A Long Island retiree says she's getting traffic tickets from all over the country and some Star Trek fans may be to blame.

Live Fast and Profit

  • FiniteLooper@lemm.eeEnglish
    50·
    21 days ago

    Reminds me of the guy who got a “null” vanity plate, and he got all the tickets for when an officer forgot to record the plate or some other data issue

    • Arbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      20 days ago

      For that one, a number of departments had a policy of writing NULL as the plate if it was unknown or the car didn’t have a plate.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    21 days ago

    However, for $15 on Amazon and eBay, some Trekkies have been easily replacing their real plates with the same novelty plates — and getting away with it.

    Im sorry, but that’s just too funny.
    I feel for the lady, but I’m laughing too

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        20 days ago

        I was going to say “that doesn’t make sense because it’s not just ‘plate’ on a ticket it’s ‘plate+state’”, but that DEFINITELY looks like a New York plate…

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          6·
          20 days ago

          Ohio dropped its front plate requirement a few years ago, and stopped issuing a second plate. People put all kinds of novelty plates on the front now, and a lot of them look like actual plates.

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    292·
    20 days ago

    You mess with the bull, you get the horns.

    And by “mess with the bull”, I mean exist in American society. And by “get the horns”, I mean get fucked over by an impersonal and impassionate system designed by the wealthy to only sustain their own wealth at the expense of everyone else.

  • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    21 days ago

    There should be some civil servant or elected official who could help this woman. Unfortunately, this isn’t the type of thing you can ignore and it will go away, so I understand her stress and fears. This is not only eating up her time, but causing financial strain for an individual on a fixed income.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    121·
    20 days ago

    I feel like … the general rule should be if the state fucks up and wastes someone’s time and money, they have to make up for that.

    This person should be rolling in cash because of the government mea culpas she is, in my imagination, entitled to.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    6·
    20 days ago

    I had some novelty plates and even barring something like this its a pain. It makes you far to identifiable and its not worth it to me whatever it might be.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 days ago

    Tangentially related, I once saw the vanity plate WSKYGRL. I guess she liked getting pulled over.