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Do you flash other motorists to make them aware of speed traps or cops

  • 25-08-2013 09:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    Well do you?

    I tend to do so...espically when i think the speed van is there to print money instead of road safety


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭cichlid child


    yes. Would a poll not be better


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Yes, unless its a Hiace van.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Always.Out of sight of cop cars but would flash even driving past a speed van


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    I leave specially coded signs in chalk on the road.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    I wouldn't if they were bombing it but would if they were a couple of km over the limit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    I wouldn't if they were bombing it but would if they were a couple of km over the limit.

    How do ya know if they're only a couple of km over the limit? :S




    I would for speed vans, always.
    Never for check points.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Nope, never. If you're speeding, you deserve to get caught and pay the correct fine.

    Wow that was easy!

    Next question!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Yes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Never have, never will. If you can do the crime*, you can do the time.

    *figure of speech


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    If I meet someone who i think is over the limit but only by a little I will flash.
    If I meet some idiot tearing the road out of it I wouldn't.
    Have yet to see a speed van where someone has died, pure money making racket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Speed trap, yes. Anything else, no.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Kinzig


    yep..always..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    I do it even when there is no speed trap! It encourages safe driving!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Always, because it makes the other driver slow down if he/she is speeding, it's more likely to save lives by making them slow down rather than catching them speeding by stealth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,889 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    [hillarious post about pulling my cock out to alert oncoming cars]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,862 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Fellow truckers only.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,289 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Yes I do for the speed vans only


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Fellow truckers only.

    Motorist!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    neaideabh wrote: »
    I do it even when there is no speed trap! It encourages safe driving!

    :D

    I am also guilty of doing this.. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Flash the lights at me
    Flash the lights at me
    That's the code
    Of the border road
    Flash the lights at me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    neaideabh wrote: »
    I do it even when there is no speed trap! It encourages safe driving!

    They see me trolling........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I'm usually driving too fast, so by the time it registers that I pasted a speed trap its far too late.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,539 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    No. If someone flashed me I'd think there was something wrong and be anxious about my car or driving. Wouldn't want to distract someone like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Hercule


    yes especially around gatso vans on non-blackspot roads - they do little or nothing for road safety in the roads I see them on and are simply a revenue generation exercise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    I wouldn't if they were bombing it but would if they were a couple of km over the limit.
    Ah, you carry your own hairdryer


  • Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If it's a speed van, I will. If it's anything Garda related (checkpoint, etc.) I won't.

    I find I get flashed at more for obstructions than anything else. Was driving recently and got a lot of flashing at me, and up the road there was a bicycle wheel in the middle of my lane. It's a small thing I know, but it was great to see people giving others a heads up about small things like that. I often get taxis (for some reason) flashing me on country roads if there are people walking on the road, as a heads up. Sound of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭ljpg


    yep,always did and always will


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 360 ✭✭bitburger


    I do,been saved a few times myself so i gotta pay it forward :)


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