Drugs and prison

                 That's what I call an engine

                   God bless Ayrton Senna.

Up on Dorset St. the other day I was flagged down by a girl who was frantically looking for a taxi.
Right mister 2 stops Pierce st and the courts, quick.  No ! stop me fella has to come as well.
He was locking the door to the apartment.
Hurry up ! leave the fecking thing we'l be late !
So eventually he hops in and off we shoot to the methadone clinic.

He was buzzin full of the joys of life, high as a kite.
Jezis mister I haven't slept for 3 days.
We arrive at the side entrance of the clinic, she goes in and he starts chatting to everyone going in and coming out. I thought you were locked up says one.
No I'm being sentenced today.
Ya might be let off.
Ya I might and pigs might fly.
Then one familiar face came along with his partner(street drug dealers) and my trusted friend buys a card of downers (Tranquilisers)
Then he started taking them 1,2,3,4 woa I say how many are you going to take?
The whole fucking card, I can't carry on like this I need to come down.

What if you can't waken up in the court.

That doesn't matter I'm fucked anyhow.
Then one of his mates gets in for a bit of a chat and borrows his phone. 1235578990 Hello baby I'll be dere in a few minutes, arright, now don't go buyin of anyone else. I'm your number one and only dealer.

Then at last the girl arrived and we headed off for the courts dropping the third person off at O'Connell bridge.

The girl it turned out was a lap dancer from Newcastle (England)
Only we're in a bit of a hurry I'd get her to do you a quick turn for ya.

You won't be getting much lap dances where you're going, that's for sure she said.

So amid all the banter we arrived at the courts and he started paying me. 1,3,5,7,8,8.50, 10 all the while people were shouting for him to hurry up. Then a fellow drug dealer ran out of the courts complex.
17.50 .
Your brief is going mad, you' ve been called.
So he departed.

Once more peace descended into the car and apart from the smell of Jim Beam rum and cigarettes and cheap perfume nothing remained except the €17.50 of my €20 taxi fare.

You would never believe how boring the next person was.

Thank God

Rules by Ryanair

So this lady had a poster and a book which she had not put in her luggage.
Police were called and she was TAKEN off the plane.

Boys and girls.

I would hope that you would have the balls to stand up and refuse to sit down until she was put back on the plane.

Bullies are everywhere

Wow how stupid can a huge company be!

Rabbits

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November.

Rabbits!
That's what you are supposed to say on the first of the month.

Life is so precious,
in an instant your whole world can be turned upside down.
Thousands of people had their homes wrecked in the worst storm ever in the USA, lives lost everything changed.

Last week here in Ireland a father took his 2 young kids for an early morning walk, a car careered across the road killing the 2 children and pinning him against the wall. The driver had passed out and knew nothing about what happened.
From what I heard the driver had just had the all clear to drive again after suffering blackouts.

Then there is the 14 year old girl bullied on the internet who took her own life.
She had tried everything to make the bullies leave her alone,they went to the police and they said that unless they were hitting her physically there was nothing they could do.
We need to talk to the kids more.

Bullying is an awful thing, the more the bully terrorizes the victim the stronger they become.
"Bully in sight" by Tim Field is a very good book I bet there are others which can help 

So folks while you think of that.
Seize the moment.
Put purpose and meaning into your day.

Happy holloween

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The other day on Cork St. 2 young women with the granny and a kid jumped in.
"Quick Mount joy prison and step on it"

Visiting time.

Like most people who live a less ordered life they had slept it out.
All the secret things were discussed and spelled out so the kid did not understand, but he will know it all in a short while.

When they were getting out the young lad said. "Mister we could have robbed ya"
Well then you would have to be locked up in here as well I said.
 
There are crime families in every country,people buying and selling stolen goods,drugs and breaking into homes and cars for a living.
Even people who buy and sell people, hard to believe but slavery is alive and well even here in Ireland. The slave may be put on drugs and made to work as a prostitute or be forced to work in a restaurant or hotel kitchen, fearing deportation if they are found the situation can go on for years.
They have miserable lives.
I mentioned here before about an Indian man who was working night and day in an Indian restaurant and take away around the Naas Rd area, when he was rescued the courts ordered his "employer" to pay him something like €90,000.
The boss then employed a very clever lawyer and went back to court.
As there was no formal contract of employment between him and the man, he could not legally be termed as an employee.
Therefore he should not have to pay him.

The judge agreed and sent them away.


That judge in England who had a habitual burglar in front of him must have never had his house broken into.
He struck up a conversation with the robber and said how brave the robber must be.It takes a lot of bravery to enter another persons home take their valuables !
Then he let him and his girlfriend off with a caution.
We had a female judge like that here in Dublin as well, one day a hand bad snatcher took her handbag, as he tugged it off her she spun around and broke her hip..
There was always a prison sentence for mugging people every time from her from then on.

Justice and the law is big business, do not be shocked that very few rich banker crooks will be going to prison.
The bankers own the politicians.

Supply and demand, that's the name of the game.
When supply is low prices go up, this improves supply and the prices go back down.
In the taxi industry there was a very limited supply 2,500 or so in Dublin, so many cars had 2 drivers. Some taxi plate owners had 3 or more plates. The value of these plates had gone through the roof.
Some drivers will tell you that in divorce settlements the wife got the house,he got the taxi.
Then deregulation came It was argued that the council had created a monopoly, which is against EU rules, so new plates were issued without limits to their number.
Now with so many taxis in Dublin the same plate can be bought for €1500, though with the non transferable rule comes into force soon they will  become totally worthless.

At least it was not as bad as the Tulip bulb mania read here  which happened long ago in Holland.

