Today I saw.....

aaabbbb

Was travelling on the M50 this evening between the Ballymun and Finglas exits when I saw a woman cycling with a baby on the back and what looked like a 9/10 year old girl following behind on her own bike.

This was during rush hour traffic and fairly heavy rain so I was fairly shocked at what I was seeing and had to do a double take !

It's not too uncommon to see a really idiotic lone cyclist do this on the motorway occasionally so I wouldn't normally be too shocked by that. The presence of the two kids however though and that this woman had made the conscious decision to cycle with two children, on the busiest road in the country, at one of the busiest times and in fairly poor visibility/weather conditions is just completely beyond insane and reckless !

Did anyone else see this crazy lady !?

FearDark

Its totally illegal. I hope she is brought before the courts and fined as much as possible.

rawn

I bet she didn't even pay road tax, Joe.

Gongoozler

You called it in to that traffic line I assume?

Lucifer MorningStar

No, I'm not in Dublin

Frosty McSnowballs

What a silly bastard!

biko

This time someone should actually think of the children..

Alf. A. Male

Were you getting from a to b aaabbb?

aaabbbb

FearDark wrote: »

Its totally illegal. I hope she is brought before the courts and fined as much as possible.

Indeed. Normally I wouldn't pay much heed, call her a ****ing idiot and keep going. But with the two kids with her I really really really hope she got caught.

I actually wanted to phone it in so badly but I'd no credit :cool:

PizzamanIRL

Yeah I saw her. Didn't feel the need to start a thread though.

wexie

aaabbbb wrote: »

Indeed. Normally I wouldn't pay much heed, call her a ****ing idiot and keep going. But with the two kids with her I really really really hope she got caught.

I actually wanted to phone it in so badly but I'd no credit :cool:

I think in this case you'd have been forgiven for making an emergency call

:mad:

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'm sure somebody rang Gardai about it. I've seen it before alright never with children though, In the instances I've witnessed motorists were laying on the horn big time, flashing lights and shouting out the window.

urabell

You should have rang bord gais immediately, don't assume someone else will.

Alf. A. Male

aaabbbb wrote: »

Indeed. Normally I wouldn't pay much heed, call her a ****ing idiot and keep going. But with the two kids with her I really really really hope she got caught.

I actually wanted to phone it in so badly but I'd no credit :cool:

You don't need credit to make an emergency call, but you already know that and just needed even a pathetic and incorrect excuse to justify your abdication.

aaabbbb

wexie wrote: »

I think in this case you'd have been forgiven for making an emergency call

:mad:

I'd actually forgotten about the free emergency calls thing

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

Were you getting from a to b aaabbb?

Doctors to Pharmacy so more like d to p but you were close

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'm sure somebody rang Gardai about it. I've seen it before alright never with children though, In the instances I've witnessed motorists were laying on the horn big time, flashing lights and shouting out the window.

Hopefully they did. I actually can't help but wonder what possessed her to do this with two kids in tow !?

I mean by herself I'd get it. Although she's still a crazy idiot who's taking a "shortcut". But with two kids and do be doing this is just on another level of madness, especially when one of the children is cycling themselves.

knird evol

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

You don't need credit to make an emergency call, but you already know that and just needed even a pathetic and incorrect excuse to justify your abdication.

She quite correctly did not make an emergency call as the incident was not an emergency.

She also wisely avoided using a mobile phone while driving. Which is a dangerous habit.

She was right not to pull into the hard shoulder to make a phone call as the hard shoulder is only for emergencies and is also frequentd by cyclists and so is a dangerous place to drive into.

'Abdication of responsibility' is a troublesome concept as morality is subjective and relative.

Sulla Felix

knird evol wrote: »

She quite correctly did not make an emergency call as the incident was not an emergency.

She also wisely avoided using a mobile phone while driving. Which is a dangerous habit.

She was right not to pull into the hard shoulder to make a phone call as the hard shoulder is only for emergencies and is also frequentd by cyclists and so is a dangerous place to drive into.

'Abdication of responsibility' is a troublesome concept as morality is subjective and relative.

Eh, it was an ongoing situation that required an immediate Garda response. That's how the garda themselves define when/when not to use 999.

knird evol

Sulla Felix wrote: »

required an immediate Garda response.

That's nonsense. Which you know as well.

Tail Docker

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

You don't need credit to make an emergency call, but you already know that and just needed even a pathetic and incorrect excuse to justify your abdication.

It's your fault OP - you almost pushed them onto that road and are a bad person. Lol.

aaabbbb

knird evol wrote: »

She also wisely avoided using a mobile phone while driving. Which is a dangerous habit.

I was actually a passenger so I could have made the call safely

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

You don't need credit to make an emergency call, but you already know that and just needed even a pathetic and incorrect excuse to justify your abdication.

Nah I've just a pathetically silly memory and initial reactions to these situations. I've actually not called 999 for the same reason before when I was involved an actual emergency.

Alf. A. Male

knird evol wrote: »

She quite correctly did not make an emergency call as the incident was not an emergency.

She also wisely avoided using a mobile phone while driving. Which is a dangerous habit.

She was right not to pull into the hard shoulder to make a phone call as the hard shoulder is only for emergencies and is also frequentd by cyclists and so is a dangerous place to drive into.

