Late nineties, I was still in my teens.
It was the middle of the night, we're driving down a back road in Fermanagh, and there's a loyalist checkpoint up ahead. A pistol was placed in my hands "just in case".

We were waved through. I've been through checkpoints that were more likely to end in tears, but having to carry a gun past paramilitaries rather than talk my way through was fucking awful.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 23:47, 8 replies)

Carrying for whom?
May I ask?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 6 Apr 2012, 2:08, closed)

The owner of the gun (a politician with no links to any paramilitary organisation) had been issued it by the RUC for his own protection.
But he was asleep on the back seat, so wasn't much help.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 8:19, closed)

So, in summary
When you were a teenager you were sharing the backseat of a car with a politician, who put his weapon in your hands.

Did it go off?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 6 Apr 2012, 12:15, closed)

I call bollocks
Pretty sure the RUC didn't go around dishing out firearms to members of the public.
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Wed 11 Apr 2012, 16:43, closed)

Can't tell you that
or he'll have to kill you.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 8:24, closed)

Honda Accord
by any chance?
(ubergeekian, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 9:55, closed)

Not like there's any
Irish people with political affiliations on this board.
Oh no.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 6 Apr 2012, 10:18, closed)

My chin seems to be itching somewhat at the moment.




















( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 12:00, closed)