Re: car wont pass inspection need a sticker
Posted by:
police=revenue generation
()
Date: January 10, 2017 10:31AM
Popo Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Corey morgan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Need a inspection sticker
>
>
> Not a problem. Get a roadworthy vehicle and the
> inspection sticker is easy.
(START CRAZY RANT- click back now if you don't want to read it all!)
So- you assume everyone has $1000+ for a down payment and excellent credit to go to one of our "fine" VA car dealerships to get one!!
Let's say a toyota corolla. A $20k car, 5 years, $250 a month payments (just to make this simple).
Even simpler, lets say a USED corolla. $10k car, still $150/month payments....
Don't forget the costs of REQUIRED FULL COVERAGE INSURANCE in VA TO FINANCE A VEHICLE- that can EASILY be another $200+ a month, needing $300+ to put down to start the policy, depending on CREDIT and INCOME.
So just to have a VALID inspection sticker, this persons should shell out an EASY $350+ a month or $4,200 a year for the privilege?
Said person is making a low salary (lets say less than 50k/year) and is already struggling to pay their RENT (remember 1 bedrooms in Ffx County proper go for $1200 a month MINIMUM, even a simple rented room goes for $600/month around here, check Craigslist/apartments.com if you don't believe me). Don't forget OBAMACARE on top of that. SO they should go into debt to make the roads safer???
Not everyone is a government/IT worker clearing 75k+ a year out here. Who do you think makes your coffee/drycleans your clothes/watches your kids while YOU work? Don't they deserve to live too?
I call BS. There are plenty of cheap older cars out here that can be repaired and pass inspection and be driven.
People are struggling out here- Full time jobs cut to part time, obamacare, raised rents, higher grocery prices, daycare to pay for, etc etc- give people time to make the repairs- 2 weeks on a rejection sticker is NOT enough time!! if it was more like 30 days I could see it. A brake job can easily get over $700 on some cars!! Not everyone has a garage/driveway to DIY or the skill/or the strength to even break the bolts!!
Also-what about WOMEN? When they go to get car repairs they are SCARED into making $1k+ in repairs, let the man bring the car in, it is suddenly only a $200 repair. Maybe OP is a WOMAN and does not want to be TAKEN FOR A RIDE by a shady repairman?
.... and cops wanna pull over AMERICAN people over all day for not having a $16 sticker and hit them with a $200 fine (after court costs and fees). Yet ignore the illegals driving around with NO license and STOLEN tags/MD tags parking in VA night after night- yes I reported this to my local Police Station when i saw one parked in my neighborhood- and they did NOTHING- but proceeded to pull me over MORE OFTEN since they KNEW I had money/live in a upper-class neighborhood!! The cop who last pulled me over (for NOTHING i might add, I was driving a luxury car, all paperwork legit but he insisted i was "swerving" and i was eventually let go with no ticket) SHOWED ME the record with my call in it as i sat in his front seat discussing the matter, so it was not like they didn't KNOW. They just REFUSE TO ENFORCE anything to do with illegals.
Since I am a non-hispanic MINORITY they harass me MORE since they look at my record and see if i DO get a ticket, I ALWAYS pay my fine so of course they will pull ME over rather than Paco- who they could charge a WHOLE LOT MORE FINES TO AND POSSIBLY EVEN GET AN ARREST, but know HE WON"T PAY OR WILL FLEE THE STATE so they DOUBLE DOWN AND PULL ME OVER AND GIVE ME 3 TICKETS in hopes one will stick in court, KNOWING I HAVE TO PAY THEM TO KEEP MY SECURITY CLEARANCE AND IT HELPS THE OFFICERS UNOFFICIAL BUT STILL ENFORCED QUOTAS. From the mouth of the officer, I thank him for that honest insight when i asked the question "why?".
Nothing but a REVENUE GENERATOR for the state- and easy tickets for the cops to make their quota- to make up "probable cause" to give them an excuse to find more things wrong to write more tickets for.
All over a little $16 sticker.
Now, if the car OBVIOUSLY has shitty tires, or is smoking badly, or otherwise obviously not safe to drive, then go get 'em flash--- but if one is NOT breaking any other traffic laws, it is merely HARASSMENT in my eyes.
Maybe I am bitter, IDGAF anymore.
And i know many will shout "get a better job/make more money/bootstraps"- are you hiring right now? Wanna link me to your application (and i don't mean monster/indeed/careerbulider I mean direct on YOUR company website?) No? then you are NOT HELPING. I have a BS in accounting- NO criminal background (past these traffic tickets)- yet cannot find a job- thanks Obama for the extreme racisim going on right now, people are scared to hire minorities- except for illegal Hispanics who will work under the table or H1B's for cheap, fuck an american.
thanks for letting me RANT I feel better now (/rant off)