Sign your car registration!

[ralphb72]

Friend of mine got a $125 ticket for not having a signed car registration ( https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3388841003451&id=1342373220 ).

It used to always be right on the front of the registration, a big line and notice that the registration was not valid until signed. For some reason, someone decided to change it to a notice on the BACK of the registration. It is not valid unless signed by ALL owners or something to that effect. Who looks at the back of those things?

I always make sure we sign them, but this year when I got the plate for the van, I didn't even look on the back. I noticed that there was no place to sign on the front so I ASSumed they had finally done away with the stupid signing rule. When I got the vibe's I noticed the stupid place on the back, got the other one back and and we signed them both.

$125 is kind of steep for a missing signature on a stupid piece of paper!

 

[tmccorkel]

Happened to me once. I was actually stopped for speeding, but the officer only fined me for the registration. I suppose a non-moving violation is better than a speeding ticket.

 

[KLB]

I hope you went to court.

 

[littletommy]

If you do not abide by the kings rules, you will pay dearly.

 

[tmccorkel]

Nope. I was young, dumb, and he claimed he was doing me a "favor".

 

[mike8170]

Pay those fines! Keep the government running in order to steal from you and your children.

 

[ralphb72]

Court costs-state: $49; court costs-county: $21; infraction judgements: $9.50; law enforcement fee: $4; highway work zone fees: 50 cents; jury fee fund: $2; document storage fee: $2; auto. record keep-state: $4; judicial ins adjust fee: $1; judicial salaries fee: $19; court administration fee: $5; DNA sample processing: $2; public defense admin fee: $5; aotu record keep-county: $1. Grand total: $125

 

[CTC B4Z]

Ill forget about this by time I get to my truck, so next time im pulled over ill be sure to sign it right in front of LEO

 

[Suprtek]

That's happened to me before. I must have had a cool officer though because all he did was ask me to sign it. I didn't even get a ticket.

 

[ralphb72]

I've always been anal about having my wife sign it, but I did it just because I'm anal about paperwork, I never knew it was a $125 offense.

 

[Bill of Rights]

I once got pulled over for my registration being expired. It wasn't; I had simply not put the sticker on. I had the paper with the sticker still attached inside the car. Still don't understand why the cop wouldn't let me put it on the car right there in front of him.

Regardless, he gave me a "warning" (I suppose because there wasn't anything else available other than the much more appropriate, "Oh, OK. Get it on there ASAP so no one else pulls you over, and have a nice day, sir.") and cautioned me that it would be on file in the local courts, so if I got pulled over again, I'd have to go before the judge.

Yes, because my car is so much safer for everyone else on the road, now that I have a little plastic sticker on the license plate.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[femurphy77]

I once got pulled over for my registration being expired. It wasn't; I had simply not put the sticker on. I had the paper with the sticker still attached inside the car. Still don't understand why the cop wouldn't let me put it on the car right there in front of him.

Regardless, he gave me a "warning" (I suppose because there wasn't anything else available other than the much more appropriate, "Oh, OK. Get it on there ASAP so no one else pulls you over, and have a nice day, sir.") and cautioned me that it would be on file in the local courts, so if I got pulled over again, I'd have to go before the judge.

Yes, because my car is so much safer for everyone else on the road, now that I have a little plastic sticker on the license plate.

Blessings,
Bill

So that was YOU huh? We spotted you prior to the lights coming on. . . .I tell you what. . . .it scared the goose giblets right out of both of us!!!!

 

[NapalmFTW]

Ignorance of the law is no defence. However, I agree that its the stupid petty little things like that which slowly grind us, the public down.

In the UK people who do stuff like that are called jobsworths.
"Oh, I could let you off, but its more than my job's worth, mate"

Give any man a uniform and within a week he'll want to invade Poland.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

They moved it to the back so more people would miss it, and they could collect more fines. Bureaucrats can be sneaky about stuff like that.

 

[rockhopper46038]

This one caught my wife for $125. Oh, what the bureaucrats will do to preserve the flow of their life's blood.

 

[Lucas156]

what a bunch of bull****

 

[Classic]

....and this is where respect for LE and the court system tends to go away. What an egregious and unsafe thing to to - not signing your vehicle registration.

 

[LEaSH]

If I had to write a $125 ticket for something so trivial, so absolutely harmless and not a safety hazard in anyway, I'd have to say that I was a self hating DB and no wonder why so many people dislike me.

 

[WC Deer Hunter]

How else do you all expect our government to keep money coming in without these petty and trivial things?

 

[jzukjr]

thanks for the reminder!!