Schadenfreude

[nineveh_uk]

I'm often uneasy with the concept of name and shame, but in this particular case I really couldn't be. After all, there was technically no naming. Just an absolutely enormous car, a monstrous black and shining four-wheel drive thing with tinted windows, plastered with chrome, half motor vehicle, half whale, the sort of thing that vampire presidents would drive.

Plastered over the driver's window (kerbside) was a big yellow notice: UNTAXED VEHICLE. Affixed to the windscreen, a second, smaller yellow notice: notice of refuse removal.

My heart bled. I then made a note that my car tax is due at the end of this month.

Comments

[sammee42.livejournal.com]

"Your disk is up to date" -- what "disk" are you speaking of?

[sammee42.livejournal.com]

Ah! It looks like the sticker we have on our car windshields to tell the police whether or not our car has been inspected that year. How interesting.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

We have an annual inspection (MOT) on all cars older than three years, which the car needs to pass to be taxed, which is required for the insurance (minimum of third part insurance required by law) to be valid.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Technically speaking, the bit that's required by law is "act only", covering injury to other people. "Third party" goes a bit beyond that, and covers injury to other people's goods (eg cars). But "act only" is very rare, and is normally only bought by people who have eg drink driving convictions, which makes even normal third party insurance prohibitively expensive.

I will now stop being a pedant who works in the insurance industry.