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Appealing Garda fine

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  • 14-11-2010 10:57pm
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    comeraghs
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭


    My Girlfriend was stopped today by the Guards & accused of using her phone while driving which she wasn't. She offered to show them the phone & the record of made / received calls .. but the garda refused to look at it.

    How can she appeal?


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    #2
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Youll probably have to go here :)


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    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Don't know. Go to whatever Garda station issued it.

    Why does this seem to be a popular thing now. Someone else had a thread like that recently where a few people said they were stopped and accused of the same thing. I was stopped on Friday and told i was on a phone. But my phone was in my gym bag in the boot. I wasn't even holding anything resembling a phone so don't know where he got that from.


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    #4
    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Youll probably have to go here :)

    Are you the Board's Information Desk?


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    #5
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Lots of convo here

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056081376&highlight=pigs


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    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Are you the Board's Information Desk?
    I WISH!! - they get paid 100k a day i hear! :D


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    #7
    bop1977
    Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭bop1977


    She will get I fixed penalty notice.

    Don't pay this and after 56 days you will get a summons to court.

    When you get to court you can appeal to the judge but more than likely the judge will give out a large fine and some penalty points.

    Finally the offence is holding a mobile phone while driving.


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    #8
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Isn't that the second time someone has started a thread saying that they, or someone they know was accused of using their phone by a Guard, when they were not?

    When you take the population of the country into account, the number of After Hours frequenters, and thread starting statistics .. that means that it happens 47.2 times every day.

    Fuck sake, what are they at out there??


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    #9
    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    I don't think that any Garda fine is appealing.


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    #10
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    I find that your statement that you don't find any fine Garda fine appealing is appalling.


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    #11
    JMSE
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭JMSE


    mathepac wrote: »
    I find that your statement that you don't find any fine Garda fine appealing is appalling.

    I'm apple-eating while you think appealing is appalling


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    JMSE
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭JMSE


    I sit at lights with my ear on my fist and my elbow on the window ledge and am aware that this might look like I'm making a phone call. Should I stop, dont think so.


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    Batiste
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Batiste


    why the hell would you do that???:mad:


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    #14
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    She can ride the garda.


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    #15
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    She can ride the garda.

    Get stopped much?


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    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    squod wrote: »
    Get stopped much?

    I don't drive :(


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    Batiste
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Batiste


    as long as the gard in question, dosent look like a fookin troll


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    #18
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    It's a scam. If you accept the fine when the Garda stops you then you have to pay it. They are depending on people backing down instead of asserting their rights. Once the fine is written and the driver accepts it, it's their word against the Garda when it goes to court. Who do you think the judge will side with? Never accept a fine or ticket if you didn't break any laws.


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    #19
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    if you can prove that you where not on the phone at the time.

    Fight it.
    Garda can be pricks most of the time. And very unreasonable .

    I would love to see you stick it to da man;)


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    Jamiekelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Jamiekelly


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    Don't know. Go to whatever Garda station issued it.

    Why does this seem to be a popular thing now. Someone else had a thread like that recently where a few people said they were stopped and accused of the same thing. I was stopped on Friday and told i was on a phone. But my phone was in my gym bag in the boot. I wasn't even holding anything resembling a phone so don't know where he got that from.

    The government need money...
    Fines make money for government...


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    #21
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    tell him give you a hand job and the money will magically appear out of your pocket


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    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    I don't drive :(


    I'd take you for a ride.


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    #23
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I'd take you for a ride.

    Can we stop for ice-cream?


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    #24
    jdooley28
    Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭jdooley28


    Guards are taken d piss now it seems.


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    #25
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    No need to appeal. Pm in process


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    #26
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    Can we stop for ice-cream?

    mmm Ice cream


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    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    mmm Ice cream

    I like to lick it slowly.


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    #28
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    I like to lick it slowly.

    I like to eat it fast.

    Oh, I know, I'll have two to your one.

    What's this thread about again? :P


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    #29
    Sitec
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    You have no evidence (except last calls, which isnt evidence), i doubt your going to win to be honest. ****ty enough out of the gardai but i'd say she was on the phone. They dont make stuff up like that IMO


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    #30
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Oh, I know, I'll have two to your one.

    What's this thread about again? :P

    I'll have as many as I can take.

    Its about riding guards to get out of fines.


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    #31
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    I'll have as many as I want.

    Its about riding guards to get out of fines.

    I ain't riding no Gardai.

    Is that your baton Gardai or are you just happy to handcuff me? *Shudder*


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