Vanity plate leads to $20,000 in tickets
Cleverness is its own reward punishment.
Fortunately for cash-strapped parents, Georgia's plan to require giant license plates on small children went nowhere.
A D.C.-area man, who, in an attempt at humor dared get a personalized license plate reading “NO-TAGS,” has been rewarded with $20,000 in traffic tickets, reports NBCwashington.com.
Jovial Redskins fan Danny White alleges he gets the bill whenever police come across a car without a license plate and write “No Tags” on the ticket.
White says he spends one day every few months hacking and slashing at the red tape his joke, and government bureaucracy, has created.
His driving record is so maimed by the wrongful tickets he can’t get his license or registration renewed, reports Channel 4.
I’m still trying to get ParkAtlanta to admit they double-ticketed me in August 2011, so I feel his pain.
The DMV, despite realizing they are wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars mailing tickets to the wrong motorist, seems unwilling to fix their computer system. Instead, they want to void the “confusing” tag White’s had for 25 years and make him pay for another one.
We don’t always get the type of government we overpay for.
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35 comments Add your comment
karl
February 17th, 2012
10:07 am
And I guess by reading the paper for free online, we get the type of columnist that ends articles with a preposition???
Bernard The Woodpecker
February 17th, 2012
10:10 am
Actually, I understood that he wasn’t trying to be funny, it was a clerical error. When you apply for a vanity tag, you are given three slots to put three different choices in case you first ones are already taken. In slot number 3 he put ‘NO TAG’ meaning that he didn’t want a vanity plate if he couldn’t get one of his first two choices. When they sent him a plate reading, ‘NO TAG’, and not realizing the implications, he just put it on his car. Fast forward a few years later and he’s in administrative hell.
amy
February 17th, 2012
10:13 am
i would’ve gone with NOSCRUBS (if i were a vanity plate-type person, that is)
Caduceus
February 17th, 2012
10:23 am
Clicked for the story. Stayed for the caption. Hilarious!
George
February 17th, 2012
10:33 am
How about OBAMAISANIDIOTWHOISRUININGTHISCOUNTRY? Would that fit?
George Mathis
February 17th, 2012
10:38 am
It is a myth that sentences can’t end in prepositions. Consider this example — “What did I just step in?” Would you prefer to read “In what did I just step?” Of course not.
Dana P.
February 17th, 2012
10:42 am
@ Bermard the Woodpecker: Thanks for the clarification. This story kinda had me scratching my head. Now I kinda feel badly for they guy.
JoJa Boi
February 17th, 2012
10:46 am
Karl, I am proud that you even knew that for was a preposition, and that in most cases you shouldn’t end a sentence with one! However, you can indeed end a sentence with a prepostion if the sentence wouldn’t make since without it. So try making since of the last sentence without the usage of the word for. (Did it again) Once you are done reading that sentence without “for”, ask yourself, “does this make since?”
Ryneberg
February 17th, 2012
10:49 am
A preposition is usually the wrong type of word to end a sentence with.
Ben Russell
February 17th, 2012
11:13 am
Big Government, Big Business, they are inflexible because they can be! Vote out lousy politicians and refuse to do business with uncaring, non-responsive businesses !!!!