Got 2 minor traffic violations within a week apart. I am on my father's car insurance, will it go up? How to mitigate the damage?
So I am a NY resident under my father's car insurance plan. I carelessly got 2 minor traffic violations within a week apart, 1 in NJ and the other in NY. The first one I got was in NJ was "411.1Q No Disregard Of Traffic Signs & Signals". There are no points (its not on the NJ point schedule. Is this considered a moving violation? Does an insurance company view this unfavorably? The second one was in NYC, for failure to signal left turn. This applies 2 points to my license. So since I got these in relatively close succession, will my father's insurance premium go up? I have no other major traffic violations. (I do have a no turn on red violation from last year in NJ) - otherwise I am clean. Which one should I go about plea bargaining? Should I hire a lawyer for the NYC violation? Can the NJ one be plea bargained to a lesser charge even though it has zero points? I just don't want to raise my father's insurance.
High School violating Bill of Rights?
At my High School, there is a rule that goes as follows, 'The parking lot is off‐limits during the school day. As such, students are not allowed to go to their cars during school hours.' Is this a violation of the 5th Amendment which guarantees the right to property? The part that states, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" It seems to me like the High School is violating this right because I went out to my vehicle to make sure it was, still there, and undamaged, since they claim no responsibility for damaged property. They are depriving me for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week of my property without any due process of law. What do you think, and if this policy violates any rights guaranteed to Americans citizens explain please.
Two Speeding Tickets in One Week, I'm 17?
If you go to the court to contest, you can talk down the ticket price sometimes. Go to traffic school for the first one or try both and see if there is an error in the system where they both get cleared. If you get too many, probably 3, the dmv will send you a letter warning you it is a privilege to drive. Learn to calm your mind when driving. It's is hard when you are young. I now drive to not hurt anyone else and that helps slow me down. Insurance is always going to be high. You have to shop around every few years. Be truthful on the quote as they find out anyway and will charge more. I had two in 8 hours. A speed trap and pedestrian trap. Both BS. I think the tickets will be $250-$350 total. You can probably get $75 to $125 knocked off in court if you are proper and respectful no matter how the judge is towards you. If he says -$75 ask if it can be -$125. Always try and negotiate but remember you can only save so much of a dollar before you need to make another one. Think 25% on saving money and 75% on making money. Eventually you will make more and save well too. All credit cards are bs. Stay away, don't buy into it. Cash is king.
Should I buy a stick shift for my 16 year old son?
This is not a question about money, but rather about saftey. My son is paying for the car, he has had his own internet business since he was 15yr and is paying cash.Saying, "should I buy" meaning it would have to be in my name and insurance at that age. My concern is saftely. As I said I drove as a teen, but most of my family is against this choice for a car. Thank you to all of your responses about saftey. I really do believe it's important to know manual, but I wanted other opinions as well, :)
My neighbors keep calling the police on me and falsely accusing me of criminal acts. I am afraid to go outside of my house. What do I do?
I have a neighbor that is fixated on my husband. She seemed a little off, but once she found out about his time in prison she developed a full blown obsession. She wrote the association board for our community a complaint about him slamming doors and watching her when she was outside. This was nonsense but they still had to address it with us. She wrote subsequent letters to the board stating he has a key to her car, and gains entry to turn on her radio...that he lets air out of her tires...that he's getting in her home and releasing ants...and he's poisoning the food in her refrigerator. We'd see police at her door, but they never stopped by to talk to us. One day last fall, my husband was riding his bike. This neighbor pulled her car in front of him and slammed on her brakes, causing him to fall off his bike. Her behavior was now endangering him so we went to the police to file a report. The police were helpful, and knew our neighbor well. Apparently she'd filed lots of police reports about my husband and a few other men from the neighborhood. The police recognized she has mental health issues and never pursued her later complaints. So what can you do? Try to have your cell phone ready to record if you think your neighbor will confront you. Keep a cool head, there's nothing wrong with not engaging in an argument. Don't be afraid to talk to the police to see what your options are if you're being harassed. You don't want to end up on the wrong side of this problem.UPDATE: my local police department reached out to the neighbour's daughter, the daughter called my husband to apologize and let him know she will be intervening in a medically supervised care program for her mother. She made sure he has her contact info should we have any problems. I give her all the credit in the world, she was wonderful and it's great that she wants to be involved in her care! Here's hoping my neighbor gets back on track.
What does a heart attack feel like?
