Full House of bad driving

furtzy

Woman in a 05 Focus on the N2 this morning dawdling along at about 90kph in the over-taking lane on the phone with front and rear fog lights on...perfect idiot score all round. Anyone beat that?

Anan1

We should have snipers to deal with sh*t like that.

craichoe

furtzy wrote: »

Woman in a 05 Focus on the N2 this morning dawdling along at about 90kph in the over-taking lane on the phone with front and rear fog lights on...perfect idiot score all round. Anyone beat that?

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2008/1105/ireland/mhideyidsnau/

That guy

Berty

She is invisible when she gets into her car like most people.

All those nose pickers out there, you know who you are!!

I had a guy riding the bumper of car one day driving along on his mobile and smoking. I was going to be turning left up the road so indicating in more than usual time to suggest he might back off. He did not back off and kept smoking and talking and riding my bumper.

I braked heavier than usual. I know its wrong(dont bother) but I did it anyway. The cigarette and phone went all over the place. He got some fright. God damn Richard Head!!

shaywest

easy! pissing rain late sunday evening ,m50 ,getting dark, cars diving left and right trying to pass a little kia doing about 20kmh ,when eventually i got to pass i glansed in to see a granny texting,couldnt belive it!

Berty

shaywest wrote: »

easy! pissing rain late sunday evening ,m50 ,getting dark, cars diving left and right trying to pass a little kia doing about 20kmh ,when eventually i got to pass i glansed in to see a granny texting,couldnt belive it!

She could have been using her PDA/XDA Sat Nav to find the best way home.

cashmni1

craichoe wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2008/1105/ireland/mhideyidsnau/

That guy

Yip, hard to beat that guy alright.
He should have been in jail tho. 27 previous and a 20 year ban for driving already under his belt with 3 drink driving offences? Who gave him the car?
What moran left him drive a car? He obviously cannot look after himself. The state needs a big plug for these holes in our society.

DublinDilbert

cashmni1 wrote: »

Yip, hard to beat that guy alright.
He should have been in jail tho. 27 previous and a 20 year ban for driving already under his belt with 3 drink driving offences? Who gave him the car?
What moran left him drive a car? He obviously cannot look after himself. The state needs a big plug for these holes in our society.

+1

But sure it's Ireland, motoring offences aren't taken seriously till you kill someone!

Take the guy above (with the 20 year ban), if he showed up at a garda check point today and said he had no licence on him, he'd be told to produce within 10 days and allowed proceed, its mad really.

There's a lot to be said for the zero tolerance approach in other countries like canada, if people know they can't even get away with a "rolling stop" they definitely know they won't get away with anything bigger...

3102derek

going home from work monday night on the M7
heavy traffic but moving at 80kmph. i was in the inside lane (but lanes were bumper to bumper)- some idiot comes flying up the hard shoulder at least 100kmph, in a fecking 99-D-...... starlet.

also this was around 6pm so was getting Dark.
we were not even close to a slip road - so he/she could not use that as an excuse.

Berty

3102derek wrote: »

going home from work monday night on the M7
heavy traffic but moving at 80kmph. i was in the inside lane (but lanes were bumper to bumper)- some idiot comes flying up the hard shoulder at least 100kmph, in a fecking 99-D-...... starlet.

also this was around 6pm so was getting Dark.
we were not even close to a slip road - so he/she could not use that as an excuse.

Imagine your car was broken down 1km up the road and you and a helpful driver were pushing it into the hard shoulder. The car would not stop in time and plow over the lot. That driver will eventually get what is coming to him.

milltown

furtzy wrote: »

Woman in a 05 Focus on the N2 this morning dawdling along at about 90kph in the over-taking lane on the phone with front and rear fog lights on...perfect idiot score all round. Anyone beat that?

Hmmm...
I dunno about perfect. Were either of her indicators on?

furtzy

milltown wrote: »

Hmmm...
I dunno about perfect. Were either of her indicators on?

