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Garda Traffic on Twitter 2

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    #7352
    Ohio9
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 118 ✭✭Ohio9


    tossy wrote: »
    It might drop a little but it will never stop, there will always be a certain kind of person who believes that it's beneath them to pay their way. There are incidents in these pages of people getthing caught with tax out over a year on cars that cost a couple of hundred euro a year to tax or vans that cost only comercial rates. I bet a good portion of these will own the latest phone or have a 55 inch tv at home... it's not always down to financial constraints just selfishness and a general thick cnut attitude.

    Yes because if insurance was €100 per year then these "thick" ***** still wouldn't pay anyway because it is better to go to court and pay massive fines and lose your license for years instead of paying €100. Absolute nonsense. There is a checkpoint on top of checkpoint now and the main reason for not having insurance are stupid costs. Even for a tiny 1l car you can pay thousands when you're starting out. It's one of the most rip off systems in the world while we all know that insuring the vehicle itself so anyone can drive it, is a much better and less complicated way but then there wouldn't be millions coming in. Where will the insurance companies invest their profits then?


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    #7353
    tossy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,590 ✭✭✭tossy


    Ohio9 wrote: »
    Yes because if insurance was €100 per year then these "thick" ***** still wouldn't pay anyway because it is better to go to court and pay massive fines and lose your license for years instead of paying €100. Absolute nonsense. There is a checkpoint on top of checkpoint now and the main reason for not having insurance are stupid costs. Even for a tiny 1l car you can pay thousands when you're starting out. It's one of the most rip off systems in the world while we all know that insuring the vehicle itself so anyone can drive it, is a much better and less complicated way but then there wouldn't be millions coming in. Where will the insurance companies invest their profits then?

    I'm not sure if you're rubbishing my post or agreeing with it.


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    #7354
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,539 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260102530291437568

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260138544607170560


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    #7355
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    10 years of no tax! They should be made to back pay the whole ten years — FFS, there is no excuse for that. Discs for another vehicle, driver not licensed. We need to wake up and throw these ignorant cnuts in jail.


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    #7356
    shaveAbullock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭shaveAbullock


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    10 years of no tax! They should be made to back pay the whole ten years — FFS, there is no excuse for that. Discs for another vehicle, driver not licensed. We need to wake up and throw these ignorant cnuts in jail.

    That would require giving viloent crimes lower sentences or building new prisons.
    I don't think it would be a popular proposal to most voters.


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    #7357
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users Posts: 2,810 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    Guys don't ye know that it's the pandemic of 2020 that meant he couldn't tax his van in 2011, or 2012, or 2013, or....

    Plus he was probably using it to ferry food and medicine to his bedbound granny and volunteering at the animal shelter at weekends.


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    #7358
    BronsonTB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    10 years of no tax! They should be made to back pay the whole ten years — FFS, there is no excuse for that. Discs for another vehicle, driver not licensed. We need to wake up and throw these ignorant cnuts in jail.

    They will Just claim they don't have the money....they know we don't have the space in our prisons so any fine will never be paid & any prison sentence will be minimal. The political will power & money is not there to enforce these crimes.

    www.sligowhiplash.com - 3rd & 4th Aug '24 (Tickets on sale now!)



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    #7359
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    shaveAbullock wrote: »
    Just looking at some of the drug test results that they post.
    They rarely seem to report on people found driving while having benzodiazepines in their system.
    I believe it is legal once you have a prescription and are not noticeably intoxicated.
    But so many people take them without a doctors prescription you would think it would be a bigger problem and would show up frequently.

    most of the people using benzo's are using them in combination with heroin or methadone , usually both will test positive together, its really a drug combo that hits the inner cities and the poorest in society so many would not have legitimate access to a car.


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    #7360
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I think we are approaching uninsured drivers in the classic Irish way i.e not fixing the problem as the source but bodge a solution. If the government tackled the ridiculous cost of insurance in this country the number of uninsured drivers would drop.

    How do you judge that the cost of insurance is ridiculous? Mine isn't anyhow.


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    #7361
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Ohio9 wrote: »
    Yes because if insurance was €100 per year then these "thick" ***** still wouldn't pay anyway because it is better to go to court and pay massive fines and lose your license for years instead of paying €100. Absolute nonsense. There is a checkpoint on top of checkpoint now and the main reason for not having insurance are stupid costs. Even for a tiny 1l car you can pay thousands when you're starting out. It's one of the most rip off systems in the world while we all know that insuring the vehicle itself so anyone can drive it, is a much better and less complicated way but then there wouldn't be millions coming in. Where will the insurance companies invest their profits then?

    If we fixed our compensation culture and stopped paying out for unproved whiplash and back injuries we would have much lower insurance cost.


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    #7362
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,539 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260439540298375170

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260448279717974016

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260473713713184769

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260494031584399361

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260518349978718210

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260530959008575488


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    #7363
    thomas anderson.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭thomas anderson.


