A TEENAGER who stole a taxi and left it parked on the third green of a Kildare golf club following a garda chase appeared before a sitting of Naas District Court last week.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old who can\u2019t be named, appeared in court on Thursday accompanied by his mother, where Judge Desmond Zaidan learned that the youth was only at liberty to attend on account of recently getting bail in the High Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the unlawful use of a car,\u201d explained Sergeant Mary Meade.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was getting a lift off a taxi, got into a disagreement with the driver over the fare, he then made threats jumped into the driver\u2019s seat on the Main Street of Newbridge (outside the Whitewater Shopping Centre).<\/p>\n
\u201cHe then drove off, before abandoning the vehicle on the Curragh Golf Course \u2013 on the third green.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t make it up!\u201d remarked Judge Zaidan, before remanding the youth on continuing High Court bail until 17 September \u201cfor directions\u201d.<\/p>\n
As the youth and his mother reached the court door, the judge called them back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait, wait! You have to sign your (bail) bond,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a mix-up when he was leaving Oberstown (Youth Detention Centre), you left without signing a bail bond. Your attorney should\u2019ve known better, because technically you\u2019re still at large. We\u2019re rectifying this now.”<\/p>\n
Whilst this paperwork was being processed, Judge Zaidan addressed the boy\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes he go to school?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
The youth confirmed he did.<\/p>\n
\u201cJunior Cert year, good. What about sports?\u201d asked the judge.<\/p>\n
The youth outlined he was involved in kick-boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a good sport, but focus on the school. Get yourself a better life,\u201d suggested the judge, before asking mischievously: \u201cDid he kick-box the taxi driver?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no allegation of that,\u201d Sgt Meade said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks very much, judge,\u201d said the youth as he left, gesturing positively towards the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gave me the thumbs up when he was leaving!\u201d nodded a pleasantly surprised judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TEENAGER who stole a taxi and left it parked on the third green of a Kildare golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-540405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}