Don't think so. So maybe its more of a straight than a full house I've seen her around town before and another of her tricks is taking the inside lane for the fourth exit of roundabout. She really is the most consistently dangerous clueless ****head I've ever seen. Think its time i reported this clown

ART6

craichoe wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2008/1105/ireland/mhideyidsnau/

That guy

Two things irritate the hell out of me in cases like this. The court gave him a fifteen year ban when he had already been banned for twenty years in 2007. So essentially it seems, he will now be able to driive again in 2023 instead of 2027 -- a reduction of 4 years. Then, having killed two people by sheer madness and indifference to the welfare of others, we are given the sob story of his poor, disadvantaged youth. Does that upbringing mean that he has no concept of responsibility to others and no idea that driving while both banned and drunk out of his skull might be wrong? If the answer is yes, then he should be permanently locked away in a mental institution. If no then he should go to jail for murder for the rest of his miserable life. How in God's name can locking him away for 8 years less remission give "closure" to the victim's families?:mad:

Mitch Connor

Was undertaken on the N7 last night (guy used the hard shoulder, with 2 lanes to my right free) while driving using his PARKING LIGHTS.

Heroditas

Tauren wrote: »

Was undertaken on the N7 last night (guy used the hard shoulder, with 2 lanes to my right free) while driving using his PARKING LIGHTS.

Ooooooh, was he using his phone?
If so, he'd be pushing for top points.

Alun

Heroditas wrote: »

Ooooooh, was he using his phone?
If so, he'd be pushing for top points.

Nah, he'd have to be wearing a hat of some sort as well, preferably a cloth flat cap, to qualify for that.

Guy:Incognito

furtzy wrote: »

Don't think so. So maybe its more of a straight than a full house I've seen her around town before and another of her tricks is taking the inside lane for the fourth exit of roundabout. She really is the most consistently dangerous clueless ****head I've ever seen. Think its time i reported this clown

I had a middle aged woman do that to me in Templeogue the other day. I was going right (3rd exit) . There are 2 lanes going onto the roundabout so naturally I head for the right lane (I was behind her on the single lane road up to that. Nothing was on the roundabout so she went straight onto it without me actually getting alongside here before we went on, luckily enough becaus ewheindicates right as she heads all the way round to go to the 3rd exit aswell. I gave her the benifit of the doubt that maybe she realised she was going the worng way but then she pulled into a house about 100 yards after the roundabout. Stupid bint.

Guy:Incognito

DublinDilbert wrote: »

+1

But sure it's Ireland, motoring offences aren't taken seriously till you kill someone!

Take the guy above (with the 20 year ban), if he showed up at a garda check point today and said he had no licence on him, he'd be told to produce within 10 days and allowed proceed, its mad really

The UK use the 10 day produce aswell so it's not really a time to trot out the "only in Ireland" -isms.

SuprSi

ART6 wrote: »

Two things irritate the hell out of me in cases like this. The court gave him a fifteen year ban when he had already been banned for twenty years in 2007. So essentially it seems, he will now be able to driive again in 2023 instead of 2027 -- a reduction of 4 years. Then, having killed two people by sheer madness and indifference to the welfare of others, we are given the sob story of his poor, disadvantaged youth. Does that upbringing mean that he has no concept of responsibility to others and no idea that driving while both banned and drunk out of his skull might be wrong? If the answer is yes, then he should be permanently locked away in a mental institution. If no then he should go to jail for murder for the rest of his miserable life. How in God's name can locking him away for 8 years less remission give "closure" to the victim's families?:mad:

I totally agree with this. How his past had any influence on what he did to those people and their families is beyond belief. If he had kicked these two people to death, or raped them, he would have had a longer jail sentence. Why does committing a crime behind the wheel of a car make it any less severe in jail terms? He should be prosecuted for two counts of man-slaughter and sent to prison for the rest of his life. 8 years, what a joke. Makes me sick to think of how their families must be feeling after that ruling :mad:

S.I.R

furtzy wrote: »

Woman in a 05 Focus on the N2 this morning dawdling along at about 90kph in the over-taking lane on the phone with front and rear fog lights on...perfect idiot score all round. Anyone beat that?

fella in a transit reading a nuts mag, steering with his knees, doing around 40ish ( 30 zone )


close me thinks....

cyclopath2001

furtzy wrote: »

Woman in a 05 Focus on the N2 this morning dawdling along at about 90kph in the over-taking lane on the phone with front and rear fog lights on...perfect idiot score all round. Anyone beat that?

