UDPride

Considering you had no insurance, had no functioning speedo, admitted to partaking in the wankification of street racing, and admit to getting busted by doing 20mph over the limit, Id say you walking into a courtroom trying to play Mr Matlock in an attempt to save your *** is probably going to convince everybody you were unfairly targeted and the subject of a giant witch hunt.

You are SOL. You know me, we know it, so lets cut through it.

Legoland951

The umbrella insurance is a stand alone policy not associated with auto insurance or anything else. However, they require all your other insurance to be very high in order for you to get the separate policy since your other insurance will have to pay out before they pay out. 1 mil auto liability insurance probably will cost $1000 a month and most of them are commercial vehicles. I have never heard of a 3 mil policy here but it probably will be more than most people can afford. Anyways, cost of insurance is very expensive and its understandable why many people can't afford it. There are millions of uninsured drivers in California and its a part of life here. Many illegals don't even have driver licenses so needless to say, they have no insurance. All you can do is get uninsured motorists coverage. In the last 2 out 3 years, I have been a victim of 2 uninsured hit and run accidents where the perpetrator were caught. One ended up paying only $2000 for bending the frame of my 944 (including medical) and the other one, the cop didn't even write it up as a hit and run because the lady was apologetic even though both my neighbor and I requested it written up as a hit and run - she totalled both the vehicles hit on top of seriously damaging hers). I got nothing from that accident because there is no uninsured motorist for a car trailer. $2100 total loss.

ApexCars

Why would the car have to pass inspection to get liability insurance? I can understand not having full coverage. Also, I'm not suprised that they are talking about a tough sentence, think about all of the wrongs in this case. Street racing, no insurance, speeding, car not inspected, no speedo. He may have only been doing 20 mph over the limit when the cop stopped him but I doubt that he was planning on stopping there if the cop hadn't showed up. If I was the judge sitting on this case, I would be looking at all of the issues and not just thinking, "Ok, student with no insurance doing 20 over the limit." I'm going to see someone with a total dis-regard for traffic safety and laws.

Geo

Nah. Just Pecksterhead.

Most of them are very nice.

WhoDak

Generic coupe!!! Have they even seen the car?!!? A picture of the car?! A rumor floating throught the air? Wow, good deal though.

Rock

oh thats good to hear. ive just never heard one nice thing come out of his mouth thats all...

jgrant

Yeah... I _TRIED_ my damndest to get them to charge me more, fearing that I wouldn't be covered if anything happened, and didn't want them to accuse me of defrauding them or misrepresenting my car. (There was a guy here, who, until recently, had his CGT insured as a "carerra" simply because CGT wasn't in the book... until he banged it up in front of the Roger's Video store, and now they won't insure him at all).

I showed them the car, explained the history, mods, etc., and they said "generic coupe it is".

It's almost ready to go into the shop to get some front end work fixed (deer strike), and while they bitched about it, they're paying for it to be done right. So far, even after me asking, they haven't talked about upping my premiums or changing my insurance.


*knocks on wood*

Verruckt

You are a TROLL.
You don't deserve any help from this board. What you deserve is 30 days in jail, a huge fine, and a few thousand hours of community service. Driving a unregistered, uninsured, Porsche with an inop speedometer, and while street racing... and to top it all off, you "admitted" to doing all this on a public board. You are an idiot. Don't worry, Rennlist won't ban you for being stupid, but they should ban you for the rest.

Dales944

They don't call it "the pokey" for nothing! Hope you lube up.

Z-man

I have never gotten so upset over a thread here on rennlist like this.

Yeah, you've all heard me slam folks about street racing. And Troll was absolutely a moron for street racing. But that's not what has ticked me off.

Driving without insurance is stupid. And it seems Troll isn't interested in rectifying (pun intended) that just yet:
and
So that implies that your STILL driving without insurance even after your little street racing episode?

But that's not what really urkes me either.

THIS is what pisses me off to no end:
Troll responded to this by saying:
That is the most rudest, coldest thing I have ever seen. Troll, for the record, it sounds very apparent that Rip It's wife is confined to a wheel chair - SHE CANNOT WALK FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. And you make a comment that you'll go out dancing for her? That's cold. She can never walk again, let alone dance. GET IT?

And then you accuse Rip It for being unthoughtfull? My God, words cannot describe how utterly insensitive and cruel your comments are towards Rip It.

I've NEVER in my life ever said this to anyone EVER, and if I get banned for saying this, I don't care: Troll, go F*CK yourself.

Rip It: I am so sorry to hear what happened to your love. Your story saddens me to tears. (My wife enjoys ballroom dancing as well) Based on your comments, I can see that you love your wife dearly. She is very fortunate to have you - a lesser man would not be there for her now. May God give you and her the strenght to go on.

Rant over,
-Zoltan.

testarossa_td

This thread is beat....Lock er up...

4thChild

Well said Z-man. RipIt and I had a great time during a recent GTG and he absolutely does not deserve such thoughtlessness. Where is the personal accountability in this thread? You get behind the wheel and do stupid things and most of this thread speaks of getting off or reducing sentences. Common sense should prevent these life lessons from ever taking place. Do the time honorably and pay the fine promptly.

peterr

The original poster is obviously an idiot and deserves to face some serious consequences

But I am just astonished that anyone would consider driving 65 MPH a bigger offense than driving a non street legal car on public roads for over a month without liability insurance.

No insurance? Lock em up. I was once in a situation where I could not afford insurance. Lowest point of my life. Just out of school, unemployed and moved from a small town to a big city looking for work just as my insurance was up for renewal. Almost no one was writing policies for males under 25 in the city, and those that were wanted about 4 times what I had been paying.

What did I do? I parked my car and took the plates off. I would not drive until I had insurance.

On the other hand, I have had 3 speeding tickets in my life, all for going 10 -15 mph over the limit. All were on large roads of three lanes in each direction with no pedestrians and at times with very little traffic. I was not driving dangerously and was not endangering anyone.

All three of these tickets were on the last day of the month. Can you say quota?

I realize that speeding is one of the only objective things that police can measure and target, but stopping people driving 65MPH (in a safe and responsible way) accomplishes nothing other than collecting fines. And I resent on so many levels the coercive power of the police being used in cynical fashion by local governments to collect revenue.

If you need an extra $100 a year to maintain the highways, then tax me. Don't waste cops time and mine by using them as tax collectors.

Don 944 LA

troll,

My GPS lets me know " You are over the speed limit " @ 60 ..
I just went into town and when I came from a stop sign turn, by the time I hit 3rd, it was saying " you are over the speed limit " so there you go 3rd = over 60 at least
EDIT: and the GPS currently has a few second delay as I have the data split between too many things.

X 944 X

can you really get away with no insurance if you give the DMV 30k of your cash to hold on to? i live in Maryland....



thnx!