This is SERIOUSLY taking the píss...

dgt

Now I've see this car knocking about the localish townland...

I'm getting very fed up of seeing it

But why?

Have a gawk at the screen...
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And where did I see it today?
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Photobucket wouldn't let me upload the full size image, so I've attached them instead

Sorry mods if this thread is inappropiate, I just want to show people the hard necks some people have :rolleyes:

vetstu

Is the Insurance date 05? Why not report it to the guards instead of crying about it on the internet?

dgt

vetstu wrote: »

Is the Insurance date 05? Why not report it to the guards instead of crying about it on the internet?

Yes it is :eek:

Believe me, I've been into the Gardai many, many times and its still going about. I've lost faith at this stage

stoneill

What year is the car - the number plate is so dirty I can't make it out.
Just wondering if it also overdue for NCT and if the tax is up to date.

Mr Benevolent

dgt wrote: »

Yes it is :eek:

Believe me, I've been into the Gardai many, many times and its still going about. I've lost faith at this stage

Report it to the insurance company.

dgt

stoneill wrote: »

What year is the car - the number plate is so dirty I can't make it out.
Just wondering if it also overdue for NCT and if the tax is up to date.

The numberplate is conveniently dirty isn't it :rolleyes:

It's an 02 registered car, I couldn't get a decent snap due to the obnoxiously parked lorrey in the 2nd pic :rolleyes:

Tax out 08/06 :rolleyes: you can zoom in to see it better

There isn't even a holder for the nct!

Fizman

I could be wrong but the tax looks like it's up since Oct 06! I don't think we need to think too hard about the NCT if that is how things are! Incredible that you've reported it several times with nothing being done!

dgt

Confab wrote: »

Report it to the insurance company.

I would love to but I need to get a better pic of it's numberplate in a cleaner state. I can't make out the reg in this one

Gophur

What would reporting it to the Insurance Company achieve?

Vikings

How recent is that picture? That's only a 5 minute walk from the Garda station, give them a bell tell them you saw an uninsured (explain the discs) driver park it up and you expect them back shortly. If they are caught driving it the car will be taken off them and I doubt they would pay to get it back.

ottostreet

Is that Navan? If so, how the hell are they driving it around without being caught!

Tallon

Any parking inspectors in that area?

Fiona

That's very cheeky :mad:

dgt

Vikings wrote: »

How recent is that picture? That's only a 5 minute walk from the Garda station, give them a bell tell them you saw an uninsured (explain the discs) driver park it up and you expect them back shortly. If they are caught driving it the car will be taken off them and I doubt they would pay to get it back.

Taken this morning about 12 pm. I was in with them again about it

ottostreet wrote: »

Is that Navan? If so, how the hell are they driving it around without being caught!

Yes it is, kennedy plaza. That car makes an appearance there now and again on a regular basis.

Tallon wrote: »

Any parking inspectors in that area?

I haven't seen any around the town in months, I'd say theyre still about though. Then again I'm not around as much as I used to be...

Cuddlesworth

Don't report it to the local station. Report it to traffic watch and insist they log it. Once its logged, the local station have to investigate.

MugMugs

Could be an undercover Garda car trying to fit in with the underground tax dodging uninsured massive out there!

Rowley Birkin QC

Unbelievable stuff that it hasn't met a checkpoint in the last 6 years.

-Corkie-

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Unbelievable stuff that it hasn't met a checkpoint in the last 6 years.

What about ANPR which all Traffic cars have.. Its beyond belief..

MugMugs

-Corkie- wrote: »

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Unbelievable stuff that it hasn't met a checkpoint in the last 6 years.

What about ANPR which all Traffic cars have.. Its beyond belief..

Are they all equipped?

-Corkie-

MugMugs wrote: »

Are they all equipped?

All the new Traffic Corps are anyway and most of the older ones too.

MugMugs

-Corkie- wrote: »

MugMugs wrote: »

Are they all equipped?

