I'm an Idiot!

[xboxer75010]

One of the good things about Texas is they now have a state wide data base that insurance companies are required to keep up to date on all the cars they are insured in the state. When renewing it is pretty easy to get sticker for that because my car is in the data base as good.

Reason for this is currently in the state of Texas people can and will be pulled over and have the car impounded for driving with out insurance. Do not forget cops some times just sit on the side of the road running plates to see if the people driving have a warrant out for arrest, car is stolen, no insurance ect.

Yeah I have already seen a couple of Police Cars here equipped with camera's just to scan plates for violations. Cant be to careful nowadays. Specially since a lot of the cities here are desperate for income.

 

[iJohnHenry]

They can also check for stolen vehicles very easily, just cruising parking lots, so it's not always a cash-grab.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Yeah I have already seen a couple of Police Cars here equipped with camera's just to scan plates for violations. Cant be to careful nowadays. Specially since a lot of the cities here are desperate for income.

I am not surprised. All in all I support the Texas law that allows cops to pull over and impound cars that are not currently insured. It gets those cars off the road because if/ when they hit someone that person is has no way to recover their loses.

If some one can not afford insurance then they should not be driving.

 

[Demosthenes X]

Not necessarily. My insurance policy is a 6 month policy that expires in May and November (and is if course automatically renewed). My insurance is still valid even if my plates are not.

Automatic renewal - what a thought! In BC insurance is government-run, and you have to renew it in person or sign a form and send someone in with it. They send you a letter about a month before it lapses, and your rear plate displays the month and day it expires, so there's really no excuse.

But I guess it varies from province to province and state to state.

 

[Melrose]

When I was young - and naive, gangly, and naive - I was at a dance with some friends. This woman I know (who's married) had this cousin who was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. So the friend tells me "Amanda would like to dance with you. It would make her day." So what do I do? I get nervous and go up to Amanda and, very seriously, say "It'll make your day if I dance with you."

Okay, not that bad - and she lost some of her charm and beauty in the years up till now, but definitely not my smoothest moment.

 

[LumbermanSVO]

Amazing the number of people I see with flat tires on the driver's side that get in the car and drive away.

Flat tires, lights burned out, stuff hanging out the doors, ect,...

I am convinced that most people never look at their cars until they get pulled over. You should take a good look at you car/lights once a week. I am required to do it at least twice a day.

 

[yg17]

Flat tires, lights burned out, stuff hanging out the doors, ect,...

I am convinced that most people never look at their cars until they get pulled over. You should take a good look at you car/lights once a week. I am required to do it at least twice a day.

I agree, some people are just ignorant. They don't even think about things until someone pulls them over. The other day I was following a guy who had a trailer hitched up to his SUV, and neither the brake lights or the turn signals on the trailer were working, and since the lawnmower and landscaping equipment were blocking his SUV's tail lights, I had no idea what he was doing. It's an extremely dangerous situation. I made sure to keep my distance, but what I wouldn't give for there to have been a cop between me and him....

 

[snberk103]

When I was young - and naive, gangly, and naive - I was at a dance with some friends. This woman I know (who's married) had this cousin who was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. So the friend tells me "Amanda would like to dance with you. It would make her day." So what do I do? I get nervous and go up to Amanda and, very seriously, say "It'll make your day if I dance with you."

Okay, not that bad - and she lost some of her charm and beauty in the years up till now, but definitely not my smoothest moment.

I kept waiting for this story to turn in one about car insurance... then I remembered the title of the thread. I have a similar story; mine involves a 16 year old (me) a 20 something year old girl (one of my father's grad students) and a swiss army knife.