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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:28:35 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:01:00 -0800, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:10:29 -0500, wrote:

What part of this is so hard to understand, your insurance is on the
cops computer in his car in real time.
It is not a "random stop". It is a flashing message on the laptop that
tells the cop, not only that your insurance was canceled but who your
agent/company is. You can't even get a tag without insurance and if it
lapses for any reason you tag is flagged.

So, how come all those illegals aren't getting stopped as soon as they
get on the road?? They aren't.

They run legal tags and they have insurance

? Huh? You believe that illegals have insurance on their to do list?

No insurance is a tow in Florida and you ride to the station in cuffs.

I doubt it. Most likely you're given a ticket unless there's some
other reason to detain you.

That is simply not true. They do tow cars stopped with no insurance.
My wife has had it happen to employees. They have even waited at the
gate for them to come out and bust them right there.

Sounds like a police state to me. My neighbor got stopped for expired
tags. He didn't even have his DL on him. They gave him a fix it
ticket.

Doesn't matter unless you are trying to deflect the conversation away
from insurance, to DL, or even further into a political thing.. .oh
wait...

I suppose you could run someone elses tag but that is fraught with
it's own perils. I would certainly expect a "felony stop" if I was
doing that. (dragged out of the car, knocked to the ground and a cops
foot on your neck)
The assumption is you are up to no good, car theft at the minimum and
perhaps something a lot worse.
That computer in the cop car has taken a lot of mystery out of who
they are looking at and certainly which car that tag belongs to.

Yet, there are lots and lots of people on the road without
insurance...

Not so much here, maybe you just need better enforcement there.
Maryland was bad about that, mostly because DC did not require
insurance. That may be better but they also do not talk to each other.
They have 2 deputies here in each district who do nothing but
insurance, out of state tags and radar.
They drive around all day just running tags to see what pops. That was
the allure of that camera system that did it automatically. They are
checking every tag that comes in range.
These guys also look for out of state tags in employee parking lots.
That one is a ticket but it is a ticket with a warrant attached if you
don't buy a Florida tag right away. The next time it is that tow and
the ride downtown.

They do all of this because we do have a lot of out of state people
here who will blow off a wreck and leave the injured party trying to
catch someone across a state line.

Well, good for FL. However, there are 49 other states plus DC.

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