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Offline longview

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My stab at a bouncy
« on: April 07, 2011, 06:54:48 AM »
So... I'm driving through town at 5 a.m. going to an all night store to get some food for a lady at work.  And suddenly it looks like a... a... maybe a bad trip in my review mirror.  The MAN pulls me over.  For nothing!!!111!!1

He says my tags don't match my car.  Makes me sit there for HOURS and finds out I don't have my updated insurance card with me and threatens me with some bogus law about that being required.  I convince him he nothing but an oppressor of the People, he apologizes and lets me go. 

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I'm cruising to Walmart before work, get pulled over because I have a light out, finds out there's been a clerical error with my tags, my insurance card is outdated, tells me how to fix the clerical error, I'm going to run proof of insurance by the office, we visit about the snow storm that's coming in tomorrow and he says "Have a great day."  "You, too.  Thanks for finding that error, telling me about the light, and sorry about the insurance card."
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2011, 07:05:24 AM »
Quote from: longview on April 07, 2011, 06:54:48 AM
So... I'm driving through town at 5 a.m. going to an all night store to get some food for a lady at work.  And suddenly it looks like a... a... maybe a bad trip in my review mirror.  The MAN pulls me over.  For nothing!!!111!!1

He says my tags don't match my car.  Makes me sit there for HOURS and finds out I don't have my updated insurance card with me and threatens me with some bogus law about that being required.  I convince him he nothing but an oppressor of the People, he apologizes and lets me go. 

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I'm cruising to Walmart before work, get pulled over because I have a light out, finds out there's been a clerical error with my tags, my insurance card is outdated, tells me how to fix the clerical error, I'm going to run proof of insurance by the office, we visit about the snow storm that's coming in tomorrow and he says "Have a great day."  "You, too.  Thanks for finding that error, telling me about the light, and sorry about the insurance card."

Yeah.

Cops out here on the Upper Great Plains are like that.

Nice people, cops; probably because it's in our own natures to be nice people too.
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2011, 07:13:10 AM »
By the way, those insurance cards are a nuisance, at least to me.

I get them in the mail, and toss them on the dining room table, forgetting their existence.

(In Nebraska, one is supposed to have such cards in the glove compartment of one's vehicles.)

Then six months later, I get another one, same fate.

And then a further six months on.....

In October 2008, I was stopped because a headlight in front had burned out, and I wasn't aware of it.

Per procedure, the cop asked to see my "proof of insurance" card, and so I pulled it out.

It had expired in April 2002.

(Same result as yours; he just told me that when I returned home, to find the then-current card, and show it to the county sheriff.)

If one doesn't use something, one tends to forget all about it.

I just went over to the dining room table to check; the card for April-October 2011 is there, but one of the cats chewed it up considerably.
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2011, 07:29:08 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 07, 2011, 07:13:10 AM
By the way, those insurance cards are a nuisance, at least to me.

I get them in the mail, and toss them on the dining room table, forgetting their existence.

(In Nebraska, one is supposed to have such cards in the glove compartment of one's vehicles.)

Then six months later, I get another one, same fate.

And then a further six months on.....

In October 2008, I was stopped because a headlight in front had burned out, and I wasn't aware of it.

Per procedure, the cop asked to see my "proof of insurance" card, and so I pulled it out.

It had expired in April 2002.

(Same result as yours; he just told me that when I returned home, to find the then-current card, and show it to the county sheriff.)

If one doesn't use something, one tends to forget all about it.

I just went over to the dining room table to check; the card for April-October 2011 is there, but one of the cats chewed it up considerably.

Yep, my current insurance card is also on the catch all table...and this years (2011) tag sticker is still on the dash of my pickup...I'm only 2 months away from getting the new 2012 (June) so why put it on now..... :-).
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2011, 07:32:42 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on April 07, 2011, 07:29:08 AM
Yep, my current insurance card is also on the catch all table...and this years (2011) tag sticker is still on the dash of my pickup...I'm only 2 months away from getting the new 2012 (June) so why put it on now.....

My vehicle registration expires every December.

And one knows what the weather's like here, in December.

I've heard that those stickers stick on even in sub-zero weather, but I don't believe it.

Those two stickers, one for each license-plate, I then just toss into the glove compartment.

And then about May, when I'm sure it's warm enough that the adhesive will stick, I put them on.
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2011, 08:35:28 AM »
I was pulled over the other day because my temp tag had fallen off the rear window and onto the parcel shelf and wasn't visible.  I got a warning.

Somehow, I know the Koch Brothers are involved in all this.
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2011, 09:06:45 AM »
I get two with my policy.  I put one in the car immediately, and one into my wallet.

Guess it's the CA mentality in me.  Even if you prove you have insurance, they'll still write you a HUGE ticket just for not having it in the car.
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2011, 04:55:58 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on April 07, 2011, 09:06:45 AM
I get two with my policy.  I put one in the car immediately, and one into my wallet.

