Usual cop behaviour. Know everything about nothing.

 

he probably thought that your rear lights got burnt when you were trying to spark up a joint while hiding for the wind behind your car, so i can understand why he might have suspected something and thats a perfectly ligit reason to search you under section "its near the end of the month and i havn't dished out my monthly quota of tickets, i better do this lad for something or sergeant will have my ass"
those gards should have been done for wasting garda time.

 

To be fair lots of cops do there jobs just fine but ive met plenty of them recently that seem go out of their way to be extra annoying.
Its seems these days if youve shown any interest in your car whatsoever other than for the purpose it was intended for then your going to get pulled. I got stopped because of 2 stickers in my back window before and was promptly told to remove them. Neither offensive,or put there by me.
Says it all really.

 

Musta been a slow day for them!

 

i always laugh when i know they have nothing. Cracks them up altogether

 

At least you didnt get your car taken off you.. Last month I lowered the front of my coilovers a bit more and put on a cupra r splitter and i got the car taken off me for being too low, they said I wasnt insured for it being that low... They got a tow truck out and they said well look its ''too low to toe'' so they left me on the side of the road, no sign of a lift home, got a taxi anyway on a tuesday night, next morning I went in had to pay 125 euro to get it out of a scrap yard.. nothing said about the coilovers there, i asked could i speak to the guard and he was ''off duty'' I have since been in the station 6 times looking for the guard and calling the kilkennt barracks and everytime he is ''off duty, and i dont know when he is on next''...

 

QUOTE (James GTI @ Nov 25 2011, 07:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>At least you didnt get your car taken off you.. Last month I lowered the front of my coilovers a bit more and put on a cupra r splitter and i got the car taken off me for being too low, they said I wasnt insured for it being that low... They got a tow truck out and they said well look its ''too low to toe'' so they left me on the side of the road, no sign of a lift home, got a taxi anyway on a tuesday night, next morning I went in had to pay 125 euro to get it out of a scrap yard.. nothing said about the coilovers there, i asked could i speak to the guard and he was ''off duty'' I have since been in the station 6 times looking for the guard and calling the kilkennt barracks and everytime he is ''off duty, and i dont know when he is on next''...

What is the actual law on car being too low?

 

Did they like your number plates ??

 

Have seen your car around DCU a few times, staying on Shanliss Road myself.
Looks well.

 

plain and simple there out to make there christmass bonus. I had gardai car follow me from town for 15 miles, pull me over and the usuall , i asked them was there any particular reason they pulled me over and followd me for the last 15 miles there awnser being ah this lad beside me diditn like the look of your number plates, and with that i replied you havent a lot to be at. put up the window and drove off.

like nearly everyone on any car forum we have all stories of bein hasself by "the law" and to be honest we always will

 

QUOTE (James GTI @ Nov 25 2011, 07:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>At least you didnt get your car taken off you.. Last month I lowered the front of my coilovers a bit more and put on a cupra r splitter and i got the car taken off me for being too low, they said I wasnt insured for it being that low... They got a tow truck out and they said well look its ''too low to toe'' so they left me on the side of the road, no sign of a lift home, got a taxi anyway on a tuesday night, next morning I went in had to pay 125 euro to get it out of a scrap yard.. nothing said about the coilovers there, i asked could i speak to the guard and he was ''off duty'' I have since been in the station 6 times looking for the guard and calling the kilkennt barracks and everytime he is ''off duty, and i dont know when he is on next''...

Personally I'd be writing to the Super about that one and looking for my cash and the cost of the taxi back.....providing it's taxed/insured and NCT'd then I personally don't see why it could be seized (things like dodgy plates/lights/etc are summary offences i.e. you can be summonsed) If you're not getting any hop at the bottom level then it's time to go higher IMHO. Remember "the pen is mightier than the sword"

 

QUOTE (RonanD @ Nov 25 2011, 08:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What is the actual law on car being too low?

i was told by a gard that ther is no law against the car being too low as long as the wheels are not fouling the arch!
the law is that you can get done for your lights being too close to the ground and too high! and you can get a summons for every illegal bulb too!

