Sometimes news stories don’t need commentary. This little item, from orange.co.uk, seems like one of those stories:
Simona Suhoi, 28, faces up to five years in jail after police found her behind the wheel a month after she was banned from driving.
The former singer and designer, who is known as Simona Sensual, was pulled her over for not wearing a seatbelt in her home city of Bucharest.
She said: “I admit I shouldn’t have driven the car but I had no other choice.
“You see, I was having terrible pains in the chest, I think it was because of these brand new breast implants.
“I tried to get a taxi but they were all busy so I jumped into the car and dashed for the clinic. I mean, what was I supposed to do?”
And aren’t two airbags safer than one seatbelt anyway? You’ve been a great crowd, don’t forget to tip your waitresses.
Vodka McBigbra? Is that you?
Nope — hers are even. :)
“Why no seatbelts…”
With a pair of airbags like those, who needs seatbelts?
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” was likely the first words out of the mouth of the officer on the scene as well.
“…up to five years in prison”? For a victimless crime? In Bucharest? She must have really done something wrong.
Driving after you’ve lost your license isn’t exactly a victimless crime. Don’t know what the driving laws are like in Bucharest, but if it’s anything like the States you have to be a real menace to your fellow drivers to get banned from the road.
Driving without a license is by definition a victimless crime, wholly separate from what you may or may not have done to lose it.
On top of that great majority of license suspensions are financial. Unpaid tickets, late on child support, menace to other motorists has very little to do with it. Nobody seems to have considered how a man is supposed to pay his way right side up again when the first stage of punishment makes it illegal for him to get to work.
@aspada
What is the source of your assertion that “the great majority of license suspensions are financial.”
From the 2009 NHTSA study, more than 2/3 of license suspensions were for driving reasons. The study also indicates a much higher rate of moving violations for those who had their licenses suspended or revoked for driving reasons.
While Aspade is overstating the numbers, if one-third of license suspensions are for non-driving reasons, it’s still a staggering number. And, let me tell you, an awful lot of non-payers of child support would be happy to to be paying it if they could. Divorce + non-custodial parenting + loss of job = you’re screwed and, to top it off, you’re walking thanks to some laws that punish circumstance more than anything else.
@bunkie
Agreed. I had no idea what that number would be before I looked it up before I posted other than it sounded wrong. Everyone I’ve ever known who’s had his license suspended was a result of a moving violation precipitated by one or more inebriating substances.
That said, all laws punish circumstance.
If you read the appendix at the end of the study the NHTSA calls suspension for “failure to pay fine after conviction of moving violation” a driving reason. So are “driving while revoked” and “driving while suspended.”
On the apparent logic that not paying your highway taxes are a driving reason if you were driving when the tax was levied.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/Traffic Injury Control/Articles/Associated Files/811092.pdf
Actually that makes perfect sense to me. If you’re driving while your license is suspended, how else would you classify it? It’s certainly not a non driving reason. A second suspension or an extension on account of violating the first order is not so unreasonable – said violator is clearly comfortable with violating the laws and regulations of the road.
For sake of argument, let’s say that 4 out of 5 driving related suspensions of the 30% mentioned in the study of those who committed a moving violation while their license was revoked were recidivists from the non moving violation population of suspended licenses. This still places driving reasons as defined by your more specific parameters at over 50%, which is still very far from “great majority” of suspensions.
No reason to make assumptions from the NHTSA’s incomplete and ambiguous data when there are other published reports which make it clear as day.
Like New Jersey. Where 93% (!) of suspensions are for non driving reasons.
http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/pdf/About/AFTF_final_02.pdf (page 28)
Wow. Less than 6% due to habitual bad driving. That’s insane.
I volunteer to be her cell mate and keep her company for the next five years.
i would imagine things would pan out differently in Italy
she’d get an official pardon from berlusconi
And a political promotion.
And invitations to “elegant” soirees at the Prime Minister’s lovenest mansion.
[typical 7th-grade-mentality cheap-shot joke here]
Plastic boobs are gross.
what ever she is but she is too sexy!
Skinny Fiber
yes, i am often repulsed when i am handling breasts that are less than 100% natural
that is the 1st thought that enters my mind and you can see as much due to my face expression
Experience tells me no license and no insurance often leads to fleeing after a wreck.
Seen too often with illegal aliens along with those who had a license but it was yanked.
Victimless? Uhhh… need I state the obvious?
“Oh, just sue!!!!”
Yep….. those type of folks typically loaded with dough, right?
Here in Maine they’re now going to make not wearing a seatbelt a secondary offense, like it once was. So Implants Mcgee should come here I guess. A secondary offense means that a cop can no longer pull someone over primarily for not wearing a seatbelt. I was a little pissed when I first heard about it, but then I realized that natural selection will take care of people that can’t be bothered to put it on. Same thing applies with the lack of a motorcycle helmet law here. Smart people wear seatbelts and helmets, and the dull ones don’t and suffer the potential consequences.
You’ve been a great crowd, don’t forget to tip your waitresses.
Exactly how is the above NOT hard evidence ED is mis-spending the evenings of his youth?
I’m thinking about offering car services to those who needs a ride to their surgeon for new breast implants inspection. Of course, I’ll be the owner & chauffeur as well.