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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

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    #5882
    RobertFoster
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    I never realised there was motive behind it, I just thought the owner was inconsiderate.


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    #5883
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,964 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I never realised there was motive behind it, I just thought the owner was inconsiderate.
    The owner has a grievance dating back to the road widening about 15/20 years ago. In protest he leaves vehicles on what he believes was/is his property to highlight his case. The Gardai don't wish to 'take the bait' as such as his dispute is with FCC.


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    #5884
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There are cars permanently parked in the cycle track on the R132 at Fosterstown in Swords (outside the breakers yard) for years now. One time I asked a couple of Gardai who happened to be in the vicinity about it and the reply I got was that the scrapyard owner put them there as he wanted them towed away so the Gardai weren't going to give in to him!

    (I also realise that there is a long time legal dispute going on there).

    This seems odd. Surely they'd have scrap value that the Gardaí could claim, not to mention the normal fine for leaving an untaxed car on the road, etc?


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    #5885
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,964 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Chuchote wrote: »
    This seems odd. Surely they'd have scrap value that the Gardaí could claim, not to mention the normal fine for leaving an untaxed car on the road, etc?
    I'd say it's a can of worms that the Gardai don't wish to open (re-open). Some of the vehicles don't have reg plates so it would be difficult to establish ownership. Scrap value would be negligible and it would cost the state more to tow away/store vehicles that aren't going to be claimed.


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    #5886
    CramCycle
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    I have vague recollections of this story, whereby everyone knows he put them there but since there is no documentation, he just denies it or he claims when it is brought up that they are not his. Something along the lines of really stupid sh1t where by he should have been done for littering but so far they have not proven he is the one to have littered.


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    #5887
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I'd say it's a can of worms that the Gardai don't wish to open (re-open). Some of the vehicles don't have reg plates so it would be difficult to establish ownership. Scrap value would be negligible and it would cost the state more to tow away/store vehicles that aren't going to be claimed.

    How much does it cost to tow away a car and bring it to the pound, and what's the law on this - how long before a towed car is sold or scrapped if it's not claimed?

    (When I scrapped my car, Leo's of Arklow came to Dublin and drove it away and paid me scrap value according to its weight, which was 3 tons.)


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    #5888
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Went through the whole length of Dunsink Lane this morning. Jaysus, I never had such overwhelming I-just-want-to-get-the-feck-out-of-here feeling in my cycling career. The dodgiest of the dodgy...


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    #5889
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Alek wrote: »
    Went through the whole length of Dunsink Lane this morning. Jaysus, I never had such overwhelming I-just-want-to-get-the-feck-out-of-here feeling in my cycling career. The dodgiest of the dodgy...

    When street view doesn't go there, you know it might be a bit suspect


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    #5890
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Alek wrote: »
    Went through the whole length of Dunsink Lane this morning. Jaysus, I never had such overwhelming I-just-want-to-get-the-feck-out-of-here feeling in my cycling career. The dodgiest of the dodgy...

    I cycled it not too long ago. Didn't think it was bad.


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    #5891
    Weepsie
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    Raam wrote: »
    I cycled it not too long ago. Didn't think it was bad.

    There are 2 separate parts are there not? Inaccesible from one another


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    #5892
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Weepsie wrote: »
    There are 2 separate parts are there not? Inaccesible from one another

    I rode this bit: https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3821039,-6.3573429/Dunsink+Ln,+Dublin/@53.3825549,-6.3576765,15z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x48670d79e3e16863:0x79e95c3cf50c7f4f!2m2!1d-6.3386662!2d53.3882109!3e0


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    #5893
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    River Road is nice.


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    #5894
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I rode this bit: https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.38...53.3882109!3e0

    The "fun" part starts further on, past the blockade...


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    #5895
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Alek wrote: »
    The "fun" part starts further on, past the blockade...

    Ah ok, I turned back. Didn't think you could get through.


