Florida Woman gets into argument at DMV - gets arrested

[LiberalElite]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-brawl-with-police-officer-at-florida-dmv-ends-in-womans-arrest/

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- A woman was arrested at a South Florida DMV office after a furious confrontation with a police officer that was captured on videotape and posted to Facebook, reports CBS Miami.

On Friday, a woman's frustration at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles in Deerfield Beach led to violence when an officer showed up to escort her out -- after she'd been asked to leave. In the video, the woman -- later identified as Eleanore Stern -- was asked to listen to the officer, who it appears, may have initiated physical contact withe the woman.
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[romanic]

1. No sympathy from me.

She took her frustrations out at the poor DMV employees, then started the confrontation with the cop by pulling back and kicking him in the groin, then calling him a fag for trying to restrain her after attacking him first. She ain't no victim.

[LiberalElite]

2. None from me either nt

[raccoon]

17. Same here. Either she was drunk, high, and/or has serious personality problems. nt

[Recursion]

3. I must have had good DMV luck my whole life

because I've never understood the atavistic rage it seems to inspire in people. You show up, take a number, sit down, and when the number is called you go up and do whatever you have to do, pay a nominal fee, and go home with a piece of plastic or metal.

[BlueJazz]

4. I've never had one bit of trouble either. Everybody I know acts like they're going to the guillotine

[cwydro]

5. Agree. I find it more pleasant than the dentist actually.

It's just one of those things you gotta do in life.

My trick is finding a little out of the way town with a DMV office and being first in line in the morning.

Works a treat.

[Shandris]

13. I've had both.

When I was younger, the license branch was this huge (I mean HUGE) ex-warehouse or something with 2 hour lines (seriously, no hyperbole) sometimes (read: the first five days of EVERY month). Then, sometime around 2000, they renovated a bunch of them and suddenly its the most relaxing government errand I can possibly do. I'm seriously never in there more than 5 minutes now, 10 if they have to take a picture. I'm so vain, or something.

[cwydro]

15. Yeah, the city where I live is exactly like that - with the 2 hour wait.

Since that one horrid experience years ago, I now go to one of the tiny towns out in the country where I have a rustic kind of place to live. I enjoy the country DMVs. Friendly as can be and no wait.

[Archae]

6. Maybe if the DMV quit hiring sloths...

[Nye Bevan]

7. You have to go into the DMV with a very particular mindset.

It's not a normal place. Nobody is there to "serve" you, to "help" you, or to improve your experience in any way. You can't think of yourself as a customer in a store where they want to please you. It's much more like entering prison as an inmate and having the guards treat you entirely on their terms, not yours. Complaining won't help. Begging and pleading is fruitless. Showing anger, or indeed any kind of emotion, is highly counterproductive. The goal is just to grimly and stoically endure the experience and suppress all emotion and humanity until you're out of there.

[GReedDiamond]

8. The last time I was at the DMV...

...the DMV lady coughed directly in my face and on my left hand/arm, a total of three times.

She apologized and said she was allergic to the perfume on somebody nearby.

The perfume which I couldn't smell. At all. From nobody nearby.

I actually spent less than 10 minutes doing my business there (I had an appointment), and was back home 25 minutes after leaving.

I was sick within five days, which lasted just over a week or so.

It was all actually very efficiently done.

[peabody]

9. That's not specific to the DMV though.

It can happen anywhere depending on the thoughtfulness of the employee.

[GReedDiamond]

10. Point taken, but...

...having people I'm dealing with, or simply around, cough on me directly, where I actually feel the air moving into my face, is extremely rare.

In this case the DMV lady also had both of her hands in use, working her computer keyboard, so I actually understand that it may have been difficult for her to "cover her mouth" as she coughed.

And I'm just fine now, no permanent damage done.

[Nye Bevan]

11. They. Just. Don't. Care.

Asking a longtime DMV employee not to cough directly on customers would be met with hostility and/or utter bemusement. Going back to the prison analogy, it would be like an inmate requesting that a guard not shout so loudly.

[GReedDiamond]

12. Thanks, I think I just laughed out loud...

...that was funny, yeah.

[Buzz Clik]

19. +1; However....

... tip of the hat to Mitch Daniels in Indiana who, as governor, turned that around.

[Marrah_G]

14. she sounded drunk or high

[EL34x4]

16. "Mom won't be coming home today."

"She got arrested at the DMV."

I see anger management classes in Eleanore's future.

[Buzz Clik]

18. The woman got off really easy