Ignorance IS painful...*sigh*

[DJFyrewolf36]

I made a major boo boo aparantly...

I have been living in Oregon for close to two years. I keep my car registered and insured in Nevada because its a lot cheaper. It never occured to me that my valid (until May) Nevada drivers licence wasn't valid up here 30 days after I got here . I got pulled over today for a brake light being out and my car is now in IMPOUND. Luckily my dad (thankyouthankyouthankyou dad *HUGS*) wired me the fees so I can get it out tonight.

Mind you I've been stopped by the police a couple of times before this incedent for a headlight being out and the actual tailight being out and the police only told me to fix my issue and have a nice day. I never knew about this law up until now. I was waiting to renew my licence up here until my current one expired...so much for that.

I guess I have to find a ride to work this weekend and deal with getting a drivers licence on Monday. *sigh*

Hopefully no one will molest the 'Pill in the few hours it takes for my friend to get here. Happy friggen thanksgiving.

Thanks for listening to me rant.

[caseysmom]

Pretty harsh good thing you had your Dad to help out.

[kitten645]

I do think that's a bit harsh. I would think a fix it ticket would be appropriate. Did they know you had been there more than 30 days from the previous tickets? I would consider appealing the ticket.
Claudia

[DJFyrewolf36]

I do think that's a bit harsh. I would think a fix it ticket would be appropriate. Did they know you had been there more than 30 days from the previous tickets? I would consider appealing the ticket.
Claudia

I never got cited the other two times. In fact up until THIS I have a 100% clean DMV record. I would have thought a warning would have been ok...The officer didn't even allow me to call my friend with a valid oregon dl to pick my car up

Well she is out of impound now at least.

[Karen]

Glad she's out of the impound. Have a safe rest of your Thanksgiving!

[pomtzu]

WOW! I never heard of that before. I can see them impounding the car if it had an expired registration, or no insurance, or if you didn't have a valid driver's license. Around here you'd get a warning and be told to get the proper license within 30 days.
I don't understand how they can do that. You'd think the car being registered out of state would be more of an issue than an out of state license.