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    How do you judge that the cost of insurance is ridiculous? Mine isn't anyhow.

    Whats the actual cost of your policy?

    Without a NCB?


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    #7364
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,539 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260554562898968579


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    #7365
    BronsonTB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    How do you judge that the cost of insurance is ridiculous? Mine isn't anyhow.

    There is always an exception & extremes so we are not talking about your specific insurance, but more IN GENERAL for the majority of people the overall cost of insurance is high here.

    Back on thread topic...

    www.sligowhiplash.com - 3rd & 4th Aug '24 (Tickets on sale now!)



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    #7366
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Breakerz wrote: »
    The cost of insurance is ridiculous. It shouldn't really come as a surprise as large companies are now going directly to underwriters for self-administered schemes rather that take out cost prohibitive policies in RoI. There is no justification for the gouging that goes on in the insurance market in Ireland and unfortunately we have probably the worst insurance industry in Europe, if not the world.

    Can you provide any specific evidence to support those claims?


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    #7367
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    thomas anderson. wrote: »
    Whats the actual cost of your policy?

    Without a NCB?

    I paid about €360 net this year for comp. Car value of €25k. Model risk.

    Doesn't seem excessive.


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    #7368
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,396 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    I paid about €360 net this year for comp. Car value of €25k. Model risk.

    Doesn't seem excessive.

    It’s unusually cheap.


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    #7369
    thebiglad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭thebiglad


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    I paid about €360 net this year for comp. Car value of €25k. Model risk.

    Doesn't seem excessive.

    I paid about the same for both my wife's and my own car - one with Aviva and the other Axa through Supervalu.

    I find there are deals out there every year if willing to put in the time on the internet, usually have to change insurer but, so be it.


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    #7370
    BronsonTB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    There is a separate thread for your Insurance prices/quotes discussion....use it
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058074990

    Back on Garda Traffic twitter related thread topics here....:D

    www.sligowhiplash.com - 3rd & 4th Aug '24 (Tickets on sale now!)



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    #7371
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    BronsonTB wrote: »
    There is a separate thread for your Insurance prices/quotes discussion....use it
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058074990

    Back on Garda Traffic twitter related thread topics here....:D

    One of the major reasons for and spin off discussions emanating from the entire Garda Traffic tweets thread relates to motor insurance.

    Whilst you are correct that there is a separate area for discussing that topic specifically there is inevitably going to be a degree of overlap.


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    #7372
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,887 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    I know it's already posted above in the midst of three other tweets but I'm pulling it out for a separate discussion
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260494031584399361

    Surely if he or she hasn't copped on after the first FCPN on the same day, that warrants a visit to the judge to convince his or her honour as to why they should be allowed to retain their licence.


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    #7373
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    flazio wrote: »
    I know it's already posted above in the midst of three other tweets but I'm pulling it out for a separate discussion
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260494031584399361

    Surely if he or she hasn't copped on after the first FCPN on the same day, that warrants a visit to the judge to convince his or her honour as to why they should be allowed to retain their licence.

    Probably thought lighting can't strike twice.....

    May not be exactly the same place but it well can strike twice.....


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    #7374
    alias no.9
    Registered Users Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Probably thought lighting can't strike twice.....

    May not be exactly the same place but it well can strike twice.....

    In the early days of penalty points one genius picked up 12 points in a single month, all from the same fixed speed camera

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/banned-by-points-delay-1.1152954


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    #7375
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,539 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260587066435477507

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1260674564000043010


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    #7376
    JustARandomGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭JustARandomGuy


    Here's some food for thought:

    150 km/h is not dangerous on a motorway.


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    #7377
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    JustARandomGuy wrote: »
    Here's some food for thought:

    150 km/h is not dangerous on a motorway.

    Well ,it's not always dangerous ,but it is above the speed limit ...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #7378
    Top Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    JustARandomGuy wrote: »
    Here's some food for thought:

    150 km/h is not dangerous on a motorway.
    Nobody claimed it was? :confused:


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    #7379
    Ohio9
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 118 ✭✭Ohio9


    Markcheese wrote: »
    Well ,it's not always dangerous ,but it is above the speed limit ...

    It used to be ok to keep slaves and since it wasn't illegal, it's all good. I love Germany. Amazing country with amazing people and no potato levels of logic used.


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    #7380
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭Allinall


    JustARandomGuy wrote: »
    Here's some food for thought:

    150 km/h is not dangerous on a motorway.

    It depends on who's driving.

    You can't have individual speed limits for every person, so one has to be set for the whole population of drivers- old, young, experienced, novice, professional etc., etc.


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    #7381
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    JustARandomGuy wrote: »
    Here's some food for thought:

    150 km/h is not dangerous on a motorway.

    But coming up at that speed on an accident that blocks the road is.


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