€7000 in fines for doing donuts.

EPAndlee · 05-09-2017 11:05PM

I'm fairly big into modified cars and in fairness doing doughnuts in fairly boring to do and watch. Everyone knows this sort of thing is illegal so if you get caught you can't complain. If your going to be at that **** at least go somewhere away from houses and roads that aren't busy

Seen a good few people calling the Garda awful names because of this and at the end of the day they are actually doing their job.

DaveyDave · 05-09-2017 11:08PM

Saw a lot of donut marks on the N11 leaving Wexford today. They deserve harsher penalties. Don't care if it's late and nobodies on the roads. Find private land, plenty of it around. The rules are the rules.

gctest50 · 05-09-2017 11:09PM

rebel456 wrote: »

Cheers. Looks as easy to bypass too!

They'd have the physical evidence if you were caught over 100 km/h

especially when it shows " LIMITED TO 100KM/H " on this yoke :

TrailerBob · 05-09-2017 11:14PM

Several junctions close to me in a rural area regularly coated with fresh rings of melted rubber.. didn't pass too many remarks early on, but fairly sick of it now. Good enough to get fines, as long as they don't get put on a 2 euro a week payment plan because they 'can't afford it'. Can't see any valid argument for allowing this on public roads.

gctest50 · 05-09-2017 11:24PM

Little tidy 6x4 is what they need :

Old Perry · 05-09-2017 11:34PM

Some fella fell out of a Lexus mid donut, at Donegal rally this year, and got crossed God love him. Punishment for these lads is a bit harsh imo especially since it was at an organized event with like minded ppl probably on closed roads aswell.

carsQhere · 05-09-2017 11:34PM

Poor box is just archaic. Should have been dealt with by way of points/ban/resit test as appropriate. The lads might see it differently of course.

If they were being used to send out a message then that's wrong too because by definition the punishment is is excessive in that case.

Modified car crowd get a bad name for the antics of a minority. No excuse for blocking a public road at the end of the day but this 7 grand poor box and speed limiters stuff just makes the court case read like a Fr. Ted script.

Marcusm · 05-09-2017 11:34PM

The court report sounds as if he is asking for poor box donations then giving them Peobation Act benefit (adjourned until November) meaning no actual conviction and not even a single penalty point or licence suspension.

Sounds like a crap decision to me.

Negative_G · 05-09-2017 11:35PM

Scroats. €3,500 fine will soften their cough.

The poor lads just got caught up in the moment. You would think at 21 and 25 they would have a bit of cop on. Obviously not much between the ears.

Great work by the Gardai.

Henry Ford III · 05-09-2017 11:40PM

I think the fines will be the least of these drivers issues.

circadian · 05-09-2017 11:44PM

JC01 wrote: »

How? How could they easily have injured somebody?

Is this a serious question?

gctest50 · 05-09-2017 11:46PM

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I think the fines will be the least of these drivers issues.

this will :P

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/200X120MM-100-kmh-SPEED-LIMITER-FITTED-STICKER-VAN-BUS-CAR-COACH-BUSINESS-/141311955914

CiniO · 06-09-2017 12:11AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Doing it with a crowd around you isn't that clever though

Bigus wrote: »

Not too clever in an uncontrolled environment as below

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/639001/car-ploughs-into-crowds-people-knocked-down-donut-error-shocking-video

Have to agree.
Having an audience right around is not greatest idea.

Still think there's nothing wrong with lads doing their stuff in quite place on their own or in small group.

I always used to do lots of vehicle control / skid training around quite roads, forest roads, especially on snow.
Sometimes as well on big supermarket parkings after closing hours, or even city junctions when empty at night when covered in snow. Control skidding is lots of fun.

CalamariFritti · 06-09-2017 06:32AM

No issue with car enthusiasts and with that kind of stuff as such, we all have our hobbies and to some others they seem silly. But the article said it was done on a busy public road and that is a bit stupid and in fact potentially very dangerous. FFs I've seen donut marks on motorways. There is no excuse for that kind of sh1te.

ELM327 · 06-09-2017 08:02AM

Sure can't they just sell the car, buy a different model of the same car, and move on with no speed limiter.

No excuses for young lads doing rings, you see it all the time, I have to travel the back roads near the border sometimes with work and every crossroad nearly is covered in donut marks.

gctest50 · 06-09-2017 08:10AM

ELM327 wrote: »

Sure can't they just sell the car, buy a different model of the same car, and move on with no speed limiter.

