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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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) 46 weeks ago
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"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) 46 weeks ago
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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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"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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"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 46 weeks ago
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"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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"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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"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 |
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 46 weeks ago
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"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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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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"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. "
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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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More than likely yes. |
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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 46 weeks ago
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"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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