Guess it's the CA mentality in me.  Even if you prove you have insurance, they'll still write you a HUGE ticket just for not having it in the car.

4 kids in the car, driving in Norfork Va, a cop pulls me over. 

He is writing me a ticket for not having a state or city sticker on the window shield.   I do not need one Sir my car is registered to the Navy base. Hubby allways registered the cars to his boat or the base to get around paying for city stickers.  The cop had some kind of stick up his Ass and that was when I turned to the kids and told them, start crying Mommy is going to jail and you kids into a foster home, out dog will go to the SPCA and put down and Daddy will be mad at you when he gets home.

All 4 got hysterical and screemed and thrashed about to the point the Cop called in and found I was correct I did not need a sticker.  This poor cop apologised, the kids calmed down and off we went to get some icecream.

What did the kids learn, cops can be wrong at times but they will pony up their own money to buy kids icecream when they are in the wrong.

 
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2011, 09:12:07 PM »
Thank God for ice cream.

Whew!
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2011, 09:18:22 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on April 07, 2011, 09:12:07 PM
Thank God for ice cream.

Whew!

What kind ya got?


My insurance cards suffer the same fate as the above.  Typically.  In the last 2 years I have become more responsible, and am proud to announce that I have the current insurance card in my car at the moment.  Gold star please.   :-)
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2011, 09:40:14 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 07, 2011, 09:18:22 PM
What kind ya got?


My insurance cards suffer the same fate as the above.  Typically.  In the last 2 years I have become more responsible, and am proud to announce that I have the current insurance card in my car at the moment.  Gold star please.   :-)

You'll have to settle for a high 5.  Mine is in the glovebox, too... now!

While I was sitting there, pulled over, I realized that since I went to electronic billing, I hadn't received new documents.  Ahem, it dawned on me that I was supposed to print them off my online policy. 
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2011, 07:37:57 AM »
My card is always in my glovebox and my sticker goes on before I leave the courthouse parking lot.  It's been that way ever since I had to pay a $65 ticket for an expired plate.  Unfortunately for frank, I was in Nebraska, going home from Christmas at my parents' house, my van crowded with kids, presents and suitcases, when a Nebraska cop pulled me over for an outdated sticker...on Jan. 2, no less, when my plate was due in December.  I ran out of money in December, (who would have thought, 5 kids, 5 nieces and nephews, 1 grandchild, surely I could afford those presents and still tag my car.  :thatsright:   I know, I know, I shouldn't have purchased the van in December.  **sigh**)

He asked me where I was going, and I explained.  He asked my why I didn't move closer to my folks, and I told him there were no jobs in smaller hospitals.  Then he wrote me a ticket.  When I didn't seem happy about it (surprise, surprise), he threatened me with a more expensive one.

I'm sorry to say that some Nebraska state troopers are not nice guys.   :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2011, 09:08:12 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on April 08, 2011, 07:37:57 AM
My card is always in my glovebox and my sticker goes on before I leave the courthouse parking lot.  It's been that way ever since I had to pay a $65 ticket for an expired plate.  Unfortunately for frank, I was in Nebraska, going home from Christmas at my parents' house, my van crowded with kids, presents and suitcases, when a Nebraska cop pulled me over for an outdated sticker...on Jan. 2, no less, when my plate was due in December.  I ran out of money in December, (who would have thought, 5 kids, 5 nieces and nephews, 1 grandchild, surely I could afford those presents and still tag my car.  :thatsright:   I know, I know, I shouldn't have purchased the van in December.  **sigh**)

He asked me where I was going, and I explained.  He asked my why I didn't move closer to my folks, and I told him there were no jobs in smaller hospitals.  Then he wrote me a ticket.  When I didn't seem happy about it (surprise, surprise), he threatened me with a more expensive one.

I'm sorry to say that some Nebraska state troopers are not nice guys.   :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:


Before I became responsible my registration and inspection both came up in December.  Talk about double whammy!  I would simply wait until the new year, sometime after and get them.  I had three years in a row where I got pulled over, in the same town, for the same thing.  I made it to April that year.   :-)

The judge wouldn't allow me to simply pay my fine and go, as I had the other two times.  He made me come visit him in chambers, and discuss what was so difficult about getting my business taken care of.  I assured him it wouldn't happen again, and THAT is how I became responsible.   O-)
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Re: My stab at a bouncy
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2011, 10:26:52 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 07, 2011, 09:18:22 PM
What kind ya got?


My insurance cards suffer the same fate as the above.  Typically.  In the last 2 years I have become more responsible, and am proud to announce that I have the current insurance card in my car at the moment.  Gold star please.   :-)

Ain't got none at the moment. I was just reliving vesta's moment when she took that brood of kids to the ice cream joint, paid for by the apologetic cop.

Ice cream is a great Redeemer. Ain't had none in quite some time, so I'd like to be Redeemed sometime soon.

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