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Stories of Gardaí being useless.

  • 17-09-2010 02:10PM
    #1
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    I was having a conversation with a friend the other day on how bad/slow the guards are.

    Some examples.. One day when I was younger a fella in a balaclava broke into my house which was located down a little cul de sac. He was looking for money it was just myself and my ma in the house.

    Eventually there was a struggle in which he accidentally cut her wrist (non life threatening) and ran off. I rang 999 and got diverted to the local guards who said they'd "Send a car down".

    40 ****ing minutes later two fat cúnts in uniform arrived in the gate (The station is about a 3 min drive from the house), brought my mum down to the doctor to get stitches and left me in the house hysterical on my own.

    He was caught in the end for those wondering.


    A few years later the same house was broken into when there was no one home. I arrived there to see the window smashed so I rang the guards again (Was about 15 at this time). They arrived about a half hour later, gave me a hurley and put me in the window to let them in the front door...

    Thinking back on it, it's unreal..

    Just wondering if anyone has experiences of them taking their sweet time to do anything that actually requires urgent attention? Other than arresting lads on their way home eating a bag of chips for being drunk and disorderly.


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  • #2
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,921 ✭✭✭Wossack


    house broken into a few months ago, brother at home, called the fuzz, said intruders in the house

    there in about 2-3 mins


  • #3
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,765 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    i think the garai are awriii


  • #4
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I deal with the Gardaí regularly in work and in every instance they've been with me within 2 minutes of calling.
    (2miles outside of town)


    Have nothing but good experience with them.


  • #5
    Myla Damaged Sunset
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Myla Damaged Sunset


    What's a garaí


  • #6
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Sykk wrote: »
    Location: Meath

    If you want to live away from civilisation you have to accept the consequences.


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  • #7
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I think she's a pretty good actress.
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304801/


  • #8
    Lemsiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    bluewolf wrote: »
    What's a garaí

    Plural of Gary?


  • #9
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    bonerm wrote: »
    I think she's a pretty good actress.
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304801/
    You have a very questionable taste in movies.


  • #10
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Can a mod fix the title before the thread gets turned into pointless jibb. May be too late already :eek:


  • #11
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    Sykk wrote: »
    I was having a conversation with a friend the other day on how bad/slow the guards are.

    Some examples.. One day when I was younger a fella in a balaclava broke into my house which was located down a little cul de sac. He was looking for money it was just myself and my ma in the house.

    Eventually there was a struggle in which he accidentally cut her wrist (non life threatening) and ran off. I rang 999 and got diverted to the local guards who said they'd "Send a car down".

    40 ****ing minutes later two fat cúnts in uniform arrived in the gate (The station is about a 3 min drive from the house), brought my mum down to the doctor to get stitches and left me in the house hysterical on my own.

    He was caught in the end for those wondering.

    They caught the guy. What the f*ck is your problem?


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  • #12
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    You have a very questionable taste in movies.

    Surely she's the one with the questionable taste in movies?


  • #13
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    Only problem with the Gaurdai is that some of them are power-hungry assholes who look for any excuse to arrest yeh. Most of them are dead on though.


  • #14
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Sykk wrote: »
    left me in the house hysterical on my own.


    Did you want them to hold your hand?


  • #15
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    I love how the first incident is most likely 10 years ago. Let it go man.


  • #16
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    bonerm wrote: »
    Surely she's the one with the questionable taste in movies?
    She makes them to get paid, you watch them :pac:


  • #17
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Did you want them to hold your hand?

    Being 12/13 years old it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea to leave someone there yeah. Not all of us are accustomed to the hellish atmosphere of Limerick there, horse.


  • #18
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    You think they just have their member's hanging up on hooks waiting for a call OP?.

    Its a very busy job, one or two car's could be covering a huge area and no doubt dealing with other crimes.

    Do I think they're "still useless" - I've never thought they were useless.

    I think some individual members can be useless, but then that goes with every walk of life.


  • #19
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Sykk wrote: »
    Being 12/13 years old it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea to leave someone there yeah. Not all of us are accustomed to the hellish atmosphere of Limerick there, horse.
    Haha you brought up Limerick, man that was a good one.

    12-13 and you need them to hold your hand, in your own home?


  • #20
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    If you want to live away from civilisation you have to accept the consequences.

    I'm rather keen old chap to know where is this place that you speak of?


