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No seatbelt, points & fine

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  • #52
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭pippip


    Jesus. wrote: »
    No, of course I don't. What I'm very surprised at is no matter what the situation is, no matter how innocent, the default position of a lot of posters is automatically with the authorities instead of their fellow motorists. I can't quite understand that mentality to be honest.

    Again, you're describing things in very simplistic terms. The laws are the laws and they should never be broken. Its a ridiculous notion that has no relevance in the real World. There are countless situations that I see every week where technically, according to the rule book, the person would be breaking a law but in reality its either inconsequential or actually a practical necessity. What's more, if I was a fly on the dash of one of the HHB's cars, they'd technically "break the law" at least once a day. But they then come on here and act all high and mighty like perfect, docile little citizens. Its amusing to read at times.

    Forgive me if I thought the one place Motorists would have a bit of empathy toward one another would be on a Motorists Forum!

    Alot of us probably agree with you on the above statement. However in this particular case, given the vague details from the op, I'm afraid we side with the garda as the op admits they didn't have their belt on. On many other threads here we'd be on the op side, like the mobile phone case the other week.


  • #53
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Just read the thread and sure enough there's the usual gombeenism from the same people. I can see why people are quitting this forum.
    The term "high horse" being used in every third thread?


  • #54
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Forgive me if I thought the one place Motorists would have a bit of empathy toward one another would be on a Motorists Forum!

    Quite the opposite tbh. Because a lot of the people on here would consider themselves motoring enthusiasts, they should rightly be held to a higher standard than average joe by their peers.


  • #55
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    challengemaster wrote: »
    Quite the opposite tbh. Because a lot of the people on here would consider themselves motoring enthusiasts, they should rightly be held to a higher standard than average joe by their peers.

    I missed that aspect of the forum. Obviously my bad. I thought it was all about choosing what new prius/econobox to buy next and arguing over the names of lanes/legal point scoring and improving fuel economy/reducing their motoring spend.

    Most motoring enthusiasts I know irl consider it their moral duty to turn as much fuel as possible into noise and smoke and hang onto their licence in the face of a hostile world. But that's just my narrow take on it.

    As a motorist, I kinda LOL at seeing a gard, (who doesn't have to wear a seatbelt) putting down their phone to pull someone in for driving without a seatbelt or using their phone...because, as we all know, gards never crash, almost ever and it is perfectly safe for them to do all the bad, bad things we do..although the compounds full of wrecked cop cars kinda tell another story..


  • #56
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    As a motorist, I kinda LOL at seeing a gard, (who doesn't have to wear a seatbelt) putting down their phone to pull someone in for driving without a seatbelt or using their phone...because, as we all know, gards never crash, almost ever and it is perfectly safe for them to do all the bad, bad things we do..although the compounds full of wrecked cop cars kinda tell another story..
    That's the bit that gets me too. Whatever extra training you might get, a few hours with an instructor on a driving circuit somewhere, it's not going to make a Guard's brain function differently or stop the laws of physics from impaling him on the steering column.

    Not sure if I read it here or in another thread, but their airbags are disabled? I understand their reasoning, but that sounds nuts to me.


  • #57
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    No Pants wrote: »
    That's the bit that gets me too. Whatever extra training you might get, a few hours with an instructor on a driving circuit somewhere, it's not going to make a Guard's brain function differently or stop the laws of physics from impaling him on the steering column.

    Not sure if I read it here or in another thread, but their airbags are disabled? I understand their reasoning, but that sounds nuts to me.

    They're not. Have a goo at some of their clangers - it's white powder and nylon central. Their bags go boom same as normal mortals.


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