calling the gardai....

have_a_go_hero

so im coming home from work around midnight....crusing along at 90kmh on a 100kmh road (it was lashing rain) seemingly the only car around none ahead or behind me when suddenly i saw a reflection ahead....next thing i know im jamming on the breaks because there is a car with no lights crawling along at 50kmh..so proceded to follow him flashing my lights to get him to turn on his lights....we approached a roundabout and went seperate directions,,,,i decided to call the gardai fearing this persons safety and others who may not see him...

anyway to cut a long story short!!!!!!! was it the correct thing to do or should I have minded my own business?

LoonyLovegood

Definitely right. Someone crawling on a road with no lights on is a danger to themselves and others.

BUBBLE WRAP

have_a_go_hero wrote: »

so im coming home from work around midnight....crusing along at 90kmh on a 100kmh road (it was lashing rain) seemingly the only car around none ahead or behind me when suddenly i saw a reflection ahead....next thing i know im jamming on the breaks because there is a car with no lights crawling along at 50kmh..so proceded to follow him flashing my lights to get him to turn on his lights....we approached a roundabout and went seperate directions,,,,i decided to call the gardai fearing this persons safety and others who may not see him...

anyway to cut a long story short!!!!!!! was it the correct thing to do or should I have minded my own business?

You done the right thing. You may have saved someones life.

RMD

Completely right. Either the car is not suitable for driving at night (lights not working) or the driver is pissed out of his brains and hasn't noticed his lack of lights.

policarp

Only a fool breaks the two second rule. . .

have_a_go_hero

policarp wrote: »

Only a fool breaks the two second rule. . .

say what now?

Rabies

have_a_go_hero wrote: »

say what now?

Its when you drop your breakfast roll while driving, 2sec to pick it back up again before you have to grab the steering wheel again

im invisible

policarp wrote: »

Only a fool breaks the two second rule. . .

twice on a wet day..

Biggins

have_a_go_hero wrote: »

...anyway to cut a long story short!!!!!!! was it the correct thing to do or should I have minded my own business?

You were thinking of others and not yourself, erring on the side of caution.
As others have said, you did the right thing.

The King of Moo

OP's username severely disappoints .

crapmanjoe

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

You done the right thing. You may have saved someones life.

Hurts my brain :mad:

The King of Moo

crapmanjoe wrote: »

Hurts my brain :mad:

Grammar Nazism hurts my brain :mad:.

BUBBLE WRAP

crapmanjoe wrote: »

Hurts my brain :mad:

Seriously? :pac:

mariano rivera

crapmanjoe wrote: »

Hurts my brain :mad:

you done did the right thing

Jesus Wept

How is it even a question.

asherbassad

have_a_go_hero wrote: »

so im coming home from work around midnight....crusing along at 90kmh on a 100kmh road (it was lashing rain) seemingly the only car around none ahead or behind me when suddenly i saw a reflection ahead....next thing i know im jamming on the breaks because there is a car with no lights crawling along at 50kmh..so proceded to follow him flashing my lights to get him to turn on his lights....we approached a roundabout and went seperate directions,,,,i decided to call the gardai fearing this persons safety and others who may not see him...

anyway to cut a long story short!!!!!!! was it the correct thing to do or should I have minded my own business?

Are you still?

Of course you were correct. You should have gone further and beeped the **** out of him until the cnut woke the fcuk up and turned his/her lights on.

meoklmrk91

You definitely did the right thing OP. Earlier this year I had a pretty bad incident with an asshole driving pretty much on my bumper. He was in a van and had his full headlights on, I drive a polo so being much lower down than him his lights flooded my car, he would stop and fall back before coming up my ass at speed. There was another car infront of me driving slowly enough, but nothing major, this guy was pissed off because he wanted me to pass, which I wasnt going to do simply because it wasnt safe. This went on for a good five minutes. He then passed me out and took of like the hammers of hell.

