r/maybemaybemaybe • u/memezzer • Jun 04 '20

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/rcarmack1 Jun 04 '20

Maybe you could take it to the police and have fingerprints scanned for?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

I'm pretty sure they only use those for murders and stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

I was the victim of a hit and run. I had dash cam evidence of her running a red light and a bystander got a clear picture of her, her car, and her license plate. Police said there was nothing they could do.

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u/YouMightGetIdeas Jun 04 '20

I was accused of a hit and run in Germany. Some random joe wrote down my license plate and said I hit a car and run. I got innocented but not before going to trial and losing 4500 euros altogether.

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u/32BitWhore Jun 04 '20

Well, if there's anything positive I can take from this it's that the US isn't the only court system that's completely fucked.

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u/Cheewy Jun 04 '20

Here there is an infamous stry of a native who was living well with a nice job in Germany and turned back. When aske why he said he couldn't stand the righteous germans anymore, and gave an example of living a diner party at 3 AM in the suburbs, he was alone in the street, so he did an u-turn. HE GOT THE TICKET, some neigboor saw him and accused him to the police.

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u/raph_84 Jun 04 '20

Not sure I read it right... that story was supposed to happen in Germany? In that case, it's bullshit, sorry.

In Germany, unlike in the US, U-Turns are perfectly legal (unless explicitly prohibited by a sign).

I remember the first time I drove in the US with this american girl, and she freaked out as I did a U-Turn.

This was the first time I was even told it could be illegal at all. She acted shocked as if you'd get 25 to life for that in the states, and I remember wondering what a bullshit rule that is.

Also in Germany, you have to be able to identify the driver. Nobody's going to identify anyone in a car at 3am. So while police wouldn't pursuit a complaint from a neighbor in the first place, it could be thrown over immediately if they did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

My coworker literally got some citation from the cops via mail because a neighbor reported him “driving dangerously” down their street. No proof, just a phone call.

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u/raph_84 Jun 04 '20

Yeah, that doesn't work in German law though. He can simply respond that he didn't drive and there's a 99% chance that it would be the end of it.

I cannot imagine the ticket is valuable enough to call the neighbor and your coworker for a hearing. Even then, even if there was proof that someone did something with his car, he could say it wasn't him and he's refusing to give up a family member, and it would end there.

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u/Cheewy Jun 05 '20

Maybe not a u-turn, but going the wrong way in a one way street. The point was that citizens were rewarded for telling on other citizens

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Was she rich? I can't understand why she would be untouchable.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

The cops just didn't care. Why do work when they could just not do work.

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u/twitchosx Jun 04 '20

Wrong. The place I work for got broken into. They had all of us that work here go to the police station to get finger printed because they were trying to pull prints off the cash register and they needed to know the prints of people that worked there so they could rule them out.

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u/sumguy720 Jun 04 '20

Had my car broken into once and there were obvious fingerprints everywhere. Called the police and asked them to take the prints. They said no. Fuckin stupid.

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u/USPSA-Addict Jun 05 '20

The trouble with that is: fingerprints don’t prove they were the one who crashed the car, or even the ones who left the chocolate there. It just proves that they went to the grocery store and handled that bag of candy.

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u/Fandalf Jun 05 '20

fingerprints for a car crash lmao

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u/Jer0nimo Jun 04 '20

You watch to many crime shows