***** out on the road

Bargain_Hound

Had an unpleasent experience last night while I was out driving. Driving through dalkey in an area I don't know too well A fiesta and Glanza approaced from behind flashing their lights indicating for me to pull over, I slowed down and pulled over thinking maybe they want to get passed they pulled right up to my bumper and then the other car tried to pass out. First impression was they wanted to corner me in, and I could see the 2 cars were full of young lads that didn't look to be the type I would want to stop for. Foot to floor and off I go straight away as one car tried to pass me out I realised these were after something.

Following me through the estate and me not knowing my exact way around and them up my h*le I find my way out and they're still following me regardless of the speed i'm going. At this stage I was above the speed limit not wanting to stop for these, goin through the town a mile or 2 down the road they are still up my hole flashing so I decide to hit the breaks and as I do one of the cars try to pass me, i spotted a taxi rank with a few taxi's in it and people standing around ( first sign of life I've seen since this started) so I pull in there and the cars crawl to a stop and crawl by me heads hanging out the window. I waited to see where they went and they turned around and came back up the road. I eventually took off again and I could see them turning around again, I was gone too fast for them to find me again. Down the road I spotted 2 gardai cars so I was going to just take it easy around there and if they came back it'd be over to the gardai I would of gone.

Just be careful out there, I don't know what these guys wanted but it certainly wasn't normal behaviour.

Didn't know whether I should of contacted the gardai to let them know.

pipsqueak

eh ok thanks

Drummerboy08

I would have told the guards straight up. These could be at it again tonight, and whatever they wanted with you last night, they might get it tonight...

Anan1

pipsqueak wrote: »

eh ok thanks

Don't be a fool all your life, pipsqueak.

Sorry to hear that OP, sounds like you did the right thing.

pipsqueak

Anan1 wrote: »

Don't be a fool all your life, pipsqueak.

Sorry to hear that OP, sounds like you did the right thing.

thats twice you called me a fool, keep it up!

bazz26

Seems to be the latest scanger thrill, that and hijacking buses.

They do it because they know they will get away with it or if caught only get a slap on the knuckles. The laws are too kind to these scumbags.

Darragh29

Sure the cops would have been too busy eating their snack boxes.

You need my friend below with you in such a situation...

Bargain_Hound

Darragh29 wrote: »

Sure the cops would have been too busy eating their snack boxes.

You need my friend below with you in such a situation...

Sure that's where I seen the 2 cars, outside the local chipper :rolleyes:

SV

is your car a desirable one?

Bargain_Hound

ClioV6 wrote: »

is your car a desirable one?

Nope, not at all. Desirable if you'd like to trash it around a field :pac:

Gran Hermano

ClioV6 wrote: »

is your car a desirable one?

Has to be more deisrable than a glanza...

SV

Bargain_Hound wrote: »

Nope, not at all. Desirable if you'd like to trash it around a field :pac:

Weird one then, I've heard of this happening before with car jacking but..no idea with yours so!

just gobshítes is all I suppose!

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Has to be more deisrable than a glanza...

:P

smash

If it happened in Dalkey then call the cops with all the details, they should be on camera somewhere. Really you should have told the cops straight up, or phoned them while it was happening - you can hardly bring it up in court when you receive a letter with points for speeding.

Cookie_Monster

Anan1 wrote: »

, sounds like you did the right thing.

How? by speeding around estates just to keep them behind him?

Bargain_Hound

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

How? by speeding around estates just to keep them behind him?

Well what would you do in such a situation then? I probably wasn't going above the speed limits, but by speeding I mean speeds through the narrow roads I wouldn't have been comftorble with in normal driving conditions.

Cookie_Monster

Bargain_Hound wrote: »

Well what would you do in such a situation then?

Drive normally and let them sit behind me, lock the doors and probly take the reg if i could just in case. I'm not going to be intimidated by a bunch of muppets on the road.

david

Next time they do it, slowly pull the handbrake and wait for the claim. Even if theyre not insured the gardai should have them off the road then.

Owen

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Has to be more deisrable than a glanza...

I refuse to give those sooped up little granny cars any street cred by calling them Glanzas. They're starlets, like the one my Mother drove. Star-let.

Berty

They either thought you were somebody else or wanted to car jack you. Horrible thought but there you go.

Speeding is definately warranted in this case because a judge will always ask "was it a life or death situation that made you speed" and in your case it "could have been" because you dont know what they wanted.

Darragh29

Berty wrote: »

They either thought you were somebody else or wanted to car jack you. Horrible thought but there you go.

Speeding is definately warranted in this case because a judge will always ask "was it a life or death situation that made you speed" and in your case it "could have been" because you dont know what they wanted.

