Traffic Blues 830pm RTE 1 tonight

EPM

Just saw an ad for this. Should be worth a watch.

Our man in Havana

Same old sh1te as before, everything blurred out. Pass.

drunkmonkey

Could this guy be any more happy?

Sunnyisland

Lasts week episode was much better than last years, Big improvement,imho.

squod

johnos1984

I'll be watching TopGear for some light motoring related entertainment

EPM

johnos1984 wrote: »

I'll be watching TopGear for some light motoring related entertainment

Should hopefully be a new lap record tonight with the reasonably priced car. Vettel is on afaik.

TestTransmission

johnos1984 wrote: »

I'll be watching TopGear for some light motoring related entertainment

Me too, will sky+ traffic blues though

Sully

Thought last weeks was very good, much better than last year. Early days yet tho.

_Conrad_

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Could this guy be any more happy?

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On the subject of the actual show, if i even had a tv set up i doubt i'd watch that. I'm fairly sure it'll be rubbish

jimmynokia

TOP GEAR thank you

EPM

EPM wrote: »

Just saw an ad for this. Should be worth a watch.

Nice one, had forgotten about that and sitting here with the TV off

realies wrote: »

Lasts week episode was much better than last years, Big improvement,imho.

Indeed it was, it wasn't bad at all.

coylemj

Programs like these are done with the full co-operation of the subjects which means that they (in this case the Gardai) have full editorial control over what is broadcast, otherwise the people making the program wouldn't get the access they do.

It's the same with that program about the immigration people in Australia, you can even see their influence in the program description which describes them as 'the people who defend Australia's borders' when all they are is a bunch of customs and immigration officials.

No actors and no scriptwriter to pay means it's cheap TV but you have to take it as pure propaganda - definitely not a 'warts and all' production.

BArra

BEHIND YAH!!! BEHIND YAH!!

Sunnyisland

Did that end suddenly ?

Berty

The PR department seem to have pointed this programme in the direction of speeding.

Seems a little more professional this time.

horse7

most of the drivers done for penalty points wont even get them ,they are not irish nationals.

Berty

The PR department seem to have pointed this programme in the direction of speeding.

Seems a little more professional this time.

What about yer women in the Landrover? "You might be getting points in the post". Come on FFS. You either are or your not, tell the poor driver. :mad:

horse7

i thought the cop told the guy in the merc doing 150kph he failed the breath test?whats the story.

whyulittle

He failed the roadside test.

A more accurate test is taken back at the station, which he passed.

Oh_Noes

Beer Baron wrote: »

What about yer women in the Landrover? "You might be getting points in the post". Come on FFS. You either are or your not, tell the poor driver. :mad:

Yeah I was a bit bemused at that too. I was given penatly points for doing 60 in a 50 zone without any kids in the car and the guard told me right there and then.

Is there a possibilty that this woman won't actually be getting points?

Berty

whyulittle wrote: »

He failed the roadside test.

A more accurate test is taken back at the station, which he passed.

Exactly, maybe he had an old penny under his tongue.

I was wondering why he was all fuzzed(excuse the pun) in the video considering he failed the breath test. Surely, being videod in a public place, they should show his face as he WAS guilty of an offence / 2 offences.

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Yeah I was a bit bemused at that too. I was given penatly points for doing 60 in a 50 zone without any kids in the car and the guard told me right there and then.

Is there a possibilty that this woman won't actually be getting points?

Unless I suppose if he checked her license details back at the station to find she is not supposed to be driving. (Driving with an old duplicate license following ban) - Instant Court.

Run_to_da_hills

horse7 wrote: »

most of the drivers done for penalty points wont even get them ,they are not irish nationals.

Prawo Jazdy must have built up quite a few penalty points by now.

Mister Jingles

horse7 wrote: »

i thought the cop told the guy in the merc doing 150kph he failed the breath test?whats the story.

Road side breath test can't be used in court, if you fail the road side test you are arrested and brought to the station where you are put on the intoxilyzer machine and if you fail that then your charged. In this case the driver was over the 35mg on the M50 but when he blew into the bigger machine at the station he was under.

I'm surprised at those who don't stop immediately, the odds of getting away are minimal, specially when they lose their bottle after 200 yards. Decent program for an RTE thing.

Berty

RoverJames wrote: »

I'm surprised at those who don't stop immediately, the odds of getting away are minimal, specially when they lose their bottle after 200 yards. Decent program for an RTE thing.

I said to the Baroness

"That fella in the 206 will never get away from the Mondeo"

I was equally surprised at how lenient the Gardai were, the stereo story wasn't even remotely plausible. I would have thought an extra charge for not stopping would have been given, I suppose he stopped soon enough though, sofakingweetoddad to not stop as soon as the blue lights come on too. 'twas the same last week, a lad in a Brava didn't stop for a while, claimed he panicked, he was over the limit too. That was a checkpoint, defo should have charged him for not stopping at that me thinks.

V480

Very good programme. Obviously a PR excercise for the Guards but pretty entertaining nevertheless!

fryup

jayus those boyo's gave it some welly heading towards the border in that clapped out opel...surely the PSNI would have been notified and waiting for them or whats the story??

Marty McFly

Just watched it there not bad at all, it watchable anyway which is more than can be said for the last series.