All the new Traffic Corps are anyway and most of the older ones too.

*books NCT*

:P

JustAddWater

-Corkie- wrote: »

What about ANPR which all Traffic cars have.. Its beyond belief..

with that dirty reg??

MugMugs

JustAddWater wrote: »

-Corkie- wrote: »

What about ANPR which all Traffic cars have.. Its beyond belief..

with that dirty reg??

Point being it would be pulled if it can't be read.

I've been pulled for a mucky reg.

michael999999

If you think that is bad my neighbours son is a guard, hes staying with hes parents for Christmas.

The guy living next to him well call him joe, has hes car parked directly in front of the guards car across from there houses.

Joe has no licence, tax, insurance or nct on the car and he is driving it every day.

There isnt even a disc holder on the window for f**k sake!

Voodoomelon

In fairness there could be a chance that the car is insured and the owner can't be arsed displaying the disc. I doubt its taxed or NCTd though.

-Corkie-

JustAddWater wrote: »

with that dirty reg??

Thats true but the front reg wont be as dirty.

MugMugs wrote: »

*books NCT*

:P

They cannot pick up expired NCT ATM but they will soon. I read all this over in the Emergency services Forum btw..

az2wp0sye65487

Confab wrote: »

Report it to the insurance company.

dgt wrote: »

I would love to but I need to get a better pic of it's numberplate in a cleaner state. I can't make out the reg in this one

:rolleyes: =

Gophur wrote: »

What would reporting it to the Insurance Company achieve?

Exactly - It's not insured. So which insurance company would you report it to and why would it be of any interest to them??

Vicxas

Good ol navan, cops with blinkers around my homewtown.... except when my tax is out by a week....

unkel

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Unbelievable stuff that it hasn't met a checkpoint in the last 6 years.

In my experience there are very few, if any, checkpoints outside the Dublin area. Shame on the Gardai for that. They could alleviate the financial pain the state is in by collecting tax / fining tax dodgers and yet they do nothing.

shanec1928

unkel wrote: »

In my experience there are very few, if any, checkpoints outside the Dublin area. Shame on the Gardai for that. They could alleviate the financial pain the state is in by collecting tax / fining tax dodgers and yet they do nothing.

you can say that again while i haven't being driving that long only since June i have yet to meet a gardai checkpoint

C.D.

unkel wrote: »

In my experience there are very few, if any, checkpoints outside the Dublin area. Shame on the Gardai for that. They could alleviate the financial pain the state is in by collecting tax / fining tax dodgers and yet they do nothing.

Completely agree, lived and drove in Dublin for 5 years and would meet a checkpoint once every 2 months. I drive 20k+ km p/a now, mostly rural with business and have not seen a single checkpoint in the 2 years I have been doing it.

IRL_Sinister

dgt wrote: »

Now I've see this car knocking about the localish townland...

I'm getting very fed up of seeing it

But why?

Have a gawk at the screen...
Image089.jpg

And where did I see it today?
Image090.jpg

Photobucket wouldn't let me upload the full size image, so I've attached them instead

Sorry mods if this thread is inappropiate, I just want to show people the hard necks some people have :rolleyes:

I assume you're referring to his immaculate parking?

wmpdd3

How could a traffic warden not see that?

MugMugs

unkel wrote: »

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Unbelievable stuff that it hasn't met a checkpoint in the last 6 years.

In my experience there are very few, if any, checkpoints outside the Dublin area. Shame on the Gardai for that. They could alleviate the financial pain the state is in by collecting tax / fining tax dodgers and yet they do nothing.

Come up to Fundalk for a day or two!

Take_Her_Handy

Ha ha ha, imagine if you were the owner and was casually looking through boards.ie and happened to see this!!! Piss yourself much???

JustAddWater

Take_Her_Handy wrote: »

Ha ha ha, imagine if you were the owner and was casually looking through boards.ie and happened to see this!!! Piss yourself much???

