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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:01:56 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:31:37 -0800, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:52:41 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:41:54 -0800, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:17:15 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:33:53 -0800, wrote:

"Auto insurance is mandatory and driving without the proper
documentation can lead to significant fines or even suspension of your
license."

Since we talked last, my wife had another incident at work (a server's
car is stranded in the community until he gets insurance) and she
asked her deputy. He says the policy is based on the idea that driving
without insurance is illegal and letting a person driving away from
you when you know they are uninsured could make the county liable if
there was an accident, in addition to ignoring an ongoing illegal
activity.

Stranded? How's that? What if the payment was sent, but there's a
screw up with the insurance company (that never happens, right?). You
really believe the car is going to get towed? Doesn't sound like her
worker's car got towed either.

Stranded in the sense that the cop says he will tow the car when the
guy drives it out of the gate..

Sure. I'm positive he's sitting there day and night waiting for that
to happen. A bunch of nonsense.

He doesn't have to sit there all day, he also knows where you live and
probably has a pretty good idea when you get off of work.

Huh? This is his highest priority... he's going to sit there and worry
about your lack of insurance. Good grief!

If the insurance company screwed up, you fix it with the insurance
company. The cop does not care. It would be the same thing if you said
you paid all of those parking tickets, they still tow your car once
the warrant is issued and you stay on the "tow" list until the
computer says you are cleared.
Certainly mistakes are made and people get arrested all the time over
mistakes but they still stay arrested until it gets straightened out.
You have really lived a sheltered life. You certainly do not seem to
know much about how cops operate.

They're not going to tow your car unless you've done something else.
That's just paranoia.

You would have to tell that to the employee who had their car towed.

Which employee is that? You never said anyone had their car towed. New
information or you're just making thing up to suit you?

You definitely don't know how cops operate. They're mostly decent
people who give people a break when they can.

Yeah right. They do what they are told by their boss. Some cops give
some people a break sometime but don't count on it.

You seem to have a very low opinion of cops.

They are still left with the reality that if they knowingly let a
person drive without insurance, the department could be liable for a
wreck. Even if the suit was tossed, no Sheriff wants that showing up
in a campaign. This is a community of seniors, mostly republicans, who
think having insurance is a big deal. They have little patience with
deadbeats.

Sounds paranoid to me...