Florida...always gets the bad guys...

[ArtVandelay]

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-accused-fraud-name-change-act-love-224309320.html

referencing a previous thread. Florida has some of the dumbest laws out there.

This seems like a perfectly good waste of time...

[rivergator]

My wife and I have been married for 32 years. But the last time she renewed her drivers license, she had to get it in her maiden name because the state wouldn't accept it otherwise.

[The_Ultimate_Gator]

This is a classic case of "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

[exiledgator]

Speaking of ganders. I'd sure like to take a gander at her.

[WESGATORS]

I have no idea why he wants to change his name to the same first and last as hers, but that's not nearly as big of a deal as why the government inserts itself as an obstacle to someone changing his name (short of trying to escape a criminal history or something along those lines). I would be curious to see what laws are in place that prohibit this or what River is trying to do.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

[HALLGATOR]

Bureaucracy, don't you just love it?

[MichaelJoeWilliamson]

Bureaucracy, don't you just love it?

Unfortunately, bigger and more intrusive government is synonymous with this kind of behavior.

[exiledgator]

Unfortunately, bigger and more intrusive government is synonymous with this kind of behavior.

Indeed. To be fair, however, bigger anything results in bureaucracy which leads to these type of results. Anyone who's grown a business or any type of organization recognizes that, to a large degree, bureaucracy is difficult if not impossible to avoid.

Smaller is better. Which is why I married a 5'2" woman.

[MichaelJoeWilliamson]

Indeed. To be fair, however, bigger anything results in bureaucracy which leads to these type of results. Anyone who's grown a business or any type of organization recognizes that, to a large degree, bureaucracy is difficult if not impossible to avoid.



That is really true. What is good in the businesses world though is that big, slow moving bureaucratic companies often become irrelevant. Some at a fairly fast pace

Look at the blue chip companies at the beginning of each decade starting in 1940. Compare them to today.

Government changes only with a lot of will of the people. UK went form something very close to communism to some that is still socialist, but a lot free er than it was. Or there can be revolution.

[secgator]

My wife and I have been married for 32 years. But the last time she renewed her drivers license, she had to get it in her maiden name because the state wouldn't accept it otherwise.

My wife renewed hers just last year--we've been married 24 years as of yesterday. She had to take a marriage certificate to show her last name is the same it has been for the last 20-some odd years, but she got the license with the correct last name.

Why wasn't your wife able to do the same?

By the way, I think it is totally absurd when it is a renewal--and the expiring license has been in effect for a very long time--to have to provide a marriage license, birth certificate, etc. For a renewal???