OT: DMV Shenanigans, Didn't release my liability... Options

[Brando]

Okay, so back in January I sold my 1988 944. Sold it for $1500 and I only paid $500 just a year and a half prior. Not bad!

Well, last Friday I get a letter in the mail from our very own 91 Toll Lanes. "Thanks for your interest in using the toll lanes, but you did so without being a subscriber... The toll violation etc..." Wait a minute, I never use the toll lanes. And what's this, I did it in my 1988 944? On April 19th?

So, the DMV never processed my release of liability. I just finished typing up a rebuttal and I still have a copy of my release of liability (to cover my ass). I guess I have to go through that crap all over again. New owner never registered it I guess...

Fucking new owners.

[ConeDodger]

Don't even get me started. Two years ago, I was driving back from Sonoma Valley with my dog sitting happily in the front seat. I have the cruise set for 70 and I am just listening to the tunes. THEN I look and a CHP officer is cuddled up to my rear bumper with his lights dancing and chirping his siren. I do what most citizens do and pull over. He asks for license and registration which I give him and he asks if I know why he pulled me over. I have not got a clue which has to be a first for me! He tells me my registration has lapsed. OMG! That I was not expecting. I explain that there must be a mistake as I get a bill - pay a bill without any problem at all... He likes my dog and says he believes me and just gives me a fix-it ticket. I check my online checking service and sure enough, I did pay it... So I bring a copy and head down for DMV on Monday. My neighbor is an El Dorado County Sherrifs Deputy and he signs off the fix-it which I mail to Yolo County along with a check for $10.00 for a processing fee! Man I wish I could get into the freakin' Government business! I would be way rich!!!
Next thing you know I get a letter from Yolo County telling me I owe $1100 or some such crap. I call, they say whoops we probably have it. I tell them the check number and offer to fax it. She says she will check on it and call me back. No call. I figure she got it figured out right? Nope. Next letter, they call them "Courtesy Notices" says I owe just south of $1500. Now I am pissed. I call the court and demand a court date, and no shit I had to demand it because the snotty little public servant said it was too late for that. I went to court on the appointed date and explained to the judge and handed over my proof. She looked it over and dismissed it but get this. I still had to pay some freakin' court cost crap.
Bottom line is that they are idiots and make YOU pay for there mistakes. I wish that I could say that it was the last DMV mistake but there have been two more since then. IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!