Posted on 03/29/2017 12:28:10 PM PDT by SandRat
Urinating on your license plate will block photos too.
Hey! That’s the same color as mine!
Obviously this is about ticket revenues. If it was about catching criminals, it isn’t hard for a criminal to steal plates from another car and put them on his getaway car before the commission of a crime, then remove them when the crime is over.
Or just buy an HP color printer and print out a fake plate using the colors of a real plate. In a flash would anyone notice that it was paper not metal?
I have never been unable to read a tag number under a plastic cover or because of the sun. Made up reason for $$$
Great photo!
(Can’t believe I am asking this) Really?
Then they need to comply. Just like window tint laws, each state has their own rules on what’s legal and if you bring your car there you can get ticketed for being outside regulations.
Best suggestion I ever saw from a FReeper:
If busted by one of these cameras, go to trial and seek the source code of the camera system in discovery. The case will be dropped faster than you can say “copyright infringement”. The manufacturer of the camera would sooner let you walk than give that up.
It’s been illegal in NY for years.
Where's the MAGA!
I can’t believe it either. :)
the camera that got me showed my license plate, and my face (they blurred the face of my son, riding shotgun).
Isn't this the same argument gun grabbers make about guns? When license plate covers are illegal, only criminals will have license plate covers.
I never understood the purpose of those things
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They are like the CB radios and radar detectors from the last century. Folks use them to try and beat the system.
But sometimes the system beats you.
Oh Well.
IOW they don't want anything getting in the way of their totalitarian surveillance-state traffic
* cameras.
* - One of the things that ought to make it really easy to get out of these traffic-camera system tickets is that such a system could easily be rigged to have a quota... which makes the we get a percentage
contracts that the traffic-camera companies normally have really suspicious.
In my state the courts ruled them unconstitutional per se. they violate search and seizure, right of confrontation , 5th amendment. They cannot prove who was driving. Never admit that. How do they convict? Tear up the bill they send. If that is followed with any kind of state action file a motion to dismiss. It will be granted. Its not the machine— its the constitution. Also they will assert they will hurt your credit. Bull crap. You didn’t buy anything. They are attempting to collect a debt you did not incur. That is a fine in most states so that company owes you money!!. Sent them a letter under the Fair credit Billing act that they are in error with their billing. That triggers chaos. They will go away. They are extorting money illegally on contract with some damned government and it is all about money. YOUR MONEY!! IMO
LMAO!! Sometimes I bite in spite of myself! :-)
see reply #19
Same here in California, illegal for years. My wife got a ticket for it once, we have a plastic cover over the plate on her car. Paid the ticket, got it cleared, then I put the cover back on. I'm sure lots of folks do this. I got a ticket for something 400 miles away in L.A., fought it with proof my car wasn't there and got it dismissed (plus my white truck is not a red sedan). Cops probably misread a blurred license plate and foisted the ticket on me. I hate overzealous ticketing.
That stuff works.
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