FabSwingers.com forum: Drive it like you stole it

By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

Alot of people complain about getting point's for speeding & other reasons in this Country. As bad as it is, it's not as bad as Finland. Seen an article online about where a drive got done for speeding & his fine is €121,000. He got done doing 82km in a 50km zone. As fine amounts depend on your daily income.

So anybody willing to let the cat out of the day & say how many times ye got done for speeding & using Finland's model. What would the fine be?

I got done 1's, it must be 10 year's ago now. My fine at the time, would have been less than €5. Compared to less than €15,if it was to happen now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda

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By *ofistimacatedMan
over a year ago

cavan town

Got 3 points years ago, based on Finland's model and my income at the time, the few coins on the dash would have covered it

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda"

You were still a bold boy.

How did cost €160, did you throw your toys out of the pram at the Garda?

I bet that keeped you quite for awhile.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Got 3 points years ago, based on Finland's model and my income at the time, the few coins on the dash would have covered it

Like meself aswell, so then. I don't know was it 3 or 4 points I got at the time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda

You were still a bold boy.

How did cost €160, did you throw your toys out of the pram at the Garda?

I bet that keeped you quite for awhile.

No I tell him to show me when his speedometer was calibrated... But it wasn't his day I say so

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda

You were still a bold boy.

How did cost €160, did you throw your toys out of the pram at the Garda?

I bet that keeped you quite for awhile.

No I tell him to show me when his speedometer was calibrated... But it wasn't his day I say so"

O right. I bet that went down very well with him alright.

Didn't a person got out of a fine by using that as a reason?

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew."

You definitely were a bold boy.

It's a good job that he did alright.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda

You were still a bold boy.

How did cost €160, did you throw your toys out of the pram at the Garda?

I bet that keeped you quite for awhile.

No I tell him to show me when his speedometer was calibrated... But it wasn't his day I say so

O right. I bet that went down very well with him alright.

Didn't a person got out of a fine by using that as a reason?"

Hmm maybe could but I wasn't lucky unfortunately

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And once I get 2 points for driving with my dog on front sit...

But always when I need to drive fast I have empty roads so at this matter I am lucky somehow and hope is gonna stay like that

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I was driving 85 on 80and still get 3 points and 160 euro bonus for garda

You were still a bold boy.

How did cost €160, did you throw your toys out of the pram at the Garda?

I bet that keeped you quite for awhile.

No I tell him to show me when his speedometer was calibrated... But it wasn't his day I say so

O right. I bet that went down very well with him alright.

Didn't a person got out of a fine by using that as a reason?

Hmm maybe could but I wasn't lucky unfortunately "

No you weren't, sadly.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"And once I get 2 points for driving with my dog on front sit...

But always when I need to drive fast I have empty roads so at this matter I am lucky somehow and hope is gonna stay like that"

JASUS, what type of dog had/have you, for them to see the dog or was it at a checkpoint, you got done at, for that?

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew."

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion "

Uuuu so what should happen with me in your opinion when I was once drive 240 on motorway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

Uuuu so what should happen with me in your opinion when I was once drive 240 on motorway

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or maybe slightly less

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion "

It was the smell of testosterone, and indeed bullshit, that brought me in here. Did you smell it too?

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

It was the smell of testosterone, and indeed bullshit, that brought me in here. Did you smell it too?

Tell the truth Mike, you didn't want to be left out.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

Uuuu so what should happen with me in your opinion when I was once drive 240 on motorway

or maybe slightly less"

You'd be off the road for life, doing that speed, if BM, had his way.

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By *itemeagainMan
over a year ago

Wexford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion "

Given that its above the speed limit ... fair enough thats wrong .. shocking and should be banned are a bit harsh.

Speed limits aren't half as useful as stopping distance limits ... if we took this approach the safest cars would be the fastest.

Instead we have roads full I shit that can barely do 120 and take a week to stop

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

Given that its above the speed limit ... fair enough thats wrong .. shocking and should be banned are a bit harsh.

Speed limits aren't half as useful as stopping distance limits ... if we took this approach the safest cars would be the fastest.

Instead we have roads full I shit that can barely do 120 and take a week to stop

That's an interesting way of looking at it, alright.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

Uuuu so what should happen with me in your opinion when I was once drive 240 on motorway

What road ...was it Ireland

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Got done on two separate occasions. Second time was fair enough as I was doing 40 in a 30 zone and I got 3 points.

First time though was taking the piss.

There were roadworks on the dual carriageway for months and a 40mph limit. I had been though it dozens of times with no issues.

On my way home late one evening and came over the brow of a hill 2 miles before the roadworks.

The road crew were out moving the signs and cones and traffic was all traveling at 70 and came over the hill straight into a 40 zone with zero warning.

Dozens of cars all braking hard but most were still doing 50-60 as we passed the first sign.

Cops were standing with a speed gun at the second sign and I was one of the unfortunate ones to get stopped.

