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  • 22-06-2006 03:42PM
    #1
    okidoki987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭


    was doing a broadband wireless install last week for a Garda from the Traffic Corps. While I was there, he told me that starting Saturday 1 st July, they will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that over e250,000 will be generated in speeding tickets. 100,000 will go to pay Garda over time. There will 50 Gardai on duty at all times patrolling on the following:

    M7/N7 from Naas to Portlaoise
    N4 to Mullingar from Dublin
    N6 to Athlone
    N81 to Baltinglass
    N11 to Wexford
    M50
    Dublin - Drogheda


    Their will be additional Gardai assigned to 'flying squads' - mobile units to patrol all other routes in Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Laois,
    Westmeath, Offaly, Louth and Kilkenny

    I'm warning everyone now that 5 kmph above the limit can justify a ticket and every Garda is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 20 minutes. They have issued brand new unmarked cars. If you must take one of these main routes, or surrounding roads beware. It's up to you how fast you go.
    I was told Today FM confirmed all of this(off the record). So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you. You've been warned.


Comments

  • #2
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I do believe it's an offense to tip people off about speed traps.


  • #3
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    If your speeding you deserve your ticket, i don't care if they are actively hunting or not!!!! ;)


  • #4
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    okidoki987 wrote:
    was doing a broadband wireless install last week for a Garda from the Traffic Corps. .

    out of curiosity, who do you work for?


  • #5
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    I got that too. These come around once a year. Its just one of those chain mails like the guys in the Ilac carpark selling perfume.


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,541 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    This has been posted here on various other forums at least 4 times within the last few days. I don't believe a word of it personally ... snopes.com or breakthechain.org material IMHO.


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  • #7
    MrB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭MrB


    I got that one in an e-mail from someone I work with.
    *sniff sniff sniff*
    Smells like a Chain-e-mail to me ;)

    (and so it is http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp)


  • #8
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    Yea, sums don't add for a start, isn't a speeding fine 80 quid.50 guards doing 3 an hour would be around 96K a day, over 30 days total would be over 2.8 mil.
    But maybe they can't count at Guarda HQ.


  • #9
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Guys, your all forgetting that the OP was TOLD to HIS FACE......by a Gardai no less!!!!

    Must be through, surely no one has ever made up a rubbish post on boards.ie!!!! :D


  • #10
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,215 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    I do believe it's an offense to tip people off about speed traps.
    What's that got to do with the price of chips?


  • #11
    okidoki987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    OP was TOLD to HIS FACE

    Not me, I just copied the E-mail I got but wasn't sure if it was a **** take or not.
    If it is, it's a good way to stop people speeding :o


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  • #12
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    MrB wrote:
    I got that one in an e-mail from someone I work with.
    *sniff sniff sniff*
    Smells like a Chain-e-mail to me ;)

    (and so it is http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp)

    God bless that website.


  • #13
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    i was driving from clonmel to carrick-on-suir today and there was a garda van with a guard in it holding a speed camera and another guard across the road giving some one a ticket. Wasn't an unmarked car though.


  • #14
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Total rubbish - just a chain mail. There is an article in the Herald about it today.
    Untitled Image




  • #15
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,034 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    My brother got caught today so there you go, unmarked and everything. ;)


  • #16
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Dragan wrote:
    Guys, your all forgetting that the OP was TOLD to HIS FACE......by a Gardai no less!!!!

    Strange how the Gardai told him word for word as the Snopes article.

    Although if I was a gardai in the traffic dept I'd randomly tell 5-10 computer geeks that and your guarnteed they will tell everyone online within hours. :D
    Giblet wrote:
    My brother got caught today so there you go, unmarked and everything. ;)

    They have been going around for a while. One patrols just off the M50 and around the N32. See them catching people from day to day. You wouldn't reconise it as a cop car until the lights go off (and they are hidden).


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