Christopher Fitzgibbon is a 23-year-old Irish boy who gave his Volkswagen Passat an extra “attitude” by lowering it a few inches — ground clearance is now just 10 cm. While lowering his car, he quickly ran into a problem.
The county where he lives has added several speed bumps at the various access points to the village of Galbally in Limerick. As a result, your Passat is unable to cross them without causing damage.
The young Christopher Fitzgibbon thus decided to invest… against the municipality. That's right, he is charging the municipality for the repair costs incurred by his Volkswagen Passat.
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Claims that the municipality of Limerick, Ireland, pay the more than 2500 euros in damages suffered by his car in attempts to "cross the mountains". A complaint to which the municipality responded negatively and even with some insults to the mix — one of the road engineers even called Christopher “frivolous” and “vexious”.
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According to Christopher Fitzgibbon, adding the humps not only ruined him by car, it forced him to take a much longer journey to the workplace to avoid them — an extra 48 km per day, resulting in approximately 11,300 km more per year.
According to Christopher Fitzgibbon:
These new (bumps) (…) are absolutely ridiculous because they prevent me from passing (by car) through the village. And it doesn't matter at what speed I circle — I could be driving at 5 km/h or 80 km/h and it wouldn't matter. I feel discriminated against because I'm driving a modified car — it's low down so it's only 10 cm off the ground — and I'm being denied my right to drive on these roads.
Limerick County's official response:
The speed-reducing humps (…) are only 75 mm high (…) We have not received any further complaints about them.
A traffic survey carried out previously indicated that the town was passing at high speeds and that the existing speed limits were not being adhered to. The introduction of these measures (the lombas) resulted in a safer village for everyone. Other lombas of the kind were introduced in other areas of the municipality without generating these types of questions.
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Source: Unilad via Jalopnik.