Brickbat: Late or Early

Los Angeles station NBC4 reports that the California Department of Motor Vehicles may have improperly charged tens of thousands of drivers late fees for their vehicle registration. It found that the DMV has often rejected electronic checks even when the account had sufficient funds and there were no other issues, then billed the drivers late fees. The DMV told the station it isn't sure exactly how many drivers were affected or how much revenue it collected from those improper late fees.

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[AT]

It then sent “demand payment” letters to some of those drivers – 30,000 in 2022, and nearly 40,000 last year.

Be honest. How many of you fail to check your mail on a daily basis? Like, your physical mailbox that the postman visits rain or shine. *raises hand* I'll admit it, I look maybe once a week.

Because why.

Grocery store circulars, life insurance company begging me to convert my policy into something more advantageous to them, and junk. That's all it ever is anymore. Because, like most people, I do everything else electronically.

The DMV doesn't. They paper trailed themselves.

The DMV said about 60% of the rejections were valid because the driver entered the wrong account information on the website.

Oh FFS, we're brickbatting this when 3/5th of the time, it's the own person's fault!?

[Idaho-Bob]

The DMV said...

Brickbat confirmed.

[A Cynical Asshole]

The government would never lie to you...

[Adans smith]

In California this is the least of your worries.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The DMV told the station it isn't sure exactly how many drivers were affected or how much revenue it collected from those improper late fees.

But be sure those funds were put to good use.

[Mickey Rat]

A bit more on the dishonest LGBT activist funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/sacrilege-in-the-cathedral-how-st-patricks-was-set-up/

"“Mourning a Transgender Activist at a Cathedral That Once Drew Protests,” read the New York Times headline; the reporter characterized the event as “both a celebration of [Gentili’s] life and an exuberant piece of political theater.” (A Catholic funeral is, of course, neither.) Funeral attendees were wearing “glittery miniskirts and halter tops, fishnet stockings, sumptuous fur stoles and at least one boa sewed from what appeared to be $100 bills. Mass cards and a picture near the altar showed a haloed Ms. Gentili surrounded by the Spanish words for ‘transvestite,’ ‘whore,’ ‘blessed,’ and ‘mother’ above the text of Psalm 25.”

At the prayers of the faithful, the reader asked for divine intervention for “life-affirming healthcare” for transgender people, which was met with cheers and applause. Conventional Catholic responses, “Thanks be to God” or the Our Father, were evidently said only by the cathedral’s two priests. At one point, a congregant shouted “Ave Cecilia” during the “Ave Maria” and danced wildly down the nave. During the eulogy, Gentili’s friends referred to the deceased as a “great whore” and “St. Cecilia, the mother of all whores.” The congregation responded with a standing ovation.

As you might imagine, some Catholics had a different response. The rector at St. Patrick’s, Reverend Enrique Salvo, issued the following statement:

Thanks to so many who have let us know they share our outrage over the scandalous behavior at a funeral here at St. Patrick’s Cathedral earlier this week. The Cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral Mass for a Catholic, and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way. That such a scandal occurred at “America’s Parish Church” makes it worse; that it took place as Lent was beginning, the annual forty–day struggle with the forces of sin and darkness, is a potent reminder of how much we need the prayer, reparation, repentance, grace, and mercy to which this holy season invites us.

At the Cardinal’s directive, we have offered an appropriate Mass of Reparation."

"Whatever the cathedral staff might have done differently on the day would have been too little, too late. Some have noted that canon law states, “Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death,” certain people “must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals.” A public funeral for a high-profile, lifelong opponent of the church (with no known conversion) at the most famous Catholic parish in the country was imprudent, to say the least. A private Mass could have been offered instead.

It is a safe assumption that every deceased Catholic is a sinner in need of prayers. But what is not a safe assumption is that every person who requests a Catholic funeral does so because he wishes to receive what the church offers."

[madameevil]

Not sure why this comment/ story is here.

[Brandybuck]

I guess he just want to prove that we're all going to Hell in a glittery handbag.

[mad.casual]

When Democrats say we can’t require ID for voting because the difficulty in obtaining an ID will disenfranchise minorities from voting, it’s not advice, it’s a warning.

[Minadin]

Same people who say requiring an ID to vote is onerous and denies people their rights, want universal background checks and all sorts of other restrictions on the 2A.

[Idaho-Bob]

Gun ownership isn't a right. Just ask the Hawaiian supreme court or any democrat.

Old white guys who owned slaves wrote that shit.

[Mickey Rat]

The Hawaii SC said gun ownership went against the teachings of a local neo-pagan deity, so you know it is a proper application of law.

[Brandybuck]

I say we need ID, but that ID should include a voter registration card. Because not everyone has official papers. Why should we all have to carry around official papers?

Gawd, I'm old enough to remember when conservatives were still griping about mandatory social security cards and other forms of official papers. Now they are demanding them for other people, demanding the kind of government that demands to see your papers.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

"Why should we all have to carry around official papers?" Maybe just when we vote? Just spit ballin' here.

[Rossami]

We lost the 'official papers' debate long ago. You need government-issued ID to get a job, deposit a check, rent a car, buy beer, have a baby, register your child for school, get on a plane, serve on a jury or do any of a thousand other routine tasks that are part of normal life.

If we can't turn back time and get rid of the 'official papers' rules, shouldn't we at least be consistent?

[Longtobefree]

Under no circumstances should anyone even think that this is part of a state-wide effort to get rid of cars.

[Dillinger]

lol may have improperly charged watching states go full communist is a hoot

[MWAocdoc]

I have one too! Some of the freeways in Washington state have “Good To Go” license plate readers for special toll lanes that automatically charge the vehicle owner. TWICE we have used those lanes, gotten the proper bill within a week of using the toll lanes, paid by normal check which cleared within a week or ten days after the date printed on the bill, followed by a notice of late fee with a date less than thirty days after the toll lane use. The state has an online dispute system where you can type in the transaction number and point out that “late fees” for payments less than thirty days don’t seem to be appropriate. Once I even got a reimbursement check in the mail a couple of months after the fact.