Let's just say this hasn't been a good week. Back story first....
We live in a small village outside of a city of 115000 where our kids go to school. All week, their school bus has been canceled due to a lack of drivers. So I've been stuck driving them in the morning to school and going back at the end of the day to get them. It's a 25 minute drive each way. Our one daughter has a school work placement in the afternoon every day meaning that I have to drive back in at lunch and pick her up, come back home then drive her to her placement at a local horse ranch. Yesterday I had to take my wife's vehicle to the city as my truck was sitting there hooked up to a trailer ready to offload some furniture.
So I am making my way back to the city to pick up the kids at 3 and drive by an unmarked police car sitting there running radar. I was running around the posted speed limit on cruise so no big deal or so I thought. I looked in the mirror and he pulled out and began following me then flashed his lights. I pulled over right away. He does the usual license and registration thing. No problem. Comes back with a ticket for $65 for expired tags on the plates. No problem.
Here's the piss off part. We used to get a sticker that went on the plates when we renewed them which is a reminder of when they expire. The government decided last year WITHOUT BARELY ANY NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, to do away with the sticker reminder system and just leave it up to people to automatically know that on your birthday, you have to renew your plates. The confusion is that you can get them for either 1 or 2 years. And now you have ZERO way of knowing whether or not they are valid for 1 or 2 years presently. Mine on my truck are good for 2 years but next year I will have no visual reminders that I have to renew. All it is is a good money scam to keep the police funded.
We live in a small village outside of a city of 115000 where our kids go to school. All week, their school bus has been canceled due to a lack of drivers. So I've been stuck driving them in the morning to school and going back at the end of the day to get them. It's a 25 minute drive each way. Our one daughter has a school work placement in the afternoon every day meaning that I have to drive back in at lunch and pick her up, come back home then drive her to her placement at a local horse ranch. Yesterday I had to take my wife's vehicle to the city as my truck was sitting there hooked up to a trailer ready to offload some furniture.
So I am making my way back to the city to pick up the kids at 3 and drive by an unmarked police car sitting there running radar. I was running around the posted speed limit on cruise so no big deal or so I thought. I looked in the mirror and he pulled out and began following me then flashed his lights. I pulled over right away. He does the usual license and registration thing. No problem. Comes back with a ticket for $65 for expired tags on the plates. No problem.
Here's the piss off part. We used to get a sticker that went on the plates when we renewed them which is a reminder of when they expire. The government decided last year WITHOUT BARELY ANY NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, to do away with the sticker reminder system and just leave it up to people to automatically know that on your birthday, you have to renew your plates. The confusion is that you can get them for either 1 or 2 years. And now you have ZERO way of knowing whether or not they are valid for 1 or 2 years presently. Mine on my truck are good for 2 years but next year I will have no visual reminders that I have to renew. All it is is a good money scam to keep the police funded.
