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Journalist refuses to pay speeding fine into "banker slush fund"

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  • #2
    chalkitdown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭chalkitdown


    Fair play to him. Hope it becomes a trend.


  • #3
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    DoesNotCompute wrote: »
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/journalist-who-refused-to-pay-fine-into-bankers-slush-fund-wins-day-in-court-15144910.html

    well done, fair play, gwan you legend, fight the power!!! <insert socialist commentary here> etc etc etc

    Finally, a principled journalist!



    You can stop laughing right now!


  • #4
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Eh why wasn't the guard there?


  • #5
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Yes, let's all fight the immoral bankers by...


    ...speeding with impunity.


  • #6
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    chalkitdown wrote: »
    Fair play to him. Hope it becomes a trend.

    Certainly, with those that can afford a decent defense anyway, cant imagine joe builder getting away with it.


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  • #7
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    He only got away with it because the prosecuting Garda didn't turn up. I don't know if I could risk it myself. Can't chance on a grand at the moment.


  • #8
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Eh why wasn't the guard there?

    Exactly. I hear of this too often where they don't even bother to show up. He should be punished.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Eh why wasn't the guard there?

    Probably at MABS because he couldn't pay his bills.


  • #10
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Eh why wasn't the guard there?

    Blue Flu?


  • #11
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Hmmm, so he didn't so much "win" as "caught a lucky break". He was speeding and decided not to pay the fine. I don't really give a f*ck about his politic views. He should have been made give the money to charity if he objects that much to the "slush fund".


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  • #12
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Eh why wasn't the guard there?
    Couldn't afford the bus fare.


  • #13
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    He doesn't want to give money to the corrupt gov. ok. Does anyone know whether he offered an alternative? Or is he just saying that breaking the law should not be punished?

    Twat. Civil disobedience my *.

    Talk to the Lybians, they know what the word means.


  • #14
    Chnandler Bong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Chnandler Bong


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Probably at MABS because he couldn't pay his bills.
    keano_afc wrote: »
    Blue Flu?
    Raping..........too soon????


  • #15
    ShamoBuc
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Chnandler Bong wrote: »
    Raping..........too soon????


    yes


  • #16
    GerM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭GerM


    He broke the law and should be fined accordingly. Civil disobedience my balls. He was speeding on a heavily populated road in a built up area. Pure luck that he didn't get the full €1k fine and, if he did, we'd be saying what a jackass he is.


  • #17
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    It's great when your own selfish interests topically dovetail with an act of pseudo-altruiism.

    Make him pay it into a charity or jail him. And then consider changing the law to usher in public flogging for such cases.


  • #18
    Grayson Attractive Cobble
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Grayson Attractive Cobble


    He'd rather risk paying 1000 euro into the slush fund than 80?

    Right so


  • #19
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    If he object so much to the 'slush fund' he should stop paying his car tax and drive at the speed limit.

    Seems like a self-obsessed, self-interested, speeding justifying moron to me.

    I mean he's right in a sort of juvenile way about not paying off the banks debt... but he's a journalist, maybe he could, you know, write about it, rather than endangering others and attempting to justify it as civil disobedience.


  • #20
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    A journalist who refused to pay a speeding fine as an act of civil disobedience has won his day in court.

    Was speeding not civil disobedience enough for him?


  • #21
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    DOes he still get points?


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  • #22
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    DoesNotCompute wrote: »
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/journalist-who-refused-to-pay-fine-into-bankers-slush-fund-wins-day-in-court-15144910.html

    well done, fair play, gwan you legend, fight the power!!! <insert socialist commentary here> etc etc etc

    Do you know what would have been a load easier?

    Not speeding.

    Uppity ****ing journo scum refusing to accept he is a criminal etc.


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