Owais Mughal
While the country is going through severe floods we thought a small detour to a lighter topic may be a good idea to raise everybody’s spirits.
In the past we’ve carried a 4-part series as a tribute to Dildar Bhatti which can be read here, here, here and here.
San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Action Line column: How to get an accident off insurance records.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) July 30, 2007 Byline: Dennis Rockstroh Jul. 30–Q Here’s a goodie: I noticed on my auto insurance renewal there was a “point” listed; after a phone call, I found it was due to an old police report citing me in an accident. The case ended up being dismissed.
The Department of Motor Vehicles concurred it is there.
I phoned the Monterey County Superior Court Traffic Division to inquire what transpires when a case is dismissed with respect to the DMV. The court notifies DMV electronically. (I have the court papers with the dismissal.) DMV has no record of the court notification and does not want a fax of the court document; they require a “supplemental police report.” I’d think court documents would supersede a police report, but noooooo. go to website superior court traffic
Well, the Monterey police refuse to supply a supplemental report to update the DMV record, citing, “It’s not my job,” “That’s another department,” “The court needs to handle this” and on and on.
No solution.
All I need is for a document that says the case, #xxxxxx was dismissed on 7/12/06.
An original must be sent to the DMV in Sacramento to update my driving record, at which time I need to get a copy of my clean driving history, submit to my insurance company to get my rate reduced by $700 and a refund for the past year of overcharges.
Can you help??? I’m desperate.
Dena Donnelly Monterey A OK, Dena. I sent your complaint to the DMV.
A DMV rep called you and was able to confirm that your case was dismissed because the witness of the accident did not appear.
The rep explained that the dismissal of your citation is handled as a separate matter and that the reporting of the accident on your driving record will not be changed unless the police agency is willing to provide a supplemental report showing you were not at fault. in our site superior court traffic
The DMV told you that someone will help you as much as they can, but you still need to send additional documentation to DMV for review. The rep gave you her name and number and will follow up on this.
So, the wheels are turning, so speak.
Q For a week we had no garbage collection on Lyle Drive in San Jose.
I have called a number of times to no avail.
As a result, my entire street looks pretty similar to what we saw in the news with Waste Management in the East Bay.
K.O.
San Jose A GreenTeam has some mechanical and work order problems, K.O.
But the garbage was finally collected.
The city and GreenTeam send their apologies to you and your neighbors.
Mail: San Jose Mercury News, 750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, Calif. 95190 Phone recording: (888) 688-6400.
Fax: (408) 288-8060.
Please include full name, address and phone number.
Because of the volume of requests, I cannot respond to everyone.
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Nice Idea for a lighter topic !
Its been raining since night and I am feeling scared for what may happen next. Its the time to pray to God for His Blessings over Us.
Dildar Bhatti was an amazing but underappreciated talent. This piece is indeed his very best. Specially for those of us who remember the good ol days of PTV this is a classic.
Nice find. His Takra was a classic and always entertaining.
I cant believe that audience members are lighting up cigarettes in a crowded public setting. I hope this has stopped.
I saw Didar’s program on the TV regularly and appreciated his efforts to promote Punjabi. Once our Audit Officer, ch. Zahur Ilahi reported that, as required by the rules, Didar was not paying 1/3 of the earnings from the IV. But despite that report he did not comly with rules. So AGP stopped his pay to recover the amoun due to him. He came to the AG office to complain personally the stoppage of his pay. When he was asked why he did not pay the due from him, he blamed Mr. Shoaib had advised me otherwise. However we released his pay when he promised to do so in future.
Ch. Zahur also passed away in the meanwhile. What a coicidence, he got barried in a grave by the very side of Dildar in Wahdat Colony grave yard.
Owais Mughal Sahab. Thank you for remembering Dildar.
vinnie says:
“Its the time to pray to God for His Blessings over Us”.
It is your prayer which brought this catastrophe of flood upon us as we did not deserve the ‘rehmat’ it actually was. That is why our wealthy president has advised the nation to pray for its stoppage. But he is sitting at the helm like a Kala Dam to prevent the building of the the Kala Bagh Dam against the will of the Paky nation.
A beautiful beautiful old memory. Gr8 job ATP it has served its purpose very well. We had quality humour and entertainment then.