Dangerous driving

Jamie-b · 12-09-2010 1:34pm #1

Sorry if this is already here but there is a thread over in after hours with a link (sorry don't know if it'll work doesn't seem to be when I copy it but its called Limerick Lady vs The Duck Filly Race )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaiIxo3qf8&feature=related

Everyone is debating whether the guards would be able to do anything. It has to be illegal- they are in the hard shoulder and the wrong lane (you can see the traffic coming the opposite way in their hard shoulder).

If I passed this I would report it straight away but loads of people seem to think nothing coulde be done about it. If I was driving on the wrong side on the road I'd be arrested. Are these races actually legal?

bad2dabone · 12-09-2010 1:37pm

Must.....resist....urge....to....make....sweeping......anti-traveller statements!!!

peasant · 12-09-2010 1:43pm

Well, the black horse was galloping ,that's a disqualification there straight away

(bloody idiots ...that looks like the main Sligo to Dublin road which they effectively took over for their little race.)

Mycroft H · 12-09-2010 1:45pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaiIxo3qf8

Of course its bloody well illegal. And they will continue to do it and get away with it.

-Corkie- · 12-09-2010 1:47pm

They would only laugh at the guards anyway.

Cookie_Monster · 12-09-2010 2:28pm

even if (when) its reported, nothing will get done because they're travellers. I guarantee it.
:mad:

bazz26 · 12-09-2010 2:30pm

They usually have police scanners so they are well tipped off if the Gardai are on the way. By the time the Gardai get there they have moved on to another location. Some serious amounts of cash changing hands too at these gigs.

It's a pitty that Revenue doesn't make a few enquires about how all those expensive SUVs and vans are paid for. :rolleyes: Of course that would not be very PC.

Jamie-b · 12-09-2010 2:33pm

There are massive double standards at work so. Not so long ago a group of teenagers posted a video on youtube that everyone was talking about and they were caught and arrested and their cars were seized.

Drummerboy08 · 12-09-2010 2:35pm

bazz26 wrote: »

It's a pitty that Revenue doesn't make a few enquires about how all those expensive SUVs and vans are paid for. :rolleyes: Of course that would not be very PC.

Who gives a sh1te about PC Bazz? You can have no doubts about it - if it were you and me it wouldnt be long before someone knocked on your door.

These kind of people really turn my stomach.

Plug · 12-09-2010 2:36pm

Sure its apart of their culture guys, what's with the anti-traveller statements? These people are decent people who just can't get jobs*

*lots of sarcasm.

mondeo · 12-09-2010 3:32pm

Alot of travelers don't have an address so where would the gardai send the summons to? That's why they would probably get away with it and maybe that's why the gardai would not bother stopping them?

Max Power1 · 12-09-2010 4:05pm

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Who gives a sh1te about PC Bazz? You can have no doubts about it - if it were you and me it wouldnt be long before someone knocked on your door.

These kind of people really turn my stomach.

+1

p!sses me off no end how these "people" get away with it year after year, whereas if my car is a week out of tax I'd get screwed.

:mad:

dirtydiesel · 12-09-2010 4:36pm

Plenty of penalty point offenses committed there and not a chance of anything been done about it.

NC27 · 12-09-2010 5:23pm

peasant wrote: »

(bloody idiots ...that looks like the main Sligo to Dublin road which they effectively took over for their little race.)

Yep it sure is. Its the N4 just south of castlebaldwin. I was very suprised to see this happen on that strecth of road because the gaurds are almost always along there.

Kristopherus · 12-09-2010 5:34pm

mondeo wrote: »

Alot of travelers don't have an address so where would the gardai send the summons to? That's why they would probably get away with it and maybe that's why the gardai would not bother stopping them?

They all have PPSNs. They would have to supply an address for that and it is also tracked by Welfare. But guess what - the Gardai are not entitled to ask them for their PPSN:(

Anan1 · 12-09-2010 5:35pm

bad2dabone wrote: »

Must.....resist....urge....to....make....sweeping......anti-traveller statements!!!

