Drivers Beware!

[Ronald Heyne]

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Do you have the original version with amounts in RD$ for me?

Thank you

Ronald

 

[John]

Sarah you are the miserable one

Sarah all you want to do is attack people. Go and get a life for crying out loud. If people don't see it your way right away you call them a bigot and become defensive. You must be divorced living with 5 or ten cats and zero children. I'm sure you made your last neighbor move away. Sarah you are the miserable one.

 

[Gunnar]

That would be interesting, the "driving without a helmet",
seemed on the low side, In Santiago they confiscate your bike,
and you have to release it for 450 pesos, providing you
have the helmet when you want to have your bike...
Was working in la zona Franca, and the police was constantly
staying with a truck in the Circumvecion cross collecting
MC's between 4 and 6 pm. They filled up a truck quite quickly...

 

[Ronald Heyne]

Hello Gunnar,

that?s a good business-idea. Making more money in two hours than others make in a month.

I am missing "not stopping at red traffic light" in the list. As far as I know it is 48 hours immediate arrest.

Ronald

 

[Gunnar]

Interesting. Theres one light just outside the police station
here. Never seen anyone look at it, less stop if it's red.
And absolutely never seen a police complain about passing
"red". When I was living in Luxembourg, someone told me
you would have the right to demand alco-test of a policeman,
he demanded that of you, and that was the reason alco-tests
were never done. (Locals said there had been one case, but
it was dismissed since the judge flunked the test in court...)

Could it be something similar?

 

[Ronald Heyne]

Gunnar,

you know Santiago, there I have heard about the 48-hour-rule and I have the feeling that everybody in Santiago stops at red, so maybe it is more kind of a local regulation.

Ronald

 

[Kozytpm]

Re: Sarah you are the miserable one

Terrible driving habits in the DR cross all socio-economic lines.
I drive 10,000 miles per year in the DR and the situation is controlled chaos at best. There is only one universal rule and its applies everywhere in the country; whoever has the biggest vehicle has the right of way. To be considered a bigot for acknowledging reality is laughable. Just ask any Domincan who drives-- they will tell it like it is. Long live the DR !!

 

[Gunnar]

You're right, I noticed it too, just didn't think about it
when I wrote my earlier post. Santiago is quite differrent.
Maybe Santiago police is doing what they are supposed to do?
Here, I could probably stab, at least a Haitian, outside
the police station and it would be "too much work" to write a
report. Better "accidentally fell on a knife someone dropped..."