I appealed it due to the circumstances but all they did was send me on a speed awareness course which was a full 8 hours back then.

Part of the course showed how inadequate signage can cause issues for drivers and the two examples they showed on screen were a motorway sliproad at Mallusk were traffic has to go from 70 to 40 and the temporary signage where I was caught because of where it was and the blind hill.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've never had a speeding penalty

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

120 in a 60 and got off because he comes in to where I work

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Got done on two separate occasions. Second time was fair enough as I was doing 40 in a 30 zone and I got 3 points.

First time though was taking the piss.

There were roadworks on the dual carriageway for months and a 40mph limit. I had been though it dozens of times with no issues.

On my way home late one evening and came over the brow of a hill 2 miles before the roadworks.

The road crew were out moving the signs and cones and traffic was all traveling at 70 and came over the hill straight into a 40 zone with zero warning.

Dozens of cars all braking hard but most were still doing 50-60 as we passed the first sign.

Cops were standing with a speed gun at the second sign and I was one of the unfortunate ones to get stopped.

I appealed it due to the circumstances but all they did was send me on a speed awareness course which was a full 8 hours back then.

That's bad form, even with them doing there job. Abit of copon wouldn't have gone a miss, in that case, unless they were low on speeding fine cases.

If it (WAS) to happen in the future again. Could you used the road works, signs to fight your case to get out of it?

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"120 in a 60 and got off because he comes in to where I work "

You were VERY lucky, in your case.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I've never had a speeding penalty

Who's this, Mr or Mrs.?

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By *exesrangerMan
over a year ago

North Cork

I've had 3 speeding fines in my time. First one was before penalty points were a thing and the other 2 were only 2 points at the time. Clean since. I learned good and proper how to be better at avoiding them.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

1 of the worst roads in this Country, for standard, speed & signs posts. Has to be the M50. 1,It's a Motorway. 2,You can only 80km to 100km on it. 3,It's the biggest/widest road in the Country.

Madness, if you ask me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've never had a speeding penalty

Who's this, Mr or Mrs.?"

Mrs

It pretty much always is on the forums

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I've had 3 speeding fines in my time. First one was before penalty points were a thing and the other 2 were only 2 points at the time. Clean since. I learned good and proper how to be better at avoiding them. "

You better let the cat out of the bag.

Have you been come a good boy,cause of them or have you coped on to, when & where to be a bold boy?

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By *exesrangerMan
over a year ago

North Cork

"I've never had a speeding penalty

Who's this, Mr or Mrs.?

Mrs

It pretty much always is on the forums "

You should change to Mrs daisy

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I've never had a speeding penalty

Who's this, Mr or Mrs.?

Mrs

It pretty much always is on the forums "

O right, had a feeling. Just wanted to be safe

, than sorry

So your living up to the saying an angel on the street's?

Sure, even if you did get stopped. If it was a male cop, that stopped you, if you were wearing something low cut. You'd get off anyway's, there & then, I'd say.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"I've never had a speeding penalty

Who's this, Mr or Mrs.?

Mrs

It pretty much always is on the forums

You should change to Mrs daisy"

You'll be going up & driving her around the place?

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

"120 in a 60 and got off because he comes in to where I work

You were VERY lucky, in your case.

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extremely that was off the road speed

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"120 in a 60 and got off because he comes in to where I work

You were VERY lucky, in your case.

extremely that was off the road speed "

Exactly.

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion "

I believe I would have been put off the road if I had been prosecuted and it went to court.

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Probably got 10 or 12 over the years. Was on 9 points a couple of times....

I would be bankrupt by now....

Once got stopped for 185km in a 120km zone. Garda took details but I never heard a thing afterwards. He must have lost his notebook.....phew.

In fairness you should have been put off the road for a period of time ...doing 185 in a 120 is shocking in my honest opinion

I believe I would have been put off the road if I had been prosecuted and it went to court.

More than likely yes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Era fuck it drive it like you stole it your going to be done anyway so drive on

Madness blaring

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By *rish_Guy OP Man
over a year ago

Foxford

"Era fuck it drive it like you stole it your going to be done anyway so drive on

Madness blaring

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By *itemeagainMan
over a year ago

Wexford

"Era fuck it drive it like you stole it your going to be done anyway so drive on

Madness blaring

Bang on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got 3 points and €160 fine driving 145 km/h on m50 , but I was waiting from other places where I did speed.

Other few times I transferred my points to my mams license

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By *ublustMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Have somehow never had a penalty point or convinced / coerced someone else to take them on my behalf. Had one speeding ticket pre penalty points alrigh.

Anyway, I grew up in the arse end of nowhere and sto¡en cars weren't really a thing so you had to drive it like you're late for mass

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"I got 3 points and €160 fine driving 145 km/h on m50 , but I was waiting from other places where I did speed.

Other few times I transferred my points to my mams license

Thats huge if you get caught....

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