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[*] posted on 4-26-2009 at 11:24 PM


Great story which reminds me, A bunch of years ago I was racing in the Baja 500 with my Dad. We had just finished our time in the car and were on our way to the next pit to get in and finish the race. As we left our pit in the motorhome I came upon a big simi carring a load of chickens on a very curvy road going about 15mph. Justing having finished driving a race car through the desert at 70+ for the last 100+ miles I was still a bit amped up and also wanted to get to our next pit. We got to a strainght section so I floored it and pulled out to pass as I did so I hear a loud horn behind me. To my horror I look in my side mirror and realize that I have just forced a cop off the road that was trying to pass me. the first thing out of my mouth was "I am going to jail I just ran a cop off the raod" I had instant flashes of spending the night in a mexican cell. My wife of course laughed at me, she thought I was joking. I quickly fall in line back behind the semi and the cop gets back on the road and passes us. I think wow he must have somewhere a lot more important to be.

About a mile up the road I am still behind the truck and we round a bend and the cop is pulled over in a pull off waiting for me. He points and I pull over. I am just out of the car and he starts letting me have it. I was doing the same thing, saying I am sorry, I didn't see you (duh), I am a young stupid driver, etc, etc, etc... Meanwhile I am only picking up about every 10th word. this goes on for about 10 minutes and my he is hot. I am getting little bits of spittle on me and I am not daring to wipe them off. I just stand there and take it until he is done.

His young partner explains to me that I will need to go see the judge to pay the fine and I am thinking here we go now we are getting to the meat of it. However he just keeps saying I will need to pay the fine when the judge is in tomorrow I can pay the fine and get my license back. I ask them if I can pay them and then they can pay the fine for me as I have to go back tomorrow to work. I will always remember the response I got back and in fact it is a very popular phrase in my family now as this adventure involved my wife, my Mom and Dad, and my 2 year old daughter. the cop says something to the effect "No es Mi Problemo" Then turns around and storms back to his car with all my paper work. As he is working on the paper work I am still envisioning what spending the night in a cell will be like. The younger cop starts to feel bad for me and start explaining what is happening in slower spanish that I can understand.

Basically I will need to pay the ticket at the court in order to get back my license and I have 30 days to do so. not only that but anybody can pay the fine they just have to bring the ticket. So what did I do? I sent my wife and my Mom down the next week to pay it for me. Actualy they were going down anyway to buy some tile for the house and they offered. Well after paying at one place bringing the reciept to another and getting the OK at another a lady behind the counter reaches into a drawer and finds my license. The fine was something like $22 bucks

In the states it would have been points on my record and proably a $300 ticket.

Its nice to know that the system can work.
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[*] posted on 4-27-2009 at 07:26 AM


mooose, that was a good story. Happy for you and your family that it had a good ending.



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