Always Drive With Your License Plate

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I got a notice in the mail today from the Police Dept.

Me: Wha??

Turns out it was a warning, saying I failed to show up in court to pay a ticket I got last month for having my car parked illegally without a license plate. Sorry, but, last time I looked, I never go anywhere without my license plate firmly attached to my car.

After a few mintues of tracing my every step from the day it said it was issued, I figured out it was a few days after my Dad picked up the Escort to sell for me. My brilliant father, after my asking him five hundred times if he wanted me to drive back to his place for a license plate, drove the 20 minutes to my house to his house with no license plate on the car. The ticket probably came, though, when he left it parked in a drugstore parking lot, still without a license plate!!! I told him, HAVE told him, "Anything that happens while you are behind the wheel of (any of) my car(s), you pay/fix/take any and all responsibility for." He is a grown man; I shouldn't have to tell him this.

I- oh, excuse me - HE has 14 days from Oct. 8th to pay, or else a warrant for my arrest will be issued. I am paying it tomorrow, since he is giving me the $80 sometime over the weekend.

Why do I feel as if I have a 16 year old for a father?!?!?!?!?

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

oy, i know what you mean. that's weird though as to how if you had no license plate but they could still find out where you live. i guess they took your vin instead.

 

[Angela Harlem]

They'd have to get the hood open to see the vin wouldn't they? I wouldn't even know where the vin is lol. They may have cross checked with the DMV and their own database for any stolen car or one which would have been a few days without a plate. If yours was the only model in the area to match that, then they might have issued it.
Hope your dad helps you sort it out April.
I have never once been booked or pulled over or harrassed or anything and always whinge about it. Its like I'm invisible.
A few weeks ago, we parked next to this pub to have lunch with the whole family and when we came out, I saw chalk marks on the tyre and walking toward us with this evil look on its face was one of the anal parking robots this country insists on hiring. My husband was busy gasbagging to the family saying goodbye and things and I'm whispering loudly and rudely for him to get the hell in the car and drive off. He finally twigged and the parking robot snarled at me and stalked off.
Bastard! Try and give ME a tricket for parking in a 10 minute bay for 2 hours will you!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

silly, your vin is on the driver's side of your dashboard. it's visible through your windshield. some thieves like to be slick and steal cars by writing down the vin, going to a dealer, and getting a duplicate key made. they then break into your car using a key like it's perfectly normal cuz it is. but you can't cover up the vin cuz that's illegal.

 

[Sicy]

Woah.. did they take a picture of the car or something and send you a ticket? Or was there a ticket on the car and he ignored it or what?

I dont know how it is elsewhere but here you can get a ticket for not having a FRONT license plate on.. even if you have the back one on..

 

[IWasBored]

that sucks, mr. baw. but it's kind of funny...

 

[IWasBored]

I dont know how it is elsewhere but here you can get a ticket for not having a FRONT license plate on.. even if you have the back one on..

you know what? i asked my parents about that when i was about 6 or 7, and they never answered me...

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

are you on crack today, iwb?

that sucks, mr. baw. but it's kind of funny...

 

[Sicy]

you know what? i asked my parents about that when i was about 6 or 7, and they never answered me...

Glad I could be of service

 

[Sicy]

Re: are you on crack today, iwb?

 

[Mr. BAW]

Is this system haywire??? a lot of responses coming from the wrong forum?

 

[Bonochick]

I dont know how it is elsewhere but here you can get a ticket for not having a FRONT license plate on.. even if you have the back one on..

That's how it is in Wisconsin. We live in Michigan, but our twin city was in Wisconsin (close border!). When my parents first split, my mom moved to our twin city and therefore got Wisconsin plates, and she had to have one on the front.

It could get confusing living on a state border...different laws for different states.

Oh...and...BTW...

"Always Drive With Your License Plate"

DUH!! *smacks your dad upside the head*

*runs away cuz I'm sure your dad could kick my ass*

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

wisconsin license plates are made of cheese.

 

[IWasBored]

Re: are you on crack today, iwb?

yes i seriously must have been

i'm just as confused as you are, and i have no memory of even seeing this thread.

 

[cydewaze]

My ex gf drove her car 10,000 miles with no oil change, and it leaked oil on top of it. So, of course, the engine died. I wanted her to donate it to the local high school and take a tax credit, but Nooooooo, her mom HAD to have it.

So, I told her mom, "The insurance and everything are now YOUR responsibility, because we're cancelling it at the end of the month." But did mom insure the thing? OF COURSE NOT! And my ex got a HUGE fine in the mail.

MD charges you something like $150 for the first 30 days uninsured, and like $100/day for every day thereafter.

 

[zoney!]

wisconsin license plates are made of cheese.

I checked on this for you...they are not cheese.

Do you have a band-aid for my tongue?

 

[Mr. BAW]

"On Wisconsin" was our school fight-song in CA.

 

[BAW]

"On Wisconsin" was our school fight-song in CA.

For all of CA or just your school?

 

[Chizip]

ouch, you gonna take that Mr BAW?