{"id":135022,"date":"2025-11-12T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:07:12","slug":"cork-gardai-seize-car-with-cheeky-message-scrawled-in-dirt-after-driver-spotted-on-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135022\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork Garda\u00ed seize car with cheeky message scrawled in dirt after driver spotted on phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vehicle had ‘multiple safety defects’Garda\u00ed joked: “Sometimes the writing’s on the car”(Image: AGS)<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed in Cork city<\/a> spotted a car with a very cheeky message scrawled into the dirt on the vehicle’s boot, and were able to pull it over after the Roads Policing officers noticed the driver using their phone.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Roads Policing Unit (RPU) were on duty on Sunday when they pulled this driver over on Parnell Place. Not only did the VW Passat have some eye-catching artwork – the words “I am a d***head* written in thick black exhaust dirt on the boot – but it was also found to have “multiple safety defects.”<\/p>\n

If that wasn’t bad enough, the driver who was stopped for using their mobile phone was found to be a learner with no full-licence holder present. The vehicle was seized then and there. Garda\u00ed<\/a> joked: “Sometimes, the writing is on the car.”<\/p>\n

In a tongue-in-cheek warning to others taking risks on Cork roads, the Cork RPU took to social media to share an image of the dirty, defective vehicle. They wrote: “Learner driver detected using their phone. No full licence holder. Multiple safety defects. Seized in Cork City on Sunday.”<\/p>\n

It’s not a crime<\/a> to have a dirty car, as long as your registration plate is legible. It is illegal, however, to be on your phone and to drive as an unaccompanied learner. The car was seized by Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

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