Canadian licence not valid in Georgia? huh?
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You dindonuffin.
Seriously though... moving violations, parking tickets, etc., are given to just about anyone and everyone breaking the law. Tickets are a lucrative stream of funds to city, state, and county coffers. You just happened to be speeding and got a ticket. It happens. She was doing 87 MPH!
Hey what's up with the Tourist Tax in Niagara? Niagara residents do not need to pay but tourists do? What a shakedown that is.
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It's a not legally binding municipal tax that some establishments keep for themselves.
There was a Canadian version of 60 minutes type investigative journalism show on it. W5 I think. I'll look.
There was a Canadian version of 60 minutes type investigative journalism show on it. W5 I think. I'll look.
Yes I was given that tip before I left for Canada.
"No matter what you buy, tell them you do not want to pay the tourist tax."
I was told they would just add it and one had to say up front that you didn't want to pay it. I was also told that in some places they will insist that you do, but to be persistent. That actually did happen, in one place.
It was CBC Marketplace. I'd give a link but it keeps wanting to go to the CBC app.
It's been going on for over a decade.
Niagara Falls' tourist fees collected with little oversight | CBC News
It's been going on for over a decade.
Niagara Falls' tourist fees collected with little oversight | CBC News
The place that insisted was a restaurant, I explained twice that it was voluntary and finally they took it off the bill. The manager went out and said he was sorry but they were told to keep insisting per order of the owner. He did warn me that there was another restaurant (not to be named) where they will go back and forth all night with someone unwilling to pay the tourist tax.
On the program I saw they went "undercover". Some refused to take it off others advertise that they don't collect it.
Was interesting.
It probably on YouTube
EPISODE | 43X17
Niagara Falls Tourism Fee: Do you have to pay it?
Was interesting.
It probably on YouTube
EPISODE | 43X17
Niagara Falls Tourism Fee: Do you have to pay it?
$15 MILLION per year! Talk about fleecing and targeting!
So they advertise they don't collect but still add it?
Reading the article would have revealed to all on here she told the cop up-front she was down there on a student visa; which would have been easily verifiable by the cop over the in-car computer.
Cook County is scrambling now to undo this clusterfugg caused by the U.S.'s well-known addiction to dinging Canadians:https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/us-county-tries-to-reassure-canadian-visitors-after-story-of-ontario-womans-arrest-makes-headlines/ar-AAwYoGk?li=AAggNb9
Don't get your panties in a bunch.
This old news but this chit went on for decades:
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/20/world/americans-filching-free-health-care-in-canada.html
60,000 fraudulent claims made by Americans in just one 6 month period in just one province alone. Estimates were, at it's height, it was costing Canadians in just that one province close to 700 million a year.
As an aside; you got your U.S. Marine idea from the U.K. who have had the Royal Marines before the U.S. had long pants.
Which would have made her DL invalid.
https://ieinashville.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/how-to-get-a-tennessee-driver-license-for-f1-students/
This entitled snowflakess did everything possibly wrong, wrong.
Reading your post reveals that she could tell you whatever she wanted and you'd believe it.
Cook County is scrambling... they're laughing their azzes off at her pathetic snap chat as is the rest of the U.S.
Seriously brah... The good people of Georgia are getting a big kick out of this and released a statement to help with the insecurities up there.
Snowflakes man.
Oh dear... you had to go back to 1993 to find anything close.... 25 years ago.
Face... The Canadians are fleecing tourists... OWN IT!
Poor BruSan... you actually think the British were the first to have Marines.
You must have went to the same school as Curious Canadian.
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Only if it could be proven she'd been driving a car in the U.S. for longer than the term allowed for those on Student visas. Snowbirds on an "assumed" visitor visa routinely and legally drive for up to the total visa allowed term of 180 days.
That little "snowflake" did everything right including the cel-phone recording of the typical American cop doing the well known Louisiana rip-off (the first state accused and proven of performing this little cash grab) so the cops could go on skiing trips to Aspen.
It's been well documented over many years of various states targeting out of country and indeed, even out of stater's for this criminal activity. you cannot deny this, as EVERY American knows this is common practice.
It matters as to when illegal behaviour was common? We can go another 25 years and still not catch up to the fraud committed.
Who said anything about them being "first"?
The British Royal Marines can trace their history back to 1664 Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot. Surely you're not going to try saying the U.S. Marines predate that.
I've no doubt gotten my schooling from a different school than yours.
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Silly BruSan... Marines have been around since warships have taken to sea, the Romans, the Greeks, etc., etc. They've all had Marines.
Marines have always been a part of sea warfare so... NO... the US Marines did not get the idea from the British Royal Marines anymore than the Continental Army got the idea to form from the British army.
So feel free to move your goal post again.
No doubt. It sounds like you got your schooling with CuriousCdn... he's quite often wrong just as you are here.
Term for students in TN is 30 days. She told the cop she lived in TN, so its safe to say the 30 days was up.
After 30 days, TN considers students as residents of TN, and change the DL time. She didn't do it, and didn't
have a legal passport with her, so the cop was perfectly justified in arresting her.
Your 'snowbirds' you snarl about, they never become resident of a US state, so sorry that dog don't hunt.
You must be poor.
As far as getting caught in a money grab, everyone does it, so why get upset ?
Just pay it and move on.
Just make sure you have your passport and a legal DL with you.
Obey the law and you won't find yourself in the back of a squad car.
Poor little Snowflakes.
You failed to prove I ever said they were the "first" didn't you, so now you're still blathering?
My point was the U.S. Marines are merely a copy of many Marine forces that predate them by hundreds of years.
Only in the U.S., of all other first world countries, do routine speeding tickets get you handcuffed and jailed for something other than an illegal behaviour, as the quick return of her bond and any and all history of the charges hastily being erased from her record prove.
She ain't a snowflake, just smarter than your typical southern redneck double digit IQ cop.
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No argument from me on that AND they have been proven to have discovered N.America in the year 1000 while Columbus was a mere gleam in his great, great and so on, and so on, grand daddy's eye.