OT discussion - location of my driver's license

OK, I fell for it.

If you have medical or other emergency having id on you can make a big difference.

The more work you make a cop do the less happy he is going to be with you. No id would be more work I would think.

Taria

Sandy Ellis> Howdy!

Howdy!

"If you look like the photo on your driver's license you're not well enough to drive."

Aye, there's the rub: too many of us really do look like that photo.

Hey, but I can quilt!

After I wrote the previous, I got to thinking. I"d have to say I keep it in the house when my purse is there. I keep it in my purse at all times, so when I'm home it is too. I originally thought you meant to keep it always in the house, no matter where you were. I probably mis-understood. Sorry. Gen

Anybody can opt out of the UK system. Somebody with as much money as a very rich American can just fly to America and get treated there, they way the elite from Third World countries with no health service do. Guess how often that happens.

What has ID got to do with it? It's checked so rarely in the UK that I don't know my National Health Service number and haven't been asked for any identification in more than 25 years. Why would they need it, when the system is for everyone? They have no picture ID of me, either (unless dental x-rays and plastic surgery record shots count).

Compare the amount of bureaucratic crap your insurance company put you through. They probably even asked what you earn.

The longest I've ever had to wait for emergency treatment was in an American hospital, at a time when I was covered by insurance. After about six hours I figured I wasn't going to die or have a stroke, gave up on them and went home.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

If you are dead, nearly dead or just hurt and can't talk the id will help getting that word to family if you are alone. Heck if you drop dead waiting for help in the ER I guess they would want to know where to haul the carcass too now that you mention that.

I can fire the insurance co. a little tougher to do with NHS. I don't have an outside job, my income is not a part of the equation. I just like choices. I do wish I was rich but I don't fly so that wouldn't work for me anyway. TAria

Jack Camp>

They don't need formal identification documents for that. Not like an American hospital would want, so they'd know who to extract the money from.

The most interesting approach to ID I've seen was in the centre of Edinburgh a few months ago. An old blind man was being loaded into an ambulance after collapsing in the street. The ambulance crew was looking at his dog's ear with a microchip scanner. They'd get the owner's identity out of the dog database. It surprised me that they had the scanner on the ambulance, it hadn't occurred to me that it would be a common enough contingency they'd be so prepared for it.

Otherwise I agree with these folks:

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

I drive, I carry a license. It works for me. I'm talking about emergency services, before you get to the hospital. My insurance card gets me to the hospital of my choice. That is different. My dog has a chip and her name and my phone number embroidered on her collar and a tag with her address. I might be a bit over cautious but she is definitely carrying id. Interesting about the scanner. I will have to ask ds the cop about that. Taria

Jack Camp>>If you are dead, nearly dead or just hurt and can't talk the id

Wow, Koo. What a discussion!

I keep my DL in my wallet. In my purse. All the time.

Cindy

Me, too, Cindy! Never leave anywhere without it!

amy in CNY (who is now going to go to bed!!)

If it should ever be stolen, it would be oh-so-easy to steal your identity..........

My license is in my wallet, in my purse, in the house when that is where I am. When I go on my early morning walks, I have my cell phone and a photocopy of my license. My card is marked with the donor dot for organ donation. I use a post office box, and that is what is on my license. You can only see the street address if you have a special access level. Other than that, it comes back saying my name and "Superior Court of California" with nothing else, when run in CLETS [Calif Law Enforcement Telecom Systems]. You do not know if I am a clerk or a judge, or the Chief Exec Officer. When people demand my street address [in stores or on some forms], I refuse and give my post office box. If they won't accept that, they don't get my business. My house key is separate from my car key.

When you are stopped in Calif by the law for any reason, in a car, on a bicycle, on foot, you can be asked for ID. They want to see a government issued form of ID, not a library card. Driving and not having your license, proof of insurance, or registration, is a common case we see in the courtroom.

Just my two cents G> Wow, Koo. =A0What a discussion!

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I want to move to Montana and get one of those!

We got a locking mail box here at the house when we were not here full time. Identity theft can easily happen when your info is pulled out of your trash or mailbox. Jeez, we sure have to be worried about a lot these days.

Taria

Kay Ahr wrote:

Shall we petition our states to get them?

YES YES YES

Karen, Queen of Squishies

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:01:28 -0500, Karen, Queen of Squishies wrote (in article ):

I'm not sure that's correct. You do have 24 hours to provide proof of the required insurance, but I think you need to have your license with you.