Called the Gards (police) yesterday

Taking a brief few minutes from work yesterday, I went into the town's Main Street (100 yards from the office) and found a couple of scruffy old men putting large, hand written and highly offensive/inflamatory posters up on the lamp posts. They had quite a stack with them and clearly intended to cover the town. Knowing that the Gards in my town have very little to do as the crime rate is so low, I decided to drag them from their perpetual tea break and see if they agreed with me.
Luckily they did - and not one poster to be seen when I left work later!
What I can't understand is why nobody else bothered! A work colleague said he had seen them up the other end of the Main Street an hour previously, doing the same! Another hour and the schools would have been out .....

Why do people care so little? It always amazes me. Well done for taking the appropriate action, Gill

That's what I despair about todays society, everyone wants things done but nobody is prepared to do it. When I had all the problems in my shop in Essex everyone said I should make a stand and fight, but nobody would let the police put cameras up to catch the people at it so I packed it in and left them too it, apparently it just kept on getting worse after I left so serves them right.
Becky

Well done for taking a stand Gill. Most people would give out and complain but ultimately do nothing. What is this world coming too? We need more people like you xx

Well done for getting some work out of the Gards if nothing else

We used to go regularly to a little town in Donegal for weekends with a whole group of friends....on one occasion one of the girls lost her phone somewhere between the first pub on Friday night and the 12th or 13th pub in the silly hours of Saturday morning

Next day, when she had come round enugh to notice her phone was missing, the mobil company told her she would have to make a police report in order to claim of her insurance. She duly trekked of to the Gardai station some 20 minute walk from where we were staying. The rest of us went to the pub for a cure. Bar owner asked us where our friend was and we told him she had gone to the Gardai station...
"She'll be a while" he said
"Why? It's not that far away is it?" Says us.
"No, it's not far. But it only opens on a Tuesday".....

On another occasion, we were in the same little town for St Patrick's Day. The town was really bustling with tourists for the 'parade'. Well, I say parade...if you can call 4 tractors with Centra carrier bags tied to them a paade!! (and I'm not exaggertaing)

Anyhow, late in the afternoon and several pints of green lager too many, an 'older' gentleman was causing a bit of an afray in one of the pubs. After several warnings from the Landlord to behave himself went unheeded, he Gards were called.

Apprx. 40 minutes later, 2 of Ireland's finest arrived on foot as their car was, apparently, in for repairs. Upon realising that they would need a car to transport the unruly gent, they called for back-up. Sometime later, a car screeched to a halt outside and 4 Gards piled out...obviously the most action they'd seen in a while and they all wanted to be in on it. Disruptive gent was apprehended and frogmarched to the car by all 6 of the officers at which point utter confusion ensued when realisation dawned that 6 Gards + 1 pi$$ed pensioner simply won't fit in the average squad car Decision was eventually taken that the two local Gards would escort the apprendee home on foot to sleep it off as he only lived up the street and the 4 back-up officers stayed for a drink as it was near the end of their shift anyway

Only in rural Ireland.....