......

nope, limiter in whatever they drive

Judge James O'Connor ordered both men to pay €3,500 each and to install devices in whatever vehicles they drive to limit their speed to a maximum of 100km/h.

fancy pigeon · 06-09-2017 09:41AM

How has no one asked how you get insured on an AE86 at 21... Anyone?

Henry Ford III · 06-09-2017 09:45AM

fancy pigeon wrote: »

How has no one asked how you get insured on an AE86 at 21... Anyone?

I suspect it has just gotten considerably more expensive for those two drivers.

seamus · 06-09-2017 09:46AM

CiniO wrote: »

Sure - should be penalised when doing in public busy place, but what harm is it, if lads find a rural spot at night where no one is going to be around anyway?

If it's a public place, then there are people around. End of story.

If they want to go off and be idiots, they can do it on private land where they only stand to harm other likeminded idiots.

fancy pigeon · 06-09-2017 09:50AM

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I suspect it has just gotten considerably more expensive for those two drivers.

No denying a conviction like that will ramp up the premiums significantly, regardless of what they insure next, but to insure an AE86 at 21 seems like it would be extremely expensive initially or...

ELM327 · 06-09-2017 09:50AM

fancy pigeon wrote: »

How has no one asked how you get insured on an AE86 at 21... Anyone?

I suspect he has no insurance. Or a micra at home and that's insured and the ae86 is registered in "de memmehs name".

uck51js9zml2yt · 06-09-2017 09:53AM

CiniO wrote: »

I honestly think there's way too much public hate toward people doing donuts, skids, handbrake turns and other funky stuff.

Sure - should be penalised when doing in public busy place, but what harm is it, if lads find a rural spot at night where no one is going to be around anyway?

Fines of €3500 seems crazy for what it is - just few lads playing, learning skills, and risking damaging their wheels or suspension when hitting the kerb... nothing more.

It's not as bad as people think.

It was a public road on one of the main tourist routes in kerry, so not rural.

It was in the day not the night!

There was another idiot in the middle of them egging them on who could have easily been injured.

You're right..its not as bad as people think...Its worse!!

Purple Mountain · 06-09-2017 09:57AM

JC01 wrote: »

How? How could they easily have injured somebody?

Eh..the donkey standing in the middle of the two cars?
I suppose you're going to argue that the two boyios couldn't possibly lose control!

Wossack · 06-09-2017 09:59AM

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

Ultimate Seduction · 06-09-2017 10:11AM

fancy pigeon wrote:

No denying a conviction like that will ramp up the premiums significantly, regardless of what they insure next, but to insure an AE86 at 21 seems like it would be extremely expensive initially or...

Daddy could have a few cars insured or something.

My 19 year old friend with a learner permit got insured on 1.9tdi audi for less than me (30,full clean licence) on a 1.6 avensis!

He's father has 8 or 9 lorries insured so had bargaining power.

Cantona's Collars · 06-09-2017 10:12AM

2 clowns.Every crossroads or wide stretch of road in the country is a playground for eejits like those 2.Even driving along the Gorey Bypass which is a motorway the evidence of lads doing donuts is there. It takes a special kind of stupid to do stuff like that on a motorway.

millington · 06-09-2017 10:47AM

fancy pigeon wrote: »

How has no one asked how you get insured on an AE86 at 21... Anyone?

I had mine insured at 22 no hassle. 23 now and still insure it no questions asked.

I don't see any danger whatsoever in donuts. It's safer to watch donuts than to cross a busy street. It's the nuisance aspect of it that would annoy me.

Cantona's Collars · 06-09-2017 10:57AM

millington wrote: »

I had mine insured at 22 no hassle. 23 now and still insure it no questions asked.

I don't see any danger whatsoever in donuts. It's safer to watch donuts than to cross a busy street. It's the nuisance aspect of it that would annoy me.

What happens if you're the innocent party who comes around a bend on a county road and is hit by one of these fools? It's not just the donuts it's also their driving in general.They take on every trip as if they were driving in the WRC.The amount of crashes down my way since the recession has ended has sky rocketed.Many go unreported but we hear about how so and so's young lad wrote his car off.Only a few weeks ago 6 lads were in one car that ploughed through a ditch as he raced along a narrow,windy road and couldn't take a bend. Pure luck dictated that they all made it out alive.

Henry Ford III · 06-09-2017 11:03AM

millington wrote: »

...I don't see any danger whatsoever in donuts.....

Time for some sensible glasses?

bazz26 · 06-09-2017 11:10AM

Public roads are no place for this type of muppetry in my view. These children need to find their cheap thrills some other way.

€7000 in fines for doing donuts.

Comments