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YouTubeMeter Maids are now giving out tickets if you don't have a front license plate displayed on your car. One of my friends and Dave each got a ticket for that recently and the meters both times were not expired. $40 seems kind of harsh for not pulling the old plate out of the trunk. Besides they already got my dollar for the city when I used the parking meter to begin with.
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Meter Maids are Ticket crazy - watch out!
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lifeliberty
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I can't remember the last time I got a ticket, probably about 8 years ago and i think for speeding. I love most forms of transport that involve an engine and control.
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Tigertree
771 N. High St.
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I just got two tickets for my expired registration. In 3 days. I had no way to take care of it because Niki was out of town so I thought I would just be safe and not drive. I also got a ticket last month for being parked less than 5 ft. from a driveway, and Niki gotone for blocking a sidewalk ramp. Not even one at the end of the street.
Posted 4 years ago # -
desecration
Harrison West
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Yeah the ones in the Short North are maybe doing too good of a job. :lol: My brother got one for expired tag and my husband got one for expired meter. I joked that there must be something similar to the bat signal that shoots into the sky to inform those neon vested workers. I try to give a heads-up to people who stop into the store/gallery just in case...
Posted 4 years ago # -
turbo ninja
Crumb Bus, Oh.
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Funny that they'd be so picky in some places and let German Village slide. They could probably do 100 tickets every weekend if they'd just walk City Park, Blenkner, Hoster, Beck, Willow and Sycamore and actually cite cars without the residential permits at night.
Posted 4 years ago # -
StudyBug
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Oh boy, have I got a story for you.
When I lived on campus, I accumulated over $300 in tickets for an expired tag among other things, in less than a month. they ticketed me for the expired tag, then for having my expired tag and my new tag displayed (the old tag was all rusty and I really couldn't get it off), then for my parking pass not matching my license. It went on like this for over a week. Everytime I got a ticket, I tried to fix the problem and they would ticket me the next day for something else. I eventually wrote a long letter to parking bureau and all tickets were dismissed.
Anybody know, does Sly still do the ticketing around there? She was something else.
Posted 4 years ago # -
DublinDiver
Currently on Tour
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FUCK SLY. Yes that bitch is still there. I hated seeing that name every time I got a ticket. My most frustrating (and first) ticket form that whore was when I parked my car on 14th during the permit only time. I walked into my friends house across the street and then walked back out. The whole trip didn't take but 4 minutes. When I came back I had a ticket on my window, and she was no where to be seen. I saw the name sly and it was like another kick in the pants. You think your so sly giving out tickets to poor college kids who cants afford them, but fuck you.
I like police officers, working in clubs I have become friends with many of them, heck my neighbor was a K9 officer for dublin for many years until he retired. However there are two types of law enforcement officers that I despise. The State Highway Patrol & Meter Maids. Neither do any good for the citizens, all they do is write tickets. If I'm getting robbed or mugged I'll call a cop. Why do you call either of those two agencies, oh wait, you dont.
Did I mention I really hate Sly.
Posted 4 years ago # -
dru
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i got a ticket for this a few weeks ago while at Due Amici. same story, my meter was chock full but they went after the missing plate. i went home and checked the bmv web site, and as walker states, it is apparently law. so nothing to do but write the check. but setting the neo-luddite fantasies of a carless downtown aside, i do find it interesting that one arm of the city tries really hard to get people to come downtown and spend their $$$, and the other arm goes out looking to enforce a pretty arcane law to get $$$ another way. it's not effective pr.
Posted 4 years ago # -
adrock
Grandview Heights
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no offense, but it's not arcane in the least bit. it's well known and has been for decades. if two plates weren't required for cars, then they wouldn't send you two of them and 99% of the cars on the road wouldn't have two of them.
if i was a cop and someone tried to play dumb with me on this i'd bust them on any stupid charge i could.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Cyclist
Peach District (State of Mind)
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From the wikipedia:
Many American states are now strictly enforcing laws that require vehicles to display two license plates (on the rear and front of the vehicle).[2] One possible benefit of front license plates is to increase the effectiveness of red-light cameras, which work only if a vehicle can be linked back to its registered owner. Opponents of two license plates usually do not like front plates on certain sports cars and historic cars because of their visual obtrusiveness from the vehicle. (For example, a Car and Driver reader wrote in to the magazine to point out that the Mazda RX8 looks like Bugs Bunny when so equipped.) They argue that they add cost to production,
use resources (metal), create double the amount of waste and do not give police any extra tool in recovering stolen vehicles.
