Replacing windscreen and taxi disc

[Tony]

Yis make a compelling argument in favour of repealing the eight amendment..

Laffin

[watty]

How do windscreens break?Never had it happen.

Twice - both times was by stones thrown up by passing vehicles.

Only once in the taxi though.  When I got the windscreen replaced, the tamper-proof disc was indeed tamper-proof.  Rang up the NTA for another one and the woman on the phone seemed really angry.  She kept demanding to know whether I still had the disc or not.  There's only so many ways you can say yes so I don't know why she was so annoyed with me.  Cost me a few euro for the new disc but that's life with the NTA!

RE the missile throwing:
1. The kids around the fruitmarket sometimes pick up rotten fruit and throw it at passing cars.
2. During the snow, the kids around the Cattle Market (Hanlons Corner) liked to open car doors (at the traffic lights) and throw the snowballs directly at the people inside.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

here's a lovely dashcam video taken on safari down in the dale/coolock a few months ago.
captured by a taxi while going down the glinner, glin road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwZYWEdA7Q

[silverbullet]

dont go near blundon drive in coolock then. was driving through there one saturday night. large stones came hurdling at my car as i was driving. next whole windscreen shattered in front of me. i can tell you i got some fright. crowd of little cunts there laughing their bollocks off. i knew they done it, but could not prove it. went down to coolock Garda station. met a female cop. her only response was, on hearing my tale,you dont drive through coolock to often then do you ?

I rang Coolock Cop station telling them I was with a passenger in Darndale, sheltering in a cul de sac away from three stolen cars being rallied around Primrose Grove.

His advice...I'd get out of there if I was you!

[Belker]

How do windscreens break?Never had it happen.

One breakage was when I was chasing down some scrote who I had put outta the cab only fer him to kick in the front passenger door, as I was chasing him down he turned on me and broke my windscreen with the back end of an umbrella.

[Rat Catcher]

Coolock Gardai are among the laziest in the country. R district is for the most fortunate men and ban men on the force. I think they only leave their games rooms to scrounge grub from the local takeaways. They should get them some bicycles. If nothing else, it'd give the locals a laugh.

[mercenary for hire]

The cops had to stop using the bicycles in Cabra because the kids were making a laugh of them on their quad bikes.

[Rat Catcher]

Most of the Coolock men and ban men are well fed individuals who'd consider a frame of snooker to be a workout!

[Bob Shillin]

How do windscreens break?Never had it happen.

A coked up header jumped up on my bonnet c. 10 years ago. 2 kicks and my windscreen was gone, beat up his girlfriend shortly afterwards I heard, and went AWOL, haven't heard of him since. The cops got me €1100 from his co offender to cover the windscreen, mirror, loss of earnings, A+E charge, and trauma, before he went up before the beak. I wasn't called as witness..

[mercenary for hire]

He's probably locked up or dead.You don't stay around long when those things happen a few times.Dublin is too small.

[silverbullet]

here's a lovely dashcam video taken on safari down in the dale/coolock a few months ago.
captured by a taxi while going down the glinner, glin road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwZYWEdA7Q#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eo-TPTKEMw