Driving while suspended !!!!!

[shane3]

Well I got pulled over the other day for over taking an unmarked cop car they were doing 65 in a 80 zone, he said that I over took him a bit to fast, any way they were from the criminal investigation squad, so they asked what sort of trouble I have gotten into, told them a lot of speeding fines but that was all "what no drugs, thefts?" Then he also asked " this your car?" "Yes!" "How’d you get it?" “What sort of work do you do?" I told him a TAC pay out and that I'm an unemployed welder.
Well they went right through the whole car, popped the bonnet, pulled everything out of the glove box, the centre console, they even checked the contence of my cd wallet, popped the boot and even looked in the spare tyre well, BUT it wasn't until he saw the UHF radio that things got bad, he didn’t touch it but looked straight at me and said "you've got a scanner haven’t you" I told him that it's a UHF radio for when we go on drive's with the car club - pointing to the sticker on the passenger side window (FPV & XR owners club Vic) well I had to take it out and show him, after 30 seconds of looking at it he gave it back to me and wrote the club name down and went back to the car, 10 minutes later he came back to me and asked for my licence then again back to the car, 30 seconds later he was in my face saying that I was driving on a suspended licence......... : .... and what was my excuse, I had no idea that it had been suspended as I had taken the option to keep my licence and not get any fines for 12 months, He tells me that I'm in DEEP S**T as the fine can be up to $4000 and or 4 months in jail, well he takes my licence and tells me that I can pick it up later that day from his HQ and I'm not allowed to move or drive the car at all, so I call my wife and she gets in a taxi and heads down so she can drive my GT back home,
BUT while I'm waiting on the misses to arrive they take off, drive up the road do a "U" turn and park over the other side of the road in the Bunning car park and watch me for about 20 minutes, then drive past slowly and stop up the road down a side street and wait for another 20 minutes, then take off, when I got home I get on the phone to VIC roads and ask WTF!!!!! It turns out that as I had rang on the mobile phone to register my decision to keep my licence, the Vic roads system didn't register it, So by default they suspended my licence until the 2nd of March 05, I rang the cop and explained it to him and he told me that they will still fine me and that ignorance is no excuse :tosser1: .
Well we went down and picked up the envelope that had my licence and the fine in it and I’m shitting my self as to what the cop has fined me and if he has increased my suspention time, Well I almost ****ed my self from laughter, the cop was all **** and wind, he gave me a $112 speeding fine THAT WAS ALL!