Meanwhile on the Roads...

Walking the dog tonight and in the space of two minutes two drivers passed having full blown video calls, phones in hand held in front of their faces. The weird thing was both had their hands free system on at full volume, only reason I looked up to notice them.

Much as loud aftermarket exhausts annoy me, and I would quite happily have an NCT requirement that anyone presenting to the test with a fart-cannon exhaust gets to have it shoved up their fundament, that paper looks to be reaching a little.

"Modifying a muffler to make a car louder is disturbing to pedestrians, other drivers, and animals at a distance, meeting the sadism component, as well as startling when up close at intersections, meeting the psychopathy component". Maybe, but if their "short Dark Tetrad" could be made a "Short Dark Pentad" by the addition of a "Gobshite" characteristic, I think it would be a better match than "sadism" or "psychopathy".

Theres some lad driving around North county Dublin in a black hatchback with one of them loud backfiring exhausts . I’ve seen him a few times now , a huge amount of black smoke comes out and it backfires . He went by me another cyclist the other day near Hollywood lakes and let it off . Black smoke and fumes everywhere .
He was in our estate this evening came screaming down the road then onto swords bypass where he let it really rip . The noise is ridiculous with everybody looking around . Needs a big banana shoved up his pipe .

That image is exactly what happened, I was on one side of the road and the other cyclist going in the opposite direction. He went by us and let it off . Coming to a town near you soon 🫣 probably laughing his head off .

Fella did that too me in an old diesel 3 series last year up around Sally gap. Slowed in front of me and then planted the accelerator. Was obviously set up to billow smoke out the back. Went into a cop station with reg to report. Cop was supremely disinterested and I never heard anything of it again.

The last few balmy evenings I've been coming home from Laragh over Sally Gap and witnessed some race-track driving from cars and motorbikes. Lads absolutely flying, screeching tyres around blind bends. I signalled them to slow down and just got the finger in return. Spent the rest of the spin looking behind me too for fear of a u-turn retaliation pass.

You'd want to be a dick up there assuming it was necessarily giving out rather than a warning - quite often sheep and deer on the road.

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Odd one that. Kill someone in an actual crash - it's an accident, could happen anyone, no point in a custodial sentence.

Pretend to have a crash - 2 years jail.