| Author | Message | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 309 Registered: 8-2002 |
"Welcome to Information Retrieval. I see. No, you want Information Adjustments, different department. Oh, you've been to Information Adjustments and they sent you here? Well, let me have a look at that form. Yep, just as I thought. You see, it's not stamped. I can't do anything until it's stamped. Where do you go to get it stamped, you ask? Well, that would be Information Adjustments." (Back ground music: Dum de dum, dum de dum dum, dum de dum, dum de dum dum, "Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June, We stood beneath an amber moon...") | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 275 Registered: 3-2002 |
heres one for you; a few years ago when i was living in rome, i had to register a used car that i had just bought. it was a diesel bmw built before 1986, so it had to have special tags for different taxation (don't ask, you don't want to know). so i went to the roman equivalent of the dmv, told the front desk guy what i was there for, and he directed me down a few endless corridors to an office, where i lined up with the masses. after about 1.5 hours i finally got ushered in, where there were 3 guys behind desks. i sat in the empty chair in front of one of them, and explained what i needed. after a 20 minute dissertation about what paperwork i needed to show him, he concluded that since the car was pre 1986 that he could not process the registration. ok, so who do i go to for that, i asked? i have no idea, please go back to the front desk in the lobby and maybe they can help you, he responded. i went to the front desk, and the guy sends me down a bunch of other corridors to an office. this time the wait is only about 30 minutes (coz now we are getting close to lunch and nobody wants to miss their pasta). when i enter the office, i am shocked to see that it is in fact the same one i had left just 30 minutes prior, but through a different door! the three guys behind desks are still sitting there, and this time i take the empty chair in front of a different guy. i explain the story, and he takes the paperwork, looks it over and starts wildly stamping everything in sight. only once he is done and i have the papers back in my hands, do i ask the first guy in the room why he didn't know what the other guy, sitting 5 feet away from him did, and why he didn't just pass me over to him in the first place. his answer was typical of the species when he said he only concerned himself with his job and could not possibly know what everybody in the building did....i left before i killed somebody. | ||
| wm hart (Whart)
Member Username: Whart Post Number: 501 Registered: 12-2001 |
As a young associate (lawyer), i was asked to represent somebody's client whose car literally blew up shortly after the driver left a repair facility. To handle the matter, i had to go to the central office of the NYC fire dep't, located in downtown Brooklyn, and if you ever had any mental images of bureaucratic tokenism and incompetence, this place was it. So, i waited in line endlessly, until i was finally summoned to a window by a huge, hostile government issue female, and i told her i needed to pull the file on a car that had exploded and burned. When she asked me what kind of car, and i said "Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible" i got my payback. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 629 Registered: 6-2001 |
It's a get out of jail free card (almost) for the CHP. Foundation is for the dependants of CHP Officers killed on the job. Art | ||
| acw (Acw)
Junior Member Username: Acw Post Number: 109 Registered: 2-2002 |
Actually Mark, maybe you could cast some light on the effectiveness of being a CHP 11-99 foundation. I'm a member and never got a ticket despite being followed by CHP every once in a while; however I'm not sure if the 11-99 plate helped or not... ACW | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 305 Registered: 8-2002 |
You know, I've been curious about that for a long time. Figured you just donated a little money to help the CHP and you get a license plate frame. I just looked it up at: http://www.chp1199.org and found out that it costs $1800 for that license plate frame! Oh well, it goes to do some good (and it's tax deductible). | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
Junior Member Username: Hugh Post Number: 190 Registered: 1-2002 |
Art, What is the 11-99 foundation? Ironically, the only cars I see w/ these plate frames are exotics, whats the reason? | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 628 Registered: 6-2001 |
James: While they can't read,they do understand dollars. I suggest that you don't sent the license, but you do pre-pay the ticket, and therefore don't get the suspension or points. I suggest a $100 bill, and when you do get the ticket, accuse them of refusing the bribe expecially after you don't get the $100 back. Better yet, sent $1300 to the 11-99 foundation, and don't get the ticket, because you belong to the 11-99 foundation. Art | ||
