[luck-bad-->worse]: arrested saturday looong (but interesting)

[calimus@techography.net (Calimus)]

whoa, deja-vu.  I ran into almost this exact problem with my g/f now wife 4
years ago.  She moved here (Georgia) from Las Vegas and along the way,
accidently left her license at a motel she stayed at for the night on her
way out here.  So she made due by using her passport for just about anything
a license would be needed for.  So when she had finally been here long
enough, we tried to get her a Ga license.  Waited 3 F'ing hours in line at
the local state patrol office (thats where you get them, no true DMV in this
state) finally get to the lady, explain why she doesn't have her Nv license
but provides everything we need to prove she says she is.  The lady checks a
few things and then comes back with the fact that her Nv license was
suspended but no reason given and that we would have to contact the Nv DMV
to find out what was up.  So glad we wasted 3 hours for that great answer.

Anyway, to make a really bad story short, they had suspended her license
becase it had expired 1 week prior to this mess.  This took no less then 15
long distance calls to the las vegas DMV.  It cost us somewhere around $50
for a "clearence letter" from the Nv DMV before Ga would grant her a
license.  So basicly what you need to do is unfrotunatly go though the
hassle of doing whatever to get this particular letter from your previous
state before Ga will give you a license.  Do check into this yourself
however, just in case they were just assholes to us.

You will find that there are alot of nice cops in Ga, but there are
definitly a good bunch of pure fukwits among them.  Especially in your neck
of the woods in dekalb.

William
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: [luck-bad-->worse]: arrested saturday looong (but interesting)


> so i'm supposed to be on for a lovely 36 hour shift starting saturday
> morning. drag my tired ass out of bed and drive about 1 out of the 2 miles
i
> need to drive. i forgot my wallet, as i often do when i wear scrubs, at
> home. get pulled over cuz the cop i guess wanted to check out the temp
> plates on the new roc (you have 30 days to get real ones in georgia). next
> thing i know i'm in cuffs b/c of a suspended license (i have a mass
license,
> but my car is registered/insured in ga) and no proof of insurance (i keep
> forgetting you need this in ga--i usually keep the card in my car, but
with
> the new one and all...so i put it in my wallet) totally blindsided, had no
> idea that it was suspended or why. i offer to take the cop the 1 mile to
my
> house to get this straightened. uh uh. my neighbor happens to drive by,
> offers to get the wallet for me. nope. this cop was a total bitch. didn't
> care at all that the reason for no ins card/weird tags was cuz i totalled
my
> car AT THIS SAME INTERSECTION 3 wks ago (she even verified it with the
> station!) so i get cuffed and taken to the dekalb co jail, where i'm
greeted
> with niceties such as "look at the white boy--fresh meat!". no joke. i
loved
> this. call the g/f asleep in my bed: "hey, i'm in jail, get a piece of
> paper" "but i just fell asleep again!". yeah, i'm fine, thanks for asking,
> beeotch.
> in her defense, she did end up forging my sig on a check to get the $1500
to
> bail me out, after 10 hours in jail. not one of those country club ones,
> either. this was the real kind. no fun. not to mention the ordeal of
getting
> my car out of impound yesterday, which i won't go into.
> so today i call the mass registry to find out why the hell my license was
> suspended. after 45 mins on hold, i'm informed it's suspended cuz new
> hamshire suspended it. wtf. call n.h. dmv. they suspended it for an unpaid
> speeding ticket 1.5 yrs ago. "but i paid that ticket!" apparently it
arrived
> 5 days after the deadline, so they added fees to it. they sent me a letter
> notifying me of the deadline and default judgement if i didn't meet it,
but
> i just moved and didn't get it. they even have it in their records that
the
> letter went undelivered. so now i have the following options:
>
> 1) pay the $50 late fee, pay the $100 nh license reinstatement fee, and
the
> $50 mass reinstatement fee.
> 2) clerk at the court says i can appeal the default judgement against me.
> she thinks i have a reasonable story, for whatever that's worth. this has
> the advantage of having a plausible defense for when i go to trial; if
they
> overturn the original suspension, it would be hard to make this charge
> stick, i would think. downside is it'll take at least 2 weeks. no driving
in
> the meantime. i'll be on vacation next week, which softens the blow a bit.
> 3) do the above, but try applying for a ga license and hope they don't
check
> with mass to see if my license is valid. unlikely, but i may try anyway.
>
> at any rate, i'll at least run things by a lawyer (any in the crowd?).
> interesting sidenote is that they didn't read me my rights, and i never
> signed anything indicating that they were read/i understood them. i've
been
> told this is a get out of jail free card. anybody know anything of this?
>
> interesting sidenote #2: the only times i have ever been pulled over, got
in
> an accident, or ran into trouble of any kind while driving has been when i
> thought that i was doing absolutely nothing wrong. 95% of the time i'm
> breaking some kind of law and aware of it, but have never been busted for
> these legitimate offences. strange.
>
> short story: my life sucks. for those keeping score at home, that's one
> totalled scirocco and one miserable arrest in 3 weeks.
>
> -michael "these boots were made for walkin'" abatzis
>
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