Can Gardai ask you where you're going?

LETHAL LADY

Well considering there has been alot of road deaths over the bank holiday weekends in the past, I think it is just a small annoyance to have to put up with. Okay you dont want to have to tell them where you are going, but I think it is a standard line of questioning, nothing really to get too pissed off about.

mikom

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

the Guard asked me where I was going. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?.

In soviet Russia you ask guard where he is going.

Mr Jinx

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

I suggest if your ever unfortunate to be the victim of a crime, to tell the guards to mind their own business and let then carry on helping people who want to be helped.

deco nate

cant belive anyone said this but...just tell him you are "im goin on my way"

mikemac

"I pay your wages"

Use this line at the next checkpoint OP
They love hearing it

the_syco

mikom wrote: »

In soviet Russia you ask guard where he is going.

It'd be funny, though. You roll down the window, and ask the copper "and where are you going tonight?"... :pac: Would probably confuse the hell out of them :P

DirtyBollox

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I told him it was none of his business then he got a bit cranky and leisurely walked around the car with my licence in his hand to waste my time. Do they think that this is the Soviet Union or something?. What right have they to ask people where they are going?.

what age are you 18? dont act the bollox with the gards and they wont act the bollox with you.

deco nate

deco nate wrote: »

cant belive anyone said this but...just tell him you are "im goin on my way"

oh,oh and just ad SON. at the end,you know....for ****e an giggles:D
just to see what happens

jimpump

sure i got stopped at a check point a few days ago in coolock after smoking some skunk in the car......and they just let us on our way. they either dont have a clue or dont give a crap

AgileMyth

jimpump wrote: »

they either dont have a clue or dont give a crap

Someone I know recently taxed a car for the first time in four years. It covered over 100000km in that time and was never NCT'd either. Every Garda checkpoint they just waved it on :eek:

K-9

It's a rather stupid question. "Yeah, I'm going to the local arms dump".

Still, it's a fecking checkpoint, it involves checks!

jimpump

AgileMyth wrote: »

Someone I know recently taxed a car for the first time in four years. It covered over 100000km in that time and was never NCT'd either. Every Garda checkpoint they just waved it on :eek:

but the thing is i rolled down the window for the bean guarda and was ****tin it cos i thought she would search us for weed...but she just sent us on our way

she must be a stoner herself!

Oranage2

Reminds of the time i seen a check point after driving home from the pub -

I know this story wont go down to well here but:

Drank 4 pints, drove around a corner - seen a check point and about 2 cars at it so i did a U-Turn, drove back around the corner, parked the car in some random garden, me and another guy then hopped over 3 walls and hid under a bush in somebodies garden for about 15 minutes - got up and then walked around for about hours then I parked the car at the kerb and got a taxi home-

never drank drive again

CrazyRabbit

Pretend that you can't understand him and ask him to speak with a Dublin accent.

mikemac

Oranage2 wrote: »

I know this story wont go down to well here but:

Clip clop clip clop clip clop

I hear the high horses approaching.
Beg for forgiveness Oranage2

upandcumming

What right have they to ask people where they are going?

Well how fucking dare he. Get the ombudsman on the phone! He had the audacity to ask you, Jimmy Garlic, where you were going on a BH weekend. The bastard.

Why do people have to be so difficult? People like the OP have to complicate every fucking thing at every opportunity. Why? I don't get it.

Logical Fallacy

cronin_j wrote: »

Guards are like Mushrooms feed em sh1t and keep em in the dark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTaVxTmB5k4

jive

I get stopped at the same checkpoint probably twice a month (every other weekend it seems to be there) and always get breathalysed. Gets ****ing annoying after a while so I know where OP is coming from. People can argue that they are just doing they're job but when they ask you "where are ya heading?" every time they stop it gets a bit ****ing tedious - if I've been travelling home every weekend for the last 2 years where do you think I'm heading this weekend. And if it's to test if I'm slurring my words I must be sound like a right dope because I'm breathalysed without fail every time (male, 22). I don't mind being breathalysed but why ask me the same question the whole time and breathalyse me anyway.

