PA pays for road repairs and such with traffic fines.

One down, two to go
 

Last night, I was coming home from my favorite restaurant. The light turned green. As I crossed the intersection to the freeway entrance ramp, red and blue lights came on behind me. I put on my right indicator and looked for a place to pull over.

Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over? [Why do they always ask that?]
Me: No.
Cop: Your plates are expired.

I gave him my license and insurance, but I didn't have the registration in the car. [I found it when I got home amongst a pile of magazines and old mail.]

He went back to the car and we waited. He finally came back after about 20 minutes and said that the computers were being slow and he wasn't able to confirm that I'd renewed my plates (which were only four months expired), so he'd written me a ticket. It's $84, but I can get it waived if I show proof that I renewed back in April.

I wasn't on my motorcycle, I was in my Insight (with my wife, who was very nice about it - considering that it was my fault we'd been pulled over and she really had to pee).

So, I've answered the question of "what will they do?" But I didn't get caught with 5 year old tags on my motorcycle. (My truck tags are also expired, since February).

I think I might end the experiment and just put the tags on all of the vehicles. I think if I get stopped again they won't be so nice about it.

Things could have gone a lot worse. I'd had one margarita with dinner and one shot of tequila after (the manager insisted). With the new, lower BAC limits in Colorado (0.05 DUI and 0.08 DWI), those two drinks might have been enough to put me into that first category. Fortunately, that never came up.

You are lucky. I can smell tequila breath from several feet away! :) But the question was not about your car, it was about your motorcycle. So you are right, the question still stands.

I'd call this a sign. Get everything renewed.

I'm with SP. Fun while it lasted, but harder to plead ignorance now you've been pulled over once.

And btw - I know you'd have been well within the UK limits, so I'm not questioning how safe you were to drive - but DON'T DICK ABOUT WITH ALCOHOL LIMITS! Bloody hell mate, if the threshold is so low that you think you might have been over, don't let anyone insist you have another. The Manager won't be the one to lose his driving licence - you will.

Said with love.

SG - thanks. I feel I got off quite lightly.

(By the way, the manager already has lost his driver's license, as have at least three of the restaurant's employees. It's a dangerous place.)

never--if you're the dog

...or the ex