3 fouls, 3 to go? My Latest Police Adventure

OK, so this is a story about police, but let's start with basketball. It will all make sense soon. Long ago, when I was about 9 or 10 and first watched basketball with my brother I had a hard time with the concept of fouls. I understood the whole "don't do bad things or you get in trouble thing" but I didn't have any concept that someone might actually *want* to cause a foul. My brother explained there was strategy to it, getting everything set up so things will go your team's way. Even though you are penalized, you are set up where you want to be.

So let's go to recently. My car insurance expired (as noted previously). So, now my registration is suspended. I get pulled over near Westside Pavilion by an LA County Sherrif, who informs me I have no registration or insurance according to him. He was quite polite actually. I only got a ticket for a court appearance for registration, but he didn't even ticket me for not having insurance! This is actually the *2nd* time I had been pulled over recently for my registration.

Now, yesterday. I'm on my way driving someone to an appoitnment at the hospital. Turns out we went to the wrong place. Call ahead to where we should be, and they give 30 minutes to get there. Speeding as fast as I can on surface streets (about 45 mph, any faster and my tires pop on the pavement cracks as I learned only too well). On Venice, I see a cop to the right. There's no way she's entered my information in. However, she pulls me over anyway. I have 10 minutes to get to the hospital.

This is where my brother's explanation of fouls popped into my head. "Do something you're not supposed to do, but it will get you in the right place." There's no way I can wait for her to type in all my information and make it on time. What's the thing you're told never to do when you're pulled over? Get out of the car. So I do it. I did the worst thing possible to get me in the position I wanted. Popped out of the car, turned around towards the cop, and she runs up screaming for me to get into the car. I put my hands in front of me, because that way they know you don't have weapons, and I dutifully got back in the car. Since she had to run up, she didn't have time to find out anything about my car. I pulled out my previous ticket for registration from only 2 days before, and she had to let me go. Because of my foul, I put the cop exactly where I needed her. She let us on our way to the hospital, and didn't even check my license, registration, or insurance. I don't think she has any idea who I am.

My registration and insurance are now paid for, but I have to take the car to the dealer for a recall certificate before I get my new stickers. Gonna head to the Alhambra dealer on Friday, so I just have to make sure I don't get pulled over *yet again* before that happens. I figure I still have 2 free chances :)

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Work has been very very busy lately, so that's why there's been a lack of updates. Basically been working the past month on one project. I am only about two hours away from finishing it now though! Hell, my car insurance expired and I still haven't fixed that yet, so yeah, I'm a little behind on everything. I do have a 3-day weekend though so I will hopefully have everything back to normal by Monday!