Can you believe this...
Tuesday I was driving out to one of my jobs... Which happens to be just down the street from my house when I get pulled over for not wearing my seat-belt... Shortly after the officer takes my information she comes back to my window and asks me to step out of the vehicle... I am patted down, cuffed and put in the back of her police car... She asks me am I aware I am driving with a suspended license and that has been suspended for 2 years... I was like "Well, NO"... I wouldn't have been driving had I known... So I'm booked and held until my mother can come pay my bond... A whopping $124... plus towing fees... Anyways turns out my husband got pulled over with no proof of insurance and they reported it to the state and therefore MY license was suspended in April of 2006... We had gone down to show proof of insurance for that particular incident and tought we were in the clear... Turns out the state lost our proof of insurance and that in turn lead to my arrest... What a crock!! You would think that the people working for the state would have their crap together... Anyways... My license has been reinstated but I still have a court date and I still had to pay towing fees and pay a ticket for driving under a suspended license!! Let's hear it for the DMV!!




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It is ALL the state's fault. In court, you should be able to fight it all. Why should you pay for ANY of it since THEY are the ones that made the mistake?
To be arrested like that !!!
YIKES !!!
I was pulled over for an expired inspection sticker (you needed to have that renewed every 6 months) and I was arrested for "hit and run manslaughter". The clerk at DMV miskeyed a code when I got my license. They couldn't find any record of the hit and run, but it still cost me over $200 to get a license back and I had to re-take the test (including driving).
I finally got a State Senator to stand up for me and investigate.
I know the feeling, though, as I got stopped one night (picking my son up at college).......on the way home, here comes a red light car behind me so I stopped....didn't even think that I'd best click my seatbelt.........got a warning for some light being out....then he noticed "NO" seatbelt......I got an $86 ticket....I was so mad, I started crying.........what a rip off..........haven't ever forgotten that!!!!!
Sorry you had to shell out all that money.........it really hurts, too!
Even if it was almost a yr ago