Posted on 10/11/2024 5:52:11 AM PDT by texas booster
Daniel Rocha walked into a Prosper car dealership to test drive a truck, only to find himself in legal trouble within minutes. Rocha was pulled over by police shortly after beginning his test drive. The officer informed him that the reason for the stop was the absence of a license plate on the back of the vehicle. "When he stopped me, he asked for my driver's license and said the reason why I stopped you is because you don't have a license plate in the back," Rocha explained. Rocha received a citation for "Operating a Vehicle Without License Plates," and he claims the officer suggested that this was an ongoing issue with the dealership. "He said this has been ongoing with these dealers," Rocha said. "'We've been getting on these guys for doing that,'" he recalled the officer saying. "He said in order for us to make [the dealerships] abide, we're going to start citing the customers," he recalled.
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I got pulled over the the other day in Sante Fe. I was probably going 10 over, no idea really.
Cop said “you know why I pulled you over?”
I responded with a laugh “well, if you don’t know either, I should just be on my way,” and handed him insurance, license, and registration.
He just started laughing, ran my license, and let me go without even a warning.
So much is attitude.
THAT is the "safety concern" ...
Back when I lived in an apartment, the landlord (a lawyer) had dealer plates on his car from another state, and they weren’t held on by magnets, they were screwed on.
By the way, he was a scumbag, as are most landlords and lawyers.
“When did this doggie dirt language become the norm?”
You can thank the queen of word salad.
If it’s new vehicle from the factory, I doubt it’s been titled so it won’t show up in the DMV database.
I think the dealer gets a certificate of manufacture that used to get the first title when sold.
Thank god the Prosper popo were on top of this terrible crime. This must mean they have all the minor crimes handled.
“It’s not a moving violation so it will not affect insurance”
It may be, I got a similar ticket and I looked it up. it appeared not to be a moving violation so I just paid it
a few months later I got my ins renewel and it went up 82%
I was pissed and the ins company just said it is not your fault but we cannot tell you why it went up, and I had to order a lexus nexus report which did not tell me why either.
I went round and round with the state ins commissioner and the ins company with no luck. basically BS
I went to an ins broker cause I was not going to pay an 82% increase. they said I had a minor infraction and it was 2 points.
I would have paid my atty but I did not think I needed to. would have been far cheaper than the increase I got
TEMP TAGS apply when car is sold to allow new buyer time to get permanent tags.
DEALER PLATES are entirely different.
Speeding is extremely common in the area. Local police up that way have started severe enforcement efforts in the area all of a sudden - think “shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here” levels of timing - and they have cracked down on any infractions they can find when they can’t get enough speeders. Area speculation is that they’re doing it for revenue generation and to shut up the senior citizens who suddenly got real loud about it after the 380 rebuild was completed.
The no-license-plate thing is due to the state progressively killing temp tags. When a used car is sold, the prior owner is to retain the old tags now.
To be fair, Prosper PD doesn’t have a lot of crime to deal with, so they tend to need to come up with stuff to justify their employment.
It would be rather amusing if the dealer, assuming that it is a franchise, started writing up all sales, from new cars to a 25 cent part, as having occurred in a different jurisdiction and it was just delivered in Prosper. How long until the powers that be started bleating about the tax money?
” and to shut up the senior citizens who suddenly got real loud about it after the 380 rebuild was completed.”
Reminds me of when the senior citizens got all outraged when they witnessed a non senior center driven car that did not stop for a stop sign right in front of the city senior center and demanded that PD enforce the stop sign.
PD did as they were told and soon, the senior citizens were outraged for getting ticketed for running the stop sign.
Yeah, I give it about another month, two months max before the senior citizens of the area are complaining about the high enforcement *they* demanded.
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