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GARDAÍ ARE WARNING all road users that altering any vehicle is highly dangerous and illegal.
It comes after a officers came across a truck in Dublin with spikes on the wheels. Gardaí said:
Whilst the driver thought ‘It looks cool’ this poses a serious risk to cyclists, pedestrians and all other road users.
The driver of the truck was required to remove them before continuing.
An Garda Síochána / TwitterDangerously Modified Truck. Further details click https://t.co/cUZtsFa17g Driver said 'It looks cool’ but this poses a serious risk pic.twitter.com/cby4CpDNgs
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) June 7, 2017
Gardaí are appealing to anyone who encounters a modified truck or vehicle to report the incident to gardaí.
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Did he think he was in a mad max movie?
@Tony Gordon: I was thinking Death Race 2000
@Tony Gordon: Have you seen Dublin City centre lately?
@Stevey Walker: Ben Hur?
They do look pretty cool
@Matty Killucan: in a psychopathic and appeal to the total nutters.
@Tony Daly: English please Tony
@Matty Killucan: they appeal to peole of psychopathic disposition who think that they look cool.
@Tony Daly: What’s a peole? Is that where your wee wee comes out?
@Matty Killucan: it’s your brain before it was damaged.
@Tony Daly: Do you think brain damage is a subject for humour? Not very nice Tony
@Matty Killucan: Yeah, if you’re a 12 year old.
@Tony Daly: Tony, I’m putting you on my list of enemies!
@Alan O’Rourke: hopefully he gets added to another “list”
@Shane Moynihan: I REALLY LIKE TONY!
@Conor Hall; I think they look interesting and cool, as different to my taste as they are. I’m aware that they’re wildly impractical and unsafe on the road and my interest in them shouldn’t be confused with an endorsement. I’m not 12.
Bullbars in the front of vehicles pose a great danger to pedestrians.
The vast majority of bullbars are peaceful.
@George Roche: I lol’d at that :-)
@George Roche: unless you are pronged by one.
@Tony Daly: Rash statements like that only isolate the bullbar community and stir up further radicalisation.
@George Roche: Tony is aligning himself with the agenda of bullbars and playing right into their bars. Tony needs bullbars and bullbars need Tony. Love will conquer fear. Catholic church yada yada yada
@Matty Killucan: Tony is eagerly awaiting the next bullbar-related death so that he can use it for his twisted agenda.
@Tony Daly: haha Tony boy you are some eejit
Them so called spikes are only covering the nut they fall off if you touch them. And if you get close enough to them the trucks wheel will hit you before the spikes can do any damage
@marty johnbann: theybfall off once they are embedded in human flesh. Great.
@marty johnbann: They fall off if you touch them? Well that’s reassuring! Let’s put them on everything!
@Rab Mac Aonghusa: should have got rubber ones
@Tony Daly: they are less dangerous than a cars wheel cover they could fly off and cut your head off if you like to go to extremes And these spikes can break if you squeeze them hard enough.
Probably had them for running the gauntlet in Calais.
@Jonathan McCoy: Googled them there. Apparently they’re just made of plastic or very thin metal, as opposed to being solid steel spikes. Probably not half as dangerous as they look. They’re just for show. Fake news! as the man says
If everyone’s steering wheel looked like this I bet you people would stop speeding.
@Matty Killucan: airbags are ubiquitous
@Tony Daly: So are ham and cheese toasties. What’s your point?
@Tony Daly: I’m starting to wonder if Tony actually has a life outside if The Journal comment section
Some people are f**kwits! if one of these goes flying, it could cause serious damage.
@eoin lee: like a cars wheel cover.
Well guessing from all the comments of how dangerous this is. I must be then only truck driver here.
@marty johnbann: If that’s the case you’re also the person at lowest risk from these. How convenient.
Pimp My Truck.
Methinks not an Irish or U.K. Truck
@Peter Hargan: Evidence?
Pizza face from grease had something like this if i recall correctly!
Mad max comes to mind
Taking the chariot race in Ben Her a bit far!
@Billy Larkin: Ben Hur.
@Billy Larkin: Ben Hur, Done That.
Whoever was driving with those spokes on his wheels is a psychopath.
@Tony Daly: yes, we heard you in the first 15 comments you made
@Tony Daly: Why is Tony Daly such an idiot
Driving in Dublin is mad, dont blame him for having them
@PaddyMan515: People in {insert city} think driving in {insert city} is mad. But yes, let’s make it better by adding spikes to the mix.
If you’re close enough to get harmed by a spike on a wheel nut you’re doing something wrong
@ocJBI3Df: or the driver is doing something wrong.
Driving a truck through a port is what came to my mind, keep people away
The Scythed Chariot which no doubt inspired this Teamster, has a long and noble history, recorded in ancient Greece and and pre imperial China.
Also by the Caanites, Assyrians right on to later biblical references.
it use is also mentioned in the Cattle raid of Cooley in the Ulster cycle.
When are the Gardai going to stop interfering with Historians going about their business??
@DeFonz: Was he wearing a torc as well?
They’re for sale so there’s obviously a market for them
Ditto meths.
The exhaust blasts out 40 foot flames to boot
Impressive
Brain dead, moronic, dangerous and illegal. Possibly the most stupid modification I’ve ever seen on a vehicle let alone a truck which brings it to a new realm of stupid.
Mad Max: Furze Road
Was just in Mexico a couple of weeks ago, loads of trucks and buses have those over there!! I thought they looked pretty dangerous, asked a driver and he said he never heard of anyone being hurt by them!!
@Andy Byrne: This is good research, you should publish a paper.
They look like they would be suitable on a chariot in Ben Hur.
Check out Orangatan Poke Rims from Austin Texas – gangsta’ trippin’ -
Head Dick.
Will the whole lot of ya just shut the truck up…..drivel
Looks like an evil ISIS device to do more damage during those terrorist attacks.
Not nice
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