Dante Carver arrested for unlicensed driving

[Coligny]

Oh shiiiit... th3 laundry

(incredible... my own useful idiot... for me alone... thank you interwabnet...)

[omae mona]

No, I'm saying that they are small minded and vindictive in general about perceived slights. They thought the US failure to cooperate in the driving information was rude, so US licensed drivers will fail the driving test while someone from another country will pass, both drivers driving the exact same way.

Ah, now I understand what you meant. Sorry, missed the point the 1st time.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Ah, now I understand what you meant. Sorry, missed the point the 1st time.

What he's saying is bullshit though.

[omae mona]

What he's saying is bullshit though.

Somehow I am having a hard time accepting the test administrator was thinking about the League of Nations while I was driving, even as old as he was. And I passed the first time too.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Somehow I am having a hard time accepting the test administrator was thinking about the League of Nations while I was driving, even as old as he was. And I passed the first time too.

I passed the first time too. Even got 100% on the driving test. The idea that they are failing Americans on purpose as revenge is ridiculous.

[Kanchou]

That's great. Even the people at the license center says that in average it takes three or four times though. I think if experienced drivers can't pass the test in one or two tries on average, that's saying something.

[Dreamy_Peach]

It was always the young cop in the pair that would want to radio HQ for instructions on how to write a ticket to one driving on an International License, while the senior cop would say it was too much trouble, and to just make his woman impress upon him the sternness of the warning in Engrish. I'd just pretend to be shocked by her "revelation" that I'd broken some traffic regulation or other, and give the obligatory exaggerated "Oh-kei...Sankkyu!" to the officer who'd done the scolding to be passed on.

I wish it was so. I got gifted a nice set of points and fine after unknowingly crossing over the yellow line at a junction. I think I may have seen a fleeting hesitancy over the policeman's face when he saw me, but I got the points and fine nonetheless.

[matsuki]

I wish it was so. I got gifted a nice set of points and fine after unknowingly crossing over the yellow line at a junction. I think I may have seen a fleeting hesitancy over the policeman's face when he saw me, but I got the points and fine nonetheless.

Fine maybe...but how do they give you points on an international license?

I have a Japanese International license for just this reason. When at home in the states, despite my perfectly valid California license, one flash of the international license has kept me trouble free.

[damn name]

I passed the first time too. Even got 100% on the driving test. The idea that they are failing Americans on purpose as revenge is ridiculous.

What year was that?

The driving tester's form now says at the top that US license holders taking the test are to be given a more severe test than others. Go to the driver testing place and look at the form.

The League of Nations and Korean colonization were examples of how petty the culture can be, not WHY US license holders are held to a different standard on the driving test.

[matsuki]

What year was that?

The driving tester's form now says at the top that US license holders taking the test are to be given a more severe test than others. Go to the driver testing place and look at the form.

The League of Nations and Korean colonization were examples of how petty the culture can be, not WHY US license holders are held to a different standard on the driving test.

Ehhh, I got mine in 2009 and I don't remember that. Care to post up a pic/scan of it? Testing was a special shortened version for people with foreign licenses that weren't from Aus or other countries that were exempt from the test. Met people from a few different countries in there and we all took the same test. I don't even think the instructor knew which country anyone was from.

[Coligny]

That's great. Even the people at the license center says that in average it takes three or four times though. I think if experienced drivers can't pass the test in one or two tries on average, that's saying something.

Joking right ? Since the real life driving have nothing in common with the test criteria I think it's more surprising that experienced drivers need LESS tries than students...

It's like high school tests... Even in history today I would not be able to pass them (especially since A LOT of events are completely reversed when you study history at universities, HS programs being basically make you feel good polarized bullshit) While for students it's supposed to be a milk run.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Looks like they replaced Carver

What year was that?

2009.

[Kanchou]

Joking right ? Since the real life driving have nothing in common with the test criteria I think it's more surprising that experienced drivers need LESS tries than students...

It's like high school tests... Even in history today I would not be able to pass them (especially since A LOT of events are completely reversed when you study history at universities, HS programs being basically make you feel good polarized bullshit) While for students it's supposed to be a milk run.

I'm saying the test criteria are a poor way of showing driving competence and should be changed.

[Coligny]

I'm saying the test criteria are a poor way of showing driving competence and should be changed.

meee tooo

[canman]

I am surprised that Softbank hasn't pulled their commercials using Carver. I watched a couple just a few days ago, and there he was. Maybe Mr. Son doesn't think much of this and will let it go. Lucky for Carver, if that is the case.

[Doctor Stop]

I was thinking the same thing, Canman. I was pretty surprised that they haven't pulled him yet, at least temporarily.

[Mulboyne]

I am surprised that Softbank hasn't pulled their commercials using Carver. I watched a couple just a few days ago, and there he was. Maybe Mr. Son doesn't think much of this and will let it go. Lucky for Carver, if that is the case.

I think it might help that Ryo Ishikawa committed the same offence earlier this year with no commercial repercussions. Ishikawa had only passed his test overseas and was driving in Japan on an international licence.

[Coligny]

Might also help to be an administrative offense that the common Joe Tanaka barely care aboot.

->link with Yakuza -> everybody can picture the problem

and be outraged.

->arrested for an illegal U-Turn -> !!??
->driving with an expired internationnal license -> uhm... wait... what ?

Everybody is guilty of the first one be it on purpose or because the road signs placement are sometimes bordering on insanity. Don't even count...
For the second one... might raise more solidarity with the other driver than outrage...

[canman]

Wait, wait Mulboyne, you are comparing Ryo Ishikawa, the darling of the media, and the golf world, to Dante Carver!
I know the infraction was the same, but the differences are night and day, pun intended.
Coligny, I have found it doesn't matter how slight the crime may be, foreigners will get nailed to the wall over it. So yes, it is a surprise.

[Coligny]

Wait, wait Mulboyne, you are comparing Ryo Ishikawa, the darling of the media, and the golf world, to Dante Carver!
I know the infraction was the same, but the differences are night and day, pun intended.
Coligny, I have found it doesn't matter how slight the crime may be, foreigners will get nailed to the wall over it. So yes, it is a surprise.

Carlos Goshn kept his job despite crashing his Porsche...

(honestly... the world could do without him...)