Woman driver in a 'townie tank', crosses a continuous white line drives straight at me, forces me to move over so she can pass on my inside before parking facing the wrong way, on a double yellow line opposite a continuous white line, with two wheels on the kerb....and yes, she was on the phone at the time.

Tabnabs

Woman in the people carrier tonight who was in the joining lane on the M50 at Ballinteer. Couldn't wait to join at the coorect place and crossed the chamfered area, right in front of a Garda 4x4. Stupid bint didn't even pull over when the blue lights came on, Gard had to lean on the horn to get her to pull over :rolleyes:

peanuthead

cashmni1 wrote: »

Who gave him the car?
What moran left him drive a car?

Im not saying what he did wasnt atrocious, but he's 27 years old, old enough to make his own decisions (albeit a bad one) You cant blame someone else for giving him a car, just because he was stupid enough to drive it whilst out of his mind!!

Drax

I passed some dopey bint on the N11 around 1pm today. She was doing about 70km/h, had a fag hanging out of her mouth, a earphone in her right ear yet holding a phone up to her left ear and having a chat ?? Totally oblivious to everything around her.
Oh to have been a copper.

Berty

Drax wrote: »

Oh to have been a copper.

All I want is one day in the Traffic Corps with my own patrol car. God help the first person I pull over. It would be "every dog has its day"

On the sarsfield roundabout today just after 10am, I was in the left lane heading towards the bandon road roundabout. An absolute moron in a black jeep in the right lane that goes towards wilton suddenly cut across me and flew up sarsfield road.
Missed me by inches. If your on here I was the guy on the motorbike that you barely avoided killing and you are an fcuking cnut of the highest order.:mad:

trishasaffron

Can I have a rant too?

Last night coming home on the Merrion road - bumper to bumper all the way.

One guy in a VW golf (what else) a few cars behind me sprints up in the inside lane (which turns into a bus lane) then wants to filter in ahead of me - I hold my ground because, while I totally agree with alternative car filtering where appropriate, I don't think it applies where a guy just races up a bus lane and wants to get back in. BUT this guy pushes in in front of me almost grazing my car - opens his window and shouts at me. I held back and let him in - though steaming. A couple of 100 yards further up he does the same again with the bus lane and again pushes in front of another reluctant driver. Net effect - he gets home 30 seconds earlier than he would have - at least two drivers suffering high blood pressure.

superjosh9

I was driving today, and I saw a car take a left turn!!!! I was ****** outraged!!!!!!











re the golf doing that, that's the worst I find because they are so ignorant. You actually want to floor it right into them.

bigpinkelephant

Dyflin wrote: »

Woman in the people carrier tonight who was in the joining lane on the M50 at Ballinteer. Couldn't wait to join at the coorect place and crossed the chamfered area, right in front of a Garda 4x4. Stupid bint didn't even pull over when the blue lights came on, Gard had to lean on the horn to get her to pull over :rolleyes:

Someone did that to me one morning. I was doing 100kph at the time and she swerved out without indicating and literally was within 2 feet in front of me.
She was driving slower than I was so I had to swerve. I didn't have time to check over my shoulder and see if there was anyone on the other side of me. There was, but luckily they had seen what happened and they moved over for me. They probably heard me scream, I honestly nearly crapped myself.

Then yesterday evening I was at a crossroads. A bus was on the left of the junction and was turning right in front of me. Unfortunately he cut the corner and I had to reverse out of his way or else he would have driven into me. He missed me by a hair.

ergonomics

Was walking into a hotel with my jetlagged sister who had just arrived from Australia this morning. Suddenly a jeep pulls in near us, does a U-turn way too fast, mounts the kerb almost taking her out and drives off without a look in his mirror. He could have broken her legs.

To make up for it we were on O'Connell Street in Limerick later on and there's an unmarked Garda car parked outside Penney's. Now anyone who knows the area will know there are rarely any cars parked there, and the Garda car was the ONLY car there at the time. Anyway, guy in a very similar jeep as earlier reverses up to park and smacks right into the Garda car. Again, I must stress that there were no other cars there expect the Garda car and he managed to reverse into it. I stood for a good ten minutes unashamedly watching, it was great.

