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McAuliffe Truckers face jail

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Two nights in Garda custody, hardly worth the bother.


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


    Two nights in Garda custody, hardly worth the bother.

    Jesus Christ! Ah fuckit!



    Original thread.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056783135


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    MadsL wrote: »

    Original thread was a bit of a car crash (pardon the pun)

    Glad to see the law has caught up with these lads, someone could easily have been killed with those stunts.


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


    Original thread was a bit of a car crash (pardon the pun)

    Original thread was hysterical with the accounts popping up claiming all sorts, denying who they were etc etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Original thread was a bit of a car crash (pardon the pun)

    Glad to see the law has caught up with these lads, someone could easily have been killed with those stunts.


    But the company were let off the hook in the action in court. Ridiculous


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,214 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    That original thread was gold


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


    I wonder will the DoT revoke the owner's Road Transport Operator licence?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Did anyone get to the bottom of the charity in the end, if i remember from the original thread the whole charity explanation was made up very fast to cover their tracks as there was more than one video.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Bit of an injustice that the lads who were presumably just doing what their boss was telling them to do face imprisonment while the boss seemingly gets off scott free I would have thought no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    P_1 wrote: »
    Bit of an injustice that the lads who were presumably just doing what their boss was telling them to do face imprisonment while the boss seemingly gets off scott free I would have thought no?

    If you saw the video, you wouldn't agree as professional drivers they should have their licenses stripped off them. They seem to have allot of fun doing it, from what i could tell.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Calhoun wrote: »
    If you saw the video, you wouldn't agree as professional drivers they should have their licenses stripped off them. They seem to have allot of fun doing it, from what i could tell.

    I agree that it was dangerous driving but I can't help but wonder if the boss might have had a 'robust' reaction to any pro safety protests that the drivers may or may not have given.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    P_1 wrote: »
    Bit of an injustice that the lads who were presumably just doing what their boss was telling them to do face imprisonment while the boss seemingly gets off scott free I would have thought no?

    Believe it or not employers aren't above the law and can be told to get the fuck by an employee if he/she is put in danger or putting anybody else in danger without legal penalty or dimissal.

    The employees made the judgement,they're accountable.


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


    Believe it or not employers aren't above the law and can be told to get the fuck by an employee if he/she is put in danger or putting anybody else in danger without legal penalty or dimissal.

    The employees made the judgement,they're accountable.

    The family are just as bad.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=81301995


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Maybe we should leave this here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    P_1 wrote: »
    I agree that it was dangerous driving but I can't help but wonder if the boss might have had a 'robust' reaction to any pro safety protests that the drivers may or may not have given.

    Ah yah i agree but there is some personal responsibility they need to take some hit. I don't know how the hell they didnt get prosecuted or have any negative impact but then again it is Ireland.

    I should go up to the truly Irish stand at the ploughing championships and ask them about it :P (same owner). Should have seen how fast they took the links between the companies after the first thread lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Ah yah i agree but there is some personal responsibility they need to take some hit. I don't know how the hell they didnt get prosecuted or have any negative impact but then again it is Ireland.

    I should go up to the truly Irish stand at the ploughing championships and ask them about it :P (same owner). Should have seen how fast they took the links between the companies after the first thread lol.

    They took their time and had a bit of an online marketing ballsup though didn't they?


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


    Calhoun wrote: »
    I should go up to the truly Irish stand at the ploughing championships and ask them about it :P (same owner). Should have seen how fast they took the links between the companies after the first thread lol.

    That and this porkie. Sub contracted lol.

    http://i.imgur.com/h5VRxpj.png


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Did anyone get to the bottom of the charity in the end, if i remember from the original thread the whole charity explanation was made up very fast to cover their tracks as there was more than one video.
    It was the wish of a sick kid that they were to drive like this. Granted the kid wasn't sick in the usual leukemia way, more of a sociopathic bloodlust but how dare you question his wish you heartless bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    P_1 wrote: »
    They took their time and had a bit of an online marketing ballsup though didn't they?

    Yah it was quite epic the contempt they showed for the rules of the road and general public in this whole incident is what really had people interested in this. They seemed to think they were above the law and went as far as making up a story about a kid with cancer as an excuse for all of the videos they put out.


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


    Robbo wrote: »
    It was the wish of a sick kid that they were to drive like this. Granted the kid wasn't sick in the usual leukemia way, more of a sociopathic bloodlust but how dare you question his wish you heartless bastard.

    I thought it was publicity for a charity run they hadn't organised yet. ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    I take it that the controversy didn't have much negative impact on the business though (cancelled contracts and the like) if they've got a stall running at the plough show though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Robbo wrote: »
    It was the wish of a sick kid that they were to drive like this. Granted the kid wasn't sick in the usual leukemia way, more of a sociopathic bloodlust but how dare you question his wish you heartless bastard.

    LOL im going to hell :), seriously though what they tried to do build a fleet of trucks with a proud name and have some kind of train spotter thing by giving them individual names was pretty good in theory but as we saw with video after video they were just being a nuisance and a danger to the public.

    Was hilarious when they said they called up the local garda station who gave them permission verbally to close a section of road to do this. I would have thought the red tape involved in this would have been huge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    P_1 wrote: »
    I take it that the controversy didn't have much negative impact on the business though (cancelled contracts and the like) if they've got a stall running at the plough show though?

    They cut the cord with the trucking part very fast, there were allot of posts on both face book pages. The trucking company one was taken down at the time or hidden and the truly Irish one changed the website and deleted any negative face book comments.


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


    Astonishingly they still have the photos on their facebook page.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/McAuliffe-Trucking-Company/299820356776

    No remorse, clearly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Astonishingly they still have the photos on their facebook page.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/McAuliffe-Trucking-Company/299820356776

    No remorse, clearly.

    The last activity there is from October 2012 though (when the shítstorm kicked off). I wonder if they forgot something in their cleanup operation :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    the leniency of the judgement is shocking tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Culchie justice and an expensive solicitor.

    If this was a city court and they had no legal representation, they would be in the joy now.

    and out by dinner...

    what makes u think a 'city court' would have hammered all involved?


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