I overtook when it was safe and fuming followed him to get the number plate, he was coming into a village and there was another car infront of him so he had to slow down, i manged to get the plate and one of my friends put their phone. I deliberated over it for a while and then rang the gardai, the only thing that was in my mind was what if he did that to a learner driver or an eldery person who might panic, he could cause a serious accident and kill someone because he was impatient and seemed perfectly happy to put lives in danger because of it.

I did wonder like you if I had done the right thing and posted in motors to ask. But look you might have saved someone's life tonight, or maybe everything would be fine, but seriously it's always better to be safe than sorry. Fair play OP.

Dublinstiofán

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

You definitely did the right thing OP. Earlier this year I had a pretty bad incident with an asshole driving pretty much on my bumper. He was in a van and had his full headlights on, I drive a polo so being much lower down than him his lights flooded my car, he would stop and fall back before coming up my ass at speed. There was another car infront of me driving slowly enough, but nothing major, this guy was pissed off because he wanted me to pass, which I wasnt going to do simply because it wasnt safe. This went on for a good five minutes. He then passed me out and took of like the hammers of hell.

I overtook when it was safe and fuming followed him to get the number plate, he was coming into a village and there was another car infront of him so he had to slow down, i manged to get the plate and one of my friends put their phone. I deliberated over it for a while and then rang the gardai, the only thing that was in my mind was what if he did that to a learner driver or an eldery person who might panic, he could cause a serious accident and kill someone because he was impatient and seemed perfectly happy to put lives in danger because of it.

I did wonder like you if I had done the right thing and posted in motors to ask. But look you might have saved someone's life tonight, or maybe everything would be fine, but seriously it's always better to be safe than sorry. Fair play OP.

Dont mean to pry, but you open by saying you had a bad accident but nowhere in your
post do you mention an actual collision. Did you make the whole story up? or did you just
almost have an accident due to the van drivers impatience ? Story doesnt seem to add
up anyway.

Sitec

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

Dont mean to pry, but you open by saying you had a bad accident but nowhere in your
post do you mention an actual collision. Did you make the whole story up? or did you just
almost have an accident due to the van drivers impatience ? Story doesnt seem to add
up anyway.

Indecent, not accident.

meoklmrk91

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

Dont mean to pry, but you open by saying you had a bad accident but nowhere in your
post do you mention an actual collision. Did you make the whole story up? or did you just
almost have an accident due to the van drivers impatience ? Story doesnt seem to add
up anyway.

See below, and you can probably find the post I made in motors after it happened, think its called did I do the right thing or something like that.

SocSocPol

100% correct thing to do, just hope the Gardai acted on it.

up for anything

Sitec wrote: »

Indecent, not accident.

Incident, not indecent or even accident.

crazygeryy

have_a_go_hero wrote: »

so im coming home from work around midnight....crusing along at 90kmh on a 100kmh road (it was lashing rain) seemingly the only car around none ahead or behind me when suddenly i saw a reflection ahead....next thing i know im jamming on the breaks because there is a car with no lights crawling along at 50kmh..so proceded to follow him flashing my lights to get him to turn on his lights....we approached a roundabout and went seperate directions,,,,i decided to call the gardai fearing this persons safety and others who may not see him...

anyway to cut a long story short!!!!!!! was it the correct thing to do or should I have minded my own business?

what did the gardai say? just curious.

kelle

OP, were you driving in a lit up area at the time? I must admit - in the wintertime when I drive into town to get groceries, I've sometimes driven off in the town without putting my headlights on because it's very well lit up. But as soon as other drivers have alerted me I realised my error.

It sounds like this driver was not very coherent, especially when he/she didn't put on their lights after you passing them so you did the right thing!

antodeco

Had to ring in a drunk driver on the m50 last year. It was like the opening scene of platoon. Gardai appearing from everywhere!

Oranage2

Andy Carroll wrote: »

How is it even a question.