Seth Brundle

quirke_folder wrote: »

All I want is one day in the Traffic Corps with my own patrol car. God help the first person I pull over. It would be "every dog has its day"

You and me both!
I'd be like Judge Dredd!

Voodoomelon

Sitting at the lights at PJ Carrolls at Dundalk, one of the busiest junctions in the northeast (it connects Dundalk to the M1). There's a huge yellow square about 20 metres long on the ground before you actually get to the lights to allow big artic' trucks to get through the junction.

So i was sitting two cars back, all in all about 30 metres from the lights because of the yellow square. The last car went across our path (on the primary road) and our lights turned green a few seconds later. So it takes a good 2 seconds for the first car to get going and passes across the junction about 5 seconds later.
The next car (the car in front of me) THANK GOD was a fair few seconds behind him, because all of a sudden, a big jeep came TEARING through the junction at well over 80kmph on the primary road! It was one of those times where you just think "did i imagine that?!". The poor fella/woman in front of me must have shat themselves, whoever the jeep was went through his own lights AT LEAST 5 seconds late.

That could have been something we'd have nightmares about for years...

furtzy

S.I.R wrote: »

fella in a transit reading a nuts mag, steering with his knees, doing around 40ish ( 30 zone )


close me thinks....

Could have a winner here.....the whole transit/nuts magazine thing scores extra cliche points

Marcus.Aurelius

kbannon wrote: »

You and me both!
I'd be like Judge Dredd!

Me sees possibilities for making some overtime :pac:

300 euro per day and you can do my job for me.

Fozzie Bear

My old house mate was driving from Galway to Headford one evening a few years back. He noticed smoke coming from the back wheels of the car in front of him and being the good Samaritan he flashed his lights at the car in front to pull over. It eventually got the message and stopped. Mate went up the drivers door and asked the lady did she know about the smoke? Yes came the reply and the car seems very sluggish too. Its like there is something holding it back. At this point my mate seen her handbrake was fully engaged and asked the obvious question. She went very very red.....

andrewh5

Stekelly wrote: »

The UK use the 10 day produce aswell so it's not really a time to trot out the "only in Ireland" -isms.

Correct. The difference is that the UK police can (and do) call the DVLA at Swansea to check if you have a licence. They are using the producer less and less these days. They also have all insurance details on the Police national computer so can tell if a driver is insured or not. Furthermore, driving unaccompanied in the UK automatically invalidates your insurance so the police seize the vehicle - the same applies to driving without a licence as well.

Heroditas

I'm constantly amazed more people aren't killed or badly injured with each passing day.

Last week I was joining the M50 southbound coming from the N4. Now many of you will know that there are two lanes that join the M50 from the N4 - the merging lane and the auxiliary lane. I was in the merging lane and as soon as I got to the bottom of the turn off the N4 I sped up to merge as quickly as possible. Had a look in the mirrors, checked the blind spot and proceeded to merge onton the inside lane of the M50. However, some stupid bint was in the auxiliary lane then decided at 60kmph to drift out of that lane, right across my lane and also across into the middle lane of the M50. No indicating of course. I was doing nearly 100kmph at the time and a guy in the middle lane (who had moved there to allow me to merge) was doing the same speed.

Cue massive slamming on of brakes from both of us as the stupid cow then tootles up the middle lane at 60kmph. Both of us sat on the horn and as I then overtook her she turned to look at me with a massive scowl on her face and I can see her mouth "I have CHILDREN in the car!" .... eh... whatever!!! Stop puting their lives in danger then! :rolleyes:

cashmni1

peanuthead wrote: »

Im not saying what he did wasnt atrocious, but he's 27 years old, old enough to make his own decisions (albeit a bad one) You cant blame someone else for giving him a car, just because he was stupid enough to drive it whilst out of his mind!!

I understand that, but I was more heading towards the "system" failure for a person with so many convictions, more that likely with no income, how he came to driving a car with no licence and no insurance. Apparently, he had just bought the car the that day I think.
Anyway, yes, if a criminal can walk into a car sales office and buy a car without any insurance or licence, so can he. There just isn't any restrictions when buying a car and driving off into the sunset, or is there?