Sometimes it's the little things

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Here in Arizona the first frame is illegal. Covers up too much of the license plate. Bad JuJu.

Ignore Chip, your tail light is fine.

Yup. If the frame covers up any part of the state (typically at the top) you can get pulled over. It's a relatively new law (1 or 2 years). A cop friend tells me that he likes it because it gives him probable cause to pull over suspicious vehicles that he would normally not have a reason to stop. Quite a number of car dealers around here still put illegal frames on the cars that they sell.

Yup. If the frame covers up any part of the state (typically at the top) you can get pulled over. It's a relatively new law (1 or 2 years). A cop friend tells me that he likes it because it gives him probable cause to pull over suspicious vehicles that he would normally not have a reason to stop. Quite a number of car dealers around here still put illegal frames on the cars that they sell.
That's one of those issues that just sends me 'round the bend.

In 1983, Ohio...had the genius idea that they could cut crime by putting COUNTY STICKERS on license plates. As it started, the county name was spelled out at the bottom of the plate.

Now of course it didn't fight any crime - it just gave Andy and Barney comfort in knowing they were stopping an out-of-towner for a BS speeding ticket. But displaying it was LAW.

And that was the era where the dealer license frames...were getting more and more garish. Instead of a chrome box, with the dealer name underneath...it was black plastic, with a raised insert at the bottom to spell out the dealer name in BLOCK LETTERS.

Covering the county ID sticker.

1984 I got a new job...a good job; and needed a good car. I got a good car and had the dealer hang my plates, taken off my old junker (which was worth exactly $100 at the scrapyard; dealer gave me more than that to close the deal). But, of course!...he had to hang to garish dealer frames on my plates.

And of course!...the Fairport Harbor PD saw an unfamiliar car; a NEW car in a village that didn't see many new cars. And I had just moved there, anyway. So I got TWO violations: Failure to display validation stickers (the County ID) and "speeding" (43 in a 40 zone).

Being stubborn and stupid, I decided to fight. Mayor's Court, which still existed then. Amazingly, once Mister Mayor satisfied himself that I really was a new resident, renting from a friend of his...he threw out the tickets.

But who needs the hassle?