Schwarzenegger Finally Gets a License

Schwarzenegger Finally Gets a License

By MIREYA NAVARRO
July 7, 2006

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has finally gotten a
motorcycle license after riding his Harley-Davidsons for years in
movies and off without one.

A spokeswoman for the governor, Margita Thompson, said he passed both
a written and a riding test and got the required permit on Monday,
nearly six months after he crashed one of his Harleys into an S.U.V.
pulling out of a driveway while riding near his Los Angeles home with
his 12-year-old son in a sidecar.

The governor, who needed 15 stitches on his upper lip, said at the
time that he had not bothered to get the proper license because he had
"never thought about it."

The Los Angeles Police Department did not issue any citations in the
accident because department officials said no police officer saw what
had happened. Officials at the Department of Motor Vehicles also
cleared the governor of any violation, noting that because of the
sidecar he was not technically riding on two wheels.

I feel that DMV and Police Department should not have to explain their
actions: after all it is clearly written in American constitution that
laws don't apply to rich and famous.

But Ms. Thompson said Mr. Schwarzenegger, who broke six ribs in an
accident years earlier, had not ridden since the January crash. She
said he had been too busy governing but had finally taken time this
week to make himself a legal motorcyclist.