Cheap way of commuting.

Truckermal

http://www.joe.ie/news/current-affairs/video-did-anyone-see-this-guy-standing-on-the-back-of-moving-truck-on-the-n7-this-evening/

Anyone else see this???

TommiesTank

My commute to and from work is all downhill, so I freewheel to save the petrol.

NickDunne

Awaits high-horse brigade to berate the driver for taking a video while driving whilst ignoring the actual issue altogether :pac:

listermint

NickDunne wrote: »

Awaits high-horse brigade to berate the driver for taking a picture while driving whilst ignoring the actual issue :pac:

Whats the issue ?

NickDunne

listermint wrote: »

Whats the issue ?

I dunno, maybe the guy hanging onto the back of a moving truck on a busy road?

00833827

NickDunne wrote: »

Awaits high-horse brigade to berate the driver for taking a video while driving whilst ignoring the actual issue altogether :pac:

what ever about videoing it while driving, i would have come out of that lane as soon as i saw him in case he fell under my wheels.

but yeah the guy must be nutty

YbFocus

Absolute madness, nothing else to say. Stupidly risking his own life and perhaps ruining another's if someone was to hit him!

jayok

Direct result of the Dublin Bus cut backs. That's Public-Private partnerships for you.

Kenny Logins

NickDunne wrote: »

Awaits high-horse brigade to berate the driver for taking a video while driving whilst ignoring the actual issue altogether :pac:

I find the portrait video more annoying.

Phones have facial and fingerprint recognition these days, but can't tell when some gom is recording video and holding the phone vertical?

derry

Int he late sixties in Dublin you would always see children and teens often barefoot hanging off the backs of lorries so they could from A to B around the city

So presently with the same 1926 king George the 5th Royal Oireachus 26 county Provisional Irish Government's austerity and the fact that many live in the suburbs of Dublin like Kildare we see return of the good old bad days coming back.
Wont be much fun if its cold and raining you need a good pair of gloves and if he starts to not go your direction you need good roller skates to come down to get off


In France you often see people on the bumpers of trains hitching free lifts .Nothing new under the sun

Derry

Del2005

Used to often happen when I was younger. People climbing onto the back of trucks and buses or holding onto them on bikes/skates/skateboards. Granted it wasn't a national road but just as dangerous

johnam

I saw that further in the N7, truck was doing just over 100kmph, and your man seemed happy out, until an Army minibus pulled into the lane behind him, and he started mouthing HELP. My father was travelling 2 or 3 minutes behind me and said the guy looked distressed. I reckon he was putting on an act because he knew once the army mini bus pulled in he was caught. My dad phoned the Guards, and they said they had already received 3 or 4 calls about it, and were trying to get a car out.

I was in the right hand lane and couldn't get over to the left lane to try let the truck driver know, but no cars near him seemed to be making any effort.

I would love to know if he got stopped at Newlands Cross, because if he didn't he could have gone anywhere. There was no way he was getting off it alive while it was moving, and if the truck didn't stop at Newlands it could have gone all the way to Belfast without stopping.