I had a major heart attack in 2014, and here is my story:I woke up not feeling well - I couldn’t explain it… I just didn’t feel well.Around 9am, my mother and father stopped by; they had gone to the stations of the cross at the church right down the road. I began feeling a pain in my right arm, but I tried to ignore it. My mother looked at me and said that I didn’t look well, but I told her I was fine, so her and my father left.So, it was just me and my 23 year old son. He saw me rubbing my arm and asked me what was wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure - that it was like a pressure pain that was moving up my arm. He said it sounded like a heart attack, and I laughed because I thought that I was too young for a heart attack. In 2014 I was going to be 43, I believe.Anyhow, I told him that I was going to take a hot shower and put the water on my arm but that I was going to leave the door open in case I needed him to call someone. I got in the shower. At that point, the pain was in my upper arm and neck. I stood under the hot water and aimed on my neck, but it did not help. I was uncomfortable, but I managed to get out and get dressed.I then told my son that maybe a nap would make me feel better, but after just two minutes of lying down, I was too uncomfortable to bear it. I thought that I would do a breathing treatment to make myself feel better. To this day, I still wonder why in the world I thought that a breathing treatment would be effective even though I was breathing just fine and the pain was in my arm and neck.Anyway, I took out my nebulizer and albuterol and started the machine. I took one deep breath and the pain shot up from about a 5 to past a 10. I cried for my son to call 911.I made it to the local hospital, and they performed many tests and gave by nitro glycerin four times. They then stabilized me so that I could fly in the Flight for Life helicopter into the city for emergency surgery. In the city, I had a stent put in. That night, the nurse accidentally opened up my surgical site and blood splattered everywhere, making me lose so much blood that I needed two transfusions.I was told that I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have come in to the hospital when I first felt the pain in my arm and neck, and that that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I also suffered a mild brain injury because I didn’t have enough oxygen going to my head.
What do you think about the policy of removing children (including toddlers) from their parents at the US border?
Original question: What do you think about the policy of removing children (including toddlers) from their parents at the US border?Lots of trolling on this issue… 59 minutes ago, I answered a similar one, I’ve changed that answer to suit.Crossing into virtually any country illegally is a crime in those places. You will likely be detained. If you have minor children with you, they will be placed in protective custody to assure that you’re not trafficking in minors. Human trafficking is a bigger business than illegal arms trading.This might enlighten as to the problem: Modern Day Slavery DOES Exist in America: How Our Children Are Victims TodayCrossing virtually any border in the world with undocumented children will involve pretty heavy investigation - a Peruvian parent, for example, can’t leave Peru with a minor child without a notarized declaration from the other parent. In my case, we always traveled with that notarized declaration, even if we were traveling together, and our travel documents showed that we all had the same family name; we did that because we have different nationalities and it’s never bad to be over-protected. We even carried copies of our children’s birth certificates.I am a parent, and I hate the thought of this kind of abuse of children.This might also help: What are the statistics on human trafficking of children?That would be because the responsibility of any immigration agent was to uphold the law, and most people’s law takes a very dim view of trafficking in minors. So if you’re entering any nation that I know of, undocumented and with undocumented minors, you’re in for a stay in a detention center.If a child was kidnapped from the streets of Lima, I’d really hope that US authorities would put them into protective custody so they might be returned to their family.
My husband recorded my 13 year old in the shower?
Ok here goes My ex and I have split custody. He has them 1 week me and my new husband have them the next. My daughter is 13 but built like an 18 yr old. She was home and we were having dinner and talking about who will shower first I said me first. Well I wasn't ready so I told her to go ahead. I was helping my husband with his taxes and I had to pee. He acted kinda weird and asked if she was dressed. I said no. I went to pee and when I sat down I noticed his phone was in a basket across from the glass shower. I picked it up and saw it recording. I told her he had been wondering where his phone was. I immediately confronted him. The kids went to their dad's the next day. My husband is very upset and distraught he can't eat or sleep. I'm hurt and angry. This is the love of my life. My high school sweetheart. He keeps telling me he was curious but as soon as she went in there he started to freak our and wanted to stop the recording. I believe he feels bad but now idk what to do. I want to believe him. She loves him a lot. I told him I can never leave him with her alone and haven't been sleeping in our bed. She comes home Ina few days and idk what to do. He has mad an appointment with a counselor which he did on his own. I've been on a roller coaster. I'm mad then sad then hurt then worried. Is it possible he is as disqusted with himself as I am? Can we make this family work? We have such a connection. We were apart almost 20 years Our feelings never changed. Idk what to do.
Faking a Stroke or TIA..?
This sounds that it could be a case of Münchausen syndrome. It's at type of psychiatric disorder where the person fakes being ill just to get sympathy and attention from others. Sometimes it can go as far as people getting their kids to the hospital with fake diseases so that they can get the attention from hospital staff. A TIA would fully resolve itself after some time, but if the person experiences TIA on constant basis, it could be a sign that a stroke is on the way. When a stroke happens part of the neural tissue in the brain dies, and the person loses the function of that part of the brain for good. When TIA happens, the neural tissue does not die, and the person only loses the function of that part of the brain whiel the attack lasts. I guess it could be possible to see post TIA on MRI if the normal function of that neural tissue was not fully restored yet (if blood is not flowing fully through, and there is only enough oxygen available to sustain the life othe tissue). But do look into the Münchausen syndrome more. It's a tough syndrome, b/c it's like that boy who cried wolf, is something serious does happen and people think that person is faking, it could be fatal.