing we think of doing with any sign of trouble is calling the Garda, they do a great job and get nothing but abuse, they deserve more praise than the abuse,

granted some jobs that get called in, are put through your local station on priority, that doesn't mean that they are lazy, and do nothing but want to catch people with just drugs, and arresting people for drunk and disorderly, its cause of things like drunk and disorderly, and other crimes, that Garda presence can sometime be limited, but they do one hell of a job, and I say FAIR PLAY TO YA'S LADS!

Chaotic_Forces · 18-09-2010 2:37am

Balfie wrote: »

Gardaí have always been there when I've needed them, my old house was broken into, I found things the day after the incident so I rang the local station, told them I got back to find the house had been burgeled and even still a car had arrived 2 mins later,

another occasion, which I posted to Boards,

having a few drinks in the house one night, bout 4 am, everyone had left, I was watching crap on tele, not wanting to go to bed, and some idiot had got over the back garden, seen a light on, started trying to get into the house thru the back door which was locked, I called the Garda station, got 2 cars up to the house within a minute, one came in to search the backs, while another went looking around the area for the bloke by the discription I gave, dunno if they ever caught them,

The Gardaí get tons of abuse from lots of people with the usual "scum, pigs," all this kinda non-sense, BUT where would alot of us be without them? first thing we think of doing with any sign of trouble is calling the Garda, they do a great job and get nothing but abuse, they deserve more praise than the abuse,

granted some jobs that get called in, are put through your local station on priority, that doesn't mean that they are lazy, and do nothing but want to catch people with just drugs, and arresting people for drunk and disorderly, its cause of things like drunk and disorderly, and other crimes, that Garda presence can sometime be limited, but they do one hell of a job, and I say FAIR PLAY TO YA'S LADS!

When I see one Garda actually give a fu*k ot not be a cheeky pri*k with my own eyes, then I'll respect them.