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    #5896
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Raam wrote: »
    I rode this bit: https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3821039,-6.3573429/Dunsink+Ln,+Dublin/@53.3825549,-6.3576765,15z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x48670d79e3e16863:0x79e95c3cf50c7f4f!2m2!1d-6.3386662!2d53.3882109!3e0

    Oh that bit should be okay. The other side however is a bit dodgy. Possibly why they blocked the lane in the middle.


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    #5897
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Alek wrote: »
    Went through the whole length of Dunsink Lane this morning. Jaysus, I never had such overwhelming I-just-want-to-get-the-feck-out-of-here feeling in my cycling career. The dodgiest of the dodgy...

    I thought it's closed off at the N3 end so it's dead end? Before it was closed off I used to drive from the N3 to Finglas side occasionally, and yes, it's as you say. You spend the whole length of the road driving around rubbish, rubble and scrap piles.


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    #5898
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Its blocked in the middle, but you can easily portage your bike over.

    But don't do it.


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    #5899
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭manafana


    yeah its dirty as and worse on other side contrast to the start of it in castleknock,

    Pity as that observatory is quiet historic.


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    #5900
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    manafana wrote: »
    Pity as that observatory is quiet historic.

    It's very underutilised too given it's history, it really should be made more of a tourist and educational attraction (apart from attracting the type of asshole who had tried to burn it down in the past) and factor in Broombridge just down from it where that lad Hamilton figured out his sums.


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    #5901
    cjt156
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    I was talking to someone about that road some time back and ended up having a look on satellite view. If anyone else treated the environment like that there would be an outcry. The authorities have abandoned all responsibility for that area, it looks like something out of Mad Max.

    Of course I'm a settled, middle-class male; so it's probably my fault...


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    #5902
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Well I've read that the residents there have claimed that it's not them doing it, but people (I abhor the term 'settled' to describe someone who's not a traveller) using it as an unofficial dump.


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    #5903
    magicbastarder
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    (When I scrapped my car, Leo's of Arklow came to Dublin and drove it away and paid me scrap value according to its weight, which was 3 tons.)
    are you a tank driver?


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    #5904
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    something out of Mad Max

    Tru dat.


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    #5905
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭buffalo


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    It's very underutilised too given it's history, it really should be made more of a tourist and educational attraction (apart from attracting the type of asshole who had tried to burn it down in the past) and factor in Broombridge just down from it where that lad Hamilton figured out his sums.

    You mean...



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    #5906
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Well, that's a different way to teach the history of mathematics/physics, might be on to something for the youtube generaiton!

    [how do you even find such a thing?!]


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    #5907
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Sense has prevailed. The woman who got injured in Wicklow, and was so severely injured that she didn't stop at any of the 6 or so hospital or clinics but waited til she got back to Swords has had her €40,000 claim reward overturned.

    It was a ludicrous decision in the first instance.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/hillwalker-compensation-wicklow-overturned-3244946-Feb2017/


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    #5908
    magicbastarder
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    i was kinda surprised it was completely quashed.


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    #5909
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    are you a tank driver?

    I am not. I don't drive now.

    Cars are surprisingly heavy http://cars.lovetoknow.com/List_of_Car_Weights

    Tanks weigh about 60 tons.


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    #5910
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭manafana


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Sense has prevailed. The woman who got injured in Wicklow, and was so severely injured that she didn't stop at any of the 6 or so hospital or clinics but waited til she got back to Swords has had her €40,000 claim reward overturned.

    It was a ludicrous decision in the first instance.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/hillwalker-compensation-wicklow-overturned-3244946-Feb2017/

    alot those claims are a farce, especially one out on a wild trail, and theirs always on going pain and this and that. Glad it won out as it would ruined walking for so many, its like me suing council if i crash because of rough road surface.


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    #5911
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    manafana wrote: »
    alot those claims are a farce, especially one out on a wild trail, and theirs always on going pain and this and that. Glad it won out as it would ruined walking for so many, its like me suing council if i crash because of rough road surface.

    Which you're perfectly entitled to do if that rough road surface is dangerous because the council has mended it incompetently.


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