He fought the law and the law won!

[Lace Neil Singer]

SC karma. It so very rarely happens, but when it does, it tastes so sweet.

Said SC is aged about twenty years of age and comes in regularly. He is always rude, and on occasion he throws his money down so you end up having to spend ages picking it up. He also once shouted at me cuz he threw down the wrong amount to pay for his petrol, and was a pound short and the manager had to go out and bring him back to pay.

He drove into the petrol station... and a police car followed him in. XD SC ended up being given a ticket a mile long for a zillion illegal things about his car; illegal blue lights (only police cars are allowed these!); loose bonnet, no tax disc, no back registration number plate and some other things that we didn't hear of from rubbernecking customers coming in and telling us.

SC ended up having to drive to the police station, or so we assumed; given that he returned a couple of hours later to the petrol station on foot and looking as tho he had been forcefed a bag of lemons. XXD

[evilhomer]

Oh Karma, what a sweet mistress you are


I never understand the "logic" of doing illegal things to your car, particularly if you've got licensing issues that otherwise wouldn't be spotted. Let's see, I don't have a validation sticker but that's hard to see, so let me wave this huge red flag to get everyone to notice me and check everything out. As Forrest Gump said "Stupid is as stupid does".

[JustaCashier]

This is where it would have been fun to be able to wait on him, and be super cheery, feigning ignorance to what happened earlier;

L: *Big smile* Hi! How are you today?
SC: *Scowling* Shi....
L: Oh, it's such a beautiful day! I've had a great day today, and I'm going for a nice drive after work!



Mike

[rvdammit]

If I'm remembering my reality shows correctly he probably got his car section 53'd, recoverd for crushing. No tax disc means no insurance means you ain't driving it buddy.

[Marmalady]

This is where it would have been fun to be able to wait on him, and be super cheery, feigning ignorance to what happened earlier;

L: *Big smile* Hi! How are you today?
SC: *Scowling* Shi....
L: Oh, it's such a beautiful day! I've had a great day today, and I'm going for a nice drive after work!



Mike

Your cruelty warms my heart........

[Lace Neil Singer]

This is where it would have been fun to be able to wait on him, and be super cheery, feigning ignorance to what happened earlier;

L: *Big smile* Hi! How are you today?
SC: *Scowling* Shi....
L: Oh, it's such a beautiful day! I've had a great day today, and I'm going for a nice drive after work!



Mike

Classic. XD I did make sure I was extra cheery, but didn't say that; wish I had.

[chainedbarista]

yes, justacashier's cruelty also warmed the cockles of my shriveled heart (pretty hard to do, too!).

[protege]

I never understand the "logic" of doing illegal things to your car, particularly if you've got licensing issues that otherwise wouldn't be spotted.

I never understood that either. Take that stupid Mazda I once owned. Sure, the registration was up to date, and so was the insurance...but the state inspection had lapsed. Why? Well, I couldn't get that damn car fixed enough to pass--I'd already sunk several hundred in repairs into it--and the new car I was buying, hadn't arrived yet. As such, I was very careful with it--no speeding, no loud tunes, and I didn't even bother washing it. I wasn't about to call attention to myself! I only had that car a few days longer, but it was pretty damn stressful, since my borough's cops are anal about such things.

The only close call I had over something not being "street legal" was with the MG. I was across town, and one of the Mt. Lebanon cops flagged me over. I hadn't done anything, so I was Turns out he'd never seen a GT like mine, and was curious. He just wanted a closer look at the car, and let me go. Good thing he didn't notice the missing seat belts and the knackered tires! Both of those items have been taken care of. Even so, I'm careful with that car--the bright orange paint plus the loud (but stock) exhaust system...naturally draw attention to it.

[EricKei]

Pass...inspection? o_O All we need to get our yearly Brake Tags (inspection stickers) here are: working headlights, tallights, and blinkers; working wipers and horn. That's it. You pull up, show that they work, show license/proof of insurance/reg, pay your fifteen bucks, and get gone.

Still not quite sure why we even call them Brake Tags; the brakes themselves don't get inspected.

[Imogene]

warmed the cockles of my shriveled heart (pretty hard to do, too!).

Maybe it was the sub-cockle region? Or your heart grew three sizes and you didn't notice, and the warmth is shriveled blood flowing to the newly shriveled enlarged area?

[protege]

Pass...inspection? o_O All we need to get our yearly Brake Tags (inspection stickers) here are: working headlights, tallights, and blinkers; working wipers and horn.

Pennsylvania has an annual safety inspection. Some counties, like mine, also have an emissions test. The Mazda passed the safety inspection, but failed the emissions test. If you fail one, you automatically fail the other one. Unfortunately though, we do have some garages that will slap a 'passed' sticker on anything.

How do I know this? Well, my MG should have failed one year. It had no horns, the hazard lights didn't work, the windshield washer jets weren't hooked up, and there weren't any seat belts. Any one of those items would have been enough to fail the car. Yet it passed At least I was able to use that to my advantage. I simply threatened to turn them in to the state, if they didn't take care of some 'repairs' that they'd screwed up. I had them by the balls, in other words. As such, all of the remedies were done at their expense

[Lace Neil Singer]

In any case, right now is the start of the time where the police get super sensitive to non payment of road tax; ie, renewal time. So driving around sans tax disc is even more stupid now than it normally would be. XD

[Argabarga]

Around here, if you get caught with expired registration on the plate, you get pulled over, if you can't produce current registration, the plate is taken, the car is towed, and you have to re-register all over again and get a new plate.

And PA is one of the more thorough inspection states, not only do all the lights have to work, but you'll be failed for any loose/worn/broken part of your steering, brakes or suspension. Loose tie rod ends, loose ball joints, worn wheel bearings, broken sway bar links, warped brake rotors, any of that is a fail

Cracks/chips in the windshield is a fail

Excessively worn tires is a fail (i.e. tread depth of tire is below a certain limit)

Excessively rusty vehicle body is a fail unless you patch it

Hole in the exhaust is a fail

If you can pass it, you can pass anywhere

[chainedbarista]

pa sounds like germany; lights and all must be working, along with a pristine windshield.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've never had any illegal modifications done to my car, but I've been pulled over for a couple of bone-headed mistakes on my part.

First time: my tags had expired. Quite honestly, I hadn't noticed they'd expired like three months previous. I felt like an idiot, apologized to the cop who pulled me over and admitted I was an idiot, got new tags, went to court, provided proof to the judge (and cop) I'd fixed the problem, and was free to go, without even paying court costs.

Second time: my inspection sticker was expired. It was about a month expired, pretty much because I hadn't gotten around to doing it. Again, apologies to the cop, I get it inspected, go to court, admit I was guilty, but the judge made me pay the fine and court costs.

After those experiences, I've endeavored to not repeat them. I still procrastinated more than I needed to with the inspection sticker this year, I was a week expired when I got the inspection done, and I was damn careful whenever I saw a cop car.