Posted on 04/29/2005 11:02:02 PM PDT by ryan71
Edited on 04/29/2005 11:10:36 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Some Ohioans convicted of drunken driving can be seen driving vehicles with yellow license plates. If one Ohio lawmaker has his way, sexual predators could soon have to drive vehicles with pink license plates, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.
The bright yellow license plates help law enforcement officers recognize drivers with multiple DUI convictions.
"We've sold over 16,000 in the past five years," said Fred Stratmann, of the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
The pink plates could help notify police -- and parents -- of another type of offender.
"It identifies them," said Rep. Michael DeBose, (D) 12th District. "The primary reason they can prey is because they're camouflaged from who they really are."
DeBose introduced a bill this week in the Ohio House suggesting mandatory pink license plates for sexual offenders so children know to stay away, Tate reported.
"There's such a problem -- around rec centers, parks, school yards," he said. "There's no way to identify them and to protect children."
DeBose wants tough penalties for sexual predators who try to disguise themselves by removing their plates.
The Ohio Department of Public Safety isn't sure a sexual offense warrants a special plate as much as a drunken driving conviction does, Tate reported.
But DuBose said this crime deserves the color.
"It may act as a deterrent to keep them from driving around and causing trouble," he said.
Well, that's one way to keep anyone from borrowing your car!
I hope "the system" distinguishes between predators vs. parking-lot pissers, barely NOT legal consentual rapists, and (of course) circumstantial victims of accidental self-nudity.
I believe a similar proposal was made for drivers with a history of DUI except they got halloween orange.
woops, yellow.
Homosexuals and code pinkos can get them for free too as a "fashion" statement.
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
THO gay!
No way the gay lobby lets them get away with this. It hits them too close to home.
Well, that would help I.D. some criminals, but what color are the plates for murderers, armed robbers and child beaters?
I wonder how long it's going to take for the states to start issueing yellow Stars of David.
Pretty sad to think that gays somehow own the color pink.
It was an OK color, until they stole that and purple.
Now you can't even have a rainbow on your vehicle. They took every f*&-ing color from us!
Im thinking the same thing.
"Now you can't even have a rainbow on your vehicle. They took every f*&-ing color from us!"
Damn! Just damn! LOL
Maybe a design where the characters are printed in alternating contrasting colors. Like green-red-green-red or yellow-violet-yellow-violet. This pinky-purple is jutht too GAY.
Actually, maybe, RAINBOW, as in coalition?
That is so totally off base and you have to know it unless you liken sexual predators to a reglion. Practicing the Jewish religon and practicing child molestation can hardly be compared. You must be responding to the Libertarian ping above. The party of one big free for all.
Now I know why New Mexico tags are yellow.
I think it's the "GAY" color scheme, playing off a stereotype. (And I think homosexuals are wrong, wrong, WRONG but it's also untrue to imply that all or even most are guilty of putting their willies anywhere but in each other.) Suppose yellow starred plates were issued to swindlers?
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