Good thing you don't live in communist Canada. Well an elected dictatorship anyway. Manatoba has AutoPac. Government controled and implimented auto insurance. No AutoPac no car. It's that simple.Their valadation sticker is on your plates. They even control your drivers licence. We are the only place in the world that i know of that you get convicted of the same crime 4 times. The courts get you. AutoPac gets you. D.M.V. gets you, and the police get you. This is just a motor vehicle infraction. Just be thankfull you have a choice. Ex. D.U.I. it is a 6 month suspention. $500.00 fine. After everyone gets a piece of you it becomes minimum $1000.00 fine $250.00 for Alcohol rehab. $250.00 for the cource. Drivers licence goes from $40.00 to $100.00 with a $200.00 sir charge. Yes the police are involved instantly if it is D.U.I. or just an accident. If we have one accident that is our fault even if you haven't have one in 20 years our insurance goes up 50%, we lose every discount we ever got and our drivers licence goes up $200.00. If your car is a right off you lose it. Yes they take it unless you want to buy it back. They remove that price from your pay out. Just be thankfull you have a choice. We don't. If i could get my green card i'd be down there so fast i wouldn't hear a dial tone from the I.N.S. I'm sure after this comment the R.C.M.P. may be banging at my door. I think i used a few BUZZ words that shouldn't be used. If you don't hear from me in the next month or two you'll know what happend. Just my input. Some light reading for those that might be interested.

Too bad a person can re-edit ones post to fix such things, or spelling and grammar errors one didn't notice before posting. Police called me last night and told me he gave the lady a $400 ticket. Someone will also have to pay the towing and an impound fee of $100 per day to get the car back. Seems the lady a record 4 pages long of driving offenses. She of coarse has no license or insurance, and the car isn't registered to her. Seems it belongs to an uncle. Sounds like she's some kind of druggie who has a habit of getting doped up then drives. None of that helps me of coarse. Just puts that lady in a deeper hole to dig out of some day if she ever chooses to try. Don't understand why we all have to put up with such people. She should have been in jail years ago imo. So, she got a ticket? She probably got dozens of them she never appeared for already, and I'm sure she'll be driving as soon as she can get her hands on another car.

I'm sorry Dorothy. Tough loss for all. Since Noe is in low income, can they not adjust her rent to her income only? Are there any organizations that you can do the "leg" work on to get her some assistance/counseling for the changes in her life?

What wonderful comfort this must have been to the little boy. This remeinds me when my daughter first starting teaching. She taught in a very poor district. She dearly loved the children, some of the parents "NOT." One afternoon she was leaving school and heard tires squeal. She ran around the building and a little 10 year old girl was hit by a car. She ran to the girl while someone called 911. The mom lived just down the street and came runing. It wasn't long before the Dad came. Mom and dad just stood in the middle of the road yelling at each other. Our daughter felt so sorry for the little girl. Our daughter followed the ambulance to the hospital. They ended up making the parents leave the building until they decided to stop yelling. To this day the little girl always comes into our daughters classroom to see her. They have a special bond.. Susie