| David Burch (Merlyn)
New member Username: Merlyn Post Number: 11 Registered: 8-2002 |
One Porsche I had was mistakenly registered as a four cylinder. After several years I went to DMV to get it changed. The gal asked her boss how to tell if it really was a six cylinder. He replied count the spark plug wires coming out of the distributor. Of course she came up with seven, we had to get the manager out to settle it. | ||
| David Jones (Dave)
Member Username: Dave Post Number: 325 Registered: 4-2001 |
James, my first F-Car was a 79 Boxer.... | ||
| James Selevan (Jselevan)
Junior Member Username: Jselevan Post Number: 125 Registered: 6-2002 |
David Jones - why you scoundrel. I spoke with those authorities, and they said that anyone who drives an 8 cylinder car is not allowed to drive one with 12 cylinders. They went on to say that ALL Ferraris have engines with multiples of 6 cylinders. (In fact, Ferrari displacement = cylinder displacement * 6 * n). Jim S. | ||
| David Jones (Dave)
Member Username: Dave Post Number: 323 Registered: 4-2001 |
When I went to the department of motor vehicles here in Arkansas to register my 308, The worker behind the counter said, fearairee, who makes a fearairee..... I said Ferrari, No, I mean who makes it. like Ford or Chevy, not the model.... I said, the company that makes it IS Ferrari... The make is Ferrari, the model is a 308GTB... She said Maybe I didn't make my self clear to you, who makes a fearaireee.... After her supervisor finally helped and all was said and done, she said lord oh mighty, I can't believe you paid that much for a car that old, and it's not even a Cadillac... | ||
| Edward Gault (Irfgt)
Intermediate Member Username: Irfgt Post Number: 1886 Registered: 2-2001 |
I once got pulled in my Corvair for going 105 MPH in a 60 MPH zone. The Cop reduced my speed on the ticket to 75 since I was real nice to him and he said that if I asked for a jury trial that no one would believe a Corvair was going 105 and he would probably loose. This really happened to me in Georgia in 1971. | ||
| David Jones (Dave)
Member Username: Dave Post Number: 319 Registered: 4-2001 |
From personal experience, I never did traffic school when I lived in California... But I was ordered by the courts to sell my motorcycle, a Yamaha RD400, or go to jail... Boy, those were the good ole days! | ||
| David Jones (Dave)
Member Username: Dave Post Number: 318 Registered: 4-2001 |
James, I just spoke to the authorities.... They say you should mail you keys directly to me and forward me directions to your car... Don't make them get out the night stick... I would do what they say!  | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 302 Registered: 8-2002 |
From personal experience: You cannot do traffic school in CA if you are ticketed at over 100 mph. In fact, depending on the city you are busted in, some courts will not allow traffic school for 20 mph over the speed limit. And Mark, I don't know about where you're at, but our local DMV personnel can't read at all, in any language! Send clearly illustrated diagrams. | ||
| James Selevan (Jselevan)
Junior Member Username: Jselevan Post Number: 124 Registered: 6-2002 |
Mark - perhaps I should schedule my traffic school now. Can I take them ahead of time, bank the hours, and use them when necessary? Sort of like frequent flyer miles. Jim S. | ||
| Mark (Markg)
Junior Member Username: Markg Post Number: 239 Registered: 2-2001 |
As a former Law Enforcement type in Calif., 2 points: (no pun intended) 1. No one at DMV can read/speak English - pls translate 2. Just go to Traffic School - I recomend the one given by standup comedians! | ||
| James Selevan (Jselevan)
Junior Member Username: Jselevan Post Number: 123 Registered: 6-2002 |
I am in the process of composing a letter to California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and seek opinion as to whether I left anything out. Department of Motor Vehicles Sacramento, California Dear Madam/Sir Enclosed please find my California Drivers License. As you can see, my fees are paid and the license is valid until August of 2005. However, as I have recently acquired a Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer, I suspect that you will be asking for this. Your request, however, will likely be in a far more formal manner, likely delivered by an uniformed officer by the side of some road. Perhaps it will be sought in a Court Room, requiring taxpayer investment as well as personal investment in money and time. To avoid these issues, I deem it best to simply mail this to you now to avoid future costs and embarrassment. Please address future correspondence to: James Selevan �.. �.. � Sincerely, James Selevan Okay, what do you think? Have I forgotten anything? |