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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refused my vanity plate request: FAH-Q |
Posted on 07/22/2004 7:30:42 PM PDT by John Jorsett
WILMINGTON, Del. - A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding the bag. Jim Cara thought the "NOTAG" plate he got for his Suzuki motorcycle would give people a laugh.
Instead, he found that the laugh - along with more than 200 parking violations - was on him.
The new tag arrived in the mail Saturday, along with an avalanche of Wilmington parking violations.
"All the traffic tickets say, 'Notice of violation. License number: no tag,'" Cara explained.
Officials said city computers linked to state Division of Motor Vehicles computers finally found an address for ticketed vehicles that lacked license tags: Cara's home in Elsmere.
"I messed up the system so bad," Cara said. "I wonder if they can put me in jail or something?"
Cara, 43, who works for the American Motorcycle Association, said he's been a lifelong prankster. This time, though, "the cleanup is going to be worse than the joke," he said.
John Rago, spokesman for Wilmington Mayor James Baker, said an incorrect computer code used by the contractor that processes the city's parking violations helped land the tickets in Cara's mail. City officials plan to have it corrected, he said.
Fortunately for Cara, Wilmington appeared to be the only jurisdiction with the no-tag computer glitch, said Kelly Pitts, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation.
Pitts said Cara's best insurance against future problems would be to change the "NOTAG" plate.
No way, said Cara.
"I think it's awesome," he said.
It's Ashcroft's fault, of course.
Bump the hooligans
Maybe she can hook up with that 8675... chick from the cell phone commercial.
You mean Jenny? Her number is 867-5309.
That way, when setting up a new phone line and the operator asks "Who would you like as your LD carrier?" Ta Da! a new customer.
The 867-5309 number was for sale on Ebay a few months ago.
Oh, great. Now I have that tune running through my head all night... Thanks.
A tune that gets stuck in your head and you can't stop singing it even though you hate it is called an "ear worm".
It can ALWAYS be worse. Someone could whisper Culture Club's "do you really want to love me" in your ear at work and it will take you weeks to get even.
This is hilarious!
I remember the story a few years back like this. In this state you were given three slots to pick your plate, but he only had two ideas, so he wrote on the third space "no plate" and sure enough, he go NO PLATE and started getting tickets in the mail.
That is GOOD!!
Of course this is coming to a man who married a woman named 'No Name Jones'! True!!
My favorite was one from California a number of years ago: UPURZ2. DMV was too stupid to decipher it before issuing it, tried to steal it back, owner refused to cough it up - can't remember if Big Stupid Government managed to grab it back or not.
Sign up for NO BRAINS and shut the whole government down.
There have been cases of men being pursued by the state for child support even when DNA evidence shows they're not the father.
I wouldn't be surprised if an overzealous state's attorney general wages a media campaign to force him to pay the tickets.
When I bought a Saab, I wanted the vanity plate "SNAAB". Someone already has it.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refused my vanity plate request: FAH-Q |
I read a few years ago (it seemed to come from a legitimate source, but I won't vouch for it) about a guy who got the license plate "UKFA UYA" and explained it was an acronym for his organization, United Kids For A United Young America.
Read it in pig latin.
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