GOOD NEWS - Lynch mob coming for hit-and-run driver

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:09:50 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE

> One of the earlier reports claimed that this guy was "homeless" and
> "living out of his car." What I want to know is HTF do you register a
> car in CA without an address?

1060 W addison is popular in chicago....

BTW It was a side address for wrigley that was used in the original
screenplay and book version of the blues brothers as I understand it.

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:07:48 -0500,
> (Brent P) wrote:
>
>>> One of the earlier reports claimed that this guy was "homeless" and
>>> "living out of his car." What I want to know is HTF do you register a
>>> car in CA without an address?
>>
>>1060 W addison is popular in chicago....
>
> Only if you wear dark blue suits, fedora hats, dark sunglasses, and
> drive a 1978 Dodge Monaco that you bought at the Mount Prospect police
> auction.

It was a '73 and I saw such replica in the slip lanes of 90/94 on
saturday.

In any case, there is no address verification that I recall at the
secretary of state's offices. If you are there in person at the correct
facility they hand you the plates over the counter. You could make the
mailing address anything you pleased.

One could also just use the last address they had that was known to
government. The government wouldn't have a clue that it was no longer
valid, but just continue to accept it.

In article >, Brent P wrote:

> It was a '73 and I saw such replica in the slip lanes of 90/94 on
> saturday.

er '74

Brent P > writes:

> It was a '73 and I saw such replica in the slip lanes of 90/94 on
> saturday.


What are "slip lanes?"



Geoff

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it's not sporting to consider our own interests
in choosing immigrants." -- Ann Coulter

Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> writes:

> That's fine until it's time to renew. Here in CA, the DMV sends you
> your registration renewal papers by mail. The mailing contains a
> special code you need in oder to renew online, as well as information
> on whether you need a smog check or not.


Daddy, what's a "smog check?"



Herr Doktor Diesel

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it's not sporting to consider our own interests
in choosing immigrants." -- Ann Coulter

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> We were both wrong: the Bluesmobile was a '74:

Yes, I corrected my error immediately.

>>In any case, there is no address verification that I recall at the
>>secretary of state's offices. If you are there in person at the correct
>>facility they hand you the plates over the counter. You could make the
>>mailing address anything you pleased.

> That's fine until it's time to renew. Here in CA, the DMV sends you
> your registration renewal papers by mail. The mailing contains a
> special code you need in oder to renew online, as well as information
> on whether you need a smog check or not. If you do need a smog check,
> you have to have that paperwork to give to the smog check technician
> so the results are enterd into the computer and transmitted to
> Sacramento correctly.

That's 1) a year later. 2) go to the office, claim to never have recieved
it, renew anyway with the other forms.

> However, I suppose a professional homeless man has solutions for all
> these little problems (he must; AFAIK his car was properly
> registered).

Use the address of a friend and it gets real simple fast.

Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> writes:

> Interesting tradeoff. You put up with Diesel inconveniences every
> single day in order to avoid the inconvenience of a smog check once
> every couple of years.


That's the beauty of it: there *are* no inconveniences.

Before I owned a diesel, I thought fuel would be hard to find. It
isn't. I think I just got into the habit of tuning out the places
where it was offered because the information didn't apply to me.

A lot of diesel cars are underpowered. My daily driver certainly
isn't, although my 300SDL's acceleration could best be described
as "stately."

Elsewhere on the positive side of the ledger, the things are reliable
as hell and last practically forever with proper care, which mine cer-
tainly get. What's not to like? Granted, the price of diesel fuel
has risen inexplicably of late, but since all the other advantages
still apply, I come out well ahead.



Geoff

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Earl Jones going by on the Train a Grande Vitesse--not even time for
a wave." -- Howard Motteler

"Geoff Miller" > wrote
> Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> writes:
>
>> Interesting tradeoff. You put up with Diesel inconveniences every
>> single day in order to avoid the inconvenience of a smog check once
>> every couple of years.
>
> That's the beauty of it: there *are* no inconveniences.
> ...
> Elsewhere on the positive side of the ledger, the things are reliable
> as hell and last practically forever with proper care, which mine cer-
> tainly get. What's not to like?

The rest of us don't like the pollution. More NOx and cancer-causing
PM10 sulfer-based particles than any gas-powered car.

> ...Granted, the price of diesel fuel
> has risen inexplicably of late, but since all the other advantages
> still apply, I come out well ahead.

It's not inexplicable. Higher demand (more light trucks with diesel
engines) and production of heating oil.

FloydR

Floyd Rogers > writes:

[diesels]

> The rest of us don't like the pollution. More NOx and
> cancer-causing PM10 sulfer-based particles than any gas-
> powered car.

There aren't enough diesel cars out there to make a measurable
difference in pollution. Even during the height of their pop-
ularity in the late '70s and early '80s, diesels were just a
tiny subset of the automotive population. Nowadays they're
even rarer. You can't buy new diesel passenger cars at all
in California. They haven't been sold here for years.

That's in the U.S., of course. I understand that nowadays,
diesels make up about 50% of all new cars sold in Europe.
And the Euroweenies are, if anything, more eco-obsessed than
we are. (Picture a society in which our Democrats are their
Republicans.) Go figure.


> It's not inexplicable. Higher demand (more light trucks with
> diesel engines) and production of heating oil.

I don't have figures at hand, but I'm skeptical that there's been
enough of an increase in the sales of light trucks with diesel
engines to have had any real effect on the price of diesel fuel.

The price of fuel used to go up in the wintertime because of the
demand for heating-oil, and then it would decline again in the
late spring. But about two years ago, prices went up and stayed
up. And even more interestingly, rather than being cheaper than
regular gas, as it'd been for decades, all of a sudden it was at
least as costly as premium gasoline, oftentimes more. I find it
hard to believe that this was demand-driven, simply because of
the suddenness of it.



Geoff

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anything about this exotic philosophical stuff would just shut the
**** up and watch their television." --

"Geoff Miller" > wrote
> Floyd Rogers > writes:
>
> [diesels]
>
>> The rest of us don't like the pollution. More NOx and
>> cancer-causing PM10 sulfer-based particles than any gas-
>> powered car.
>
> There aren't enough diesel cars out there to make a measurable
> difference in pollution.

You forget diesel TRUCKS - diesels make up around 10% of
light trucks. And that's significant. And you have to ask yourself:
"If diesel cars wouldn't make a difference, why does CA not allow
their sale?"

FloydR