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Neighbour on driving ban still drives with newborn in car

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  • #32
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Ring the Garda confidential line job done.If she were regularly driving drunk would you need the opinion of Boards to do the right thing?
    For anyone that thinks the guards don't care, wrong. They will be in receipt of 2,000 devices soon that can detect if a car has valid insurance and tax


  • #33
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    nedkelly123 wrote: »
    they are driving while banned

    Same thing. They don't care about banned/drunk/uninsured/untaxed drivers, unless they catch them at a road checkpoint.


  • #34
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    For anyone that thinks the guards don't care, wrong.

    They don't care. I've reported a few drivers to my local Garda station.
    Their response is they don't have time to do anything about it.
    One is a neighbour who is banned for drunk driving. She still drives regularly, still drunk.
    Another is a guy who works 100m down the street, who thinks he's ok to leave a car on our street while 'working on it', but still drives it with no tax, insurance, NCT.


  • #35
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    nedkelly123 wrote: »
    My wife and her are pals , she lives 2 doors down
    she was banned just before xmas for no insurance

    If you report her, is that going to finish your wife's friendship with her?


  • #36
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,641 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    surely they'll be a more careful driver if they have a baby in the car?


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  • #37
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭arctictree


    Sure wasn't Mags caught 36 times with no tax and insurance. No consequences. And the car is definitely not taken away if there are children in it.


  • #38
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    nedkelly123 wrote: »
    She is both a neighbor and a friend of my wifes
    didnt say it to her to be honest

    Won't take too for her to figure who reported her.
    There can't be too many Ned Kelly's living a few doors from a banned driver.:)


  • #39
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Ring the Garda confidential line job done.If she were regularly driving drunk would you need the opinion of Boards to do the right thing?
    For anyone that thinks the guards don't care, wrong. They will be in receipt of 2,000 devices soon that can detect if a car has valid insurance and tax

    So THEY can do the catching, get the stripes and move up the career ladder, not because concerned Joe Public rang it in.


  • #40
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    6/10

    Not using your account since last year was a nice touch.


  • #41
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    So THEY can do the catching, get the stripes and move up the career ladder, not because concerned Joe Public rang it in.

    Well they clearly need help in catching them, as the concerned public seems only interested in starting threads here,. ;-)


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Kinda depends what the ban is for ... if it's for some stupid administrative reason I see no reason to get involved ... however if I suspected she was driving under the influence of drink or drugs, I couldn't in good conscience ignore it, I'd make a call to the Gardai.

    Just saw you mentioned the ban was for no insurance. Nope, I personally wouldn't get involved there.

    So driving with no insurance is an adminstrative issue? It's one of the reasons why car insurance is so high, because those of us who pay also pay a share of the costs for drivers like this lady who don't.

    If you can't afford insurance, you can't afford a car.

    OP - please report her.


  • #43
    nedkelly123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭nedkelly123


    "Not using your account since last year was a nice touch."

    its jan 29th ... ???


  • #44
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Well they clearly need help in catching them, as the concerned public seems only interested in starting threads here,. ;-)

    You go and report it so.


  • #45
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    nedkelly123 wrote: »
    She is both a neighbor and a friend of my wifes
    didnt say it to her to be honest

    I think if you really cared you would offer her a lift.

    Remember, if she does have a accident it is technically your fault, as you knew about her driving around with no insurance and did nothing about it.


  • #46
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    As long as she’s a “good” driver it won’t matter that she doesn’t have insurance.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #47
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    You go and report it so.

    I'm not the OP, however if I become aware of a disqualified driver still driving I'd have no issue reporting them.


  • #48
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Far too many complicit citizens knocking around this thread. Soup takers the lot of them.

    Driving without insurance is a rich part of our culture that should never be forgotten.

    This country gets worse and worser every day.


  • #49
    Mr.burgess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭Mr.burgess


    Why haven't you said anything to your wife yet ? Are you afraid she might think your nosey Norris from coronation street and do a runner ?


  • #50
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    I think if you really cared you would offer her a lift.

    Remember, if she does have a accident it is technically your fault, as you knew about her driving around with no insurance and did nothing about it.

    And if op gives her a lift and has an accident he'll be at fault as well.
    Can't win op,you'll just have to move.


  • #51
    nedkelly123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭nedkelly123


    blade1 wrote: »
    And if op gives her a lift and has an accident he'll be at fault as well.
    Can't win op,you'll just have to move.

    😂😂😂


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  • #52
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,201 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    As long as she’s a “good” driver it won’t matter that she doesn’t have insurance.

    Like the fellas who only have the four pints and drive home slowly on the back roads.


  • #53
    Gonad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Gonad


    nedkelly123 wrote: »
    My wife and her are pals , she lives 2 doors down
    she was banned just before xmas for no insurance

    Really hope your wife’s friends or family are not on boards .

    Considering you posted a picture of the reg of your Porsche 911 in a previous thread and she lives 2 doors down .

    So if she gets caught you know who’s door she will coming knocking on .


  • #54
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Great you're keeping up the good old curtain twitching tradition.
    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good OPs do nothing.


  • #55
    nedkelly123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭nedkelly123


    blade1 wrote: »
    And if op gives her a lift and has an accident he'll be at fault as well.
    Can't win op,you'll just have to move.

    😂😂😂


  • #56
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    KaneToad wrote: »
    Like the fellas who only have the four pints and drive home slowly on the back roads.

    Well, no. Alcohol impedes ones ability to drive so you can’t really say you’re a “good” driver on four pints.

    Her “crime” is no insurance. There’s no mention of her being in any accidents so we can assume she hasn’t been.

    Would be interesting to know how long she’s been doing this as her “fine” may have been less than the insurance she would have paid.

    Also, her “points” will only affect her future insurance premium but, as we know, she’s not concerned with this so that renders them, well, pointless.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #57
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    Effects wrote: »
    Gardaí don't care about trying to catch people like this driving without insurance or under the influence. They only bother doing it at road checks.

    How would they catch her except at road checks ? The car she is driving has all the correct documentation....

    The gardai can now check via number plate recognition if a CAR is not insured.

    But the DRIVER can only be caught at a check point it seems ?

    She will prob. be able to drive away in an insured car until the ban expires.

    Thts Paddy land for you !


  • #58
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Great until the eejit runs into someone and is uninsured.

    Don't worry about that. We all pay a hefty levy on all our insurance policies to cover such eventualities. Nice that we all "chip in" for the people who don't bother with insurance.


  • #59
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Don't worry about that. We all pay a hefty levy on all our insurance policies to cover such eventualities. Nice that we all "chip in" for the people who don't bother with insurance.

    Whatever about the peeps who "don't bother" about car insurance ....what about the Kernts who are supposed police this, ?

    That's the real problem .....


  • #60
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I think the fact she has a child in the car is totally irrelevant really. Getting a ban for no insurance doesnt automatically make you a bad driver.

    Shes an idiot for doing what she is doing, that said j wouldn't be the one to say anything.

    Snitches get stitches


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  • #61
    Jonybgud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Jonybgud


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    I think the fact she has a child in the car is totally irrelevant really. Getting a ban for no insurance doesnt automatically make you a bad driver.

    Shes an idiot for doing what she is doing, that said j wouldn't be the one to say anything.

    Snitches get stitches

    If it didn't affect anyone I'd agree with you, but this a**hole is affecting every single one of us trying to keep our premiums down. When this k*nt has an accident it'll be everyone else's fault except hers, she won't stick around the scene and will deny being involved, all to save her own useless skin.

    I'd make the call in a heartbeat.


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