'Abdication of responsibility' is a troublesome concept as morality is subjective and relative.

What a lot of bollocks. There is nothing subjective or relative about people being in a potentially lethal situation and it is indeed an emergency very suitable for a call from the nearest safe place the OP could reach.

Those kids were in substantial immediate danger. Sounds like an emergency to me.

Sauve

In those situations where you're unsure, it's better to call anyway and let the emergency services decide whether it needs attending or not. It's what they're good at.

Alf. A. Male

aaabbbb wrote: »

I was actually a passenger so I could have made the call safely



Nah I've just a pathetically silly memory and initial reactions to these situations. I've actually not called 999 for the same reason before when I was involved an actual emergency.

Yet you could remember every detail of the situation well enough to write an account. I really don't believe you didn't remember that an emergency call would be free.

Sellecks_Tache

urabell wrote: »

You should have rang bord gais immediately, don't assume someone else will.

Landlords and old people should be extra vigilant. Carbon Monoxide IS a silent killer.

wexie

Candie wrote: »

Those kids were in substantial immediate danger. Sounds like an emergency to me.

Ah shure....what's the worst that could happen really?

knird evol

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

a potentially lethal situation

I think you need to ramp up the melodrama a bit more there precious.

MattD1349

Hardly surprising this happened. The level of ignorance displayed by some road users is staggering at times. Yesterday I saw a guy cycling over Sally's Bridge towards O'Donovan road with one hand on the handle bars & in his other hand was cradled a young child no more than 3 years old. Cycling after them was a boy I'd put no older than 6-7 years old. Couple that with going through the red lights at the south circular road & you have kamikaze potential.

I was that taken aback I never rang the guards. A surreal response to a surreal situation. Always thought I'd know how to react instinctively but I guess you never know do you.

aaabbbb

MattD1349 wrote: »

Hardly surprising this happened. The level of ignorance displayed by some road users is staggering at times. Yesterday I saw a guy cycling over Sally's Bridge towards O'Donovan road with one hand on the handle bars & in his other hand was cradled a young child no more than 3 years old. Cycling after them was a boy I'd put no older than 6-7 years old. Couple that with going through the red lights at the south circular road & you have kamikaze potential.

I was that taken aback I never rang the guards. A surreal response to a surreal situation. Always thought I'd know how to react instinctively but I guess you never know do you.

If my Mum hadn't been with me too I would have definitely assumed I was imagining things !

Pugsly wrote: »

As far as I'm concerned OP if you weren't arsed doing anything about it you shouldn't have bothered your arse starting a thread to gossip about it.

Forgot you can make emergency calls without credit my arse.

Trust me I did. Embarrassingly enough its not the first time either. I've a broken nose to show for that !

mickydoomsux

Must be the day for it it something because i saw a guy with a girl who couldn't have been more than 9 years old as a pillion passenger on his motorbike this afternoon, this was in traffic that was moving in the 80-100kph range. Plus she was only wearing shorts which is just retarded for anyone on a motorbike.

My friend was driving at the time and i was a passenger and we both did a double-take as we drove past them. I rang the local police station straight away and they said they'd look into it.

Seriously though, i'm not easily shocked but i had trouble believing what i was seeing. If that was his daughter she should just have been taken off him immediately because he is obviously too stupid to raise a child.

Awkward Badger

aaabbbb wrote: »

Trust me I did. Embarrassingly enough its not the first time either. I've a broken nose to show for that !

I deleted my post as I figured its not my place to be telling anyone what they should or shouldn't post.

But tbh I don't buy your story.

lintdrummer

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Must be the day for it it something because i saw a guy with a girl who couldn't have been more than 9 years old as a pillion passenger on his motorbike this afternoon, this was in traffic that was moving in the 80-100kph range. Plus she was only wearing shorts which is just retarded for anyone on a motorbike.

My friend was driving at the time and i was a passenger and we both did a double-take as we drove past them. I rang the local police station straight away and they said they'd look into it.

Seriously though, i'm not easily shocked but i had trouble believing what i was seeing. If that was his daughter she should just have been taken off him immediately because he is obviously too stupid to raise a child.

So they weren't breaking any law at all but you think his child should be put into protective custody?
Fair enough, shorts leave your legs completely unprotected and it is a bad attitude to wear them, or allow a pillion to wear them, but protective trousers are not a legal requirement.
You overreacted and rang the gardai to waste there time about a road user who was doing nothing wrong.

Ush1

She was trying to save ducklings for Gods sake!

--LOS--

ye let's all blame the OP for not making a call instead of the irresponsible woman

JustAddWater

rawn wrote: »

I bet she didn't even pay road tax, Joe.

sure nobody pays road tax

mickydoomsux

lintdrummer wrote: »

So they weren't breaking any law at all but you think his child should be put into protective custody?
Fair enough, shorts leave your legs completely unprotected and it is a bad attitude to wear them, or allow a pillion to wear them, but protective trousers are not a legal requirement.
You overreacted and rang the gardai to waste there time about a road user who was doing nothing wrong.

It has to be negligence or child endangerment or something.

Have you every seen someone who has come off a motorbike at even a modest speed when they weren't wearing proper protective gear?