Didn't George Allen get in trouble for saying "Manteca?"
"Whoops! You’re not supposed to interject the word “illegal” into a discussion of crime or social issues. You might get branded as a racist."
No problem here, move along... move along...
Scary, I bet the situation isn't much different here in Lodi, but I like the fact that Manteca impounds the vehicles and selss them if they are not redeemed.
Dear God. Does no one proof articles before publication any more? This entire piece is poorly written, and the grammar is atrocious.
Excellent commentary.
There are only 2 counties in the part of Virginia where I live (we're seperated from the rest of the state by the Chesapeake Bay) with a population of less than 100,000.......more than half of the fatal accidents here over the last few years have involved at least one illegal driver.....and not illegal in the sense of he/she shouldn't be driving for whatever reason, but illegal in the sense they DON'T BELONG IN THISD COUNTRY.
BTTT
Sing it with me now...
"Our roads are their roads,
"That means each of the four vehicles pulled over in the first 10 minutes — including a Mustang GT — is going to the impound yard for 30 days. That part of the bill is over $900 by itself. Then there is the impound storage fee, the towing costs and the fine. Driving illegally in Manteca will cost those four individuals at least $1,600 apiece."
That's the kind of abusive crap that caused the Founding Fathers to rebel against the crown.
Tow? Maybe $100. Park a car for 30 days, on a piece of near-worthless real-estate convenient to nothing? Maybe $150 max. That's $250. But the government is ripping them off for $1,600.
The law specifies the fines that may be levied for driving without a license, upon conviction. But the government is privileging private concerns to levy heavy financial penalties -- completely unreasonable financial penalties -- prior to any legal procedings. IOW, unconstitutionally.
This is crap.
MANTECA BUMP! (Means "Lard" in spanish!)
They're driving without licences, and one of the few more things we can do is huge numbers of road-checks, under the guise of going after "nasty drunk-drivers who threaten children and small animals".
We'll confiscate their vehicles, arrest them, get them fired....
And those to come will hear of this, and they won't come.
Of course, the ACLU will have a complete tizzy.