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So I got into an argument at a car park with a cheapskate

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  • #152
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Well I nominate Cyberghost for some sort of Motors forum award for service to motorists. That fellow will think twice before doing it again....


  • #153
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,193 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Theo Muscular Sometimes wrote: »
    Well I nominate Cyberghost for some sort of Motors forum award for service to motorists. That fellow will think twice before doing it again....

    I bet he did it today just to prove no one can tell him what to do....


  • #154
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    The only time brake-testing is permitted.


  • #155
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    How are people even watching the video on that broken piece of crap streaming site? I get 3 seconds of playback for every 30 seconds of buffering, why not just put it on Youtube or Dailymotion or somewhere?


  • #156
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,193 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Thargor wrote: »
    How are people even watching the video on that broken piece of crap streaming site? I get 3 seconds of playback for every 30 seconds of buffering, why not just put it on Youtube or Dailymotion or somewhere?

    Worked fine for me.
    Laptop earlier and just now on mobile.....


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  • #157
    Emmersonn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Emmersonn


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Well said.
    It was you Pintman was'nt it. ?:D Bet you will pay in future. :rolleyes:


  • #158
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    The celtic tiger must be in full swing again if people are trying to stop a lad of saving a few quid and making sure the big fat-bellied car park owner gets every last penny he can get.


    I dislike pay car park owners. They do fcukkity all for their money after they manage to convince the bank and the council to let them build the damned thing. After that it becomes a money printing machine and its owner can live a life of hedonism in Barbados/Feurteventura on the back of the ordinary working punter


  • #159
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,400 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    The celtic tiger must be in full swing again if people are trying to stop a lad of saving a few quid and making sure the big fat-bellied car park owner gets every last penny he can get.


    I dislike pay car park owners. They do fcukkity all for their money after they manage to convince the bank and the council to let them build the damned thing. After that it becomes a money printing machine and its owner can live a life of hedonism in Barbados/Feurteventura on the back of the ordinary working punter

    Someone has to pay for the freeloader to get out of the car park. If nobody paid, noone would get out of the car park.....
    The OP has every right to feel agrieved that the freeloader is leeching off them on a consistent basis.


  • #160
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    The celtic tiger must be in full swing again if people are trying to stop a lad of saving a few quid and making sure the big fat-bellied car park owner gets every last penny he can get.


    I dislike pay car park owners. They do fcukkity all for their money after they manage to convince the bank and the council to let them build the damned thing. After that it becomes a money printing machine and its owner can live a life of hedonism in Barbados/Feurteventura on the back of the ordinary working punter

    U Wot M8?!

    Op is a fecking hero we don't deserve. So many people taking a fecking piss and someone finally just went: AH feck off m8, not this time.

    Op, pays for parking and does it by the books. Its a service and he agrees to it and pays for it. Like majority of us. And for the love of ****, its a 4eu we talking about and these people still do this ****?! Sometimes when I see this ****, I think that Planet of the Apes should come sooner. We are done as speeches.

    Before this thread, I never knew this was a thing. And thank you op, for showing this. If I ever in one of these carparks I will keep an eye for cheap fecks like that.


  • #161
    SirChenjin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭SirChenjin


    'Back the **** up' :D - I love you OP!


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  • #162
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I'd be slow enough to shed a tear for any lad who built a multi storey within sniffing range of Dublin in recent decades. Great business to be in. Nobody ever complains their parking space is dirty, cold, damp or any of the nonsense ordinary landlords have to put up with. Id definitely have to be getting some fairly good kickbacks from the owner before I'd start blocking people to ensure he gets the millions he deserves.


  • #163
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    The lad said "But you're from Poland!"

    So what?

    I'd happily trade that cheapskate for another Polish fella if I thought we could! OP is a national treasure tbh.
    beertons wrote: »
    A rear cam would have been deadly in this instance.

    Rear naked choke would have been glorious too!


