WATCH: Gamer creates Garda van in racing game, brilliantly annoys other players

Rory Cashin

It takes a certain level of genius to annoy people this perfectly.

If you’ve ever played Forza Horizon 4 on the Xbox or PC (and you really should, because it is great), then you’ll already know that the primary point of the game’s existence in to let the player get involved in races that look and feel as realistically as his scientifically possible without actually sitting in a car and driving it off yourself.

Which is why it is so brilliantly funny that this gamer – going by the name of An Forza Síochána on Twitter – created a Garda van to play in game, and uses the opportunity to annoy his fellow gamers by setting up roadblocks and bringing “traffic” (i.e. full-on speed races) to a complete standstill by parking the Garda Van perpendicular to the oncoming vehicles.

For a taster of the level of frustration he must be causing in other players, check out the video here:

No insurance, No tax, No NCT, No Excuses. All drivers face fines with court to follow. pic.twitter.com/H4UV4axbwz

— An Forza Síochána (@ForzaTraffic) February 10, 2021

It takes a true genius to come up with something this outside of the box, so of course we had to chat to the player behind An Forza Síochána, and asked what was the inspiration behind creating the Garda van, to which they told us:

“Usually in this game you take a stock car and make it better with modifications. I had to do the opposite with the Garda van. The process of painting, modifying and tuning cars in Forza and is almost like a separate game in itself but you will get better and the process can be fun and rewarding.”

While we know how we’d personally respond to a race come to a screeching halt because of a badly parked Garda van (controller snapped in half, entire console out the window), we did wonder what has been the general reaction been so far:

“You get a lot of ‘lols’ from Irish online players, but when I’m constantly on top of them getting in their way, they get very annoyed or leave.”

That is understandable, to be honest. And finally, any other vehicle creations in the works?

“I’m in the process of creating a Supermac’s delivery van and a Dublin Street Clamper van.”

Perfect. Just… perfect. You can follow @ForzaTraffic right here.

Absolutely disgraceful behaviour on the back roads to Bray today. Driver escaped our unit but probably burned a load of petrol in the process so we got the last laugh. #SlowDownTaFuck pic.twitter.com/O9C0rZDATL

— An Forza Síochána (@ForzaTraffic) February 8, 2021