To Bust or not to bust?

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Veramocor
I think I've decided the best thing to do is write the guy a note or mention it next time I see him. That way he doesn't get busted and gets insurance not screwing the rest of us.

Then sir you had better not stop with this one guy. Your insurance is not going to go down because you busted one guy because you feel the need to feel good about yourself. Go find all the drug dealers, people with warrants, all the people with expired plates, people selling copies of anything, people that havent paid thier child support, DO NOT jsut stop with the one because he lives next to you. Busting this one poor soul because it is easy for you to is not fair and if you do it you need to do it for everyone. Your insurance is not going to go down busting this one person. And also if you go doing this you had better not be doing anything or have done anything illeagal as well ever.

Also food for thought is what if this guy is like me disabled and on wlefair. We live check to check with hardly anything left over. Maybe he is saving what he can to become legal?? You go bust his arss and they take his license and car away making him loose his job. You going to feel extra special about yourself messing up his life completly and putting him on the streets?

Get a friggin life and just worry about keeping yourself safe not worried about one guy with a old plate on his car assuming he has no insurance. People police like thread crappers, and trolls piss me off.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: Veramocor
I think I've decided the best thing to do is write the guy a note or mention it next time I see him. That way he doesn't get busted and gets insurance not screwing the rest of us.

Then sir you had better not stop with this one guy. Your insurance is not going to go down because you busted one guy because you feel the need to feel good about yourself. Go find all the drug dealers, people with warrants, all the people with expired plates, people selling copies of anything, people that havent paid thier child support, DO NOT jsut stop with the one because he lives next to you. Busting this one poor soul because it is easy for you to is not fair and if you do it you need to do it for everyone. Your insurance is not going to go down busting this one person. And also if you go doing this you had better not be doing anything or have done anything illeagal as well ever.

Also food for thought is what if this guy is like me disabled and on wlefair. We live check to check with hardly anything left over. Maybe he is saving what he can to become legal?? You go bust his arss and they take his license and car away making him loose his job. You going to feel extra special about yourself messing up his life completly and putting him on the streets?

Get a friggin life and just worry about keeping yourself safe not worried about one guy with a old plate on his car assuming he has no insurance. People police like thread crappers,a nd trolls piss me off.

Exactly.

The bottom line is that your feel-good is not worth his misery.

If he gets himself into it by getting into an accident, fine. Otherwise, he is not hurting a thing.

 

[flot]

Don't forget to call in all the speeders you see while you're at it. And make sure you report yourself next time you thought the light was yellow but turned out to be red...

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: funboy42
But how is this a crime????? The op doesnt really know if he has insurance or not he just suspects he may not because the car has old plates on it. You need to know for sure for it to be a crime which he does not.

As a driver, it is my responsibility to know the laws governing the roads that I drive on. As an example, when I see someone with license plate tags that read "01/05" I know that the plates are expired. It's against the law to drive a vehicle without valid license plate tags in Oregon, as I would *gasp* assume that it would be for every other state in the nation. While I'm not a judge and therefore cannot legally pronounce the driver guilty of any crime, I still know he's breaking the law.

Now for situations closer to this one where you see something that you think is a crime, I don't think that a police officer wants pictures of the crime being committed that are paper-clipped to a current printout of the city/county/state statutes that dictate the action being committed to be recognized as a crime and handed to them in a nice pretty portfolio with the city's police department logo on the front in order to step in and investigate further or do something about said crime.

Personally, I'd weigh the time it takes to report the crime against the severity of the crime when considering whether to report it or not. If the license plate expired, like, last month or something, I probably wouldn't do anything about it because I'm a lazy bastard. But if the plate is obviously way old, like six months expired or something, then I'd probably, you know, blow up about it, yank the guy out of the car and beat him to a bloody pulp for it. Or something.

Just because his tags are expired doesn't mean he doesn't have insurance. It just means his tags are expired!

I don't dispute that it's against the law, but calling the police over it equates to turning someone in for jaywalking.

This guy is only speculating he has no insurance based on no factual inforamtion.

I hope like hell that the guy's got insurance and that the original poster looks like an a$$hole when the guy calls him on it.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: Veramocor
I think I've decided the best thing to do is write the guy a note or mention it next time I see him. That way he doesn't get busted and gets insurance not screwing the rest of us.

Then sir you had better not stop with this one guy. Your insurance is not going to go down because you busted one guy because you feel the need to feel good about yourself. Go find all the drug dealers, people with warrants, all the people with expired plates, people selling copies of anything, people that havent paid thier child support, DO NOT jsut stop with the one because he lives next to you. Busting this one poor soul because it is easy for you to is not fair and if you do it you need to do it for everyone. Your insurance is not going to go down busting this one person. And also if you go doing this you had better not be doing anything or have done anything illeagal as well ever.

Also food for thought is what if this guy is like me disabled and on wlefair. We live check to check with hardly anything left over. Maybe he is saving what he can to become legal?? You go bust his arss and they take his license and car away making him loose his job. You going to feel extra special about yourself messing up his life completly and putting him on the streets?

Get a friggin life and just worry about keeping yourself safe not worried about one guy with a old plate on his car assuming he has no insurance. People police like thread crappers,a nd trolls piss me off.

Exactly.

The bottom line is that your feel-good is not worth his misery.

If he gets himself into it by getting into an accident, fine. Otherwise, he is not hurting a thing.

What if his feel good rubbed off on a thousand others?
It takes a village.....







(groan, I can't believe I said that)