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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tinner" data-source="post: 2492856" data-attributes="member: 19667">I'm really frustrated right now, and since I can't solve the problem right this second, I'm going to vent a little.In July of 2003 I got a speeding ticket.On the way to my grandfather's funeral.For doing 30 in a 25.To top things off, since I was in a hurry to get there (out of state) I had foolishly left without my new insurance card. I had just switched companies, and the one in my wallet was expired.Aside from being a prick and giving me a ticket for doing 5 miles over the limit, the officer was cool about the insurance thing."No problem he says. Just take your ticket and your new card up to the courthouse on Monday when you get back. Piece of cake."So, bright and early Monday morning, I hustle along to the courthouse to pay my fine, and show them my proof of insurance.Everything goes fine ... or does it?Flash forward to October 31, 2003 - I get laid off from work. I am either unemployed, or underemployed until February of 2005.Jump to March 2005, I have finally gotten a decent job as a loan officer. It's commission sales, but the money situation is getting better. I'm finally starting to dig out of the hole 2 years of poor employment has left us in.Ten on the way home from a friend's house, I get pulled over for not signalling a lane change.No biggie right? The officer is super friendly, and I'm being respectful and polite. I know he's gotta give me a ticket. It sucks, but that's the law, and he's got me dead to rights.He takes my license, registration and proof of insurance and goes back to his car to write the ticket.He comes back a few moments later and asks me, "Did you know that your license was suspended?"Um ... gee, no I didn't. I certainly wouldn't have been driving if I knew that. When did that happen and why?Turns out someone, either at the courthouse, or the BMV never processed the fact that I DID provide proof of insurance back in 2003!So they suspended my license in September of 2003.And never notified me of it!So, I get taken to jail, and after freaking out my wife when she picks me up at the pokey, we go about doing the court thing, investigating what happened, and taking care of the problem.Long story short. There's NO way to prove that I actually showed PoI back in 2003.The court gives me 90 days probation, and I need to pay about $1000.00 in fines, fees etc.That's about $1000.00 more than I have at the time.Oh yeah, you can't just do this anywhere, you have to go to a regional reinstatement center to handle it.Oh yeah, you'll need to increase your insurance premium as well, because now you have to carry bonded insurance.Oh ... if you have any questions, you can call the BMV's help desk. But of course, they never actually answer that phone.So, here I am, August 2005, all the fees but the final one are paid, and the paperwork is complete.I just need to call the BMV and verify that they have all the paperwork they need, pay the last fee, and I can drive again.And they still aren't answering their &^%^*% phone!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

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