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    #92
    opfleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭opfleet


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    So you think most situations like the above ( no motor tax + no seat belt) result in the drivers car being impounded and the owner left on foot?

    I don't have any quarrel with a summons for either offense as I'm a stickler for seat belts myself but having the vehicle taken off you is not the norm in those circumstances

    How long was your tax out? You shouldn't have been driving anyway because of your injury. That was possibly the reason why the Garda felt the need to seize the car. If you had driven on and crashed then who is everyone going to point the finger at?


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    #93
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,782 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    The female Gardai are much better on the eye than they used to be!!


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    #94
    El_Bee
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/they-beat-me-with-a-baseball-bat-deliveroo-man-leaves-ireland-following-vicious-assault-37843054.html

    Another melee in the centre of dublin, not a Gardai in sight, I wonder do they understand how abandoned communities feel atm, it's like they've given up entirely.


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    #95
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    opfleet wrote: »
    How long was your tax out? You shouldn't have been driving anyway because of your injury. That was possibly the reason why the Garda felt the need to seize the car. If you had driven on and crashed then who is everyone going to point the finger at?

    Wrong man bozo


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    #96
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    So you think most situations like the above ( no motor tax + no seat belt) result in the drivers car being impounded and the owner left on foot?

    I don't have any quarrel with a summons for either offense as I'm a stickler for seat belts myself but having the vehicle taken off you is not the norm in those circumstances

    It’s not like the tax was out by a few days. More like months I’m sure. So yeah, tough ****.


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    #97
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Wrong man bozo

    Don’t flatter yourself. The entirety of that reply was quite clearly to the OP.


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    #98
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    JayZeus wrote: »
    Don’t flatter yourself. The entirety of that reply was quite clearly to the OP.

    So why direct the question to me then :confused:


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    #99
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    JayZeus wrote: »
    It’s not like the tax was out by a few days. More like months I’m sure. So yeah, tough ****.

    Point stands, in vast majority of cases, you would not be left walking, you don't achieve anything by taking that course of action


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    #100
    Teddy Daniels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭Teddy Daniels


    El_Bee wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/they-beat-me-with-a-baseball-bat-deliveroo-man-leaves-ireland-following-vicious-assault-37843054.html

    Another melee in the centre of dublin, not a Gardai in sight, I wonder do they understand how abandoned communities feel atm, it's like they've given up entirely.

    Not really a melee, and the cops would have gone through those children in ten seconds.


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    #101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    As I've said before, and will surely say again many times into the future (as my opinion is very unlikely to change), the Gardai are, as individual people, genuinely nice, well intended folks going about their lives. Some of the nicest people you'd ever meet.

    Collectively, as a Policing service, they are a farce and have shown themselves time and time and again to be unable to deal with the most basic of issues.

    They have not got the Judiciary on their side. They haven't got the Government funding on their side. They are effectively a Community Warden service. They close roads for accidents, check tax discs and stamp passport forms. The odd time, they might even be able to give you directions.

    I live in an area plagued with anti social issues, and the Gardai have consistently (by consistent, I'm talking about nearly 20 years of my memory, so even through the 'boom' times when they had a few Euro to spend) disappointed myself and the community with their 'tails-between-the-legs' approach to dealing with people that actually threaten to beat the Gardai up, to their faces (no consequences for this).

    The Council are also a waste of time, but at least if you approach the Council with some suggestions, they will listen and respond. The Gardai completely stonewall you and resume with their 'can't be assed' approach.


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    #102
    RobbieMD
    Registered Users Posts: 449 ✭✭RobbieMD


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    As I've said before, and will surely say again many times into the future (as my opinion is very unlikely to change), the Gardai are, as individual people, genuinely nice, well intended folks going about their lives. Some of the nicest people you'd ever meet.

    Collectively, as a Policing service, they are a farce and have shown themselves time and time and again to be unable to deal with the most basic of issues.

    They have not got the Judiciary on their side. They haven't got the Government funding on their side. They are effectively a Community Warden service. They close roads for accidents, check tax discs and stamp passport forms. The odd time, they might even be able to give you directions.

    I live in an area plagued with anti social issues, and the Gardai have consistently (by consistent, I'm talking about nearly 20 years of my memory, so even through the 'boom' times when they had a few Euro to spend) disappointed myself and the community with their 'tails-between-the-legs' approach to dealing with people that actually threaten to beat the Gardai up, to their faces (no consequences for this).

    The Council are also a waste of time, but at least if you approach the Council with some suggestions, they will listen and respond. The Gardai completely stonewall you and resume with their 'can't be assed' approach.

    So all the lads in our overcrowded prisons just handed themselves in...


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    #103
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    RobbieMD wrote: »
    So all the lads in our overcrowded prisons just handed themselves in...
    Of course not. The social workers bring them in.


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    #104
    El_Bee
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    RobbieMD wrote: »
    So all the lads in our overcrowded prisons just handed themselves in...


    They get put away for at best 9 months, it's essentially a revolving door operation, as the above poster has stated, the judiciary are almost working against the Gardai at this point.


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    #105
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RobbieMD wrote: »
    So all the lads in our overcrowded prisons just handed themselves in...




    I do hate the expression 'overcrowded prison'. Should be no such thing as an overcrowded prison. Squash them in on top of each other - would make it a less desirable place to be, and you'd actually dread getting sent to it.


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