There just out to harrass anyone, you just happened to be that person, it'll be someone else tonight. If you got out to them and dragged one of them out of the car, they'd probably p*ss themselves.

Bargain_Hound

Berty wrote: »

They either thought you were somebody else or wanted to car jack you. Horrible thought but there you go.

Speeding is definately warranted in this case because a judge will always ask "was it a life or death situation that made you speed" and in your case it "could have been" because you dont know what they wanted.

To be honest, I was hoping I came across a check-point, speed trap or anything but the first sign of life was at the taxi rank and thats why I pulled in there. I would be more then happy to explain to a gardai after being pulled over about the whole situation and hopeful pursue the issue.

HashSlinging

OP two words -


Golf Ball


Ok

-Chris-

Tell the Gardai immediately. Give them all the info you can. Odds are, they already know who it is.

You could save someone else the worry/fear if this happened to them. I'd hate to think what would happen if this happened to a lone woman driver or an elderly person... Even if the lads are just out to wind people up, it could destroy someone's confidence for a while.

Holsten

Scummers messing you about looking for "de buzz".

DonJose

If they wanted to carjack you then all they need do is nudge into the back of your car at traffic lights, your natural instinct would be to get out of the car and see what the fukk happened.

Darragh29

OP did ya not get a reg no?

Rowley Birkin QC

Are you of the female persuasion?

It's one thing if they wanted the car but a whole other ball game if they were after something else. Worth giving the law a shout, even just to cover yourself if anyone reported you for dangerous driving.

Gran Hermano

If I was driving I'd just ignore the little scrotes and drive to the nearest
garda station. If possible put a call into the garda (use hands free or passenger)
explaining what's happening and pass on as much detail
re: the car following you, it's passengers and your location/route.

Always worth keeping the car doors locked when out and about.
No point flooring it and endangering yourself and others.
Keep your cool.

Bargain_Hound

Darragh29 wrote: »

OP did ya not get a reg no?

No, the glare off the high-beams make it difficult to get it.

peasant

Anan1 wrote: »

Don't be a fool all your life, pipsqueak.

play nice, Anan1

smash

There's no point in creating a thread about it, just call the cops before they kill someone, or someone kills themselves trying to get away from them... scumbags!

RandomAccess

Yeah seriously call the cops.. don't be afraid to use 999, even a while after the event.
Too much is made of it being an Emergency number, by that I mean that you don't have to be on fire to use it! Waiting to get home and ring the local guards leaves them too long to leave the area.

Chances are they did another one of these on the same night..

congo_90

HashSlinging wrote: »

OP two words -


Golf Ball


Ok

huh?

Op you done the right thing. I had this done to me at the walkinstown roundabout where they attempted to ram me off the road several times in an almera and a glanza (glansham) I managed to place a call to tallaght garda and told them to be ready luckily they had a car at the on the run garage on the greenhills road and set off in the blues

bladebrew

wtf? i dont see the point? they just followed you flashing their lights?! and tailgating,if i had enough petrol/diesel id just keep driving around randomly, surely they wouldnt find it funny for that long! or just drive to the nearest garda station!

shakenbake

bargain_hunter, just so you know you weren't the only driver to run into these pricks the other night. There's a post on dtdirl.com where someone met that glanza on the wrong side of the road! Definitely worth a call to the cops. They should be put through a mincer and fed straight into pot holes.

CreepingDeath

freakonaleashx wrote: »

Next time they do it, slowly pull the handbrake and wait for the claim. Even if theyre not insured the gardai should have them off the road then.

You're making the huge assumption that they own the car.
They could've nicked the car they were in and were running low on petrol or the like... who knows.

Gumbo

these guys were spotted by others too

http://www.dtdirl.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38659

Karoma

japzeye wrote: »

I think pipsqueak must must be a boyracer scumbag,just like the scum that were up your hole!

Goodbye. Banned.

Bargain_Hound

bladebrew wrote: »

just drive to the nearest garda station!

That was the intention or to atleast find the gards out on the road (which I did several minutes later after I lost them, but i just wanted to head home at this stage)When you feel they are trying to corner you in you have no choice but to drive and that's all I did. This simply was not normal behaviour and I felt threatened hence why I am highlighting the fact these guys are out there potentially causing harm to other people.

Infact this could be all blown out of proportion, these guys might have only been doing this to act the muppet, even in that case you would still feel threatened and would not like to stop either way.

CianRyan

What ever the case, its people like these that shouldnt be given licenses, thats presuming they had them...

And weather or not they wanted your car, or where just being muppets, its anti social behavour, dangerous driving and threatening behavour and can/should be punished.

I hate people like these.
Thanks for posting this.

Seth Brundle

thread locked at OPs request