This morning.
Paul writes:
Today, members of the Disability Federation of Ireland are placing stickers on objects that block footpaths.
The drive is to create awareness of the rarely seen issues that disabled people across Ireland encounter every day.
In fairness.
Disability Federation of ireland
Update:
This morning.
The stickers in full effect around Dublin city.
Fight!
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Right on the windscreen!
Sure he’s only going to be a minute!
Do you make ones that say “Hey fupphead! Don’t park here.”?
Asking for a friend.
Many Irish drivers behave like sociopaths.
+ M50
So do cyclists when they break red lights and weave through crossing pedestrians.
Well said, John.
People are quick to criticise motorists but ignore the thousands of innocent people maimed and killed on Irish roads every week by cyclists breaking red lights, weaving through traffic and even mounting pavements. My own view is that there should be a warden stationed at every intersection, armed with a taser. That would sort it out.
‘the thousands of innocent people maimed and killed on Irish roads every week by cyclists’
there’s no need to go all ‘rotide’ on this, mate.
3,500 pedestrians killed every week by red light-breaking, kerb-mounting cyclists in the town of Tullamore alone… FACT. There’s no available data for Dublin, but it’s almost certainly more. It’s CARNAGE.
brother b is right. i’m one of those people who was killed, so i would know.
ah now, the high death rate in tullamore is due to the dodgy excuse for a batterburger served up in carmine’s. sure they do be dropping like flies outside the place of a late saturday night, choking on the mank that passes for batter.
Now there’s sum’ting
A daycent Batter Burger
Tis years since I’ve seen anything like you’d have got in Mattie Kielys one time
Are they gone the way of the 088 numbers
Frilly, I’m surprised you haven’t dabbled yourself in the diy batter burger. Failing that, East End takeaway in Lucan village still does them and they are glorious!
I would Not
But I threw out the chip pan years ago
And I’m not replacing it
Ooppss autocorrect
Boj not Not
So do people who don’t recycle.
Prepare for plenty of aggression from the types of entitled knobs who park like this.
Rightly so if some entitled tootle pants thinks it’s a good idea to vandalise and litter by putting a sticker on a car / bike that isn’t theirs.
If you’ve an issue with something, report it to the proper authorities.
You can still raise awareness through other means.
Ah yeah, they have such a sense of entitlement. It must come from wheeling themselves around all day. sure why don’t they just pick up their chair and walk it around the obstacle that was improperly placed.
I mean, don’t they get it? It’s a FOOT path people, not a wheel path!
Not entitlement just reasonable wish to be treated equal as everybody else and not all disabled people are in wheelchairs.
Clearly you are one of those inconsiderate parkers showing your sociopathic tendencies then Spud? We should treat cars parked on footpaths and cycle lanes as litter too – tow and dispose of them. That’ll sort it out. Cars are on the way out anyway.
Oh, the outrage…. I think this is a good idea. It won’t move mountains but if it makes one or two people a tad more considerate then all good. A lot of people “just don’t think” and don’t specifically go out of their way to be inconsiderate pr*cks.
And for the one or two that lose the plot about having to peel off a sticker and maybe take a wipe to the sticky residue… it might make them spare a thought for the relatively greater inconvenience the wheelchair-bound person had to deal with. It probably won’t. They’ll just be outraged (eyes to heaven emoji)
I used to find dog poo applied with a stick to the car door handle was the best way to encourage an inconsiderate motorist to reflect on his actions. That was in the days when dog poo was a common sight on Dublin streets.
This idea would be great for the bike lane offenders except they should be made out of the sticky paper the clampers use and takes 3 weeks to scrape off your window.
https://youtu.be/_4Uucys-B8o
perfect solution
Disability device users and drivers can’t talk. Some of the most offenders for blocking bike lines.
Think yourself lucky that you posess the actual mobility to get on a bike and cycle around the car with a disabled driver who probably had to park there because some pooty tootle fupper parked in the blue bay “just for a minute”.
Funny how cyclists always manage to make transport issues ALL ABOUT THEM even when it’s to do with disability access!
Sandwich boards absolutely wreck my head. I would love if they were banned. They take up for too much space in a city, Dublin, that has narrow paths for the most part. I wish I was bold enough to kick them all down.
Council went around removing them a few years ago, but, as far as I could see, they were all back within a couple of months.
http://www.thejournal.ie/sandwich-boards-temple-bar-small-business-dublin-city-council-1664715-Sep2014/
They are banned.
I know my local Council removes outside seating and sandwich boards if they have no permission. A business must have permission to put something on the footpath.
Call your Council and remind them they have an obligation to enforce a safe thoroughfare for pedestrians
I second that, Birdie. Drives me nuts.
Also a pet peeve of mine in residential areas is people who let their bushes, flowers, etc. grow out onto the footpath to completely block wheelchairs and buggies.
I hate trees.
They’re not too fond of you either.
Is your real name John and are you partial to sketching phallic shapes? Did you deface that lovely Olive Tree on Stephens green? My job here is done. Arrest this man…..
Dydrew dylad on dytree, dydope
Except that guy signed his name James, not John. Looks like the real slip-up [puts on sunglasses] was made by kellma.
Read him his rights, boys.
LOL! Rookie error. Looks like it is back to Templemore for me….
Cars parked on footpaths
Lash stickers all over them while ye’re at it lads
Bikes. Just bikes. And cyclists with their big self entitled heads. They are in everyone’s way.
This is great for people with buggies too. Maith sibh!
If cars park badly I’m fond of trying to wedge the buggy through the space. Does it scrape the car? Maybe. So be it.
ye all need a big mammy going ‘if ye all can’t share the road properly then nobody’s allowed to use it’ . then ye all have to stay at home and ye’re not allowed out to play.