On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 Shaun.Hendricks@bergenbrunswig.com wrote:
[...]
>
> (My favorite story of this type was the CA DMV rigging up a car by pulling a
> sparkplug wire [beyond the pulled wire: the car was perfect!. The dealership
> they took it in to told the older lady (an employee of the DMV) that she was
> going to need an entire engine rebuild and it would cost her $3,800 to do it.
> She okay'd the work and they "rebuilt" the engine. When the DMV mechanics
> checked the car out afterward, they had done nothing but armor-all the engine
> and replace the plug: they didn't even turn a screw. The DMV ended up fining
> the dealership at 100:1 (ie: $380,000) and pulled thier dealership license.
> They arrested all the mechanics associated with the fix and tossed them in
> jail for a year. Yes, the DMV *IS* on our side sometimes.)
>
All right!!! :-)
Now *that* is the sort of thing the gov't should be doing; staying
out of our hair and keeping everyone else honest. :-) Kudos to the
CA DMV on this one. (Wow, I never thought I'd say that!) ;-)
-Jon-
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