If it's a guard that hasn't seen me before then I don't mind but a guard that has stopped you 2 or even 3 times pisses me off. Third time is the charm, however, that's the occasion where I don't bin their plastic breathalyser. It's my gift to them. Two guards have received gifts from me.

lifestyle

jimpump wrote: »

but the thing is i rolled down the window for the bean guarda and was ****tin it cos i thought she would search us for weed...but she just sent us on our way

she must be a stoner herself!

did they ask you for your dlicence and insurance?she musnt ave been chattin to ya

vampire of kilmainham

a garda does have the right to ask you where you are going so he can follow you and get a ride off ya:D

zuroph

once..

"I was doing at least 70mph and you were still getting away from me"
"well how are we here having this conversation then guard?"
"..................licence please"

epgc3fyqirnbsx

"How much did you have to drink tonight?"
"I had 9 pints"
"Could you blow into this?"
"Do you not believe me! :mad:"

Josiah Bounderby

If you take a pin to your car's washer jets you can get them to aim sideways. Then fill your washer tank with either piss or Liquid Ass and give them coppers a good blast the next time that you drive by. That'll learn 'em!

Oranage2

Biggins wrote: »

There is a number of reasons why they ask you something.

1. They listen to your voice to see if your slurring your words!
2. They might be seeking someone that resides in a particular area.
3. They might actually be advising people to avoid an area once in a while and do so when they hear your direction!
4. They might be delaying you while they check out your details and try spot the tax/insurance dodgers...
...and so on!

For gods sake, if all it takes to get your gall up is a simple question, you really need to grow up OP.
Gardi don't particularly like standing out on cold nights, on dark roads, having to stop people - but once in a while they do actually catch folk that are out of their heads on drink and/or drugs that are driving. Folk that maybe might have otherwise got away and injured/killed someones son/daughter/mother/father!
I hope its not your family effected some day OP.
...Just answer the question, drive on and get on with your life!

5. The Gard wanted the guys facebook and to rape him!!!

jimpump

lifestyle wrote: »

did they ask you for your dlicence and insurance?she musnt ave been chattin to ya

yup and showed her them....she either had a blocked nose that day or just was a stoner herself

worded

ya have drink taken?

Pdfile

michaelpower wrote: »

what age are you 18? dont act the bollox with the gards and they wont act the bollox with you.

couldn't disagree more; its the gaurd in question more so then the force itself...

i got pulled the other day and it was all grand since i had everything in the windows and papers to back it up licence etc and the only question i got asked was why i am driving a broken car ( heads going; pishing blue smoke but still going... ) to which i said " its working, its only a wee bit... shes got nct etc, only needs the knackered engine fixed as ya can see " and he let me away.


normally in this situation in other cars all ive gotten was 15 minute long convos on cars ( qiute a few traffic corp lads are mad into cars ) and then they let you go... others... fine tooth comb over everything but thats to be expected no ??


i think you got away lightly op.

Jimmy Garlic

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Came across a checkpoint tonight. All well and good the usual, then the Guard asked me where I was going. I .

You should have given him the route "AA" routemap style, right down toi the minutest detail.
"! shall be prodeeding along this road until I get to the trafficlights next to the Luas stop in ...." About 20 minutes of that will make him wish he'd never asked!

MagicSean

Jameson Putrid Ginseng wrote: »

Police supposedly ask stupid questions to subconsciously establish that they are the authority figure & you answer to them. Maybe he was practising on you.

So next time it happens say something like well where are you going, ill ask the questions around here.

They have no authority to ask where you are going, however I would just say home to shut them up. Unless I was feeling energetic and had all the paper work for the car in order.

You don't need authority to ask a question. You only need it to demand an answer. I suggest you learn the difference.

jive wrote: »

I get stopped at the same checkpoint probably twice a month (every other weekend it seems to be there) and always get breathalysed. Gets ****ing annoying after a while so I know where OP is coming from. People can argue that they are just doing they're job but when they ask you "where are ya heading?" every time they stop it gets a bit ****ing tedious - if I've been travelling home every weekend for the last 2 years where do you think I'm heading this weekend. And if it's to test if I'm slurring my words I must be sound like a right dope because I'm breathalysed without fail every time (male, 22). I don't mind being breathalysed but why ask me the same question the whole time and breathalyse me anyway.

If it's a guard that hasn't seen me before then I don't mind but a guard that has stopped you 2 or even 3 times pisses me off. Third time is the charm, however, that's the occasion where I don't bin their plastic breathalyser. It's my gift to them. Two guards have received gifts from me.

Do you really think you are that memorable?

jive

k_mac wrote: »

Do you really think you are that memorable?

I'm a 22 year old male driving a pink car. You tell me