Absolutely, if you want to avoid a ban. You can of course go to town on the people in the clip.

DonJose · 12-09-2010 5:55pm

DonJose opens the traveller thread door gently and steps into this thread. DonJose looks around and see's Anan1 sitting in the corner with a ban stick, DonJose steps back and gently closes the thread door.

Kristopherus · 12-09-2010 5:58pm

DonJose wrote: »

DonJose opens the traveller thread door gently and steps into this thread. DonJose looks around and see's Anan1 sitting in the corner with a ban stick, DonJose steps back and gently closes the thread door.

Brilliant !!!!!:)

jock101 · 12-09-2010 6:06pm

bad2dabone wrote: »

Must.....resist....urge....to....make....sweeping......anti-traveller statements!!!

I would as some PC Zealot, banned me for a week. All because he got the idea I was refering to Travellers in an other Thread! Even though I never mentioned them at all! Another death nail in this Forum!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

peasant · 12-09-2010 6:14pm

Doesn't matter who's driving ...this is idiotic and dangerous and they should be prosecuted

The horses are absolutely fine in this pic btw

jaffa20 · 12-09-2010 6:31pm

Ah sure it's ok. Their hazard lights are on!

DonJose · 12-09-2010 6:44pm

peasant wrote: »

Is that Hosanna in the HiAce???

Atomic Pineapple · 12-09-2010 6:54pm

Disgraceful behaviour on a public road, has anyone reported this video to the news stations and gardai seeing as the last time it was so effective?

Mint Sauce · 12-09-2010 7:10pm

peasant wrote: »

Doesn't matter who's driving ...this is idiotic and dangerous and they should be prosecuted

The horses are absolutely fine in this pic btw

thats the bit i was about to post, 3 cars traveling 3 a breast, a 4th on the oncoming hard shoulder and a 5th joining it, serious serious accident awaiting to happen.

-Corkie- · 12-09-2010 8:41pm

jock101 wrote: »

I would as some PC Zealot, banned me for a week. All because he got the idea I was refering to Travellers in an other Thread! Even though I never mentioned them at all! Another death nail in this Forum!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

*Gets up and leaves 100 euro note at the bar for Anan1*

Alanstrainor · 12-09-2010 8:52pm

jock101 wrote: »

I would as some PC Zealot, banned me for a week. All because he got the idea I was refering to Travellers in an other Thread! Even though I never mentioned them at all! Another death nail in this Forum!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Bye bye.

Absurdum · 12-09-2010 9:06pm

DonJose · 12-09-2010 9:28pm

Horse racing commentary, "And they're off, on the outside there's John Joe Ward, followed closely by Edward Ward and coming up fast on the inside is the favourite Jed Ward...."

glic71rods46t0 · 12-09-2010 9:40pm

I wonder if those involved in the clip are using their commercial vehicles for personal use - Gormley and the rest of the greens would frown on that!
The lads with the horses on the other hand .... emm, very green and sustainable transport!

What would your guess be on the profession/trade of those involved... tarmac technicians? scrap merchants????

stapeler · 12-09-2010 10:27pm

If the Gardai can't beat them they join them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8wHsoGeuH8

D_murph · 13-09-2010 1:20am

-Corkie- wrote: »

*Gets up and leaves 100 euro note at the bar for Anan1*

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Bye bye.

Gets out another €100 for Alanstrainor for that

.

Anan1 · 13-09-2010 1:27am

kq285adw43en9x wrote: »

What would your guess be on the profession/trade of those involved... tarmac technicians? scrap merchants????

Take your trolling elsewhere, thanks.

Cookie_Monster · 23-09-2010 8:13am

It made the paper this morning.

Link

Indo wrote:

GARDAI have launched a search for a gang that raced two horses and carts along a busy main road in a race that was then posted on YouTube.

