Is this true or one of theose stories that start small and...

okidoki987

was doing a broadband wireless install last week for a Garda from the Traffic Corps. While I was there, he told me that starting Saturday 1 st July, they will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that over e250,000 will be generated in speeding tickets. 100,000 will go to pay Garda over time. There will 50 Gardai on duty at all times patrolling on the following:

M7/N7 from Naas to Portlaoise
N4 to Mullingar from Dublin
N6 to Athlone
N81 to Baltinglass
N11 to Wexford
M50
Dublin - Drogheda


Their will be additional Gardai assigned to 'flying squads' - mobile units to patrol all other routes in Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Laois,
Westmeath, Offaly, Louth and Kilkenny

I'm warning everyone now that 5 kmph above the limit can justify a ticket and every Garda is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 20 minutes. They have issued brand new unmarked cars. If you must take one of these main routes, or surrounding roads beware. It's up to you how fast you go.
I was told Today FM confirmed all of this(off the record). So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you. You've been warned.

monkeyfudge

I do believe it's an offense to tip people off about speed traps.

Dragan

If your speeding you deserve your ticket, i don't care if they are actively hunting or not!!!!

WhiteWashMan

okidoki987 wrote:

was doing a broadband wireless install last week for a Garda from the Traffic Corps. .

out of curiosity, who do you work for?

Kiera

I got that too. These come around once a year. Its just one of those chain mails like the guys in the Ilac carpark selling perfume.

Alun

This has been posted here on various other forums at least 4 times within the last few days. I don't believe a word of it personally ... snopes.com or breakthechain.org material IMHO.

MrB

I got that one in an e-mail from someone I work with.
*sniff sniff sniff*
Smells like a Chain-e-mail to me

(and so it is http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp)

dubtom

Yea, sums don't add for a start, isn't a speeding fine 80 quid.50 guards doing 3 an hour would be around 96K a day, over 30 days total would be over 2.8 mil.
But maybe they can't count at Guarda HQ.

Dragan

Guys, your all forgetting that the OP was TOLD to HIS FACE......by a Gardai no less!!!!

Must be through, surely no one has ever made up a rubbish post on boards.ie!!!!

FX Meister

monkeyfudge wrote:

I do believe it's an offense to tip people off about speed traps.

What's that got to do with the price of chips?

okidoki987

OP was TOLD to HIS FACE

Not me, I just copied the E-mail I got but wasn't sure if it was a **** take or not.
If it is, it's a good way to stop people speeding

Pythia

MrB wrote:

I got that one in an e-mail from someone I work with.
*sniff sniff sniff*
Smells like a Chain-e-mail to me

(and so it is http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp)

God bless that website.

emeraldstar

i was driving from clonmel to carrick-on-suir today and there was a garda van with a guard in it holding a speed camera and another guard across the road giving some one a ticket. Wasn't an unmarked car though.

crosstownk

Total rubbish - just a chain mail. There is an article in the Herald about it today.

Giblet

My brother got caught today so there you go, unmarked and everything.

Hobbes

Dragan wrote:

Guys, your all forgetting that the OP was TOLD to HIS FACE......by a Gardai no less!!!!

Strange how the Gardai told him word for word as the Snopes article.

Although if I was a gardai in the traffic dept I'd randomly tell 5-10 computer geeks that and your guarnteed they will tell everyone online within hours.

Giblet wrote:

My brother got caught today so there you go, unmarked and everything.

They have been going around for a while. One patrols just off the M50 and around the N32. See them catching people from day to day. You wouldn't reconise it as a cop car until the lights go off (and they are hidden).