  • #21
    bennyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭bennyc


    Sister in law held up at knifepoint and till robbed, she called the Garda who was in the same town, he wouldnt go up to her as he was in the station on his own, said a couple of hours till the others would be back, She had to call the Garda from another town who landed within 20mins. Other Gards took all the details and were pretty good (and still have been getting the prick to court) her local boys called the following day and reckoned sure yer man is from a good family and the parents might give you the money back and everyone will be happy.


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  • #22
    kielmanator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭kielmanator


    OP, I'm going to have to totally disagree with what you said. If you take a little walk with your mouse over to the Emergency Services forum, you'll find a nice little thread started by me this morning.

    Link if you want.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056034791


    regards,

    kielmanator


  • #23
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    GOING to bed the other night, I noticed
    people in my shed stealing things.
    I phoned the gardai but was told
    no one was in the area to help.
    They said they would send someone
    over as soon as possible.
    I hung up. A minute later, I rang again.
    ‘Hello,’ I said, ‘I called you a minute ago
    because there were people in my shed.
    You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve shot them.’
    Within minutes there were half a dozen
    squad cars in the area, plus the garda helicopter
    and the emergency response unit.
    They caught the burglars red-handed.
    One of the gardai said:
    ‘I thought you said you’d shot them’
    To which I replied:
    ‘I thought you said there was no one available.’


    Then again, it might have been just a dream ...


  • #24
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,765 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Meh.....you get a certain percentage of incompetency in every profession.

    Some people are sh!t at their jobs, doesn't mean every single person in that particular area of employment is equally useless..

    Ive encountered a few idiot gardai in my life, but most of them are sound enough.


  • #25
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS, thats the magic word , if you ever need gardai to come quickly, just say that word and before you know it , loads of them will be there.


  • #26
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    When I was about 12 my grandmother's house was broken into. Gardai were called and said not to touch anything cos they'd be down to dust for prints. They never did.

    My moped was stolen a few years back and I went to report it to the Gardai, they gave out to me for going to the nearest station instead of the one for my area, which was 2 miles away down an unlit lane.

    More recently I witnessed two scumbags rigging an ATM with a scanner so I called directory enquiries and asked to be put through to whichever Garda station was responsible for Liffey St. They put me through to Store St, who again lambasted me for calling the wrong station and told me to hang up and call the one at Four Courts. I explained to the Bangarda that I didn't have the number for there, and that I was trying to do the decent thing by reporting a crime, and that she could call Four Courts herself.

    So, yes, I'd call them if I needed to, but I wouldn't hold my breath for them to actually do their jobs.


  • #27
    ILA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭ILA


    Suspected burgalry of neighbours house during the night a while ago, phoned the local station and there was a car on scene within six minutes, two miles outside town.

    I think in many areas they've improved significantly, and are really making good efforts to combat the most common crimes and certainly have been very visible in the past few months with more patrols operating, both regular and Traffic Corps.


  • #28
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    kylith wrote: »
    More recently I witnessed two scumbags rigging an ATM with a scanner so I called directory enquiries and asked to be put through to whichever Garda station was responsible for Liffey St. They put me through to Store St, who again lambasted me for calling the wrong station and told me to hang up and call the one at Four Courts. I explained to the Bangarda that I didn't have the number for there, and that I was trying to do the decent thing by reporting a crime, and that she could call Four Courts herself.

    Maybe because there is no 'four courts' garda station?.


  • #29
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I have found that the Gardaí are often in places that does not suit me .


  • #30
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    dilallio wrote: »
    GOING to bed the other night, I noticed
    people in my shed stealing things.
    I phoned the gardai but was told
    no one was in the area to help.
    They said they would send someone
    over as soon as possible.
    I hung up. A minute later, I rang again.
    ‘Hello,’ I said, ‘I called you a minute ago
    because there were people in my shed.
    You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve shot them.’
    Within minutes there were half a dozen
    squad cars in the area, plus the garda helicopter
    and the emergency response unit.
    They caught the burglars red-handed.
    One of the gardai said:
    ‘I thought you said you’d shot them’
    To which I replied:
    ‘I thought you said there was no one available.’


    Then again, it might have been just a dream ...

    Copypasta formatting eh? I was all excited that I was going to read a witty poem.


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  • #31
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Have only had one bad experience with a Garda (and it wasn't even that bad)


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