COSTA RICA TICKETS

Costa Rica Cost Of Living Update: An entire roasted chicken from supermarket-$6.50

Someone stole my front license plate. Not the biggest deal but I know I will eventually get pulled over by the coppers. I know this because I’ve been pulled over by the coppers quite a few times.

Once we were stopped because my husband was not wearing his seat belt. As the officer was writing the ticket, a car came towards us in the other lane and we noticed a baby propped up on the dashboard licking the windshield.  The policeman smiled, waved them through, and handed us our ticket.

I am not an expert  in this field but I feel confident that a baby eating bugs off a windshield is worthy of a few driving violations. But who am I to criticize? I’m from a generation that never wore seat belts. Without these restraints, my sister and I got to enjoy those thrilling airborne moments after my dad slammed on the breaks; consequently,  enjoying those thrilling, crashing moments once we smacked into the vinyl bench seat. It’s amazing I still  have front teeth.

Anyway, this guy doesn’t seem too worried about getting a ticket. So I won’t be too worried about my license plate.

By | 2018-04-15T18:19:39-04:00 July 11th, 2011|Categories: Car|Tags: , |6 Comments

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6 Comments

  1. pissyrabbit September 24, 2011 at 6:12 pm - Reply

    I actually read this out loud to my wife because the amount of times we have been pulled over for absolute nonsense has become comical. I got a ticket for going around a car that just parked in the middle of the road. The man exited the vehicle, locked it and went to lunch.
    $565 including the $160 Abandoned Children’s fee. I was tempted to ask MOPT if I could just buy a child for that much.

    • admin September 25, 2011 at 9:03 pm - Reply

      The tickets are nuts here, I think they are successfully fighting those outrageous fines. It’s always funny when you see a car held together by two bandaids but you get pulled over for not having a seat belt on.

  2. admin July 21, 2011 at 3:10 pm - Reply

    I’ve seen so many crazy things here. You have an entire family of 4 riding a scooter, people carrying 12 foot rebarb while they drive on a motorcycle, and cars held together by bungee cords. It makes me scratch my head when I get pulled over.

  3. Tobias July 18, 2011 at 11:31 am - Reply

    Thanks for that post…I had to laugh a lot imaging a baby eating bugs form the windshield..

  4. admin July 11, 2011 at 6:04 pm - Reply

    Bugs have lots of protein for those growing bones.

  5. ronniesabol@yahoo.com July 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm - Reply

    Babies gotta eat

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