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New drivers paying €2k for someone to sit the theory test for them

  • 26-09-2024 5:21pm
    #1
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,517 ✭✭✭✭
    M


    It's no wonder the standard of driving has gone to complete sh!te in this country if you have new drivers willing to pay someone €2k to sit the theory test for them.

    To be clear this is the theory test, computer based, 40 questions in 45 minutes, you have to answer 35 correct to pass 😔…

    https://archive.is/OweKd



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  • #2
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,786 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058370596/new-drivers-paying-2k-for-someone-to-sit-the-theory-test-for-them

    That’d drive ya demented.



  • #3
    Stallingrad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,191 ✭✭✭Stallingrad


    It's literally the easiest part of the test. I presume he's going to pay someone to do his test for him as well? Asshat.



  • #4
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    This is mostly done by people who don’t have the language skills to pass the test. Poor effer is probably in debt to some gangster for this fee too.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #5
    User1998
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭User1998


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657233#Comment_122657233

    Would English and Irish be the only two languages you can do the test in yeah?



  • #6
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657258#Comment_122657258

    Probably. Sadly, the literacy level with some undocumented people and people trafficked into Ireland would be quite low too even if they had English.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #7
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    That's just utterly stupid. I done the theory test 3 times, failed only once and it was still cheaper than this. Madness.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #8
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    €2,000?

    I would have done that for €500. He was robbed.



  • #9
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,835 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657301#Comment_122657301

    Why did you need to pass it twice?



  • #10
    User1998
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭User1998


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657285#Comment_122657285

    How would undocumented or trafficked people even get a license?



  • #11
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657323#Comment_122657323

    Very dodgilily

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #12
    Raichų
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭Raichų


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657285#Comment_122657285

    not an excuse.

    We offer a Voiceover in the following languages:

    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Bengali
    • Chinese Simplified
    • Dari
    • French
    • Georgian
    • Irish
    • Lithuanian
    • Pashto
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese Brazilian
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Somali
    • Spanish
    • Turkish
    • Urdu

    Pure unadulterated stupidity coupled with a healthy dose of fcuking laziness. Theory test is probably the most basic exam imaginable and I know plenty who would have English difficulties who had no problem passing their test. In fact, when I sat mine, I ran into a chef I worked with who was from Sri Lanka. He got 38/40!



  • #13
    kabakuyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    We only have the defendants word that he paid 2k,nobody knows for sure,he was looking for sympathy I reckon.



  • #14
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,297 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    2k? Must be the same people who built the bike shelter in Leinster House.



  • #15
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,887 ✭✭✭SteM


    So he's come from Romania at some point, he's only 31 but has 7 previous convictions. A fine, upstanding member of society.



  • #16
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657313#Comment_122657313

    Once for motorbikes and once for cars :)

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #17
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭kirving


    I seriously doubt he paid €2,000, the defense are likely just quoting a huge number to garner some sympathy.



  • #18
    Raichų
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭Raichų


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657345#Comment_122657345

    they wouldn’t is the answer. They’d get something adjacent to a licence I’m sure but plastic card with fake details does not a licence make.

    It is in the realms of Hollywood only to have a fake licence registered to ndls. There’s no point carrying around a fake licence as the Gardai can scan it with their mobility app to check its validity.

    I also suspect you’ll have bigger problems being undocumented if stopped at a checkpoint than a drivers licence. Your man here could sat his theory test 35 times for the money he spent and still had some money left over to pay the €35 fee for a bloody learner permit and a few euro for L plates.

    You actually couldn’t make this up.



  • #19
    StormForce13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭StormForce13


    Presumably our Romanian guest was able to avail of "free" legal aid - I wonder how much that cost us.

    And, given his 7 previous convictions, I also wonder whether this was the 8th time that we (the Irish taxpayer) have paid for his lawyer. What a great country 🙄

    Post edited by StormForce13 on


  • #20
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122657313#Comment_122657313

    To be sure, to be sure.



  • #21
    sham58107
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭sham58107


    Something dodgy with reporting here. After passing theory test you get a learner permit , not a license, that GS found in house raid, so still cannot drive without full license holder .Was this during Covid ?

    I did a theory test for a D license last year and security was stricter than airport , even a hand held scanner and ID was checked at least 3 times, even though I have a full C and C1 license and work ID and national identity card .

    Had a friend years ago now a high ranking Garda who did test for people ,this was before picture on license.

    How did they get around ID photos in this case ?

    H



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  • #22
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,887 ✭✭✭SteM


    When my wife moved over from England 25 years ago someone in her work offered her a full driver's license for £400, he told she would even put on the system. Don't know whether he was BSing because she declined but €2000 seems ridiculous for a learners permit.



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