Consider a following hypothetical. You are in New York. Your friend or someone you know hands you the keys and asks you to drive giving you any reason (e.g. “I had some drinks”). As a conscientious fellow human being, you take the keys and get behind the wheel. Then, police pulls you over and issues you an appearance ticket / summons for driving a vehicle for which the registration has been suspended. You explain the officer that this is not your car and you had no way of knowing (registration sticker on the windshield shows that the status is current). Officer politely places the appearance ticket in your hands and even more politely asks you to explain this to the judge. You look at the ticket, you look at the person who gave you the keys, and ask yourself “what is going on”!? The person who gave you keys just recalls that she did not pay for car insurance in light of current global financial crisis, causing the insurance company to report to DMV, which in turn suspended the registration. You probably still wonder what is going on. Well, police officer and the person who asked you to drive a…
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