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Sick feelin in the stomach

  • 08-07-2014 5:16pm
    #1
    Mackas_view
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭


    Was drivin down the motorway earlier and there was a Garda car pulled in with one Guard holdin a speed gun out the window. I was payin attention to my speed all the way down the road and I'm fairly sure I was on or under the limit!

    If I was speedin would he have came after me or will I get a letter in the post? I'm not sure how it works.


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  • #2
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭Degag


    Mackas_view wrote: »
    Was drivin down the motorway earlier and there was a Garda car pulled in with one Guard holdin a speed gun out the window. I was payin attention to my speed all the way down the road and I'm fairly sure I was on or under the limit!

    If I was speedin would he have came after me or will I get a letter in the post? I'm not sure how it works.

    Letter in the post. You're probably grand though even if you were slightly over the limit.


  • #3
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Degag wrote: »
    Letter in the post. You're probably grand though even if you were slightly over the limit.

    Incorrect. If he was operating a speed gun he has to stop you...so your ok


  • #4
    Mackas_view
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭Mackas_view


    You 100% sure on that yeah?


  • #5
    Mackas_view
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭Mackas_view


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Incorrect. If he was operating a speed gun he has to stop you...so your ok

    How sure are you on this?


  • #6
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Mackas_view wrote: »
    You 100% sure on that yeah?

    Definite.


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I ate an out of date yoghurt at lunch and can definitely relate to the feeling and the speeding thing.

    I was speeding to the jacks most of this afternoon so I was.


  • #8
    usersame
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭usersame


    Yeah a speed gun can't take pictures, they need to have to stopped. The stationary cameras in boxes and the vans care the ones you get letters in the post from!

    You're grand


  • #9
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Even if they have one of those ones with integrated video ?

    it'd be like a handheld gatso yoke really ?


    http://www.teletrafficuk.com/products/speed-enforcements/concept/

    As well as recording speeding offences the operator can record and mark other offences such as

    no seat belt,
    red light violation, and using a
    mobile phone while driving for later process.

    The system will allow instant playback and review of offences.

    The Concept can also be used in conjunction with automatic number plate readers.


  • #10
    Mackas_view
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭Mackas_view


    Yeah but are they in use by the gardai?


  • #11
    Jeefff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Jeefff


    On the motorway I think they're only after the serious speeders, some people clock up 160kph in a 100kph zone, that kind of thing..
    A few miles per hour over the limit is usually overlooked


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  • #12
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    If only there was a place people could go to to ask car type questions. Someone ought to start a car forum.


  • #13
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I ate an out of date yoghurt at lunch and can definitely relate to the feeling and the speeding thing.

    I was speeding to the jacks most of this afternoon so I was.

    Did you make it? Or do you have any tales of you ****ting yourself?


  • #14
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Did you make it? Or do you have any tales of you ****ting yourself?

    No one is interested in his business.

    Let the man have his privacy!


  • #15
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Nemeses wrote: »
    No one is interested in his business.

    Let the man have his privacy!

    Speak for yourself. If he wanted privacy he wouldn't have posted and he'd keep his curtains closed.


  • #16
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Mackas_view wrote: »
    Yeah but are they in use by the gardai?

    That stuff is auld 2010 carry on

    It's all about getting legislation changed and then querying the cell-phone towers.

    After a while they'd build up an idea of who is speeding where - then set up the speedtraps

    From the other side even really ancient Nokias could more or less tell your speed - has to be that way to get ready for handing over from tower to tower i'd guess


  • #17
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Mackas_view wrote: »
    Was drivin down the motorway earlier and there was a Garda car pulled in with one Guard holdin a speed gun out the window. I was payin attention to my speed all the way down the road and I'm fairly sure I was on or under the limit!

    If I was speedin would he have came after me or will I get a letter in the post? I'm not sure how it works.

    I've exactly the same concern from last Thursday, think I was doing about 123 at a push and am a bit paranoid. Especially as im on a provisional and shouldn't have been on the motorway in the first place,


  • #18
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Maybe it was a barcode scanner (and not a speed gun) and you were on some odd version of Supermarket Sweep.


  • #19
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Ruu wrote: »
    Maybe it was a barcode scanner (and not a speed gun) and you were on some odd version of Supermarket Sweep.

    Or a barcode battler.


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