Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 04, 2018, 02:31:46 pm
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https://lovindublin.com/news/dublin-taxi-cyclist-bike-video
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I couldn't get that video to play but I found it on Reddit...at least he was a foreigner this time...If anyone knows Felix tell him to watch out..
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/9l4ixt/taxi_vs_cyclist_take_2/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/9l4ixt/taxi_vs_cyclist_take_2/)
The 400 guests from the Journal will be along soon if they run the story.
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Hal I'd say you'll be getting some dirty looks over the next few weeks..
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Hal I'd say you'll be getting some dirty looks over the next few weeks..
Nothing new there
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we don't see what sparked it off.
i'd say the yuppie on the bike put his hands on the driver's car.
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Amateur Cyclist.
Amateur driver.
A mere caution awaits.
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Hal I'd say you'll be getting some dirty looks over the next few weeks..
Me tan from that wonderful summer has faded....that driver on the other hand....
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We should be allowed to buy yellow flashers for our jammers for everytime we wanna break the law like the emergency services.It's quite clear from the video the taxi driver was in a hot pursuit situation and needs some sort of immunity from prosecution.If the cyclist hadn't broke the light and crossed over to the opposite lane the taxi driver wouldn't have had to either, eh your honor..
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We should be allowed to buy yellow flashers on our jammers for everytime we wanna break the law like the emergency services.It's quite clear from the video the taxi driver was in a hot pursuit situation and needs some sort of immunity from prosecution.If the cyclist hadn't broke the light and crossed over to the opposite lane the taxi driver wouldn't have had to either, eh your honor..
"He was towing me Judge and towed me onto the wrong side of the road" 8)
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It looks like the cyclist is fleeing....Prius guy had a horn for him...that's for sure!!
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Most cyclists are idiots they fail to understand they are just bones covered in fat while vehicles are heavy things driven by bones covered in fat we are both as stupid as each other .There is never an excuse to use your car as a weapon or drive like this idiot putting other road users in danger .
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Drove onto the wrong side of the road at the junction of Belvidere Rd and Dorset St...and then onto the path...only cos the car turning from Dorset stopped him continuing...fukin mental altogether!!
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Drove onto the wrong side of the road at the junction of Belvidere Rd and Dorset St...and then onto the path...only cos the car turning from Dorset stopped him continuing...fukin mental altogether!!
The cunt should be deported
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Drove onto the wrong side of the road at the junction of Belvidere Rd and Dorset St...and then onto the path...only cos the car turning from Dorset stopped him continuing...fukin mental altogether!!
No Witnesses around on the Night shift. >:D
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Drove onto the wrong side of the road at the junction of Belvidere Rd and Dorset St...and then onto the path...only cos the car turning from Dorset stopped him continuing...fukin mental altogether!!
No Witnesses around on the Night shift. >:D
Its on video
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254?4 ?? Can't get a match
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It looks like 35484.
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It looks like 35484.
Could be My Cukachoo alright.
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It took me a while but the thread on Reddit I linked confirmed the name.There are members of the public using the NTA driver app to hang taxi drivers that fuk up on dash cams.
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https://www.buzz.ie/news/taxi-driver-centre-viral-video-claims-cyclist-smashed-wing-mirror-302007 (https://www.buzz.ie/news/taxi-driver-centre-viral-video-claims-cyclist-smashed-wing-mirror-302007)
A taxi driver at the centre of a shocking video showing him driving through a red light and swerving across the road after a cyclist has defended his bizarre actions.
The Irish Daily Star tracked down Dublin taxi driver Felix Ukachukwu, who drove his silver Toyota Prius through a red light as he chased a cyclist — before swerving across to the wrong side of the road and onto a footpath in an attempt to stop him on Wednesday afternoon.
The incredible video, which went viral yesterday, shows the cyclist and taxi driver go through a busy junction and through a red light before the taxi driver makes the dangerous move across Belvedere Road in Drumcondra, north Dublin.
But speaking exclusively to The Star, the driver, Felix Ukachukwu, claimed he was trying to stop the cyclist after he struck his wing-mirror.
“I was at a taxi rank in Stephens Green. I was coming to Talbot Street. So I came to Talbot Street, pulled on the side to drop off the girl and then a cyclist that was passing, stretched out his hand, and smashed my side mirror,” claimed Mr Ukachukwu, who lives in Clonee, west Dublin.
“I dropped the girl and followed him. He didn’t stop,” he said.
“So I followed him, I tried to get his attention and there was no police. So he went through a red light, (and so did I) hoping that the police would see me and say what’s going on here.
Mr Ukachukwu showed The Star the damage to his wing mirror — which he claims was caused in a collision with the cyclist.
He says he chased after the cyclist, even dangerously crossing the other side of the road, in a desperate attempt to apprehend him.
“I was really infuriated. I was willing to go any length to get him,” he said.
“When I passed him on the North Circular Road I got him on the next street and he said ‘you think you can catch me, you can’t catch me.’
And when asked what he would have done had he actually caught the cyclist, Mr Ukachukwu said: “I would have called the police.”
He claims the cyclist swerved around him on purpose in an attempt to taunt him — with the footage showing him manovering around his taxi as he drives at him and continuing to cycle off.
“If that cyclist didn’t do anything wrong, when I was stopping him, he would have stopped and challenged me,” Mr Ukachukwu alleged.
“You saw how the cyclist was maneuvering around me. If you’re a cyclist and a taxi man comes to you and blocks you in the road you would stop and say sorry.
“But you wouldn’t say ‘you think you could stop me’. No.”
The Garda Press Office stated that it was aware of the incident from media enquiries but the matter had not been reported to officers.
It stated that if the matter was reported it would then possibly be the subject of an investigation.
Mr Ukachukwu said he wants to contact gardai and hopes that maybe CCTV will exonerate his actions.
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I have seen that happen twice where a cyclist reached out and tried to knock off wing mirrors of cars stuck in traffic which had presumably offended them in some way. one succeeded and the other failed both got away as the drivers were stuck ..I can only hope that they both broke bones in their hands. :))
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Breathe in and say nowt......twice.
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Mr Ukachukwu said he wants to contact gardai and hopes that maybe CCTV will exonerate his actions.
"I`m sorry Mr Ukachukwu, we cannot get definitive CCTV footage from Talbot St. Now, seeing as you asked us to investigate, we have dash cam video of you breaking the red light, driving in a dangerous manner and generally being a clown of gigantic proportions. "
Mr. U. has achieved taxi driver status.
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Amen.
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It looks like 35484.
Could be My Cukachoo alright.
rofl rofl
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Made it to the front of one of the tabloids.
Slow news day.
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Made it to the front of one of the tabloids.
Slow news day.
Maybe he'll be seeing a 17k insurance renewal aswell!!
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Mr Ukachukwu said he wants to contact gardai and hopes that maybe CCTV will exonerate his actions.
"I`m sorry Mr Ukachukwu, we cannot get definitive CCTV footage from Talbot St. Now, seeing as you asked us to investigate, we have dash cam video of you breaking the red light, driving in a dangerous manner and generally being a clown of gigantic proportions. "
Mr. U. has achieved taxi driver status.
Say nothin' ' til ya hear more. Major stupid riad rage.