Ireland

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?

(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.

82 replies on “Garda Communication”

[…] Even with little resources, a company or indvidual can get massive coverage for their product or endeavour. This seems to be happening more and more even in the little old broadband backwater of Ireland. Judging by the 10s of 1000s that visited my site to hear Twink tell her husband to zip his mickey (since removed after advice) and the loads of hits that Claire got for the Meteorite Gardai, it shows there is a massive potential audience even for something so parochial and the cost of distribution is zero. […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTMmSegQGc

I think the Gardai in Castlebar obviously have no work to do if they have to investigate into this prank call. It appears that they are just sooo humiliated that they have to make it out to be more serious than it really is.
What would they do if something dramatic happened in Castlebar??
And as for the Connacht Telegraph, oh please! Who buys that paper anyway..

[…] A silly bit of Web audio based on a phone prank (audio here, YouTube version here, although still audio. This reduces me (and others) to helpless laughter. I have resolved to use “Meteorite Hit The Line” as the title of my next essay, if at all possible. Anyway, the Irish Times published a little story on it today, although tragically they didn’t mention the punchline, just some po-faced worrying: A Garda superintendent in Co Mayo has issued a warning to phone pranksters following an incident in which the communication rooms in two of the main Garda stations in the county were linked up via mobile phone and the subsequent conversations posted on the internet. […]

hahahaaaaaa….great stuff. And what other inventive things do you do for amusement?

Thats hilarious. Yous have no sense of humour if you dont think it was funny. Wasting Garda Time my hole. It was only a few seconds of time. Im sure they spend alot more time on the phone to Dominos and in Chipper Queues

[…] Yesterday afternoon I got an email from an Irish animator, Ian Kenny, who funnily enough I intended to post about as part of an update to an earlier post. Last week, totally unrelated to that, he had been sent a link to the Garda Prank post and thought it would be a great clip to animate. The result can be viewed on his site HERE and it’s absolutely brilliant, he’s captured the expressions and timing perfectly. Great work Ian! […]

[…] After the original Garda Communication post by gingerpixel, the hilarity that is two confused GardaÃ went rocketing round the tinkerweb until the inevitable happened: […]

[…] No time this morning but this really made me laugh (via Damien) […]

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