Garda Communication

So what happens if you have two mobile phones, and you use the first phone to ring one garda station and the second phone to ring another garda station and you hold the two phones together to “talk” to each other?

Well, just click the PLAY icon to listen in: _start()

(NOTE: Garda = the Irish Police force just in case you were wondering.)

Disclaimer: Blogorrah posted that I had been the one to actually perform the calls. Just to clarify…I wasn’t in on the original prank, I just heard it and thought it was too good not to share.

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  2. Steven

    December 26, 2006 at 7:21 pm

    Many Happy Returns

    Very funny as well :-)

  3. John of Dublin

    December 28, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Excellent! Reminds me slightly of a true case I was told when I worked in Eircom (then called P&T) in the late 1970s. A worker in a P&T exchange was testing lines with headphones and happened upon a conversation going like this….

    “Oh, Paddy my period is well overdue.”

    “Are you sure, Noleen?”

    “Oh, I am. What are we going to do at all?”

    “God, I don’t know Noleen.”

    The conversation kept going like this until the P&T worker couldn’t take it any longer and pressed his transmitter button….

    “Ah ye eejit, marry the girl!”

    This produced the follows reaction….

    “Jesus! Paddy who was that?”

    “I don’t know, Noleen, it sounded like your father.”

  4. gingerpixel

    December 29, 2006 at 1:37 am

    John that’s hilarious, talk about a guilty conscience thinking he was hearing her father :D

  5. Twenty Major

    December 29, 2006 at 10:50 am

    Genius. That is just classic.

  6. insomniac

    December 29, 2006 at 11:14 am

    legend, absolute legend…

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  8. Mike

    December 29, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    Ha ha, brilliant. Reminds me of a similar prank on a Chinese takeaway.

  9. frankp

    December 29, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    I remember an artist that did something similar years ago when they became frustrated by snobbish galleries fefusing their work – can’t remember details but rigged two old fashioned phones to do the sam thing to rival art galleries in New York I think. Provd hilarious as the galleries would refuse to entertain the idea that they would have calle an ‘inferior’ gallery…

    wonder if it inspired this…

    Anone know the artist?

  10. maca

    December 29, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    haha, deadly stuff!

  11. JG

    December 29, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    That is fucking brilliant!

  12. Dario Sanchez

    December 29, 2006 at 7:06 pm

    Classic. Just like one I heard on YouTube. Can’t find the URL though.

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  14. Earhart

    January 2, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    That is hillarious :-)

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  16. Gav

    January 5, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    What’s so funny? you rang me!…… no you rang me…. and this guys now an artist? Give me a break. The two lads took the call in their stride, didn’t react at all and probably don’t even remember it. Not much of a prank, but if you like it good for you.

  17. Gav

    January 5, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Claire, if you orginally posted the article I appoliges for assuming it was a guy.

  18. Gav

    January 5, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Claire, if you originally posted the article I apologise for assuming it was posted by a guy, I figured you were linking to it as a result of bad judgement. If it was you it’s not very bright to publically admit and highlight that you wasted garda time by the way. best of luck in the court case if that’s what you did.

  19. UnaRocks

    January 5, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    genius

  20. Damien Mulley

    January 5, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Isn’t Gav precious? Awww.

  21. Damien Mulley

    January 5, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie

    Where is this charge that you mention Gav?

  22. blah

    January 5, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    You can be charged for wasting Gardai time.

    But they won’t pursue it. Good stuff.

  23. deselby

    January 6, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Shit. Very weak altogether. Just two aul fellas on a crossed line. The fact that they are guards brings nothing to it at all.

  24. Stylee

    January 6, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    Not funny at all , bit disappointed. Couldn’t listen to it in work cause the PC no fun police blocked access. So sent it home to listen to it there and it was a total waste of time. John’s story about the engineer listening in is funny though, Damien rushing to the defence from the onslaught of gav was good too, what a great put down, to be so incensed to search for the offence was great. what would the young lady have done without you? Oh yeah she’d ignored it.

  25. Person

    January 6, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    Don’t think it’s funny at all. It wasted my time as well as that of the two gardai involved… sigh.

  26. Al

    January 7, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    That’ funny I just did the same thing, complete waste of time, but I’m the fun police so I know why the sites are blocked.

    Under Section 12 of the Criminal Law Act of 1976, a person convicted of wasting Garda time could face a sentence of up to five years imprisonment. The prankster could also be charged with “obstruction” for making it impossible for the two cops to make other calls, and thusly prevent them from carrying out their duties. The Garda could also pursue a charge of bringing the Garda and by extension the law into disrepute. All in all not a good idea to admit to doing this, especially as it’s not funny, liked John’s story though.

    Risking the wrath of Damien, Gav was right to point out it might be a good idea to remove the story, and I think he was right for apologising. Before you ask, I won’t be returning to the site so you’ll get no more free legal advice from me

  27. Oisin McGuigan

    January 8, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    nice but this is the best!!
    http://angry-bloke.freeonlinegames.com/

    brilliant!!!!

