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Reply With QuoteSadly as an insurance agent I KNOW there are a ton of ppl out there driving without license, be them revoked or expired (can't get a license in my state without a ss#). When something like this happens it make me sick!
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Re: This should not happen. Well hopefully since apparently suspended licenses don't do squat there...they can nail him for child abuse. In my book that is pure negligence. Maybe that will be a high enough felony to make him hang in jail for a while.
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Re: This should not happen. TeePee - so when a person has had their license revoked, how do they go about getting it back? What person or entity authorizes this? I realize it could be different in your state but I am trying to understand something about WHY someone would be allowed to get their license back under situations like this. Or can it be "revoked" even if they don't have a current valid license?
Smee - "a special kind of selfishness" is EXACTLY right. I almost said the same thing.
I just wonder if the 14 year old will follow the same lifestyle or end up completely staying away from alcohol. Hopefully he was scared enough to stay away.
Re: This should not happen. I was on the phone with the chucklehead who should have taken the keys. I wasn't even in town. I called in the complaint, told them where he lived, what he was driving, and where he was coming from. They took it pretty seriously because they were waiting for him. I assume he was just missed en route, but they got him right in front of his house. I most certainly would have taken the keys had I been there, absolutely no doubt. I've pried a shotgun out of his hands when he leveled it at someone. Apparently, ain't neither one of us got any ackrite.
Anyway, zero tolerance here for drunk drivers. His career was ruined, and he's pretty much been a deadbeat bum ever since, but I feel no guilt or pity at all.
Not that it matters, but I feel like it needs to be said that this is my biological father, not the honorable military daddy who raised me (RIP).
Re: This should not happen. I think it's the right thing to do (calling the law), regardless of who it is, especially if it's not a first offense (not saying this was not Smee's Bio Father's first offense though I suspect it wouldn't matter to her). Maybe they caused an accident on the way home and weren't even aware of it.
Or what if you knew someone was about to drive drunk, you did nothing and they DID cause an accident? Could you live with yourself knowing you could have done something to keep it from occurring? That would be a tough load to carry.
Re: This should not happen. Yes, exactly. One thing that drove me to busting him was because I knew he was drinking while on duty driving big trucks. That's a Huge Hairy Deal, but there was nothing I could do about it since I didn't usually know about it until afterward. He was pretty blase about it. He'd been busted before. He just didn't care. His company, Good Old Boy Transport, kept letting him drive even after multiple DUIs. It's only when his license was suspended that they had no choice but to let him go. What good is a truck driver without a license? Well, to most companies, anyway.Originally Posted by 3timesoccermom
Also, I have always carried this story with me:
Several years ago, not long after my husband and I met, we were on our way somewhere and came up on a wreck. My husband believed it was his cousin's car. It turned out he was right. It killed both the cousin and his one year old child who was loose in the car. The cousin was drunk and had just left a family gathering. The family let him drive away drunk with that child. As a matter of fact, he was so drunk, he had initially climbed into the back seat to drive, and some family members laughed at him and put him behind the steering wheel and sent him on his way with his child who was loose in the car. He didn't make it three miles before he crossed the center line of a major highway and hit another car head on, killing himself and his baby and a young family from out of town just passing through. That was literally a very sobering experience for my husband. See, when I first met him, his own license was suspended for DUI. He'd done it a thousand times before and thought it was no big deal. Just take the back roads home, done. If you roll your car, and he did more than once, you just flip it back over and keep going, or if it's stuck or completely disabled, get a (likely drunk as well) friend to go back out with you to pull it home. He is very much a Hank Hill rulesy type now, but he used to be a real bad boy. Now he's likely to be the one to wrestle the keys out of a drunk's hand.
Anyway, drunk driving is just a Huge Hairy Deal to me. If it ever came up again and I couldn't physically prevent him from driving, I'd bust my own husband. Or anyone else.
Sorry for the all about me. It's just that this is one of my soapbox issues. No mercy for those who so recklessly endanger others.
Re: This should not happen. In my state, you usually get your license suspended if you don't pay a ticket (even a seat belt ticket). Teh DMV codes them suspended and no one knows because the state doesn't come physically get the license. Usually ppl that go through a license check and are popped. Revoked is only issued if you have suspended license or get a DWI or other felony.
If you are caught with revoked, you can go to jail depending on the circumstances.
To reinstate your license as active, you pay off all tickets and fines, and in the case of a DWI, wait at least one year(unless you qualify for limited privelges and that is up to the individual judge whether they grant them--usually 1st time offenders, you blow at the limit, or those with families to support--and ONLY to work and back), pay all your court fees, attend XX amount hour of classes, pay for all the classes, PLUS your insurance 4X and you won't get a good rate for 6 yrs from date of reinstatement.