  • #164
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,400 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    I'd be slow enough to shed a tear for any lad who built a multi storey within sniffing range of Dublin in recent decades. Great business to be in. Nobody ever complains their parking space is dirty, cold, damp or any of the nonsense ordinary landlords have to put up with. Id definitely have to be getting some fairly good kickbacks from the owner before I'd start blocking people to ensure he gets the millions he deserves.

    This is completely irrelevant.


  • #165
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Anyone remember the old car park in Beaumont Hospital? It used to be a real problem there (about 20-25 years ago). A £1 coin was required to exit regardless of how long you stayed yet there would be several cars circulating around waiting for someone else to pay up and they'd drive out in a line after. The barrier was ridiculously slow to drop.


  • #166
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Thargor wrote: »
    How are people even watching the video on that broken piece of crap streaming site? I get 3 seconds of playback for every 30 seconds of buffering, why not just put it on Youtube or Dailymotion or somewhere?

    Streamable has never failed to load for me, and I use it a lot. Video works fine.

    Then you mention Dailymotion :pac:


  • #167
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,915 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    I was in a car with a travelling rep who has a fob for the toll roads. As we approached the slip road to the automatic reader at a toll booth a car zipped in ahead of us. My mate immediately slowed his car almost to a stop. When I asked him why he said it was a thing for chancers to jump in ahead of of people heading for the automatic teller when they don't have one themselves. The reader is a good 80 yards back from the barrier so the chancer hopes to get through when the the fob in the legit car is read.

    I found it hard to believe to be honest, it would be so blatant. Has anyone ever experienced anything like that?

    I do the guts of 50k motorway a year, it's widespread more so on the M8 for some reason

    here's just one of my tales: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87588704&postcount=17


  • #168
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,966 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you for real?

    No, he's not for real. It's a pretty obvious troll account.


  • #169
    ofthelord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭ofthelord


    well done OP! i've often felt like doing what you have done - i just never had the balls to do it. maybe next time...


  • #170
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,247 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    A protruding bike carrier on the back of the car would prevent him closing the sensor gap in future.


  • #171
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,374 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Thargor wrote: »
    How are people even watching the video on that broken piece of crap streaming site? I get 3 seconds of playback for every 30 seconds of buffering, why not just put it on Youtube or Dailymotion or somewhere?

    I think it's your dodgy internet connection or else your device.

    It streams fine


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  • #172
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,374 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Theo Muscular Sometimes wrote: »
    Well I nominate Cyberghost for some sort of Motors forum award for service to motorists. That fellow will think twice before doing it again....

    The only problem is that guy clearly had no shame, morals or scruples.

    I've no doubt that not only will be do it again, he most likely did it straight after OP blocked him with some other poor sod paying the price.


  • #173
    Dave147
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭Dave147


    CyberGhost wrote: »
    I park my car at a public paid car park when I go to work.

    I noticed that there are few people who work around in the area who park there, and then at around 6-ish when people are leaving work they wait and circle around in their cars looking for someone to exit the car park and then they tailgate them out avoiding the parking fee. And they do it every single day.

    What's funny is that these cheapskates are driving really nice, new cars, are nicely dressed, obviously they can afford a parking ticket... but they don't mind or care about tailgating out anyone just so they avoid paying the fee.

    I got tailgated out many times and finally had enough. So I said I would not let anyone tail gate me out anymore, especially because I know they work in that area, this is not just some stray car that entered the parking by accident. They know exactly what they are doing.

    Today as I was going to my car from work, I noticed this guy sitting in his car and by the time I paid for my ticket and I got into my car he was circling around and got into the position to chase me out. What he did not expect is that I would not let him out.

    What's amazing is the level of entitlement. I told him I was not letting him out and he is still trying to follow me out. It's astounding.

    Sorry for the profanity in the video, but I simply have had it with these people.

    https://streamable.com/8uwq2

    I ****ing love you.


  • #174
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    I was in a car with a travelling rep who has a fob for the toll roads. As we approached the slip road to the automatic reader at a toll booth a car zipped in ahead of us. My mate immediately slowed his car almost to a stop. When I asked him why he said it was a thing for chancers to jump in ahead of of people heading for the automatic teller when they don't have one themselves. The reader is a good 80 yards back from the barrier so the chancer hopes to get through when the the fob in the legit car is read.