 

QUOTE (Trevor @ Nov 25 2011, 09:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Did they like your number plates ??

Its a wonder they didnt say anything about the cuts in the zeros!

 

Taxed, NCT'D, everything legal like plates windows the works.. they said I never told my insurance company I was driving a modded car..

 

sounds like you got the honda civic or is200 treatment, they seem to be the car of choice lately for drug dealers in my town, always being stopped,searched etc..

 

Your lights do look dull tbf, a run over with a da would do wonders, sounds like a couple of knobs but on a whole I find the GS fair enough!

 

QUOTE (Trevor @ Nov 25 2011, 09:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Did they like your number plates ??

throwing stones in a glass house?

 

Had a guard do escapade of a U-turn on a main road in town to chase me down for my yellow front headlights, i produced S.I No. 189/1963 of The road traffic act 1963 at which point he asked me what the hell was this i was showing him, told him what it was, so he then told me to wait there and headed off for a few mins, then just chucked the sheet back in the window and told me to move on!. Charming lads some of them.

 

bunch of sacks so they are...i got pulled about 2 months ago and he said ur plates are illegal and made me get out and look at them and he said "i cant tell that is a 4 in the plate" (the screw was in over the number) and i replied "sure how do you know its a 4 so if you cant tell" ha he didnt know wat to say then siad he was gonna give me a summons and €2,500 fine per plate if i dint take them off ha

still have them on it and see him most days in the town doin nothing...typical

 

QUOTE (Toms mkiv @ Nov 25 2011, 12:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I stopped as you do and the two got out and the first words were 'what have you got sprayed on your lights' and it all started from there. The reason why they pulled me in was due to the break lights being Dull supposedly. I got out and tried to convience them that they were genuine standard lights after a five minute debate one got in and pressed the pedal saying ' Look yourself'

That was your first mistake. I would have asked which exact section of the road traffic act? More than likely he'd either bullshit you or just tell you to feck off. I'd never leave the car because your not obliged to.

Arguing with them over whether a light is too dull or not is pointless, your bright isnt another persons

QUOTE (rubbinanddubbin @ Nov 25 2011, 08:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Had a guard do escapade of a U-turn on a main road in town to chase me down for my yellow front headlights, i produced S.I No. 189/1963 of The road traffic act 1963 at which point he asked me what the hell was this i was showing him, told him what it was, so he then told me to wait there and headed off for a few mins, then just chucked the sheet back in the window and told me to move on!. Charming lads some of them.

Thats a brilliant idea!

 

QUOTE (mossey0708 @ Nov 25 2011, 02:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Musta been a slow day for them!

Best line ever is (looking in the window) "Tell me who owns the car?"

They do some head scratchin then when you tell him tis yours!

 

QUOTE (mossey0708 @ Nov 25 2011, 02:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Musta been a slow day for them!

Best line ever is (looking in the window) "Tell me who owns the car?"

They do some head scratchin then when you tell him tis yours!

 

Typical Lazy ass Dublin Garda"noting better to be doing with themselves!..Them Traffic Corps are the worst" They issue fines left right and centre to ordinary law abiding citizens"who actually pay through the nose to make their cars legal to drive on our roads"..All these fines Just to help out Our cash strapped pack of wasters in leinster House"..

Meanwhile all the scumbags throughout the country walk out of court laughing day in day out" jump back in there uninsured cars and Keep being scumbags without much if any hassle from The Law"...Its a joke!

 

QUOTE (ustari @ Nov 25 2011, 11:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Have seen your car around DCU a few times, staying on Shanliss Road myself.
Looks well.

I've seen it in DCU a few times as well. Same with you ustari I have mates living on that road so I'd see your car a bit as well

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QUOTE (garymk3 @ Nov 25 2011, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Typical Lazy ass Dublin Garda"noting better to be doing with themselves!..Them Traffic Corps are the worst" They issue fines left right and centre to ordinary law abiding citizens"who actually pay through the nose to make their cars legal to drive on our roads"..All these fines Just to help out Our cash strapped pack of wasters in leinster House"..

If your car is legal to drive how would you get a fine? Unless you do something illegal?