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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:33:25 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:19:30 -0800, wrote:

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

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!

He is a cop working traffic. What do you think his highest priority
is?

He's going to stop people for running lights, tail lights out, an
expired sticker, failing to yield, etc., not for "lack of insurance."

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?

Yes I did. I told you one of Judy's people did get stopped and had
their car towed. Try to keep up.

Did get stopped... FOR WHAT? Lack of insurance or something else and
then they discovered the "lack of insurance."

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.

I understand what they do for a living and evidently you don't.
Have you actually spent any time with cops? (on duty or off)
This is not TV.

I've probably spent more than a few weeks with them during my
internships.

Most of their day is spent on very mundane tasks and if they "gave
everyone a break" their productivity numbers would not be up to par.
It is not really a "quota" but it is an expectation and there is some
degree of competition. Low producers do not get promoted
When the shift sargent says "we gave you a list of insurance
expirations, did you find any of them" he is not going to take "yeah I
found a couple but I let them go".

Which has nothing to do with the "insurance" claims you're making.

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...

Welcome to the world lawyers have given us.

I am done with this.

Mostly seniors, mostly republicans, who are overly paranoid.

Yes, I don't doubt you're done with this.