Lifting Cars

Hotwheels

I happened to be in the vicinity of Beamount Hospital today, and the Gardái had a toe truck on Shantalla Rd taking away a minter 02 735i, looked immaculate…

Young’ish bloke standing beside transporter was not a happy chappie…

Are they seizing cars for no tax etc now?

mondeo

Hotwheels wrote: »

I happened to be in the vicinity of Beamount Hospital today, and the Gardái had a toe truck on Shantalla Rd taking away a minter 02 735i, looked immaculate…

Young’ish bloke standing beside transporter was not a happy chappie…

Are they seizing cars for no tax etc now?

Possibly , not the sort of motor you see a youngish lad driving anyways.

biko

They're seizing 1000s of cars per year now for no tax/NCT/... so that's probably why the beamer was on the tow truck.

Hotwheels

Magnus wrote: »

They're seizing 1000s of cars per year now for no tax/NCT/... so that's probably why the beamer was on the tow truck.

First time I've seen this, never came across it in Galway...

MunsterCycling

He should of hopped in to it, they can't lift it then.

quarryman

Was the Garda wearing his hat?

mickdw

Only right. I hate that crap of driving around in something flash & not being able to afford to tax it.

johndaman66

mickdw wrote: »

Only right. I hate that crap of driving around in something flash & not being able to afford to tax it.

Would agree. Or driving a bling bling car or 4wd with a for sale sticker on the back window because the owner cannot afford to pay for the damn thing... I think the reason one should generally buy a top end motor is because they are pretty flush and such is sometimes obviously not the case. Would think more of somebody driving something rough and ready who owned the bloody thing:rolleyes:

StupidLikeAFox

We could all buy flashy cars if we're paying with someone elses money, different story when it comes to running them though

?Heard this happen to at least two people who had their cars taken for no tax

milltown

mickdw wrote: »

Only right. I hate that crap of driving around in something flash & not being able to afford to tax it.

Reminds me, I was filling up with petrol a while back and a young (very early 20s) guy pulls up in a two or three year old Merc 500CL (might even have been a 600 if such a thing exists, can't remember) with a couple of young tarts wedged into the back of it, and proceeds to put a fiver in it! I kid you not

Hopefully he didn't live too far away. Then the fiver might have covered his trip to the garage and back.

bonzodog2

milltown wrote: »

Reminds me, I was filling up with petrol a while back and a young (very early 20s) guy pulls up in a two or three year old Merc 500CL (might even have been a 600 if such a thing exists, can't remember) with a couple of young tarts wedged into the back of it, and proceeds to put a fiver in it! I kid you not

Hopefully he didn't live too far away. Then the fiver might have covered his trip to the garage and back.

Surely you'd fit more than two ?

mickdw

milltown wrote: »

Reminds me, I was filling up with petrol a while back and a young (very early 20s) guy pulls up in a two or three year old Merc 500CL (might even have been a 600 if such a thing exists, can't remember) with a couple of young tarts wedged into the back of it, and proceeds to put a fiver in it! I kid you not

Hopefully he didn't live too far away. Then the fiver might have covered his trip to the garage and back.

At least we can be pretty sure that was daddys car. Im sure daddy could well afford it though.

robtri

milltown wrote: »

Reminds me, I was filling up with petrol a while back and a young (very early 20s) guy pulls up in a two or three year old Merc 500CL (might even have been a 600 if such a thing exists, can't remember) with a couple of young tarts wedged into the back of it, and proceeds to put a fiver in it! I kid you not

Hopefully he didn't live too far away. Then the fiver might have covered his trip to the garage and back.

yep a CL600 exsists as well as a CL55 and a CL65... on top of the CL500

even at that the CL500 gets 16.3mpg around town....
so €5 say €1.20 a litre is 4.17 litres = 1.1gallons... or 18miles.......
hope his house isnt too far :D:D

keithclancy

Magnus wrote: »

They're seizing 1000s of cars per year now for no tax/NCT/... so that's probably why the beamer was on the tow truck.

They should to a tv campaign with the following but with road tax instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-PemhvXHc

ha-ya-said-what

Hotwheels wrote: »

Are they seizing cars for no tax etc now?

They've been at that yonks, ya can't not know where there is a check point in Dublin, you see a fleet of ITS lorries loaded with cars & an army of people stuck on the footpaths & not a bus stop in sight!

Bring on the day when they seize them for driving with one or no headlights, fecking sick of the amount of stingy buggars on the road to mean to even replace a headlight bulb!

Yakuza

robtri wrote: »

even at that the CL500 gets 16.3mpg around town....
so €5 say €1.20 a litre is 4.17 litres = 1.1gallons... or 18miles.......
hope his house isnt too far :D:D

4.17 litres is approx 0.9 gallons (you were using the US gallons conversion factor), so he only had a range of 15 miles

Back on topic...in the UK (at least on Road Wars ) I've sometimes seen them leave a seized car at the side of the road with massive "NO TAX NO CAR" stickers on it. Presumably this is to act as a warning for all others driving on that road?