In the Canadian provinces and territories of Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon, and in the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts (most plates issued prior to 1988 - see note below), Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, however, license plates are currently only required on the rear of the vehicle. Some vanity and specialty plates in Arizona and Kansas are issued in pairs, but only the rear plate is required to be displayed; the optional front plate is something of a bonus for paying an extra fee for the plate.
Massachusetts is a unique case for license plate mounting, arising from that all license plates issued there since 1978 are currently valid. Prior to the introduction of the current "Spirit of America" base starting in 1986 for commercial vehicles and vanity plates and 1988 for all other vehicles, the state issued only a single green-on-white plate to be mounted on the rear bumper. With the current-issue base, two plates are issued, to be mounted on both the front and rear bumpers. The result of this is that while most passenger vehicles registered in Massachusetts display two plates, those with the older green-on-white plates only display one.
In Ohio, convicted drunk drivers may have the option to drive with special red-on-yellow licence plates in exchange for a lesser sentence.
Posted 4 years ago # -
adrock
Grandview Heights
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Two two plate thing is unique in Ohio as only a few states require front and back.
by "unique in Ohio as only a few states require front and back" do you really mean common in the majorty of states in the US?
and in the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts (most plates issued prior to 1988 - see note below), Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, however, license plates are currently only required on the rear of the vehicle.
50 states - 20 states that allow rear only = 30 states require both.
Posted 4 years ago # -
golden
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dru wrote i do find it interesting that one arm of the city tries really hard to get people to come downtown and spend their $$$, and the other arm goes out looking to enforce a pretty arcane law to get $$$ another way. it's not effective pr.
Aside from the front plate technicality, meter maids are absolute predatory hawks on that little strip of Gay Street where 25 cents will get you 10 minutes of parking time. As far as I'm concerned the system is heavily tilted towards issuing tickets to collect revenue rather than collecting meter revenue or keeping parking spaces free. If they were really interested in keeping the spaces open it seems they would be towing cars away but instead they've carefully calculated just how much temporary rage the average person will put up without going postal. In the case of a car on an expired meter it's really to their advantage to leave the car there in hopes that they can issue a second ticket on their next pass.
In most instances it's the same deal with speedtraps. When the highway patrol is actually interested in controlling traffic speed they take their cars out and pace traffic, daring people to pass them. When they are interested in generating revenue they set speedtraps.
It's kinda weird as society just seems to have passively agreed to these kinds of practices that are geared to revenue generation rather than actual problem solving. You can certainly make the argument that it they are necessary to keep people from abusing the system but I've seen way too much predatory behavior to think that there isn't a significant hidden cost in the form of distrust and general ill will.
Posted 4 years ago # -
dru
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adrock wrote no offense, but it's not arcane in the least bit. it's well known and has been for decades. if two plates weren't required for cars, then they wouldn't send you two of them and 99% of the cars on the road wouldn't have two of them.
if i was a cop and someone tried to play dumb with me on this i'd bust them on any stupid charge i could.
well almost no offense, i'm just excited to know that the beastie boys visit and post on this site.
most states that do not require 2 plates still send you 2 plates. in those states the front plate is merely optional. i've lived in OH for 8 years, and for most of those I went without a front plate (screw broke, plate came off). i've even been pulled over for speeding, and the officer failed to make note of it for me. but maybe he was just being nice instead of using his authority to powertrip and increase his mental self worth by berating me as dumb and stupid.
Here's a link:
http://www.theblueline.com/feature/OHcolumbus.html
I'm sure their looking for some good new meter patrols looking to ego trip on people.
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