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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you explain this one? DDG gave me Milana Vayntrub’s wiki, but I couldn’t find the acronym

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, it was just Whiskey Girl. Thought that was a dumb think to put on a motor vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Right, I have no idea why that other result came up then 😅 and I could not make WSKYGRL make sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think its supposed to be a short form of "Whiskey Girl"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes but thats not an option when you call their number and talk to an AI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.