Posted on 05/12/2021 8:40:50 PM PDT by Tipllub
(WJLA) — Carjackers put a gun to 73-year-old Doug Nelson’s head as he arrived home a little after midnight. The Vietnam veteran and grandfather of 11 had just finished his usual late shift at the U.S. Postal Service.
“As I was exiting the vehicle, this guy came up with the pistol and said ‘Give me the car. You know, what's happening. Give me a car,’” said Doug.
Without hesitation, Doug handed over the car, hoping that was all he would lose.
It would be days before police recovered the only vehicle that Doug and Nancy Nelson owned and relied upon.
And when they got it back, it would be returned with something extra.
“Over $2,000 worth of fines. Yes. Over $2,000 worth of fines,” Nancy Nelson said as we sat in their living room looking over a folder of paperwork and a pile of speeding tickets.
The criminals went on a dangerous joyride, often exceeding 70 mph in 30 mph zones, triggering speed cameras half a dozen times.
The Nelsons had no idea until they started receiving tickets.
“It was a notice of infraction and I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh, this is the time when they stole the car,’” said Nancy.
It all seemed simple enough, the Nelsons thought. Notify the District of Columbia that these tickets happened while the carjackers were at the wheel. The District's response?
“It came back saying, ‘You owe,’” said Nancy.
So, Nancy sent the police report, proving the car had been stolen more than an hour before a speed camera snapped the first ticket.
“I sent it back and it got rejected again,” said Nancy.
Surely a face-to-face meeting with the hearings officer would clear things up.
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The State says “*itch, where’s my money?!!!”
Tickets are revenue. That is why they are written these days.
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While they wouldn’t sit down with us, they did take action once we started asking questions. After six months, and up against the deadline of our story, D.C. dismissed all the tickets and penalties against the Nelsons and sent 7News this statement from the DC Department of Motor Vehicles:
DC DMV had been communicating with Mr. Nelson since he began the adjudication process related to the six citations issued on November 2, 2020. The initial police incident submitted as part of that process was incomplete and failed to establish that the vehicle was stolen when the citations were issued. Subsequently, DC DMV received a more complete incident report with additional details related to the carjacking incident involving Mr. Nelson’s vehicle. As a result, DC DMV Adjudication Services has dismissed the six tickets, as well as the related fines and penalties.
All large urban areas are headed in this direction, if they haven’t already arrived.
Rural is good. Very, very good.
The State will not be denied.
And yet another reason why we’re here.
Government appears to have a kind of reverse radioactive half-life in which it eventually becomes the enemy of the governed.
At which point the governed rise up and destroy it.
His black life would not have mattered a wit if he had refused to give up his keys. Black in black crime, who cares? Right?
I don’t mean just suburbia rural.
I mean very, very rural.
Now that must have been one hell of a crime report. The officer or CSO left out the part where the victim was threatened with a gun, and the vehicle was then stolen. And then, it appears that the vehicle was not entered into the system as a stolen vehicle so that per chance, if it was stopped by a patrol officer, the officer would be informed that the vehicle was stolen, and the suspects might be ARMED!
D.C. obviously hires the best and the brightest! Someone needs to be suspended or fired.
Still good in my rural neck of the woods in Southeastern VA....so who you speaking for?
Will it take an act of congress to give this guy relief? Or will the overpaid bureaucrats running that fiefdom leave them twisting in the wind? This could be taken care of in 10 minutes.
You gotta love it. The criminals in D.C. get away all kinds of high level federal crimes....But all you better follow every instruction and fill out their forms perfectly, or be prepared to pay up or be put in a cage.
I’m talking very rural! That’s how it used to be here at the NE Georgia/western NC border... Not any more!
In Southampton County, hardly any libtards to be found (except maybe in Franklin) or they just scared and hiding.
Had a similar situation on one of the bridges in the SF Bay area. We lived over 3 hours from this bridge. Someone had a license plate that was almost identical to the one on my husbands Camry. We did not live in the SF Bay area and did not take that vehicle over that bridge ever. The difference in the license plate was there was an I instead of the T that was on my Hubby plate, and the perp had a decorated license plate cover which covered the bottom of the I.
We received over 20 citations. I talked to the bridge authorities, the CHP on both sides of the bridge, the local police, DMV, and even CalTrans to no avail. He even changed the license plate, but it did not help. The car was not even a Camry, it was a different brand, with a similar color. After months and months of this nonsense, I finally called my state representative’s office. I showed the office person the pictures of the offending vehicle proving that it was not even a Camry along with the pile of tickets.
They were horrified. She also could not believe what we had done to resolve this on our own without any solution. I had put in at least a hundred hours on the phone to various agencies.
It took about another month to finally received a letter of apology from the Toll Bridge agency director.
Personally I think the DC office lied. The info was on the report. They are just trying to save face. Slime.
Don’t these speed trap cameras include a picture of the driver of the stolen vehicle?
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