Filming Gardai

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mynamejeff wrote: »

no camera's back then ?

There are loads of them, and the footage is very high quality. That's one of the reasons why I filled out an incident form - to make sure that the CCTV footage would be downloaded afterwards, should my employer choose to pass it on to the Gardai.

SineadSpears wrote:

I didn't want to say it earlier but I kind of don't believe that story I'm sorry to say. Are we talking about a bottle of coke here or a glass bottle?
I can understand you maybe letting the situation slide if it were a plastic bottle & you didn't want to inconvenience the other passengers by calling & waiting for the guards. Thats fair enough. But the video linked here was about glass bottles being thrown.

No need to be sorry - I don't mind if you don't believe it. If I was making it up, I like to think I'd make it more interesting than "a bottle nearly hit me". There'd be blood everywhere. I'd throw in something heroic too, like how I turned up for work the next day after getting five stitches in the back of my head. It was an empty 200ml vodka bottle. It hit the wall of the stairs and somehow didn't break. Believe it, don't believe it. It's all good.

SineadSpears wrote:

What about any other passengers on the bus that time. Or were you alone with the group of them?

It was a bank holiday Monday evening at around 6pm, pre-Covid. There were around 70 passengers on the bus. A handful of 'normal' people downstairs, but mostly teenagers (aged between 13 and 16, I would think) returning home after a day at the beach.

SineadSpears wrote:

You also said you passed their stop too. In another situation where they were being a bit of a nuisance I would probably think that was funny & say they deserved the extra bit of a walk home. But its not a stunt I'd be pulling on a group of teenagers after they had been launching glass bottles at me. I'd want them off the bus as soon as I could & I wouldn't be antagonising them by keeping them on the bus any longer than I had too.

A group sitting upstairs at the back (from whence the aforementioned glass projectile originated) were annoying me by constantly pressing the bell throughout the whole journey, so I pretended to be confused when they actually wanted to get off. It was a stupid thing to do because they ended up delaying me by opening the middle doors. Although maybe they would've done that anyway, I don't know.

SineadSpears

.anon. wrote: »

If I was making it up, I like to think I'd make it more interesting than "a bottle nearly hit me". There'd be blood everywhere. I'd throw in something heroic too, like how I turned up for work the next day after getting five stitches in the back of my head.

Fair enough.



OK so I can understand now. It seemed that they were a bit on the younger side so you felt they weren't too much of a threat.

Maybe you felt the bottle wasn't being aimed directly at you as an attack, but more like one of them were being a bit cheeky on the sly, & lobbed it in your direction for the LOL's. The fact that the bottle didn't break either probably means it wasn't thrown too hard.

The bus was packed at a peak time, so you felt there was no need to hold everyone up over that particular incident. Fair enough I suppose.

It didn't originally read like that though. I seemed like you meant they were probably a bit hairy & had thrown a bottle directly at you. & then you made it seem like that wasn't any big deal. That's what was confusing.

Ten of Swords

Thread is about filming AGS while carrying out their duties, can we get back on topic please