Something funny involving a Boy Racer

paconnors

At Aprox 25 Mins Ago in the Galway Shoping Centre a boy Racer was exiting the centre from Supermacs, Taught he was showing of by doing a few wheel spins, who did he meet?

A Member of the garda siochana.

and me with a big smile on me face,

what a good night of enjoyment

Farls

Did you post something very similar to this, except involving a crash at the same shopping centre a few months ago?

//I wouldn't ask only no searching

Anyway, good stuff, if its a place with pedestrians I dont see the sense behind it, i enjoy messing about in cars as much as any other young lad but only where its safe from pedestrians and our friendly garda síocholoní

paconnors

i did

Farls

Those kids will never learn, do you sit there waiting for these things to happen though? They wouldnt be at this sort of carry on if people like yourself wasnt sitting there looking at them with your gobs open

JohnCleary

Do you work in Supermacs or something?

Ann Elk

Farls wrote:

do you sit there waiting for these things to happen though?

It could be to do with the amount of such idiots on the roads perhaps?

Farls wrote:

They wouldnt be at this sort of carry on if people like yourself wasnt sitting there looking at them with your gobs open

If someone looking on with 'gob open' induces such idiots to acting in such a manner - they should have their licences taken off them.

ambro25

Wouldn't be those kids (red 4-door Civic vs Glanza Turbo) who were gunning for the landspeed record on the M50 @ about 23:10 last night, would it? :rolleyes: - I was @ limit (120 kph), I reckon the Civic passed me at a good rate over 170 kph, and the Glanza in tow struggling.

Probably not... same pedigree, tho' :mad:

Seth Brundle

mikegannon wrote:

Taught he was showing of by doing a few wheel spins, who did he meet?

Was he trying to make his tyres smoke or what?

StRiKeR

I think a few wheel spin would be as much as they can do, got us bad names and people dont like us who actually have powerfull enough car but don't do stupid things that can be in danger to others in public

unkel

ambro25 wrote:

Wouldn't be those kids (red 4-door Civic vs Glanza Turbo) who were gunning for the landspeed record on the M50

Well at least they weren't the same kids in the Glanza Turbo that did the very same thing a few years ago because they're dead. They also killed an innocent young man when they went through the central reservation :mad:

Wibbs

unkel wrote:

Well at least they weren't the same kids in the Glanza Turbo that did the very same thing a few years ago because they're dead.

Am I being too uncharitable when I say good enough for them. Car thieves and dangerous idiots dying barely registers on my sympathy meter. It's bloody heart rending when they kill someone else though. I know someone who was killed by "joyriders" quite a few years ago, so forgive me if I seem a bit extreme in this.

Eoin

Wibbs wrote:

Am I being too uncharitable when I say good enough for them. Car thieves and dangerous idiots dying barely registers on my sympathy meter. It's bloody heart rending when they kill someone else though. I know someone who was killed by "joyriders" quite a few years ago, so forgive me if I seem a bit extreme in this.

You forgot to quote the rest of the post:

They also killed an innocent young man when they went through the central reservation

So, yes - you are being a bit extreme IMO. I don't think an innocent bloke dying was really worth the price of teaching some scrotes a lesson.

StRiKeR

if its joyriders, I think they are just doing what they deserves to themselves soon or later !!! It's not far for everyone else though

ambro25

StRiKeR wrote:

if its joyriders, I think they are just doing what they deserves to themselves soon or later !!! It's not far for everyone else though

Well, possibly - but it still means the poor car owner's without a ride and getting stung by his insurance for the priviledge :mad: [Alf Garnett mode]I say, I say, get parents of underage joyriders to pay[/Alf Garnett mode]

LFCFan

I have no sympathy whatsoever for scum that nick cars and drive dangerously and end up dead or maimed. Serves them right. If they kill someone else in the process then they definitley deserve to be dead. There should be a 'Grand Theft Auto' charge here like in the states and increase the punishment. It seems to me that an awful lot of career criminals start by nicking cars. If they could be punished properly from the start it might lessen the chance of them ending up in a life of crime.