  28. evan frost

    January 8, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    I think its gas, my friend acctually made de calls. showed it to me on his fone ages ago. loads of other funny calls made dat nite aswel. some of you people r no fun……..take your fingers out!

  29. Banjo

    January 10, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Heard this morning on Newstalk , its excellent

  30. Mary Jo

    January 10, 2007 at 11:36 am

    it’s now on Reddit:

    http://reddit.com/new

  31. Des

    January 10, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    Heard a version on Australian radio where the DJ rang two sex lines. He told one both girls that his girlfriend wnated to do this but was shy sso to go easy on her when she came on thus buying time to ring the other one. ten both of them started and it was liek they both had a standard sex line script.

    what ya doing?,
    what ya wearing?
    and eventually well you rang me
    no i didnt you rang me

  32. Maeve

    January 10, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    excellent – just wondering what would happen if we did it with some other government depts.. :D

  33. Dave

    January 10, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    Was on D’Arcy earlier. I though it was funny. Maybe I just have an inferior sense of humour.

  34. dar

    January 10, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Today fm have credited u ur famous

  35. The Other Lad

    January 10, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    That recording is hilarious, you people are just sour b@st@rds if you can’t see the funny side of that.

    It’s in the papers now anyway, http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1751452&issue_id=15084

    Good luck to them finding the person. Maybe it was Aliens who came down with that Meteorite…

  36. Eamonn

    January 10, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Today Fm credited you this morning on Ray Darcy! :)

  37. Luke

    January 10, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    I like it. Heard it earlier on today fm but i thought it was a clip from killinaskully because of the farmer accents on the two of them. “Musta been a meteorite that hit the line”. Brilliant. I’m off to try that on two people i don’t like.

  38. pat mustard

    January 10, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    its amazing how this has spread,and its amazing how many idiots have claimed they or their friend performed the prank.its not something that should be admitted to,especially when it has made it onto national airwaves!i think claire should be expecting a call from the castlebar gardai enquiring about how she came into possesion of this recording,theres serious s**t down here in castlebar over this because the connaught telegraph published an article on this yesterday on the front page and a script of the recording on page 8.believe me there must be a serious shortage of real news when they put this on the front page,but it didnt stop all of us having a seriously good laugh about it!
    it said that whoever did the prank also posted it up online,and they are now the subject of an intensive garda investigation.some people just dont have a sense of humour do they??lol.but i think claire might be off the hook because the connaught telegraph,in their infinite wisdom,experience and reporting skills,reported that the prank is hosted by youtube.i think this might have been originally the case?but ray darcy made your site famous by plugging it as the currentm host of the prank.
    anyways,good to see most people still have a sense of humour!!

  39. Alan the Ted

    January 10, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    Fantastic prank! Even Ray Darcy thinks so and he is the best ever.

  40. Furry Ner

    January 11, 2007 at 10:05 am

    Why on earth would the Gardai want to pursue this? They’re laughing their heads off themselves as well.

    ‘Wasting the Gardai’s time’. Humbug. Less than a minute! Don’t try to rain on this well played pranks parade, I say.

    Well done to ye!

  41. Eurodep

    January 11, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Am I missing something? This is funny? I mean, the two fellas obviously put it together that it was something screwy and they went on with their day. Funny idea for a prank, but this just wasnt funny. nice try… meh.

  42. clare

    January 11, 2007 at 10:48 am

    cannot find the prank call-am dying to hear it –but it seems ot have vanished -can someone please send it to me?

  43. Mono

    January 11, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    I heard another one on the brothers phone yesterday where some guy rang Westport guards to confess to hitting a “dog” on the Leenane road.. “We’ll say it was a dog” to quote the caller … when is that one going to be added???… There’ll be no debate about that one wasting gardaí’s time.

  44. pat mustard

    January 11, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    “i’ve got a confession to make” “right,yes” “i think i hit something out the leenaune road…”.
    i hope that one doesnt make it up online!

  45. WebMa

    January 11, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Now that we’ve all found out about it and some of us that havn’t heard it are looking for it, it’s gone!
    Metiorited!

  46. Squeeze

    January 12, 2007 at 12:01 am

    “A meteorite hit the line” Fantastic!
    I didn’t know that Westport even needed a police station!!!

  47. frog

    January 12, 2007 at 1:16 am

    what age are we living in when gardas from Mayo think that a meteroite is responsible for there telephone communication problems?

  48. snyper

    January 12, 2007 at 11:33 am

    With stupid farmers like them protecting us i feel safer…

  49. Lorraine - Coventry

    January 12, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    Maybe it is my English sense of humour but I didnt find that funny at all……… Bit boring really!

  50. Lena

    January 12, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    I like it, I found it amusing. Each to their own! Nice one.

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