Posted on 05/09/2012 7:15:34 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Last Saturday I went in to renew my license. I was in and out in just over 10 minutes with my new license. I can't say I've got anything to complain about when it comes to the DMV.
Like Georgia, Virginia has cleaned up it’s act. DMV is usually hassle free, if expensive. You can talk to the clerks and they reply with some sense. A joy after using the Connecticut system.
COP: “Son, you don’t have a license yet. You aren’t allowed to drive without an adult in the vehicle. You failed the test.”
I hope that cop got shot in the ass by a crook who got away and ran off laughing.
How can anyone miss 8 on a driving test?
Social Security makes me wait, but given a birth certificate from original name and copy of marriage license, they admit the mistake.An extra L in the new last name if just a typo, understandable mistake. It'll just be a fee and a few weeks to get a good one. The DMV was harder. I don't have valid photo ID to prove I am who I saw. The Social Security card I have doesn't match the spelling of the name I want to change to. Birth certificate has my maiden name. I essentially have no legal photo ID, and they wouldn't take the new photo without it. When asked for proof of ID to change things and sign up for utilities as a married college graduate, I had to resort to a student ID, Sam's club card and copy of my marriage certificate for a few weeks. Had my husband register the cars we got and do the apartment lease because I just couldn't prove I was me. I wrote the check for my car, but it is still to this day registered as "his". After getting new SS card, then got new photo. Then got new driver's license.
GA is not the example to use.
I got a speeding ticket 23 years before and paid it. My license was originally from another state and when I went to get it renewed, I could not because it had been suspended without my knowledge and the reason was for an unpaid ticket. I called the previous state and they told me it was for a ticket received on the old state license that was not paid and they gave me the ticket number. I called the county office and a very helpful county clerk researched the archives and faxed me the receipt for the ticket. and I sent it off to the first state to settle it but that was not good enough. They had to have the county fax it to them. I arranged it and they faxed it off. i had to call the office again to get my license, the one that I have not renewed in over 20 years, reinstated. After that GA released my license and I could get it renewed.
What happened was the records were being uploaded into the electronic database and the temp worker who was keying in the data did not bother to get the fact that the ticket was paid for.
Fast forward six years and the same thing happened again for another ticket that was 23 years old. I was pulled over and they ran my license and found I had a warrant and was promptly arrested for a ticket that was 23 years old. They demanded the paid receipt of which I no longer had and I had to pay the ticket - $170 before they would release me. They wanted to extradite me to the county that had the ticket and put me before the judge there. If I had not paid the ticket, there would have been a warrant for my arrest 23 years ago and a contempt of court charge and there was no record of that but they proceeded anyway.
There is no statue of limitations on a speeding ticket because it involves a missed court date.
It was the same situation as the first and they had some temp worker entering in archive data into the national database and it flagged the ticket as unpaid and I lost two days work because I was in jail for a clerical error and had to repay a ticket from 23 years before.
The same incident occurred the next day with a man who was arrested for an unpaid ticket and he even had the receipt on his person but they would not accept it as the payment was not entered into the database as paid because of a clerical error.
When the DVM guy got in the car with me he didn't say hello, he said “there are no one way streets on this course”
As I pulled away from the curb he said “there are no one way streets on this course”.
As I am driving down the street he repeats “there are no one way streets on this course”.
Then he say “turn left on the next street you come to”.
As I am turning left he screams “THERE ARE NO ONE WAY STREETS ON THIS COURSE!”
By this time I am so rattled that I turn into the wrong side of a street with a esplanade.
He smiles broadly and say “you failed, let's go back to the office”.
I have had 2 warrants issued for my arrest too, because of traffic tickets. A speeding ticket in south Texas that I had paid. When I got the letter about the warrant I called them and they looked in a desk drawer and said “oh yeah, here's your check, never mind”.
The other warrant was a parking ticket on a rent car in California, it took them over a year to find me but they did and I paid.
While living on San Diego, I received a threatening letter about failure to pay a parking ticket issued in Santa Barbara. All the usual threats. Problem was, had not been in SB in a decade. Called and explained the impossibility of this being me. After much DMV type BS, they did find a note by the meter maid that there may be a question on the accuracy of the license plate number they wrote down.
If so, why the hell did they send out threatening letters?
If there's a better example of why giving power to government is a bad idea I don't know what it is.
Let me get this straight. Your license was suspended in another state and you blame the GA DMV for not renewing it?
No, I was attempting to renew my license in GA and since it was transferred from another state, the other state I guess has the right to rescind it. I only found out when I went to renew it and found out I had a ticket that had to be taken care of before I could renew my license. It was revealed to be a 23 year old ticket that I had actually paid!
Come to find out that it was actually listed as paid but somebody entered it in wrong and I had to have the GA court dig up the paid receipt and fax it off to the other state. Luckily they had it after doing the same thing for another person the day before.
Also, I had not lived in the other state for over 20 years and the license was long expired.
Tool cool.
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