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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cmcl2!panix!major!dos
- From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: I'll have a PBJ please.
- Message-ID: <s6VqXB2w165w@major.panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:59:27 EST
- References: <1ji9sdINNbc6@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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- damong@wpi.WPI.EDU (Damon F. Gentile) writes:
-
- > >> the amount of your ticket. Here's the deal, if you have a 2 point,76.00
- > >> speeding ticket, you have a choice. You can get a 100.00 court cost and
- > >> NO points, or a 50.00 ticket and 1 point and be assesed a 1-9mph over
- > >> speeding ticket. Or a 25.00 court cost and all of your 2point ticket
- > >> on your record.
- > >
- > >This is absolutely amazing.. If a private citizen tried this, it would
- > >be called blackmail. I guess we can expect no more from the shits that
- > >run the legal system.
- >
- > They may be shits... But I like the system. I think that paying twice
- > my car's value for el-cheapo manditory insurance has me screwed enough...
- > I'd practically sell my soul to avoid points on my insurance....
- > I've disputed (and won) all of my tickets... Guilty as sin, but fuck the
- > insurance bastards.
-
- Having worked for an insurance company, I can tell you in no uncertain
- terms that private car insurance is not profitable at all; most
- companies sell it only because it is required if they wish to sell
- other, more profitable lines, within the same state.
-
- I'm not saying I wouldn't pay into the same scheme, but that doesn't
- make it any less wrong.
-
-
- --
- 4x4 owners do it in the mud. And snow. And dirt. And rocks. Kinky, huh?
-