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Garda Traffic on Twitter

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  • #2132
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #2133
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    An odd one, cars seized for being on sale on public road, wonder will car dealers come under the same legislation...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831570048015880198


  • #2134
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #2135
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Don't worry about the Golf parked on the cycle lane anyway


  • #2136
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,325 ✭✭✭Buffman


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    An odd one, cars seized for being on sale on public road, wonder will car dealers come under the same legislation...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831570048015880198

    From that photo it looks like the 'dealer' operating out of the old petrol station beside Conyngham Road Dublin Bus depot, always has some of his cars out front on the road, even in Streetview.

    There's possibly more to that story than meets the eye judging by their follow up tweet and other recent car dealer CAB seizures.
    This was part of Operation ‘Sign-Off’ a joint operation involving Gardai from DMR Traffic, CAB and Customs.

    The below is a general 'signature' and not part of any post:

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.

    You don't have to take a 'smart' meter if you don't want one, opt-out is available.

    Buy drinks in 3L or bigger plastic bottles or glass bottles or cartons to avoid the DRS fee.

    Public transport user? If you're sick of phantom ghost services on the 'official' RTI sources, check bustimes.org for actual 'real' RTI, if it's on their map it actually exists.



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  • #2137
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,129 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    An odd one, cars seized for being on sale on public road, wonder will car dealers come under the same legislation...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831570048015880198

    Wonder was it another way of getting at "organised crime"


  • #2138
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Twitter comment suggests it's related to the Kinahans. Not sure if there's any truth in it.


  • #2139
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    They were doing that for years around loughrea, although to be fair people were selling cars all over the place there.


  • #2140
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    An odd one, cars seized for being on sale on public road, wonder will car dealers come under the same legislation...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831570048015880198

    If the cars were on UK or NI reg plates and for sale while not on a garage forecourt which has customs permission to sell such cars , they can be seized


  • #2141
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,884 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Don't worry about the Golf parked on the cycle lane anyway
    Deedsie wrote: »
    You regularly hear people talking about AGS opting for easy pickings, speed traps, Motor Tax, Insurance & NCT etc

    Surely the easiest pickings would be illegal parking on mandatory cycle lanes or on shared cycle lanes during clearway hours.

    I wish AGS would target lane discipline more. Frightening behaviour out there.


    The Golf most likely isn't illegally parked there - so long is it's outside of clearway hours.
    Check out google street view linked above - it's another one of the spots in Dublin where a non-mandatory cycle lane and marked parking spaces have been put down on top of each other.


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  • #2142
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,129 ✭✭✭✭neris


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831834929034039296


  • #2143
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    kinda surprised this one didn't make it's way here yet...

    http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local-news/235299/breaking-massive-344k-drugs-seizure-at-kildare-garda-traffic-checkpoint.html

    Checkpoint results in a drug find


  • #2144
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    If the cars were on UK or NI reg plates and for sale while not on a garage forecourt which has customs permission to sell such cars , they can be seized

    They appear to be white plates on the back, could be mocked up xxxD000 plates though.

    Theres another dealer not 500 metres from what looks like that location also has cars for sale on the roadside any time I have drove past, with what's going on in the media right now is not the time for selective policing.


  • #2145
    RosieJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Fair play to the bus driver
    C4pZeFJWQAAFroI.jpg

    tweet


  • #2146
    Cheensbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    [Checkpoint seizure]

    ^That's a painfully stupid way of getting caught..


  • #2147
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    An odd one, cars seized for being on sale on public road, wonder will car dealers come under the same legislation...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831570048015880198

    There's a dealer in Limerick City that uses the public parking outside their premises for the cars they are selling.


  • #2148
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Mc Love wrote: »
    There's a dealer in Limerick City that uses the public parking outside their premises for the cars they are selling.

    I have to admit my own prejudice here I had to read that three times before I realised it was a car 'dealer'.


  • #2149
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #2150
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,148 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Motorcyclist broke down - bus driver helped him out moving it.

    The Garda twitter feed picked up on it. I had seen it posted on a couple of bike pages before hand.


  • #2151
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Plonker...
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831839835849687041

    Looks like an Opel Astra, hardly a gas guzzler to begin with...
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831862810221088769


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  • #2152
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    GBX wrote: »
    Motorcyclist broke down - bus driver helped him out moving it.