    I found it hard to believe to be honest, it would be so blatant. Has anyone ever experienced anything like that?

    Happens very regularly. I've posted videos before of people trying it.


  • #175
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    ION08 wrote: »
    I would probably try to tailgate you myself

    That's some cheap ass sh1t man.


  • #176
    Emmersonn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Emmersonn


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    The celtic tiger must be in full swing again if people are trying to stop a lad of saving a few quid and making sure the big fat-bellied car park owner gets every last penny he can get.


    I dislike pay car park owners. They do fcukkity all for their money after they manage to convince the bank and the council to let them build the damned thing. After that it becomes a money printing machine and its owner can live a life of hedonism in Barbados/Feurteventura on the back of the ordinary working punter
    And on principal alone you refuse to use pay car parks and when you do use them, you refuse to pay. Well done that man. Stand up for your culture :D


  • #177
    ectoraige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    I just want to say there's something delightful in the Eastern European pronunciation of 'knobhead'.


  • #178
    ectoraige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    glenfieldman wrote: »
    Are you for real ???

    This is against GDPR

    The image of a person recorded by a dashcam constitutes personal data within the meaning of Article 2(a) of Directive 95/46/EC(1) and of Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)(2) inasmuch as it allows for the identification of individuals and in the same way as image and sound data recorded by means of closed-circuit television (CCTV) and other video surveillance systems are considered personal data..

    The legislation of the European Union on data protection applies to the processing of personal image data recorded by dashcams. While the EU data protection rules do not specifically refer to dashcams, they are technology neutral. The use of dashcams must comply with the principles and rules of the GDPR, including that the processing of personal data by dashcams is lawful.

    In Germany there is no legislation specifically banning the use of dashcams. The national data protection supervisory authorities and courts are in charge of ensuring that the use of dashcams complies with the applicable data protection legislation. Current case law prohibits the publication of the material on the Internet. There already is case law in Germany and Austria on sanctioning the recording by private persons.

    In order to encourage consistent application of the GDPR, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) — the new EU body established by the GDPR, could issue guidelines, recommendations and best practices on the application of the GDPR in the respective area. In that context, the national data protection authorities, working together within the Board, would be able to give further guidance on this issue.


    GDPR only applies to entities engaged in economic activity. So long as the videos aren't being monetised, the uploader should not be in breach of the regulations. Youtube or RTÉ might have a problem, but not the user.


  • #179
    Gonad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Gonad


    https://youtu.be/ukznXQ3MgN0


  • #180
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Way to selectively answer.

    Why is it OK to steal form some businesses and not others?

    I never said it was OK. I said I didn't care. It's not my car park, I don't work my knickers up into a scrotum strangling indignant bunch over these things.

    Does the OP go banging on his neighbours window telling them to turn Mobdro off and give poor Rupert Murdoch his few bob? Does he perform citizens arrests on luas fare dodgers? Sneaky pick and mix munchers? Where do you draw the line?

    If it's wrong to rob ParkCorp, it's equally wrong to rob Sky, Transdev or Tesco.

    Personally - I couldn't give a rats arse about any off them, and furthermore I think anyone who does gets themselves all worked up and stressed about such things is an absolute cockwomble.


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  • #181
    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I never said it was OK. I said I didn't care. It's not my car park, I don't work my knickers up into a scrotum strangling indignant bunch over these things.

    Does the OP go banging on his neighbours window telling them to turn Mobdro off and give poor Rupert Murdoch his few bob? Does he perform citizens arrests on luas fare dodgers? Sneaky pick and mix munchers? Where do you draw the line?

    If it's wrong to rob ParkCorp, it's equally wrong to rob Sky, Transdev or Tesco.

    Personally - I couldn't give a rats arse about any off them, and furthermore I think anyone who does gets themselves all worked up and stressed about such things is an absolute cockwomble.

    The difference with your examples is that the tailgater wants to benefit directly from what the OP paid personally and individually.


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