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Driving into Swords this morning, this van was blocking the left-hand lane going onto the Fingallians roundabout causing a slow-down in traffic trying to get onto the roundabout (coming south) which had to go around it. The van didn’t appear to be in any trouble and it’s occupant didn’t seem too bothered by the annoyed motorists around him who were forced to overtake him awkwardly right at the roundabout itself, slowing down traffic by forcing two lanes into one at a junction.

When I was coming back out of Swords a full hour later (at 12.45pm), it was still there, so I took a picture. It had actually moved forward a bit in the picture since I’d first encountered it (from behind).

It’s alright though, it had its hazard lights flashing… that makes everything ok!

A: You are either so inbred, senile and doped up that you simply don’t notice other people around you, probably don’t know where you are, what you are doing, where you are going, why you are here, what time it is, where you live and what your name is.

B: You are perfectly aware of any of the above, but get some kind of sadistic pleasure in pulling out on others as they do a perfectly legal 100 km/h and holding them back for as long as possible and as many others as you can possibly achieve in a day.

Either way, anyone not capable of achieving 100 km/h on a perfectly straight road in good weather condition should seriously consider handing in their license. Cars weren’t built for you.

In other countries you would get pulled out of your car and shot, stabbed and/or beaten up, but the Irish are too damn polite (whimpish) on the road.

I am absolutely merciless and if I can traumatise even one of these morons enough so they will never sit behind the wheel of a car again, I can die a happy man.