Originally posted by mmQ
How'd you get pulled over in the first place?
Here in ND if you get charged with a driving under suspension/revocation you actually get 60 days to get your license or a work permit and they will dismiss the charges. Obviously if you're indefinitely suspended this makes no difference as you can't get it back either way but it's a nice thing that has kept me from a DUS charge.
Funny story. The tags were expired by a month. Pulled into a gas station for petro, and never saw the fucker because he was sitting behind the building waiting for me. I had just picked up two roxi 30s for my mom. Almost ate them bitches, but didn't. She was already sick...so, I played it off. Got away with expired tags, seat belt, and driving on revoked. Not suspended. There's a difference. I should know. This makes number five for me. Third on paper. No risk of a habitual charge...this time.
It's the same here about dismissal. It gets dropped to driving without a license with a two or three dollar fine plus court costs. Best case scenario. If they show me a legit number between now and April...I want some judge to waive or reduce that shit because this is nuts. I've never had a DUI. Don't even really drink. Plus, it was at least insured, and TN insurance laws have recently overgone a change wherein failure to insure results in automatic lose of license, and they tow your shit. No hold for relative. No, "come on, bro. It's on private property (most businesses are considered as such). Can't I just park it?" "Nope. Sorry. Can't budge. Lemme get that key, though."
Anyway fuck tha police I bean driving without a license off and on for years and only have one driving under suspension charge. They automatically take your license away for a drinking charge but you can get any other drug charge and get to keep your license. Makes a lot of fucking sense. Revoking a license is one of the shittiest things you can do to a person, making it that much more difficult for them to get to work, stores, etc. and putting them in a tough spot where they often times become forced to drive anyway and eventually get busted again and have to pay more fines which involves more work and getting places but you can't drive to do it and it's all just fuckery. They should just give you loads of community service or something, just not take away your ability to drive.
Yah. Apparently, they yanked mine three months ago. I had no idea.
Yeah a guy like me brings it on himself when he chooses to drive drunk but even a punishment of having to check in and take breathalyzers for a while gives a guy the ability to retain driving rights and not make his life that much more difficult. There are consequences for actions but the consequences in place wind up keeping people caught in the system and that, to me, is sad.
TURTLE TURTLE TURTLE
Pretty much. At least I was able to put it all off until after chrimmus. If not, that would have been horrible.
