Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 6170537)

...but insurance premiums are ridiculous for a young male under 25...

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 6170542)

Getting an attorney isn't about shielding his son from responsibility, it's more likely about shielding his own pocketbook. The kid is 16 and presumably the parents are still providing for him to some degree financially. Furthermore, getting an attorney in a situation like this (assuming the school zone doesn't make the attorney impotent) is the way the system works, so if anything, it's teaching his son the way of the world. How is the parent paying higher rates on his insurance going to teach the child something about responsibility?

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic (Post 6170584)

That is my reason for hiring a lawyer. Some people are acting like I wanna go Matlock on the legal system and have a trial.

Paying $500, one time for a lawyer, or an extra $720 a year until he turns 25, seems like an easy choice.

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic (Post 6170584)

That is my reason for hiring a lawyer. Some people are acting like I wanna go Matlock on the legal system and have a trial.

Paying $500, one time for a lawyer, or an extra $720 a year until he turns 25, seems like an easy choice.

Originally Posted by TrebMaxx (Post 6170588)

Really, I had nothing to do with that! ROFL

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 6170555)

I don't have any problem with how you handled it at all, but I'd point out for The Bad Guy's sake (since he's a noob at parenting and all) that the same lesson could be taught to the kid by charging him the $60/month even after paying for a lawyer and saving the family some dough. There's no reason why the insurance company has to be the big winner here.

When my daughter first had her cell phone, she kept going over her minute allowance (her share of our family plan). It wasn't a big deal financially to our family because my wife and I weren't using up our share and we had rollover minutes to absorb the rest, but we had to find a way to impress upon her that she needed to get herself in check. Our solution was to start charging her for the minute overages in months that she went over and then in months following an overage month we'd take her phone from her and only let her have it on weekends and when she was out somewhere where we might need to reach her. After a few cycles, she finally bought into the limits and started making responsible decisions. The point is that we taught her about responsibility without enriching the phone company.

Originally Posted by wild1 (Post 6170628)

You pay his car insurance? After this? And will until he's 25?

I wish you had adopted me!

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED (Post 6156122)

I got a speeding ticket here for going 32 in a 25. These cops really have nothing to do. I probably could have gotten out of the ticket by simply being polite to him but when he asked if I was "in a hurry to get somewhere" I just laughed at him and told him "obviously not if i was only going 32 mph."

Originally Posted by God Of Thunder (Post 6156528)

you ARE making excuses.......rest assured if your son had HIT a child while he was in the school zone, his ass would be in prison for the rest of his life. I look at it as though the cop did you a favor. All of my family are police officers, two of which are with Blue Springs, and rest assured, this thread and your initial comments have been sent to them.

Tell your son to have some respect for the law, if I had a child, and your son hit him.......rest assured, you'd not want to deal with it. There is a reason laws like this exist. Be a ****ing man, grow up, make your son pay his own god damn ticket, and then go **** yourself.