On Friday night I was pulled over by the police on my way back from Avebury, according to their database; my car is un-insured, now this is a data base that is 68% accurate on vehicles [Reference]. Now Insurance details are dealt with a different database, one that not all insurance company’s send there data to [The Police officer who pulled me over told me this]. now rather than the police doing police work and investigating me for not having insurance, they ask me to prove that I do have insurance, (so much for innocent until proven guilty).
So After taking my MOT, Insurance, and Drivers licence to the police station, and having to prove my innocence, for a offence they can not prove has been committed, but is also statistically unlikely to have been committed by me. (You need insurance, and an MOT, to get a tax disk, and mine is only a month old [This is on my car])
Today I have been playing with getting with my drivers licence, and now have sent it all off to the DVLA to get it updated to a full pink one,
While filling out my D1 form I noticed a section on it relating to being an Organ Donor; While I was in NY, Manda, Ian, Dave and Myself were discussing the campaign for opting out of organ donation. Now I am opposed to implied consent, however the other three thought that implied consent is a good idea.
I am all for organ donation, as such on my drivers licence I have consented to my organs being available for transplant, but since they asked for me to Opt-in, and I agree with organ donation, I did.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
your last paragraph especially the last sentence is terribly confusing (or I’m just generally confused, one of the two). So are you down as an organ donor on your driving licence?
October 15th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
yes, on my drivers license i am an organ donor.