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Dunce's Corner
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And it’ll kick off from tomorrow night as the Christmas season sets in proper

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Plenty wake up and check their car for bumps and scrapes, that’s if it’s there.

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I’d say if you’d 3 pints you’d get a taxi but if you’d 8 “you’d chance it”. Unfortunately that’s the way the brain works with alcohol.

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I drove once with a good few pints on me. I drove in the town at home with the intention of leaving the car and getting the one taxi in the town home.

No answer from the taxi. I decided to drive home, I shouldn’t have and I have never done it since.

If anyone tells you that you can drink and drive - that’s bullshit. It’s ok on a straight road but if you had to react to something - no chance.

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Most lads are only worried about getting bagged and if you’re over, you’re over.

They don’t consider the fact that they might kill someone

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Chances of being bagged are infinitesimal. I’m driving decades and have been bagged once. Six o clock on a bank holiday Friday on Amiens St. I hadn’t had a drink in 8 months so I was relaxed enough. It’s no deterrent.

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Bagged once too. Cork. About 7 in the evening. Dropped a lad I worked with home. Covered some amount of ground since and never seen them

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I’m shocked they were still serving Thomas booze in the pub after all she’d already knocked back that day.

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I think it’s a fairly big deterrent tbh.

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34 years driving in all sorts, 1million Kms going by my cars and never been bagged.

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I’ve a few years and a few KMs less than that but I’ve never been bagged in Ireland.

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Never been bagged once but I’d very rarely drive at night

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Never bagged in Ireland, never even had to show my drivers license. Drove in Australia for probably 5 years and was bagged twice and had to show my licence a number of times.

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I’ve never been bagged either. I spent years driving from Dublin, Galway, Cork, etc. late night and driving around cities. Still would drive around Dublin City 7 or 8 times a year at night.

Was coming back from Galway to Limerick around 2am one random Thursday night/morning and the lad driving was bagged (hadn’t dragged) at around Ardrahan years ago. I’d say all that was passing that road at that time were trucks :man_shrugging:

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There was a bit of a thing of bagging people on a Sunday morning a few years back. I know a fella done for it coming home from a wedding. My brother was stopped coming home from a stag in Kilkenny on a Sunday morning 5 or 6 years ago. He’d been drinking all day Saturday until 4am and this was around 11am. He passed much to his relief and amazement

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Do you drive? Just wondering as you mainly reference public transport in terms of getting around.

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No

I’ve only ever driven bumper cars

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I collected the daughter in Portlaoise last Friday evening, coming off the motorway at Tyrellspass there was a car in front of us, 15 mins into Mullingar from there, crawling decent road into town from there it was doing no more than 70km on a 100km limit, breaking the line constantly and when oncoming traffic was coming was slowing down to between 40/50, after about 2 minutes I had enough told the daughter to ring the :policeman: in town, she described what was going on., within 5 minutes lights flashing passed us did a Huey and had the cant, he was pissed or high, definitely one or the other.

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Best thread around, it’s endless

https://www.reddit.com/r/irelandsshitedrivers/comments/1h1s4wo/rollover_crash_dromkeen_co_limerick/

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Never bagged in Ireland. Been bagged a couple of times here. They like the morning random tests but haven’t seen many since Covid year.