I thought that Massachusetts had “revenue officers” posted just to apprehend scofflaws like you! LOL!
There's a long story about that.They weren't "revenue officers",they were meant to prevent fireworks (illegal in MA,legal in NH) being brought over the line.That was some time ago...very messy affair! More recently ( a year or two ago) Massachusetts decided to demand of a tire store chain that they report the installation of any tires on cars with Mass plates done at any of their NH facilities.The Governor of NH told Massachusetts to go bleep itself and the NH legislature quickly passed a law forbidding any such act.
It was beautiful to watch!
> I thought that Massachusetts had “revenue officers” posted
> just to apprehend scofflaws like you! LOL!
They did, when the Peoples Gulag of Taxachussetts was run by communist diktator Michael Dukakis.
At that time, Dukakis came up with a tax collecting scheme. He posted plain-clothed state police to troll New Hampshire store parking lots to make note of Massachusetts license plates. The Mass staties would radio the number plates to their brothers over the state line in Massachusetts, where the “tax offenders” would be pulled over and arrested.
The NH governor, I think it was Mel Thompson at the time, had the plain clothes Massachusetts state police arrested for loitering in the parking lots.
I remember seeing the news clip of the NH staties taking the Mass staties into custody in handcuffs.
No more plain clothes Mass staties in NH, unless they’re buying big ticket items themselves.
“I thought that Massachusetts had “revenue officers” posted just to apprehend scofflaws like you! LOL!”
Yes, I can visualize the checkpoints you indicate. Remarkably enough, they look very similar to the checkpoints between east and west Berlin in the ‘70s. You know, the little booth to the side, red-striped, counterbalanced horizontal polls across each lane, three or four uniformed guards carrying short-barreled machine pistols, a couple of loosely leashed German Sheperds, a small armored car strategically positioned, and a fast pursuit car with the engine running.
The guards know exactly who to stop, too, as they’ve got auto-license-plate-recognition camera cars located at strategic entrances for the Walmart across the border. That information is automatically transmitted to those little booths which are also equipped with the same auto-license-plate-recognition cameras, which auto-drop the horizontal poll, blocking known scofflaws. Efficient teams zoom up to the captured suspect’s car, probing all known storage areas, and if nothing is found, then the car is slowly dismantled until the contraband school supplies, etc. are found. In the mean time, the entire family is duck-walked to the little booth, thrown against the wall, and handcuffed behind the back the entire time. Specially made, extra small handcuffs are used on the children and infants. The average take is about $9.00, plus the fine of course.
Anyone suspected of being an illegal alien is waved on through though, since checkpoints for that purpose are illegal.