Don't you guys get pulled over for as little as a brake light being out?
Then possibly shot, obviously.
Then possibly shot, obviously.
American Cops Doing What They Do Best
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What's a MOT?
I've seen cars with no front end, huge cracks in the windshield, spewing smoke, no doors. It's unbelievable, Jeff!
Motor Ordinance Test, basically an annual check required on all cars over three years old to certify them as roadworthy.
It's a necessary thing because the attitudes and treatment of alcohol, in particular, and other small crimes is very different from normal police. I went to a private school where as long as you weren't be a nuisance or obviously underage (like 16), you could get away with drinking. They may not enforce that other minor crimes. Our PD was either officers who had retired from the city/county or guys just starting out who wanted to get to a bigger department eventually. They generally have a different mentality because they are in a relatively less dangerous environment at a university. They'll have a small number of violent crimes but should be fairly adept at dealing with large numbers of people (for sporting events, etc.). The campus police showed up at a party one night that I was at off campus but in student housing and just asked everyone to leave because of a noise complaint. City cops would have been much more likely to ID everyone there and trying to find who bought the alcohol if there was an underage person.
More serious crimes would generally be handed over to city cops.
I once drove a car with no doors or glass back from a £50 purchase to a mates house.
You'd never get away with that kinda shit these days.
I got pulled over doing 90 with a brake light out, the guy told me to be careful as there were speed cameras near bristol and didn't even shoot me once. God save our queen.
Years ago the police came up to me outside my house and said they'd have pulled me over sooner but couldn't catch me. They just said to slow down in the future. Lucky me because I was fecking hammered from a night out clubbing too.
Young and stupid.
Young and stupid.
Yeah we have the ANPR here, but it's not linked up to insurance policies. Would make things easier. Like I said earlier, we can take a persons word for it if they say they have insurance, show an expired policy, or even just write the name of their carrier on a piece of a paper. Some areas or departments may not though.
If it's out of a crash, however...that's a whole other ball game.
I would have gladly written those cites to hit quota and make our revenue
Just kidding....maybe
The only way insurance usually comes up without a wreck is if the DMV (or whatever it's called in each state) flags the person's car/license as having expired insurance. I got a new policy once with the same company but they said that I had let it run out so I got a letter about it and had to give them my updated information despite the company already having it. This is after the company changed my address, phone number, and email address after I started the policy so when it expired, I never got any information about it. Probably because I wrote them a note telling them it was stupid that they were billing me $2 after sending me a check for $2 overpayment the week before. So I realized that I didn't have insurance 1 month after it expired because they sent all the notifications to the other end of the state.
What?
In NC, if your insurance lapses, they contact the DMV who then flag it in the statewide database. So if you were pulled over, they run your license/name through the system to check for warrants, etc. and it would say that your insurance had expired. Proof of insurance is not something that is requested at normal traffic stops. If your plate/license comes back flagged, the officer would ask if you have recently changed insurance/renewed it and generally advise you to update it with the DMV or potentially write a citation that can then be dismissed once proof of insurance is produced.
Interesting. Not how we do it in ca at all.
In Maryland you do this when you buy a car. So you can drive around in a death trap until you sell it. Farce. Ive seen cars driving around that are falling apart. Other states have near real tests annually. The other states I've lived in check your tires and brakes and not much else. I'm not a huge fan of states rights when it comes to things like this. The plate on car fronts mentioned earlier is state to state too.
NC requires annual inspections but mostly just does the obvious stuff (lights, tires, brakes, etc.). I've never seen the full inspection list but my last inspection could be described as cursory at best, but it was a 2 year old car.
One thing that bothers me when traveling to other states is the lack of posted sanitation ratings in restaurants. In NC, every restaurant is required to post their grades prominently. The state carries out the inspections at least once annually and issues the grade.
We haves annual motor vehicle inspection regardless of the age of the vehicle
Which state? Somne don't. And for those that do, the level of testing varies. Got tires... Congrats, here's your sticker.
That is a good one. Wish they did it in every single state. Why should people from my state (MD) be allowed to drive through your state with dangerous vehicles?
@Skizzo could you do me a personal favour and start pulling over drivers who stay in the left lane and slow sown traffic? It's infuriating and I don't understand why it isn't being given more prominence. It causes pissed-off drivers to tailgate and swerve angrily around oblivious cnuts who stay in the lane and do 55, slowing down everybody else.
as long as they're going at the speed limit, they can be there. If they dip under that I'll see what I can do for you Unrelated question, maybe someone knows....why are the car seat regulations between the UK and U.S. So vastly different?
Unrelated question, maybe someone knows....why are the car seat regulations between the UK and U.S. So vastly different?
But why are there signs up that say 'slower traffic keep right'? What does CVC say about it?
As long as they're at the speed limit, they can legally be there. So if limit is 65, they can drive in the left lane at 65, even if everyone behind is trying to drive faster. If they go under that, then they should move over.
There's plenty of people needing to be pulled over....California drivers make sure of that
I just saw a guy towing a trailer doing 80.
Entitlement right there. "I'm doing the speed limit..blah, blah"
The only way around it is for governments to increase the speed limit marginally and enact speed minimums for each lane. One the minimums are in place, paint it right in the lane every 300 yards/meters. The police can enforce the laws at their discretion.
Yanks are the fecking worst for picking a lane and sitting in it. So selfish and entitled.
@Skizzo is a traffic cop?
You should come to Ontario, these people take the cake.
One year, we drove from Toronto to the east coast, Prince Edward Island to be precise. On the way there we passed through the province of New Brunswick. They have a lovely, newish, divided highway with full fencing and animal crossing culverts throughout. Amazingly, everyone knew exactly how to use the road as every vehicle we saw was in the right lane unless they were overtaking slower traffic.
When we came upon a car that was sitting in the left lane with no one else around, I said to my wife, "Betcha that guy is from Ontario." Sure enough, he was.
You're up in sac right?
yeah but I could travel.
I'll see what I can get sorted. Might be a while before I get it figured out. Quite a bit of other stuff going on, but I'd be down for it.
Wicked, that'd be great. I'll buy the donuts!
More at the link (video included).
A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.
Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of the June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations, lawyer Eric Subin said.
“How can you do that - four people on one skinny, scrawny little guy?” Subin asked. “They're criminals; they belong behind bars.”
Falcone, all of 150 pounds, told the Daily News that the officers pulled him out of the Midland Beach home he shares with his mom while investigating a noise complaint at 5:30 a.m.
He says they roughed him up while calling him a “f**”and a “f****t.”
Anti-homosexual slurs aren’t audible on the video, which was taken from across the street and was viewed by the Daily News. “While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the f****t.’”
A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.
Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of the June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations, lawyer Eric Subin said.
“How can you do that - four people on one skinny, scrawny little guy?” Subin asked. “They're criminals; they belong behind bars.”
Falcone, all of 150 pounds, told the Daily News that the officers pulled him out of the Midland Beach home he shares with his mom while investigating a noise complaint at 5:30 a.m.
He says they roughed him up while calling him a “f**”and a “f****t.”
Anti-homosexual slurs aren’t audible on the video, which was taken from across the street and was viewed by the Daily News. “While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the f****t.’”