Re: Cop Stories!!

["Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>]

Sounds like a bad battery.  Especially if you just bought it, probably sat
for a while.  If the car is running everything is working fine because it is
running off the alternator but once it dies or is shut off, the battery
can't turn it over.  IF it happened all of a sudden, check the connections
first.  Could just have a loose battery terminal or corrosion or something.
HTH!!

Dave

> So one day, after a particularly monstrously bad day, I get in my Scirocco
> hoping for at least a pleasant drive home.  It doesn't start.  Great.  I
try
> start to push it (up hill is the only choice), and some guy walks down the
> street and helps me get it going.  Runs just fine, no warning lights,
> headlights bright.  No problem.
>
> So it's only about 2 miles to home.  What could go wrong?
>
> About 1/4 mile from home I'm stopped on a hill waiting for a light to
> change.  We are under a bridge that is under construction and is barely
two
> lanes wide.  I stall the thing.  Of course I'd like to say "it stalled",
and
> I didn't do anything different than usual, so there - "it stalled".
> Wouldn't turn over; not one bit.  Hazard lights would click only with the
> key removed.
>
> Drivers behind me are honking and cursing at my dead horse, and I get out
> and tell them I'm stalled and they will have to go around.  After a break
in
> traffic, they do.   Now is my chance.  No one behind me - I'll let it roll
> backwards down the hill and pop the clutch!  No problem, right?  right?
>
> Well that didn't work either.  About this time I see the cops blocking the
> intersection in front of me and driving down to meet me.
>
> First thing the cop say - "Huh.  Expired registration too."   Doh!
> So I 'splain that I thought I had finally gotten the thing running, but
> aparently that wasn't so.  Then I explain that "it's probably still
> registered under the last owner."   Boy, that went over well.
>
> So I end up with a ticket for not having a registered vehicle.  No ticket
> for lack of inspection or registration stickers (I had insurance!), and
they
> tow my baby away.  Telling them I had just moved up from Texas might have
> helped me seem more worthy of pity than punishment about the whole thing.
> Now I am left to track down the previous owner and get that title
notarized
> (Texans don't Notarize much of anything, but apparently Pittsburghers do),
> which was the reason I hadn't registered it in the first place.  I did get
a
> lecture on how to transfer a title - which is a lot easier than AAA said
it
> was (A LOT easier).
>
> Add that up to $144 ticket, $65 towing, $15 per day storage.
>
> And that's just the past hour!  Yep, it just happened.  Nice cops, but a
> heck of a situation I got myself into.  I found the PO's number, and I
know
> where he works and lives, so hopefully I can get him out to the impound
lot
> soon - then on to the notary.  Anyway, now I don't know what to do once I
> get the thing out of impound.  The thing probably won't drive any better
> than it did today, and the cops have removed my license plate, so I don't
> know how to get it home.  Don't have a trailer to tow it.  Don't have a
> place I can leave an unregistered car with no plates, either, except my
> garage if it will make it there.
>
> Kinda puts things in perspective, though.  Just two hours ago I thought
that
> failing my midterm exam was the worst thing that could happen to me today!
>
> Now I'm about five breaths away from putting "Scirocco for sale" in my
.sig
> Maybe I should have told them I was Canadian, Eh?
>
> Sincerely;
> Brian Haygood sadly sans Scirocco
>
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