The footage showed several four-wheel drives and vans behind the carts -- known as sulkies -- and their drivers on the N4 near Ballinacarrow, Co Sligo.

Gardai from Ballymote are studying footage of the video, which shows a convoy of vehicles belonging to the Traveller community spread over more than half the road behind the horses.

At least two vehicles drove on the other side of the road, against oncoming traffic, during the race between horses named 'Limerick Lady' and 'The Duck Filly'.

Traffic behind the race was held up for at least 10 minutes and vehicles travelling in the other direction were forced several times on to the hard shoulder.

The horses were running alongside each other for much of the race, but when one gained advantage and went a couple of lengths in front of the other, a driver and a passenger in one of the 4x4s could be seen sticking their heads out of the windows to cheer on the driver of the cart.

YouTube

The race took place on June 26 but was only posted on YouTube earlier this month.

The section of road where the race occurred is a long and straight one. However, a few kilometres further on, it runs into an area where there have been several fatal accidents in recent years. At least 10 vehicles were behind the horses and the video camera was in front. The cameraman filming the race can be heard urging his driver to speed up.

A senior garda spokesman at Ballymote said: "We have a copy of the footage and are studying it.

"All the digits on the number plates are not readily discernible, but we are hoping to identify members of the party.

"It's a very busy road, the main one from Dublin to Sligo, and much serious delay was caused to other vehicles." He added: No doubt, the law was broken."

Last July, gardai seized two cars and interviewed a number of young drivers in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, after video footage of them driving dangerously along a country had been posted on YouTube.

mb1725 · 23-09-2010 12:07pm

Can't see if there's any green nappies on the horses but there's quite a bit of slipstreaming going on in the 'dirty air' as Martin Brundle would say!

youcancallmeal · 23-09-2010 2:36pm

Probably a stupid question but why cant they just do this kind of thing on beaches? Or even give a farmer a cut of the bets and have it around a field?

Orando Broom · 23-09-2010 4:54pm

bazz26 wrote: »

They usually have police scanners so they are well tipped off if the Gardai are on the way. By the time the Gardai get there they have moved on to another location. Some serious amounts of cash changing hands too at these gigs.

It's a pitty that Revenue doesn't make a few enquires about how all those expensive SUVs and vans are paid for. :rolleyes: Of course that would not be very PC.

Sure it's part of their culture. Are you 'discriminatin' 'agin' their culture 'hey'?

Anan1 · 23-09-2010 5:00pm

Orando Broom wrote: »

Sure it's part of their culture. Are you 'discriminatin' 'agin' their culture 'hey'?

Seriously, how many warnings does it take? Banned for a week.

Johnny Utah · 23-09-2010 5:02pm

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Probably a stupid question but why cant they just do this kind of thing on beaches? Or even give a farmer a cut of the bets and have it around a field?

Can't drive vans on beaches like that, (pretty sure you can't drive on beaches at all). As for just have a horse race on a beach, it could endanger the public, so that's probably out too.

A farmer's field would be private land.

Cork Exile · 23-09-2010 5:06pm

Handy enough to get most of the number plate of one vehicle with little work so hopefully the cops can send the penalty points the right way and tip the revenue off as well

elchupanebrey · 23-09-2010 5:19pm

Anan1 wrote: »

Seriously, how many warnings does it take? Banned for a week.

One more??

DonJose · 23-09-2010 5:34pm

It annoys me to watch and listen to them, I'm delighted to see the Gardai are putting manpower on this case.

Anan1 · 23-09-2010 6:03pm

DonJose wrote: »

Success, hopefully the guards find the dirty piebalds, I'm not talking about the horses!!!

DonJose wrote: »

It annoys me to watch and listen to them, I'm delighted to see the Gardai are putting manpower on this case.

Banned for a fortnight.

RandomAccess · 23-09-2010 11:59pm

Another reason why I would rather have gardai policing the roads instead of gatso cameras and gatso vans etc.

Dangerous driving

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