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Originally Posted by will76
yeah that would be nice. I've been stopped at an insurance check point, had insurance but didn't receive the updated insurance card yet. So the card I had showed a date that expired 2 days before. They don't care. I tell them I have insurance, it could be verified. They said if you can't get someone to bring you the new card before the tow truck arrives then tough shit. I had someone pulling up with my *updated* card to show them I had coverage but the tow truck was already there. Never mind the fact there was 5 other people who really didnt have insurance it could have towed instead and that it didn't hook me up yet, the asshole cop said it was too late. I'm showing the asshole the new card but he says " too late" and calls the tow truck over to tow me.
So I have my car towed, license plate taken off of it. The asshole cop tells me I can go get my plate that day, show proof of insurance so I wont have to pay the ticket at least, then I could go get my car back from the company that towed it. So I head straight to the traffic court to show proof, I wait for 3 hours for my number to come up. I go to the window and explain it to the lady and she says " on no, we never get the plates the same day, it usually takes 2 days before we get them". BUT, she says if you want to pay $150 for a new plate we can issue you a new one right now so you don't have to wait 2-3 days to get your car back. So lets see, wait 2-3 more days without a car, and have to come back and waste 3 more hours or buy a new plate now. So after being extorted, I pay the $150 for a new plate then I drive over to get the car from the *company* (term used lightly) who towed it. By the time I did all of this it was 4:30 and they had already closed. So I go back 8am the next day to get it. They charged me to tow it which was a couple hundred bucks and like $30 a day "storage". He had me down for 2 days, which the car wasn't even there for 24 hours much less "2" days. Whole days wasted a ton of my time and cost me about $400.
What a nightmare. So I agree, some places you deal with bullshit. But the moral of the story is now I make sure to have updated insurance cards in my car and never forget to replace them even if it is only for a couple days. I try to not leave my self susceptible to having to deal with stupid bullshit like that by not putting myself in those situations.
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Nasty.
That is EXACTLY the sort of crap you never have to deal with here. If you get pulled over, you joke and laugh with the cop usually and try to talk them out of it. Worst case, you get hit for a $6 fine and you're golden for 7 days with no more tickets. You can literally drive the wrong way down the road, drinking a beer, talking on the phone, littering and popping wheelies and they won't get you again for 7 days. You may get stopped, but you show them the old ticket and they let you go.
Or you speed away and make them chase you. Yes, you can really do that. If they even come after you and catch you, you smile and say you didn't see them and laugh it up and start talking about something dumb about how you have to shit really bad because you just ate some spicy som tam. $6 ticket if anything at all.
The cops here are fun to fuck with and are usually fun hearted guys, even if they are some of the most corrupt sons a bitches you've ever seen. Messing with the traffic cops has almost become a hobby for us.