Date:         Thu, 17 May 2001 16:29:38 EDT
Reply-To:     Phx13WS@aol.com
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From:         LeeAnn Medlock <Phx13WS@aol.com>
Subject:      Re: Driving legal
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> anybody else driven their vanagons somewhat less than legally for any
> long length of time?  anything come of it?


I once had a very bad experience in my old '67 bus about 6 years ago. I had
no insurance and no registration, and after it sitting a while I decided to
get some things fixed on it.  I had problems with the transmission when I
bought it, and it needed a nose cone replacement.  When it was fixed, it
could do wheelies.  My boyfriend (now husband)  and I had to take it down to
a very bad section of town to get the split windows replaced because they
were cracked, and when we were finished, he decided to do one of those
wheelies out of the parking lot.  Well, low and behold, there was a cop right
across the street.  We were pulled over, and my other half was arrested and
put in the cop car.  He had a suspended licensee, and the cops down there
wouldn't take any kind of excuse.  Well, there was my boyfriend in the cop
car and there I was, sitting in a very bad neighborhood, no phone, its like
110 degrees out, and the cop wouldn't even give me a ride to the store.  So I
was stuck, I wanted to drive home, but the cop gave the keys to my boyfriend
just so I wouldn't do so.  I walked  a couple of blocks and saw a little car
shop.  The man inside was very nice, he let me use his phone, and even towed
my bus home for me for 40 bucks.  The whole experience could have been a lot
worse, being in the neighborhood I was in.  It just goes to show that you
can't really trust the cops to "protect" a young girl on the wrong side of
town these days.