RandomAccess

Available on RTE player now
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1104157

jaffa20

I'm enjoying it. Not focusing on speed so much all the time which is good. Good to see and insight into the traffic corps work.

Bodhan

I just watched it on the player, I think it's good to see how things work with the Guards in Ireland. Looks like a good production, I always pass a Garda car on the N7 (undercover) with a camera crew standing out with yellow jackets.
Having worked with the Guards on a number of motoring articles I know some of the stuff they put up with, the amount of time wasted tracking down and arresting people that's wasted only for a Judge to give a €200 fine is just stupid.
A good program though, if only it wasn't on the same time as Top Gear

Yakuza

Just watched it on the player. At a certain point during the speeding Merc. sequence (I ain't saying when ), a reg is clearly visible on the screen (from the in-car feed). I popped it into Cartell, turns out it was a "Ford Mondeo Ghia 2.5 170PS 4DR" - is the program meant to be revealing the reg. nos. of unmarked cars?

Voodoomelon

Both episodes are certainly a step up from the last series. Good to see prison sentences being handed out a bit more.

The Gardaí have a fair whack of legal mumbo-jumbo to natter on about before taking action against anyone, you dont see as much of that on the UK shows.

David09

What sort of car was shown on fire at Kill church???

Killinator

David09 wrote: »

What sort of car was shown on fire at Kill church???

Looked like a 'Teggy.

Gary ITR

Killinator wrote: »

Looked like a 'Teggy.

Indeed Poor Honda

Our man in Havana

Beer Baron wrote: »

I was wondering why he was all fuzzed(excuse the pun) in the video considering he failed the breath test. Surely, being videod in a public place, they should show his face as he WAS guilty of an offence / 2 offences.

They blur everyone featured, guilty or innocent.

ThisRegard

Yakuza wrote: »

Just watched it on the player. At a certain point during the speeding Merc. sequence (I ain't saying when ), a reg is clearly visible on the screen (from the in-car feed). I popped it into Cartell, turns out it was a "Ford Mondeo Ghia 2.5 170PS 4DR" - is the program meant to be revealing the reg. nos. of unmarked cars?

It's fairly obvious when it appears and if you're up to no good you're going to be spotted by the gardai long before you're close enough to read their reg.

And you can just drive around any day of the week and note the reg of any amount of unmarked cars, or even just hang around outside the garda station, it's no big deal.

Yakuza

Yakuza wrote: »

........"Ford Mondeo Ghia 2.5 170PS 4DR" .......

Thought the 2.5 would be more than that.

Yakuza

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's fairly obvious when it appears and if you're up to no good you're going to be spotted by the gardai long before you're close enough to read their reg.

And you can just drive around any day of the week and note the reg of any amount of unmarked cars, or even just hang around outside the garda station, it's no big deal.

Fair point. I thought it might have been an oversight. The undercover car reg. plates are usually pixellated in Road Wars.

Padraig Mor

Our man in Havana wrote: »

They blur everyone featured, guilty or innocent.

What's with blurring the people who were later convicted? Their names have likely already been in the newspaper FFS! Saw last week's episode and have sky plussed last night's. Definitely better than the last series.

johnos1984

Is it my imagination or are the voices (not Gardaí) dubbed?

They all sound the same

Mr. Presentable

"Disqualified for two years and four penalty points". What's the use in putting four penalty points on a licence that's suspended until they are lifted? Or will the points only apply after two years?

Our man in Havana

johnos1984 wrote: »

Is it my imagination or are the voices (not Gardaí) dubbed?

They all sound the same

Probably due to the bluring, they dubb the offenders voices.

markpb

ThisRegard wrote: »

And you can just drive around any day of the week and note the reg of any amount of unmarked cars, or even just hang around outside the garda station, it's no big deal.

That might not do you as much good as you think

-Chris-

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1103243

Jesus, I just watched this episode now.

I've had my disagreements with the way some laws are implemented, but watching this from 17m20s is pretty f*cking scary.

There's a lot of Gardai who literally risk their lives in the course of their duties. I know I wouldn't have had the bottle for that pursuit, and I certainly don't think very many of us truely understand the concept of "I'm off to work dear, next time you see me I may be in a hospital bed or worse".

I know I couldn't do it.

-Chris-

-Chris- wrote: »

................
There's a lot of Gardai who literally risk their lives in the course of their duties. I know I wouldn't have had the bottle for that pursuit........................

I reckon that's mild enough compared to what the average Garda gets up to from time to time. Tough job indeed. For and against it though, I doubt any Garda wants to be directing traffic and doing the more mundane tasks all the time either.

Iwannahurl

I didn't see it, and I can't access RTE Player.

Just curious: is the programme consistently referring to speed and distance in KM now?

IIRC the previous series mixed up miles and kilometres, which is messy and unnecessary.

-Chris-

RoverJames wrote: »

I reckon that's mild enough compared to what the average Garda gets up to from time to time. Tough job indeed. For and against it though, I doubt any Garda wants to be directing traffic and doing the more mundane tasks all the time either.

Yep, I wouldn't like to volunteer for the Gardai, feel it's my vocation and that I'll make a difference, and then find myself behind a desk processing skagheads for years on end. That would be soul-sapping.
That being said, the likelihood that I'll come across scumbags with stanley blades or syringes, violent drunks or have to run a load of red lights at night in the course of my work day is pretty minimal. There's such a thing as too much "excitement".