Speeding while driving out of area plates makes you a target for law enforcement wherever you drive.
I don't leave the country without my passport and I don't leave my passport unless it's locked up. I don't set out to break laws but some agents are less forgiving than others.
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ReplyDeleteBut yeah, carry your passport. Not a picture of it on your stupid phone.
The cop may not have known the laws regarding using a license from another country but he sure knew doing 87 m.p.h. in a 70 m.p.h. zone was wrong..
ReplyDeleteHere in South Australia, that speed is a fine of $900 and 7 points off the license...
ha, just checked, in Victoria (the ultimate nanny state for drivers) the fine could be as high as $1,516.70 plus 10 penalty points and if it is taken to court, that plus a loss of license for a month. (that's in a 110 zone ... if she did that 140 in a more normal 100 K open road zone, the fine could be as high as $2,275.05, plus 15 penalty points ... holy crap, that's insane)_
If people didn't constantly want to behave like babies, there would be no need for a nanny state.
ReplyDeleteHmmph. Seems to me that this girl shouldn't have been speeding, and should have had her passport. The ordeal was certainly overblown, but she was also being terribly irresponsible.
ReplyDeleteNo, she shouldn't have been speeding. But she's also a student living in the US (legally, best I can tell). So that she has her passport ON HER isn't the same as someone crossing the border and requiring it. When I'm on holidays, I have my passport with me the days I'm crossing the border - but once we hit our destination (in-law's house), they're put away until we leave. I don't grab my passport to zip down the block for gas or groceries.
ReplyDeleteEven the ONE time I did get stopped by police (just outside Chicago, the week before my wedding in 99), they didn't ask for a passport. They also knew that a Canadian license was legal to drive with. Now, what saved my @$$ that trip, in my brother's car, after just dropping him off with a friend in Chicago, was I managed to distract the cop long enough that he forgot that I didn't give him the insurance card ... which I didn't have ... because my brothers forgot it at home. That could have been ugly. It was surreal enough having 5 cars circle around with lights going off. Stated reason for pulling me over was the fuzzy dice on the rearview mirror. Apparently anything hanging in the windshield is illegal in Illinois. The REAL reason was I was in a 72 Chevy Biscayne, and the cop who pulled me over had a 72 Impala. He just wanted to check it out. lol
The real problem in this story is a cop who didn't know what the hell she was talking about, having a little power trip, and not thinking to check her facts before slapping on the cuffs. It's the states. If I was that girl, I wouldn't want an apology, I'd have a lawyer and a lawsuit for mental anguish, loss of whatever while in custody, reimbursement for the bond/impound fees ... all of it. Make officer never forget that she had a REALLY bad lapse of judgement one day on the highway.