A "Meet" or a protest?

ShayK1

hey,

The esso at the junction of the naas road and the long mile road was absolutely FULL with cars on sunday evening around 9 ish. They were mostly "modified" cars and I was just wondering if this was a cruise/meet or were they blocking up the fuel station in protest to high fuel prices??

Anybody else see it?

NiSmO

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colm_mcm

there was a classic car show in Terenure that day, there were some 90's cars in it too. that's what that was.

NiSmO

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colm_mcm

ok, put it this way. most of the 90's stuff at Terenure that day were: Sierra Cosworths, RX7's, FTO's M3's etc. i.e sporty cars.

there could have been a cruise, but as Terenure was admitting show cars at 10-ish, I'd say a fair chunk of them were from that.

blackbox

OP said Sunday EVENING.

Most cars were leaving Terenure around 1800, so that was unlikely to have been the source.

colm_mcm

oops, I read 9 in the morning!

Beta Ray Bill

Basically a Load of the 'Lads' (and Girls I might add) out for a race.

They don't even race in the industrial estates anymore. They o up and down main roads

Kilbarrack Road is a Great example... Should be called Kilbarrack Drift!

I live in about 500M away and I can hear there Engines and Exhausts as they race up and down that road. You can call the Garda but when(if) they arrive in their little Fiesta I think they don't bother. Stupid really

The Garda should have better cars.
Road racing is getting way to common... its so dangerous.

L1011

Based on the description of the Garda presence from one of the lads I work with who's unfortunately childish enough (well, he is a child...) to go along to these, it sounds as if its one of the ANPR Jeeps out to basically record who's present.

It'll last a couple of weeks or months, then one night while they're congregating in the industrial estate the guards will block all the roads in/out and scoop every single one of them for noisy exhausts / undeclared modifications on insurance / tax / insurance / whatever they can get them for. Has happened with 'meets' elsewhere in the country.

Beta Ray Bill

MYOB wrote: »

Based on the description of the Garda presence from one of the lads I work with who's unfortunately childish enough (well, he is a child...) to go along to these, it sounds as if its one of the ANPR Jeeps out to basically record who's present.

It'll last a couple of weeks or months, then one night while they're congregating in the industrial estate the guards will block all the roads in/out and scoop every single one of them for noisy exhausts / undeclared modifications on insurance / tax / insurance / whatever they can get them for. Has happened with 'meets' elsewhere in the country.

that would make to much sense for Raheny Garda

ShayK1

There was a squad car present... A YARIS!!!

I was on a bus and the whole bus errupted with laughter when we saw this Yaris squad

L1011

grahambo wrote: »

that would make to much sense for Raheny Garda

The Naas Road is in Raheny now?

Beta Ray Bill

MYOB wrote: »

The Naas Road is in Raheny now?

I ment the Garda in Raheny wouldnt bother catching them in a an industrial estate

Tipsy Mac

Cops can't do them on loud exhausts (as there's no legal limit in Ireland) or non disclosure to insurance company.

Beta Ray Bill

Tipsy Mac wrote: »

or non disclosure to insurance company.

what does this mean?

Flyer1

Hi everyone, just gonna add my 2cents worth here.

I'm out in Florida at the minute, all the cars here are huge, the smallest engine i've seen is a 2litre turbo in a Golf GTI which is inefficient to say the least ( they are the yanks ).

You see a lot of modded cars here, particularly pickups etc. There are some loud chevvy's and stuff around, much louder then at home and much more noticeable then a modded EVO or anything.

Every tuesday in the local mall there's a gathering of all modded cars/trucks/50's classics, you name it. Police pop in to see the cars, not to break it up and send everyone packing home. People doing donuts, burnouts, all things which people at home think is unearthly. People here are facilitated, not blocked from having fun.

There are drag strips every 20 or 30 miles to let people have their fun, it's all taken in as a family thing, unlike at home when there's any kind of fun to be had it must be stopped.

I think people need to lighten up, Ireland has totally become a country ruled by Health and Safety, rules, laws, red tape.

Our excise duty on the fuel is as much as fuel costs here. Home has become an unpleasant place to live, people complaining, the law clamping down so hard.

Let people have their fun, we all need to stop being spoilsports. If I see some guy on a motorbike popping a wheelie I love it, I don't ring up and complain that there is someone actually having fun. Big exhausts, go faster stripes, extra lights, go for it, dare to be different.

Lighten up folks....

-rant over-