Its clear from that car that the owner could not give 2 fiddlers what you, me or anyone else here including the gardai think ... and has not cared for almost 7 years

Northern Monkey

It could be bull, but I heard that a lot of guards were switching off the ANPR on their cars as they were going off all the time for cars out of tax.

Rowley Birkin QC

unkel wrote: »

In my experience there are very few, if any, checkpoints outside the Dublin area. Shame on the Gardai for that. They could alleviate the financial pain the state is in by collecting tax / fining tax dodgers and yet they do nothing.

I've been driving a regular loop between Dublin, Cork and Longford for the last 5-6 years and have never met a checkpoint in Dublin.

The only ones I've met have been in areas outside Dublin.

furtzy

Drive through Dublin every day north side to south side and have only met 2 checkpoints in the last 6 years.

The UK system of SORN and automatic fines would end this nonsense once and for all at least the tax element any way

MugMugs

furtzy wrote: »

Drive through Dublin every day north side to south side and have only met 2 checkpoints in the last 6 years.

The UK system of SORN and automatic fines would end this nonsense once and for all at least the tax element any way

Would it? If he hasn't hit a checkpoint or ANPR how would SORN deter him?

furtzy

MugMugs wrote: »

Would it? If he hasn't hit a checkpoint or ANPR how would SORN deter him?

Because if he hadn't it SORN'ed he would get a fine in the post for not renewing his tax. No need for checkpoints or ANPR at all

paddydriver

Maybe OP photoshopped it in order to get a long thread going over the holidays and kill some of the boredom:D

All said... it is taking the p1ss driving around in that and if Guard's are not doing anything about it then I would be onto Gaybo with a nice letter and ask him to get on it.

-Corkie-

Northern Monkey wrote: »

It could be bull, but I heard that a lot of guards were switching off the ANPR on their cars as they were going off all the time for cars out of tax.

I have heard the very same thing.

Atlantic Dawn

Maybe he took her up to 88mph and came here from 2006, wouldn't imagine he would have known the colour of the 2011 tax discs prior to his departure

MugMugs

furtzy wrote: »

MugMugs wrote: »

Would it? If he hasn't hit a checkpoint or ANPR how would SORN deter him?

Because if he hadn't it SORN'ed he would get a fine in the post for not renewing his tax. No need for checkpoints or ANPR at all

You're missing my point. If he SORN'D the car, what's stopping him driving it? The Gardai aren't catching him as it is, how would a SORN change things?

charlemont

Your taking somebody else's business very personal, Ain't you ?

Whoever it is has some neck though but I'm sure he doesn't give a damn either.

coolbeans

Ah but it is his business, and mine and yours although you seem unable to recognise that fact. Why should we subsidise a free loader? Why should he not have to pay insurance and why should some poor sod have to pay out if he hits them?
This is basic stuff. Everybody paying their way is the foundation of a sustainable society.

C.D.

charlemont wrote: »

Your taking somebody else's business very personal, Ain't you ?

Whoever it is has some neck though but I'm sure he doesn't give a damn either.

Aside from the fact that we subsidise him, what if he crashes into you? I doubt you'd be so blasé about uninsured drivers then.

dr.fuzzenstein

MugMugs wrote: »

You're missing my point. If he SORN'D the car, what's stopping him driving it? The Gardai aren't catching him as it is, how would a SORN change things?

You're right, the previous poster is missing one crucial point:
Sorn would not work here, due to the usual level of enforcement, which is near zero.
You could still declare your car off the road and go about your merry way, with very little worry.
It's of course different in the UK (and Germany, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia, Nigeria, Chad and of course The Republic of Onga Bonga), where some actual, real enforcement takes place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2enE261b_kA

NFD100

If the Guards won't do their job, contact the Garda Ombudsman. That is disgraceful!

MugMugs

NFD100 wrote: »

If the Guards won't do their job, contact the Garda Ombudsman. That is disgraceful!

What? Who's to say they havent? Stop trying to Garda Bash!