    The Garda twitter feed picked up on it. I had seen it posted on a couple of bike pages before hand.

    Surely it's an unsecure load on the bus thus constituting a danger?


  • #2153
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Surely it's an unsecure load on the bus thus constituting a danger?

    :rolleyes:


  • #2154
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,148 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Surely it's an unsecure load on the bus thus constituting a danger?
    :rolleyes:
    The Gardaí took a different view -

    @ GardaTraffic There are good people out there. Regional Traffic Dublin Castle came across what appeared to be broken down bus on N2 at M50 jct last night.
    @ GardaTraffic On closer inspection, bus driver helped out a stranded broken down biker by putting m/bike onto his d/decker and bring him to.

    @ GardaTraffic bringing him to a safer location. There are good people out there.! :)


  • #2155
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    GBX wrote: »
    :rolleyes:
    The Gardaí took a different view -

    @ GardaTraffic There are good people out there. Regional Traffic Dublin Castle came across what appeared to be broken down bus on N2 at M50 jct last night.
    @ GardaTraffic On closer inspection, bus driver helped out a stranded broken down biker by putting m/bike onto his d/decker and bring him to.

    @ GardaTraffic bringing him to a safer location. There are good people out there.! :)

    Yeh I get it. I was being sarcastic.

    Usually posters here would throw the book at some no matter what their intentions were.


  • #2156
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,148 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Yeh I get it. I was being sarcastic.

    Usually posters here would throw the book at some no matter what their intentions were.

    They are probably waiting in the wings still hungover from last night :pac:


  • #2157
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    One issue with the bus would be the employer wouldn't look at it that way as those vehicles are extremely expensive and danger of fire from having such on the bus.

    Was a nice thing to do though.


  • #2158
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,325 ✭✭✭Buffman


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    One issue with the bus would be the employer wouldn't look at it that way as those vehicles are extremely expensive and danger of fire from having such on the bus.

    Was a nice thing to do though.

    Ye, my first thought was along those lines also. And if the bus companies insurance provider saw those photos and were able to ID the company, they could use it as an excuse to screw them over big time. (Cancel policy, raise premium, etc.)

    Nice thing to do alright, just have to make sure you don't get screwed over in the process. (By keeping it offline in this case)

    As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.

    A 'Good Samaritan' who stopped to help a distressed teenage girl who had been injured in a car crash has been left thousands of euro out of pocket after rescue crews were forced to dismantle his car.

    The below is a general 'signature' and not part of any post:

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.

    You don't have to take a 'smart' meter if you don't want one, opt-out is available.

    Buy drinks in 3L or bigger plastic bottles or glass bottles or cartons to avoid the DRS fee.

    Public transport user? If you're sick of phantom ghost services on the 'official' RTI sources, check bustimes.org for actual 'real' RTI, if it's on their map it actually exists.



  • #2159
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Buffman wrote: »
    Ye, my first thought was along those lines also. And if the bus companies insurance provider saw those photos and were able to ID the company, they could use it as an excuse to screw them over big time. (Cancel policy, raise premium, etc.)

    Nice thing to do alright, just have to make sure you don't get screwed over in the process. (By keeping it offline in this case)

    As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.


    Its bus eireann double decker.


  • #2160
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,325 ✭✭✭Buffman


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Its bus eireann double decker.

    Thanks, I thought it was a private. That's almost worse for the driver, with the current strike/cost cutting situation at BE, the driver is handing them a potential reason for disciplinary action on a plate.

    The below is a general 'signature' and not part of any post:

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.

    You don't have to take a 'smart' meter if you don't want one, opt-out is available.

    Buy drinks in 3L or bigger plastic bottles or glass bottles or cartons to avoid the DRS fee.

    Public transport user? If you're sick of phantom ghost services on the 'official' RTI sources, check bustimes.org for actual 'real' RTI, if it's on their map it actually exists.



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  • #2161
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,720 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Buffman wrote: »
    Thanks, I thought it was a private. That's almost worse for the driver, with the current strike/cost cutting situation at BE, the driver is handing them a potential reason for disciplinary action on a plate.

    Dont think there's anything in the photo to show what bus it was? So they don't know who was driving the bus?


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