"You stink!" < /seinfeld >
Posted on 10/24/2007 10:59:06 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
(AP) FREDERICK, Md. A man reportedly stopped by Frederick County sheriff's deputies for having too many air fresheners on his rearview mirror says he suspects the real reason he is that he is Hispanic.
Mauricio Arellano told The Frederick News-Post that the deputies "found an excuse" to stop him and check his immigration status.
I don’t know about in MD, but in VA it is illegal to have anything hanging from your reaview mirror....you can be cited for obstruction of vision.
That guy was smoking brick after brick of herb, and he’s pulling the race card. The air fresheners weren’t because he hadn’t showered recently, I’m sure.
Too many air fresheners could be judged an obstruction or a distraction to seeing properly through the windshield.
I don’t know if this is normally an issue, or how many too many would be.
But I believe there are rules in most states against putting unauthorized stickers on the windshield, or that sort of thing.
that “excuse” was breaking the law.
In NJ it is called a view obstruction and they can stop you for it, ticket you, and make you remove the items from your mirror.
Yes, I got a ticket for my Mardi Gras Beads that my friend brought me back from New Orleans many years ago....
I think that’s a stupid reason to stop someone. I hate cops who go on fishing expeditions. Cops should leave people alone except in extreme circumstances.
"You stink!" < /seinfeld >
And, for a “repo man” reference:
“find one in every care. you’ll see”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?blogid=29&entry_id=20979
Tell me he is just Djoken.
This kinda reads like the guy suspects the real reason he has so many air fresheners on his mirror is that he is Hispanic.
Ain't too flattering!
Jerry: Boy, do you smell something?
Elaine: Do I smell something? What am I, hard of smelling? Of *course* I smell something.
Jerry: What is it?
Elaine: I think it’s B.O.!
Jerry: What?
Elaine: It’s B.O. The *valet* must have had B.O.
Jerry: It *can’t* be. Nobody has B.O. like this.
Elaine: Jerry. It’s *B*.*O*.
Jerry: But the whole car smells.
Elaine: So?
Jerry: So when somebody has B.O., the “O” usually stays with the “B”. Once the “B” leaves, the “O” goes with it.
< /seinfeld >
Yeah, like after two passenger airliners are crashed into the WTC!?!
Huh?
MV
In TN you don’t have to have one if you have outside mirrors.
Same law here in NY. Got to know it first hand. But hey, why question the law when you can play the race card?
Obstructing the windshield could be illegal. (Though many people hang things on their rearview mirrors, and over here, there is at least on town where Latino and African descended people are watched more closely by police (as in followed in police cars surreptitiously) and are more probable to be pulled over for bad driving than European or Asian descended bad drivers who speed, don’t signal, etc. Very wealthy town, too).
The best was the motorcycle cop who had one on his bike’s visor.
Beat me to it, but it is the law in several other states as well.
The scene that came to my mind is of Walter Matthau in “Grumpy Old Men” with all the air fresheners in his car trying to mask the smell of the dead fish that Jack Lemmon put in there.
ve to lay ‘em on the dashboard... and watching them slide all the way over to the other side in a quick turn. I am glad to be living elsewhere, now, in the land of free hanging air fresheners.
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