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Actually, I was responding to the guy who suggested pretending you
didn't have plate at all, with the idea that the cop can't give you a
ticket without them.
If you have the plates, the cop simply stands there and waits while
you bolt them on, then hands you a summons for not having them
properly attached.
If there's no place to attach them, then the hook comes out and the
previous scenario ensues.
I'm talking from personal experience here, I had a Mercedes once that
had original German license brackets, and I didn't want to drill holes
in the trunk or bumper, so I ordered conversion brackets from MB and
waited (3 months S.O. from Germany)
In the mean time I put the plate in the rear window. Sorry, not good
enough. About a week later I got pulled over. The Judge was satisfied
when I showed him the order for the brackets, but I still had to pay
the impound charges and wasted about a day total.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:10:25 -0600, you wrote:
>Well..... it looks like your talking about someone that does not have
>plates. I thought we were talking about having plates but not installing them.
>
>je
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>>Don't know about CA, but in NJ if you don't have a plate they impound
>>the vehicle and take it away on a hook, and if you're real nice they
>>might give you a lift to a pay phone, after checking you out for
>>priors and warrants, of course.
>>
>>You get the vehicle back when you get plates, pay the fine and the
>>storage charges, and smile real nice. And of course you have to go to
>>the impound yard, which is 50 miles from noplace you'd ever want to
>>be.
>
>
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