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Formulalt1 · 05-30-2009, 11:53 PM

Well not to take this thread any farther off topic than I have already

but we all assume that laws protect us and if we all just do the right thing we will skate threw bruseless.

Well, I will just tell a short story of what happened to me in Rye, NY about 7 or 8 years ago and maybe this one story will help explain why I feel a certain way about how a very good system can go wrong. I was driving to work one morning in my red corvette that I had at the time when I passed a village officer who proceded to do a 180 in the middle of the road in a intersection and follow me 3 blocks to infront of my work place, he comes over and informs me that my license has been suspended and that my vehicles registration is not valid due to a insurance lapse

, I tell him I recently switched companys and that this was all a mistake and if he would please just let me park my car and call my insurance company this could all be straightened out, he then told me "I was not going to talk my way out of this one"

(BTW I had a faxed copy from my insurance company showing there was a policy on my car, apparently it "was easy to fake"

). They then proceded to search my vehicle (didn't find a thing that should not be there) as I was handcuffed and put in the back of the car (this all happended infront of all my coworkers by the way who I am sure where wondering what I had done to create a 3 squad car specticle in the middle of our work place).

They then removed the plates from my car and despite me begging for a flatbed (apparently I don't have a right for them not to ruin my car either) had a regular tow truck show up and drag my car god knows where (cause and I swear, I was not allowed to know where my vehicle was being kept til my case was decided in my favor). I then had to call my sister to come bail me out who had to leave work and drive 40 minutes to come do this for me. It took me 3 weeks and 3 trips to the dmw to prove I had insurance on my vehicle and my registration and license to be cleared up, now would anyone like to guess who was responsible for the towing and holding fee's on my now scratched and banged up corvette?

. Yup, it was a huge eye opening experience that did not just end there.

05-30-2009, 11:53 PM	#120
Formulalt1 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lakewood Posts: 452 iTrader: (3)	Well not to take this thread any farther off topic than I have already but we all assume that laws protect us and if we all just do the right thing we will skate threw bruseless. Well, I will just tell a short story of what happened to me in Rye, NY about 7 or 8 years ago and maybe this one story will help explain why I feel a certain way about how a very good system can go wrong. I was driving to work one morning in my red corvette that I had at the time when I passed a village officer who proceded to do a 180 in the middle of the road in a intersection and follow me 3 blocks to infront of my work place, he comes over and informs me that my license has been suspended and that my vehicles registration is not valid due to a insurance lapse , I tell him I recently switched companys and that this was all a mistake and if he would please just let me park my car and call my insurance company this could all be straightened out, he then told me "I was not going to talk my way out of this one" (BTW I had a faxed copy from my insurance company showing there was a policy on my car, apparently it "was easy to fake" ). They then proceded to search my vehicle (didn't find a thing that should not be there) as I was handcuffed and put in the back of the car (this all happended infront of all my coworkers by the way who I am sure where wondering what I had done to create a 3 squad car specticle in the middle of our work place). They then removed the plates from my car and despite me begging for a flatbed (apparently I don't have a right for them not to ruin my car either) had a regular tow truck show up and drag my car god knows where (cause and I swear, I was not allowed to know where my vehicle was being kept til my case was decided in my favor). I then had to call my sister to come bail me out who had to leave work and drive 40 minutes to come do this for me. It took me 3 weeks and 3 trips to the dmw to prove I had insurance on my vehicle and my registration and license to be cleared up, now would anyone like to guess who was responsible for the towing and holding fee's on my now scratched and banged up corvette? . Yup, it was a huge eye opening experience that did not just end there. __________________ Last edited by Formulalt1; 05-30-2009 at 11:58 PM.