The question mark (?)

hoodwinked

SocSocPol wrote: »

100% correct thing to do, just hope the Gardai acted on it.

They probably didn't i had to call them last week over an illegally parked car which also had no insurance disc.

they told me they couldn't do anything as it was in a private estate, (fair enough)

but they said to call back with the direction it was heading in when it was on the public road again,

sure enough the driver got in and drove away (also driving on their own with L plates up)

i rang them back as i was instructed earlier to be told stop wasting their time (they didn't even ask where we were) i just hope the learner doesn't hit someone!

griffdaddy

I was walking through town the other night and saw this guy lying on the ground getting his head kicked in by about 5 or 6 other big guys, I decided to call the guards. I'm just wondering, was this the right thing to do?

Jay D

This is a scam as well. Maybe not in your case but I know of cases where cúnts (what else could you call them) have their lights off in near blind spots etc hoping for a whack in the back and a nice bit of compo. Latest I heard was of one just as you come off the Palmerstown exit towards Palmerstown from Blanch. Careful peeps.

Jaxxy

hoodwinked wrote: »

SocSocPol wrote: »

100% correct thing to do, just hope the Gardai acted on it.

They probably didn't i had to call them last week over an illegally parked car which also had no insurance disc.

they told me they couldn't do anything as it was in a private estate, (fair enough)

but they said to call back with the direction it was heading in when it was on the public road again,

sure enough the driver got in and drove away (also driving on their own with L plates up)

i rang them back as i was instructed earlier to be told stop wasting their time (they didn't even ask where we were) i just hope the learner doesn't hit someone!

You reported someone in a private estate for having no insurance displayed!? And for having 'L' plates on the car?

Were they parked across your driveway or something?

hoodwinked

Jaxxy wrote: »

You reported someone in a private estate for having no insurance displayed!? And for having 'L' plates on the car?

Were they parked across your driveway or something?

they were parked dangerously and illegally, its hard to explain unless you saw it, and after many attempts to find the owner of the car we rang towing companies, who suggested ring the local gardaí.

but they were driving solo on a public road with no insurance and no full licence (saw L plates and found out afterwards they are indeed not full licensed driver hence no insurance "it was too expensive")

but yes they shouldn't have been on public roads with no insurance.

have_a_go_hero

crazygeryy wrote: »

what did the gardai say? just curious.

He asked some details like,

• what car it was and
• which direction was it heading and

if i was still behind it.

He then thanked me for reporting it and said he would "get a car out there"

Zoria

I wonder if they caught up with him. I hope so, and he didn't cause an accident.

fasttalkerchat

Mate of mine came across something similar one night. He had to overtake and bring the car to a stop. The driver was pissed out of his mind. Took the keys and left them in the police station.

Zoria

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Mate of mine came across something similar one night. He had to overtake and bring the car to a stop. The driver was pissed out of his mind. Took the keys and left them in the police station.

That was a brave move on his part, he could have driven up the back of his car. Fair play to him all the same, he could have prevented a serious accident.

fasttalkerchat

Zoria wrote: »

That was a brave move on his part, he could have driven up the back of his car. Fair play to him all the same, he could have prevented a serious accident.

He was driving an old banger that he used for work and back.
The cops called him later that night to thank him. They found the guy lying in the middle of the road passed out in a puddle after trying to push his car home.

Zoria

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

He was driving an old banger that he used for work and back.
The cops called him later that night to thank him. They found the guy lying in the middle of the road passed out in a puddle after trying to push his car home.

I hope the court came down on him like a tonne of bricks.

Ronin247

Zoria wrote: »

I hope the court came down on him like a tonne of bricks.

He probably had to resign his ministerial position but retained his full salary and got a pension for his dissapointment.

fasttalkerchat

Ronin247 wrote: »

He probably had to resign his ministerial position but retained his full salary and got a pension for his dissapointment.

Haha that's actually not too far from the truth... but on a more local level.