Category: Information

  • What is a “1275” hold? IN & OUT Bail Bonds

    Your loved one calls you from jail and says he or she has been arrested. You try to post bail only to find out that you are not allowed to do so because there is a “1275 hold” on bail. What on earth is going on? In order for you to understand why you are…

  • 7 Criminal Defenses that Actually Worked – IN & OUT Bail Bonds

    Every once in a while, a criminal attorney will earn a victory by coming up with an inspired, passionate, and completely crazy strategy that ends up reducing the charges against their client or setting their client free. Here is a look at some novel defenses that had prosecutors wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth…

  • Paradox and Possibility

    There’s a possibility that if a cat jumps on a hot stove, it will never jump on a hot stove again – and that’s good. But it may never jump on a cold stove either, but that might be good too. When something happens and we assign a particular meaning to it, it reduces the…

  • Dad Writes School Donation Check Using Common Core

    Do You Know how much money he donated?  Douglas is the father of a child at Milridge Elementary School in Ohio. Douglas made a donation to the school by writing a check using Common Core math. How much money did Douglas donate to the school? Unless you are a fourth grader indoctrinated into Common Core,…

  • Humor via JibJab -Vista Bail Bonds®

    Can’t say Vista Bail Bonds doesn’t have a sense of humor.

  • Life Lessons Learned Being Locked Up

    Locked Up: Important Life Lessons I Learned From Being In Prison     Between the stabbings, beatings, tattoos, guns and drugs, my upper middle-class world was turned upside down. The face tattoos frightened me, despite being commonplace in prison. A person who has not spent time in prison may assume it is a cesspool for…

  • 12 Life Secrets Mankind Forgot

    Mankind: the more I ponder about it and life, the more I come to one solid realization: The biggest curse and predicament of modern Man is forgetfulness. Like a creeping malaise, forgetfulness has seeped through all of Man’s being and doing. Individually, collectively, historically or culturally, we are spellbound to forget. We haven’t only forgot…

  • Posting Bail on a Warrant

       Not many people get up in the morning and think how great an arrest warrant issued for them would make their day. Few people  plan to be arrested or want to have an warrant for them, but it happens to regular law abiding people everyday of every year. If a warrant has been issued…

  • A 2nd DUI in 10 years – San Diego County?

    When we bail a person out for driving under the influence, we often get asked by the defendant if they will go to jail for a 2nd DUI or how long they won’t be able to drive?“ We inform them we are not Attorney’s, therefore do not have a qualified answer for those questions, but…

  • When a pet is more than a pet.

    There are times when a pet is more than just a pet.  For those that had to use our service and, in turn, had the pleasure of meeting him, know that Buddy was truly an angel in the form of a dog. The Vista Bail Bonds family is fortunate to have a sister that, ten…