The part that is sad about the present situation is that more and more taxi drivers are fleecing their passengers and the regulator is not being proactive in dealing with the situation.
The HailO system gives you a lot of protection in that regard.

Did you hear about the police man who gave a taxi driver a ticket for speeding?
What will I do with this said the taxi man.
Put it in your pocket and when you get 3 more you will get a bicycle.

Take it easy out there and get a good fast reverse gear.

Shop early for Christmas

                                 Yes folks shop early for Christmas

                              Glass art on display at the Solomon gallery

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                                  Girl carries naked man through the streets.

                                   Just when I have paid my taxes I find this.


I just thought I would share this with you.
2 Americans on the way to the airport at 4.45 Friday evening.

Everything started off OK then the man started asking questions.
"Why is the traffic so heavy?"
So its rush hour Friday evening,
"I will miss my flight"
What time is it at?
"I don't know the papers are in my bag"

The next part puzzled me.

"Why didn't you come on the N3?"
This is the direct route, I get a bus lane most of the way as well.
But I will check on the map where the N3 is later on.

So we arrive at the airport and the total is €26, he pays me and gets his change and walks away.
Before he gets too far his wife pushes him back to make him tip me.

So I get back into the car and look at the map.
N3 Navan Rd,
So the other taxi driver had gone on to the M50, right past Ballymun, Finglas over to Blanchardstown exit and into town on  the Navan Rd

My trip probably cost 1/2 what he paid before and he was reluctant to tip me?
The only thing I can think of is that he was sore that he had been scalped the first time so he felt bad.

One thing that has happened since the taxi numbers has increased beyond supply is that some taxi drivers will take any opportunity to scam their passengers, the regulator is not doing his job at all so they get away with it time and time again, so they feel more confident to do it again.

This is why the HailO system gives the passenger some protection with its trace back system.

I think I will have to grow a thicker skin !

One thing that every taxi driver should have in his tool kit is a plugging kit.
It contains a pointed file a needle with a big eye at the point and few strings coated in tar type compound.
So Its Saturday night and you hear Click Click Click Click coming from a wheel.
Yes folks you have picked up a nail. It will stay up until you get home, Jack it up a bit and pull out the screw, if it has gone through you have to file out the hole and push the string in and back out, then cut the ends off.

Sound as a pound and done in a jiffy.

HailO

This is me driving a Firrarri 360 Yippie !

Royal hospital Chelsea

                 
          This is the house where Bram Stoker lived in when he was in London
   


Well today in the morning I got 4 HailO jobs, strange thing about that is,  but for those jobs I would have found no work at all.

A lady in the taxi told me about her friend who was training to become a nurse. 
To make ends meet she did some babysitting . So one morning she arrived to take up her duty.
The husband who was supposed to be minding the children was asleep in bed when she arrived.
There was a 3 year old and a small baby..
So as she was getting the baby dressed the toddler told her that he had given the baby her "medicene"
So she asked what he had given to the baby and he showed her an empty Paracetamol bottle.
The father was woken up and he didn't know how many tablets were in the bottle, he thought only a few, so she would be allright. 
Being a nurse she scooped up the kids and headed off to the hospital.
At this point the mother phoned her and told her to go to the local GP instead but she kept on to the hospital.
As it turned out the baby had taken 5 tablets. 2 would be a normal adult persons dose so 5 to a baby would have been fatal.

Well done !

Did the parents give her a bonus?

Well no they deducted €50 from her pay. 

That was the difference between the doctors fee and the hospital cost. 

I don't think Paracetamol is sold in bottles now and I know you cannot buy more than one pack at a time.

Next thing you know they will be selling rope by the inch in case you try to hang yourself.

The best thing to do would be to write to the small claims court, putting your side of the story, adding mileage costs and parking 

I am sure she would win.

What do you think?

Then there is the falling property prices and crash.

A case is coming into the commercial court on the 22nd of October concerning a house at Gorse hill Vico Rd Killiney. The 2 daughters are fighting to keep the house which was partly used as security to borrow €71 million for property investment by their parents.
The house was valued at €30 million in 2006 now it is worth between €6 to €7 million.

Now in any mans books that is a hell of a drop..


There is always someone worse off than yourself.

William Rowan Hamilton

On the 16th October 1843 vaery clever mathamatician was walking with his wife allong the Royal Canal around Cabra. In a flash.an idea came to him.

Not having a note pad he scratched in on to tbe brickwork of the bridge
i² = j²=k²=ijk=-1 

It has to do with vectors and the working out of how high you would have to aim a rocket and at what speed to hit an exact spot a distance away. 

It has many many other applications including computer animation

Here is what they say about him in Wickipedia 


Today on the 16 a walk takes place to the spot where he scratched his formula

Quaternions by the Royal Canal | Ingenious Ireland

 

If you can't go you can click here for a podcast of a previous event

So head off to take a goo at Maths week here

Just thought I would share that with you.

Priory Hall

                                       Priory Hall

                                    A deserted development on the other side of the road

One year ago the residents of an apartment block in Donaghmede were evacuated from their homes owing to poor construction and fire safety.
They are still out of their homes today
The powers that be are passing the buck and refusing to take the blame.
The fire safety officer never inspected the building before they were sold

This could happen to anyone, yet all the certs and checks did not add up,
.
A march has been organized for today to support them.

I got this first hand from an insurance claims investigator who inspected a different apartment where one person died. There were 57 fire doors missing in that complex.
A lot more people might have died if it had not happened on a bank holiday weekend.
The company which did the work had closed down and the guy who had signed the fire safety cert was now an employee of Zowe developments which had built the complex.

No one was arrested or charged.