Walter Mitty who pretended to be a Garda, avoids jail

[Brendan Burgess]

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I think that this is great;

He was caught dangerously driving a Ford Mondeo fitted with aerials to look like an official unmarked patrol vehicle.

impersonating an unmarked patrol vehicle.

 

[callybags]

I think it was very irresponsible to catch him dangerously.

 

[Towger]

Since when it is an offence to have the stubs of a couple of broken off aerials on the roof of you car

 

[Latrade]

Since when is it more of a press issue to impersonate a Garda than to have a whole file of child pornography in your possession?

 

[Purple]

I used to drive a banged up Ford Mondeo. It was great; I used to get waved through police traffic checks with a nod and a smile and on more than one occasion drivers on mobiles threw their mobile phones into the passenger foot-well when they saw me.

Needless to say I never impersonated an unmarked police car by sticking a few extra aerials onto the roof.

 

[Towger]

I used to drive a banged up Ford Mondeo

Run up 300,000 miles on the clock and don't have any tax/insurance/NCT disk, stick on a couple of broken aerials, sideswipe a gate and ditch the alloys.

 

[Purple]

Something like that.

 

[Firefly]

A buddy of mine used to impersonate a Garda regularly to get free-in to nighclubs. It took some neck as he wasn't the tallest (pardon the pun), but never seen him fail!

 

[Leo]

Run up 300,000 miles on the clock and don't have any tax/insurance/NCT disk, stick on a couple of broken aerials, sideswipe a gate and ditch the alloys.

Keep the tax disc, lose the insurance one if you want to be authentic.

 

[Towger]

Keep the tax disc, lose the insurance one if you want to be authentic.

But, if you have the tax disc it has to have €0 on it!

 

[UFC]

Pretending to be a Garda...
Lying to a Garda...
Driving dangerously...
Harrassing the public...
Numerous illegal handguns in your home...
Child porn stash in your home...

18 months suspended sentence.

Only in Ireland.

 

[Complainer]

A buddy of mine used to impersonate a Garda regularly to get free-in to nighclubs.

A friend of mine claims to have impersonated a Garda to get onto the Garda 'team' in the riot at Slane on the night before the Bob Dylan gig - 1983? He used to carry a Garda baton in his car, so he took out the baton and joined in the 'fun' of beating up a few rockers and hippies.

 

[BOXtheFOX]

On a regular basis on the N11 you see the tosser flying along at speed on the bus lane in his Ford Mondeo. Whether he is a garda or not he is still a tosser because he drives dangerously.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

I tried impersonating a plain clothes garda yesterday, but no one took a blind bit of notice of me.

Brendan

 

[Purple]

I tried impersonating a plain clothes garda yesterday, but no one took a blind bit of notice of me.

Brendan

I went into town yesterday to buy a pair of camouflage trousers… but I couldn’t find any.