StRiKeR

I don't know about charges or increase punishment, my car was damaged by scums that walked by the parking space where I was parked, and its like 3 yards across the road from the G**da station, and my pager went off, I ran back to my car, no one was left there, no cops nothing and my car screaming like mad and I need a new wing. If they dont even care about it when they are like cross the road from it! what would they do when they are miles away from these or more serious incidents?

by the way ambro25 I did say "It's not far for everyone else though"

ambro25

StRiKeR wrote:

by the way ambro25 I did say "It's not far for everyone else though"

Sorry, didn't quite understand what you meant by that...

Wibbs

eoin_s wrote:

You forgot to quote the rest of the post: So, yes - you are being a bit extreme IMO. I don't think an innocent bloke dying was really worth the price of teaching some scrotes a lesson.

Did I say it was? Read my post again. "heart rending" not ring any bells? Given that I also pointed out that I lost someone to scum like that, I really think you got the wrong end of the stick.

Eoin

Wibbs wrote:

Did I say it was? Read my post again. "heart rending" not ring any bells? Given that I also pointed out that I lost someone to scum like that, I really think you got the wrong end of the stick.

You're right, I did get the wrong end of the stick

Wibbs

Tut Tut, eoin_s. Don't let it happen again.....

Me I put it down to a lack of respect for others property that seems to be prevelant nowadays. I've had people bump(sometimes causing damage) into my car while parking and they look at you askance if you point out that it's unacceptable. I've even had one woman back into a parking space while hitting the car front and back of her. Her response? "But sure they're called bumpers aren't they?" Un bloody real.

The extreme of this attitude is the car thief/joyrider/scumbag who has no conception of the sanctity of others property or feelings. I've talked to the type in the past and it's a sobering feeling when you realise that nothing you or anyone else could say will ever permeate their thick skulls. It's not just their background either, as I've seen this response among all classes. I suspect a short sharp shock when they're young is the only answer.

StRiKeR

I had a businese man about 45 last time got out from his brand new merc and he open his door so hard it dented my door, I wanted him to pay for the repair as I have my car color changed which is a full respray I got done, and his response was that its an old car, not worth doing anything about it, that got me mad no doubt, I was gonna just get the dent remove and touch up and leave it if he was nice about it, but in that case I involved the garda and got the door fix in the body shop where I had the car sprayed which cost him alot more than what I was originally going to do. mind you he was giving me dirty looks when I got out of my car, I called him back while he was about to walk off.

Type 17

Wibbs wrote:

I've even had one woman back into a parking space while hitting the car front and back of her. Her response? "But sure they're called bumpers aren't they?" Un bloody real.

You should have given her bumper a good kicking, and then reminded her that "that's what they're for"

Eoin

Wibbs wrote:

I've even had one woman back into a parking space while hitting the car front and back of her. Her response? "But sure they're called bumpers aren't they?" Un bloody real.

Is it France and/or Italy where they really do drive by that motto and just play bumper cars each time they park?

JohnCleary

eoin_s wrote:

Is it France and/or Italy where they really do drive by that motto and just play bumper cars each time they park?

Heh... buy a fiesta from a scrappy for 50 euro and do it for a day

unkel

eoin_s wrote:

Is it France and/or Italy where they really do drive by that motto and just play bumper cars each time they park?

France

Interceptor

unkel wrote:

France

Galway - the 'park-by-feel' technique is preferred.

unkel

Interceptor wrote:

Galway

Funny you should mention that. The only time ever anyone rear-ended me was in my previous car on the approach to the Headford road coming from the east. The lad was only doing about 5 km/h upon impact and he looked like a knacker. He seemed to be oblivious of the incident and stayed in his knackered Honda Civic. He looked like he was drunk or high or both :eek:

I was confident there would be no damage to my 5-series and to be honest, I was very relieved he didn't get out of the car and I sped off as the lights turned green

paconnors

JohnCleary wrote:

Do you work in Supermacs or something?

Please dont insult me

drdre

guys leave the boy racers alone.:D