Posted on 02/28/2006 2:01:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
When I moved here in 92 from the east my insurance doubled for 1/5th the coverage.
That's before we even get to tickets and fines.
Me!!!!
</ raises hand >
I don't know if it's still possible, but for a long time you were able to buy a month to month policy.
Naturally all one had to do was buy a policy, then get the car licensed and inspected, then let it lapse for another year.
Why should the person be required to speak English?
The big insurance companies pay your claim and then sue the uninsured driver if necessary.
But you know the old saying about blood and a turnip.
And in the mean time, poor slobs like you and me.... we get shafted with higher insurance premiums for having filed a claim.
Here in NC you cannot register your car without proof of insurance. You also pay a fine for letting it lapse. And you pay a really big fine of your caught driving uninsured.
Here in Alabama they tried to implement a similar policy some years ago. After every civil rights group came down with both feet it died. Seems like it is racial prejudice to do it here. Lately some all white towns are targeting whites only and having a mild success rate. If you stop a person of color it is lawsuit city big time, with a black federal judge coming at you.
I carry additional insurance to protect me from these lowlifes. If you can't afford it, use public transpo.
I post this every so often when the message seems relevant, sort of as a memorial to Mom, as well as to let people know what the justice system is really like.
December 5th, 2001, my mother, Shirley Norkunas, was killed in a car wreck. She was on her way to a Dr.'s appointment. The roads and weather were clear, it was about 9 in the morning, the place was just south of Superior, WI on State Hwy 35. She was driving north toward Superior.
A fellow named Thomas Frankot was heading south that morning, driving on a suspended license. He apparently fell asleep, crossed into my mother's lane, she was killed instantly in the resulting crash.
Thomas Frankot lived. He is essentially judgement proof, with very few assets.
He, after much wrangling, finally pled guilty in September 2002 to driving after suspension and driving left of center.
Previous relevant citations (there are half a dozen or so others). You can find them at the following website-
http://wcca.wicourts.gov/index.xsl
DWI
DWI/OAS (Operation After Suspension)
OAS
No Valid License
OAR (Operation after Revocation)
OAR
That was six offenses BEFORE he killed Mom, so you know he was really in trouble this time.
Was he ever.
He was fined $363, license suspended for six months, and given sixty days to pay.
That's not even the funny part.
He has not paid the fine for driving with a suspended license, even though over four years, much less the sixty days have lapsed.
I asked the clerk of courts what happens when the fines aren't paid.
They suspend his license.
Now, that's justice for ya.
I see your still licking Hitlerys butt. Are you her personal TROLL?
Yep. Making illegal aliens obey the same laws Americans have to follow is really, really unfair. What a heartless unwelcoming nation we are! < / sarcasm>
In Texas you need proof of insurance to register the car yearly -- no problem -- get a policy for once month or less, get the card showing insurance - then cancel the policy...no problemo... or just used a forged Proof of insurance form readily available at your local flee market along with forged handicapped stickers, etc.
Papers? Papers? We don't need no stinking papers !
This is an outstanding policy. I've been hit 3 times by uninsured drivers (in TN). The last time, my insurance company paid up and went after the deadbeat. He really was a deadbeat - had nothing, so the insurance company couldn't recover. Guess what? Right, my rates went up the next year.
I say tow the car immediately if they have no insurance. Put it in the system against their driver's license. If they get caught a second time, revoke their driver's license.
Sorry Slim, the main reason for that is illustrated in this thread. Illegals have the largest effect on the premiums.
Dallas has tried to adopt the same policy, but city council is saying it is racist.
My sympathies to you at the loss of your mother, and then at the insult to injury you suffered afterwards.
How awful to have your Mother be killed this way. It would be really hard to live with, I'd think. You have my sympathies.
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