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  • 14-03-2005 1:02pm
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    bazzer
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    I was recently told a story...

    A taxi driver was driving along the N3 dual carriageway in Dublin.
    Traffic was heavy. Along came an ambulance with siren sounding and lights flashing.
    The taxi driver, seeing no safe place to manouvre to let the ambulance pass, decided to speed up to cause minimum delay to the ambulance.
    However as soon as he found safe slot in the neighbouring lane to move into, he was pulled over by the Gardaí and given two penalty points for speeding!

    How do you win? :confused:


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    Zombienosh
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    I would have done the same


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    maxheadroom
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    bazzer wrote:
    How do you win? :confused:

    You'd have a good chance of getting it overturned in court surely?


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    *Page*
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    you shouldn't cause more danger to lives to save another!
    you wont usualy get them removed for that


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    Sarsfield
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    The taxi driver may have had the best intentions, but demonstrated poor knowledge and judgement. From someone who drives for a living, carrying fare-paying passengers, this is not acceptable.


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    Mimikyu
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    Chalk
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    indicate?
    most people would let you pull in...

    if there was room in the overtaking lane to speed it must have been empty,
    surely implying a not so busy road?


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    antoinolachtnai
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    This sounds like the sort of story that might have been dramatized in the telling. I don't suppose anybody knows the number of the taxi or what station the Garda was from.


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    seamus
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    antoinolachtnai wrote:
    This sounds like the sort of story that might have been dramatized in the telling. I don't suppose anybody knows the number of the taxi or what station the Garda was from.
    Indeed.

    It doesn't mention how fast he went or for how long. In my experience, it's rare to see an ambulance doing more than 100kph.

    Sounds like an urban legend to me; "It happened to my Da's mate's brother's cousin-in-law's kid's friend's uncle !". Purely bull****ting for the sake of making the Gardai and penalty points look like a farce.

    If this happened I'm sure the papers would have leapt on it.


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    cyclopath2001
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    bazzer wrote:
    I was recently told a story...
    .....
    How do you win? :confused:

    Did this happen on April 1st?


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