Woman Fires Gun at DMV Because The Line Was Moving Too Slowly

Newsweek ^ | 7/9/19 | Matt Keeley

[BenLurkin]

A woman fired her gun outside the Parkville License Office in Kansas City, Missouri, reportedly because she was tired of waiting.

The woman, estimated to be in her 40s, entered the building and started cursing when she saw the long line and insisted on being next in line.

The unidentified female asked DMV workers to call their supervisor, who was not on the premises at the time.

Zick says she followed the woman outside to get her license plate number. The woman then pulled out a gun and fired into the air.

The woman then allegedly fired twice into a mulch bed outside the DMV office.

Police arrived on the scene at about 11:25 am and took the woman into custody.

"We're still early on in the investigation, but it is to my understanding that she didn't make it into the DMV," Platte County Sheriff's Office spokesman Major Eric Holland told the Star. "People saw the gun before she got in. The doors were locked and she fired the shots before she got into the DMV."

[UCANSEE2]

It was Kansas.

It was not. Parkville and Kansas CIty are in Missouri. First line of the EXCERPT....."A woman fired her gun outside the Parkville License Office in Kansas City, Missouri, "

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, I know how she feels.

[Fido969]

“Dance!”

[texas_mrs]

In our small town there’s often no one ahead of me. At most, one or two.

[UCANSEE2]

The DMV’s I use are run by a contract outfit. Maybe that is the reason for quicker service.

[Disambiguator]

I once spent an entire 8 hours at a DMV, partially because they screwed up and made me wait in the same line twice (nice way to own your mistakes, right?).
So I can understand the frustration.

Yes, this was in California.

[jimtorr]

The real problem is people who don’t bring the proper documentation.

You've got that right. I've bought a few cars in the past year. I always fill out the title/registration form on the DMV website that Oregon put up, and take the printed form in. The DMV clerks actually thank me for have a form ready to go.

[UCANSEE2]

DMV is one government department ripe for privatization/decentralization.

Then Kansas City is ahead of the curve because they already contract out the DMV Office to private business.

[hanamizu]

For those of you who don’t know, most of the drivers license offices in Missouri (THE Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas) are actually run by a non-profit organization that makes its money by getting a fee for every DL and license plate renewal issued. In big cities they may well be run by the Department of Revenue—being KC, I wouldn’t doubt it.

In my smaller town experience, the people who work in the office are a bit frazzled by whom they deal with, but otherwise pretty nice and efficient. Demanding to get to the front of the line...I would vote to convict.

[UCANSEE2]

Don’t know why the line is so slow.

Do you think all those people speaking Spanish had all their 'documentation' ready and even understood English ?

[Freedom4US]

I’m sure that got their attention, but this is widely considered to be bad form.

[reg45]

As if that will make the line move faster.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve waited much longer in the doctor’s office, too.

This is where people who like to read, and always have a good book on hand, have an advantage. There is so little free time to read these days, I never find a reason to complain about lines or waiting rooms.

[sheana]

Our DMVs have foreigners lined up out the door and around the corner of the building. They bring their own folding chairs and umbrellas for the all day wait. I think they enjoy it.

[Red Badger]

I bet they moved faster then!................under desks, behind filing cabinets, out the windows!................

[I want the USA back]

DMV is what it is because it’s run by government. There is no competing DMV that you can go to if you don’t like the official one. They’re all the same. Employees are actually on welfare, except that everyone goes along with the illusion that they actually have a job.

Government uses the DMV office to reward certain constituents for their support. In return, they are expected to show up most workdays, and to look semi-alive. They will be fired only if they offend a certified victim higher up on the victim scale than they are. Otherwise, they will be there until they retire and collect more than you make while actually working.

[bankwalker]

This is where people who like to read, and always have a good book on hand, have an advantage. There is so little free time to read these days, I never find a reason to complain about lines or waiting rooms.

except they always have a GD TV on.

[Sans-Culotte]

Same here. I was just at our BMV last week. My number was 66, and they were just in the 40’s, so I waited over an hour.

I had to take a number last time I went a couple of years ago near Houston, TX. They sent text alerts to my phone. My first one was "your wait time is estimated at 3 hours, 15 minutes". I think it ended up being about 2 hours, 50 minutes. All I was doing was taking the eye test and having my picture taken. My procedures took about 8 minutes or less.

[seawolf101]

My name is Mr. Sloth.

[Red Badger]

Used to, in Florida, we had to take a vacation day just to get our plates renewed or car inspected! All cars had plates due in JUNE!....

Thank God then Governor Graham (D), future Senator Graham, abolished the ‘inspections’ (They were a joke, anyways), and changed the plate renewals to your birthday................