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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for that post…I had to laugh a lot imaging a baby eating bugs form the windshield..
Bugs have lots of protein for those growing bones.
Babies gotta eat