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  • #1052
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    The puns they write can be utter cringe sometimes


  • #1053
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    bear1 wrote: »
    The puns they write can be utter cringe sometimes

    I like them. Shows that Gardai are human too not robo cops set to catch everybody to fund the state as some people like to believe.


  • #1054
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    James Bond Junior wrote: »
    I like them. Shows that Gardai are human too not robo cops set to catch everybody to fund the state as some people like to believe.

    When put like that you're right


  • #1055
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    what's the going punishment for that sort of thing, learner permit, no insurance, no nct, no tax?


  • #1056
    dashoonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    what's the going punishment for that sort of thing, learner permit, no insurance, no nct, no tax?

    A cookie and a pat one the head if you promise never to do it again.


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  • #1057
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    dashoonage wrote: »
    A cookie and a pat one the head if you promise never to do it again.

    Despite the fact that last week we all heard the harrowing witness statements of a lost daughter/mother, killed in a car crash yards from their home by an unaccompanied 'L' driver.

    If people keep getting let off, where is the deterrent?


  • #1058
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    around 50 cars seized around Westmeath in the past month for no insurance, VRT not paid, long term no tax etc

    http://topic.ie/gardai-seize-50-cars-mullingar-area/


  • #1059
    CR 7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭CR 7


    Now this will brighten up your Sunday morning:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/805350388249534464

    :D:D:D


  • #1060
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    But, but, but...
    They have a 'Child on Board'!!!

    Will no one think of the childer???

    :rolleyes:


  • #1061
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    CR 7 wrote: »
    Now this will brighten up your Sunday morning:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/805350388249534464

    :D:D:D

    If that is in a private car park eg a shopping centre then a disabled space is not enforceable.


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  • #1062
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    If that is in a private car park eg a shopping centre then a disabled space is not enforceable.

    I think the parking bit is the least of the driver's problems.


  • #1063
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,749 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    "Insurance in the post", must be DelBoy Trotter:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/805361609896030208


  • #1064
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Love it.


  • #1065
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    "Drunk driver crashed approaching checkpoint" well, holy god :o.


  • #1066
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭GM228


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    If that is in a private car park eg a shopping centre then a disabled space is not enforceable.

    Private car parks can be "public places" to which disabled parking laws apply, some are restricted to public roads only as oppsed to public places such as a restriction on parking on footways etc, but disabled spaces isn't.


  • #1067
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,749 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    :D:D

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/807333954701377536


  • #1068
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Another reason to own a convertible


  • #1069
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    That a Saab 9-tree?


  • #1070
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Looks like it could work better than having your boot open at might and all your rear lights pointing at the sky, or some of the half assed strapped to the roof jobs you see.

    If a man can't put a seatbelt round his Christmas tree and take it for a spin it's pretty much fascism really. What if he self identifies as a male Christmas tree at the weekend and that's his girlfriend?


    ;-)


  • #1071
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,749 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Fixing it for 4 years, lol. I hope this guy ain't trying to make a living as a mechanic as he would starve.

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/807586637932883969


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  • #1072
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    All that was missing was drink driving...
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/808077972611723264

    3 years no tax...
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/808280745663811585


  • #1073
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #1074
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,126 ✭✭✭✭neris


    the amount of unaccompanied L drivers is unreal


  • #1075
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭pippip


    neris wrote: »
    the amount of unaccompanied L drivers is unreal

    Don't assume just cause a car has L plates and a single occupant its a Learner driving though.


  • #1076
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,126 ✭✭✭✭neris


    pippip wrote: »
    Don't assume just cause a car has L plates and a single occupant its a Learner driving though.

    im not talking about on the road I meant in the twitter posts they regularly put up a few a week


  • #1077
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭pippip


    neris wrote: »
    im not talking about on the road I meant in the twitter posts they regularly put up a few a week

    That's fair enough.


  • #1078
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    neris wrote: »
    the amount of unaccompanied L drivers is unreal

    Most of them have no insurance or tax though, so it isn't indicitative of Gardai clamping down on unaccompanied L drivers.


  • #1079
    DakarVert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭DakarVert


    Look up the checkpoints pages on FB, Often idiots saying they can't afford insurance so drive on or its unfair that L drivers get fined....


    Honestly some people are ****ing idiots.


  • #1080
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,749 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    If you look at some of the cars being impounded for no insurance and/or no tax, it might be fair to say that a certain number of drivers knowingly buy cheap cars and drive without insurance so that if eventually they do get caught, they have very little to lose, ie their cheap car is impounded and never claimed by its owner again. It's a calculated risk with them but they obviously see the chances of getting caught mitigate the price of insurance for them. Same with the guys who continue to drive when they are serving a ban.


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  • #1081
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    bazz26 wrote: »
    If you look at some of the cars being impounded for no insurance and/or no tax, it might be fair to say that a certain number of drivers knowingly buy cheap cars and drive without insurance so that if eventually they do get caught, they have very little to lose, ie their cheap car is impounded and never claimed by its owner again. It's a calculated risk with them but they obviously see the chances of getting caught mitigate the price of insurance for them. Same with the guys who continue to drive when they are serving a ban.

    It's a calculated risk but if they ever decide to go legit in the future getting cover with no insurance conviction will be near impossible.


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