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reply to: "But remember, this is a country where cops can pin you to the floor and forcibly take your blood to check for DUI. I don't think the 4th holds much water anymore."

ONLY if you were driving a car! Personally, I don't have a problem with the police enforcing the drunken driving laws, even when the drivers are to drunk to be cooperative.

BUT----> Isn't it a clear cut violation of your "rights" to HAVE to have a current license plate on your car, when driving on a PUBLIC road? Because THAT identifies you!

Actually I got a ticket once for expired tag, but the car had not ever been left private property while expired. The judge was very nice about it, but he had to look it up, seems that there is an obscure clause in MY state's law, that IF the parking spot is "generally accessible to the public", yes, indeed, you CAN be cited for expired registration. Since it was parked, undriven, in MY OWN PERSONAL parking space at an apartment complex, BUT that spot WAS accessible to the public, I lost, and had to pay the ticket.