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Recommend electric folding scooter for end of commute (Mod Note Post #1)
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What different does push to start one and push to start every time make.
What is the point (objective) of requiring human assistance.
The difference is how people interpret what is and what is not an MPV. One person will say that the requirement to push off from a stand-still makes an e-scooter an assisted device. Another person will argue that non-continuous human effort makes the same e-scooter an MPV.
The confusion is not just among the general public, but with the Gardaí too.
Warning...lots of text below
Slightly off-topic, but relevant personal observation because of the video I see posted above. In my personal experience, I have found Gardaí on motorcycles to be a bit pig-headed and unwilling to listen to anyone they stop. It's like they have had a bad day and have made up their minds before talking to whoever they pull over.
I have been pulled in, or stopped at check-points dozens of times in my motoring life. Three times I was pulled over by a Garda on a bike and the many other times were check-points, or Gardaí in cars. I recall four occasions out of all the times I was stopped, or pulled over where I can say the Garda acted like a complete d1ck. Three of those times were motorcycle Gardaí and each time I was not at fault, or had made a very minor error which received a disproportional response. For anyone interested, I have given my experience below:
1) Driving 50cc moped on primary road. I was aged 17.
Almost no traffic on road. Good weather.
Driving near kerb for cars to overtake.
Pulled over by Garda on bike.
Told to tun off engine. I did.
I removed helmet to be polite. He started to get thick with me then.
Asked if I knew what speed I was doing. I said about 45.
He says I was going over 60.
Told him that I couldn't have been doing more than 48.
He tells me i'ma liar and I was doing at least 60 in a 40 zone. (the road was actually a 50 zone, but I didn't want to say anything to irritate him more).
I told him the bike can't do more than 48 and usually maxes at 45, because it's a moped and I pointed to the engine where a 49cc stamp was. I drove a Gilera DNA which doesn't look like a 50cc, but looking fast does not equal fast.
And where's your tax and insurance then?
Suffice to say he was an absolute bollix and nothing ever came of it, despite him telling me that he would have my licence revoked.
2) Driving a car, stuck behind about 20 cars near a round-about, just before the road gets wider to accommodate cars taking the third exit (which I wanted to do). Behind me, there traffic is building and I see a motorcycle Garda a few cars behind.
Taxi driver behind me aggressively pulls out, crossing over a marked island and onto the other side of the road, proceeding to the roundabout. The driver behind him does the same. To stop myself getting stuck where I was, I pulled out and crossed onto the marked island, but not the other side of the road. After clearing the roundabout, I get pulled in by the motorcycle Garda. Starts spitting abuse at me for reckless endangerment and mostly stuff I couldn't understand thanks to his very strong Kerry accent. Again, nothing happened.
3) I was waved through a checkpoint in company car. Everything was in order. Stopped about a mile after the checkpoint by motorcycle Garda. He said I was being done for failing to stop when instructed to do so. :eek: Asked for my details. I tried to explain that I was waved through....he was having none of it. He wanted me to produce tax and insurance and license. The tax disc was in the window, but he wanted the paper it came on. The car was insured by my employer, so they had a group policy, but he insisted on the paper work. He noted I produced my licence and gave me 10 days to produce the rest and to expect to hear from him again. I returned to the checkpoint and spoke to the Garda who waved me through...who confirmed he waved me through. He told me that a letter from my employer with the fleet policy number would be enough and to show my tax disc at the station. I did this the following evening.
I got a summons a few weeks later for failing to produce tax, insurance or a valid license. I went back to the station to ask about the summons and was told it would be sorted on the day, but I had to attend even though I produced what I was asked to. I had to take a day off work and was totally stressed. A Garda from the station had attended in place of the bollix on a bike. He said that the charge would be thrown out. The Gard explained to the judge that there was a miscommunication. I didn't have to say a word, but the judge chewed into the Gard for wasting court time and dragging citizens before him with no regard for their time. I genuinely felt sorry for the Gard, because he was just a messenger and the muppet responsible didn't have the balls to face the judge himself.
4) Driving my car. Had brother and brother-in-law in car. Ran into traffic and saw the delay was a check-point. I took a left turn into a commercial area to bypass the check-point and get home more quickly. A Garda car lay waiting around the corner and pulled us over. Will never forget the look ion his face when he stopped me. Cat that got the cream. Well, he asked where I was heading...home (input street address). Where was I coming from (cinema)....what film did I see (input movie and time). Why did I not continue straight to (input home address)....I told him because the check-point was causing a tail-back and taking the detour was quicker.
He wasn't impressed and then started asking stupid questions and inferring I was hiding something. He asked for license and insurance. I happened to have my insurance papers in the car because I needed them for proof of address a few days prior and I had my license of course. He said I had to produce my insurance within 10 days....even though I had shown him the papers. It was like he was annoyed because he couldn't do me for anything. I was polite the whole time and after about 5 minutes of his ridiculous sergeant slaughter line of questioning, his colleague had to stop him and have him return to the car.
At all other times, I would have no complaints about any Gardaí who were doing their job properly on our busy streets and roads. That icludes the time I was done for going above the speed limit by 2km/h. Harsh...but that's life.Stay Free
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