Humor thread

[ribshaw]

I don't get the handing over proof of registration bit in America.....Here the cop runs your plates and knows right away if the car is registered...Much simpler way...They even have some new computer now in some cop cars that check the registration of every car as the traffic drives past....You drive past and next thing you know your being pulled over....And the ticket(fine) here is more than the yearly cost of the registration...
BTW...Registration for my SUV is almost $600....But that includes the compulsory insurance to cover if I hit a person(pedestrian).......The actual car you insure separately...As you do the car you might hit...

There is some interesting discussion here. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-law-e...lling-you-over

The part about the snips made me chuckle. I got the bright idea to try and remove some of my old registration stickers to make room, that's the stuff they need to be putting in the superglue tubes


License plates give visual evidence of proper registration, but can be moved from vehicle to vehicle. The paper registration is required to be in the possession of the vehicle operator and to be displayed to a law enforcement officer on request in all 50 states. When the officer asks for the paper registration, he's verifying that the registration matches the vehicle the plates are on and that the vehicle is properly registered. Believe it or not, some nefarious people have been known to steal registration stickers and put them on their own license plates. When I lived in Michigan in the early '90s, it was so common as to constitute an epidemic. The thieves would take tin snips to a license plate in the middle of the night and worry about unsticking the adhesive at their leisure.



Other than a solid double check it probably a bit outdated. We do have a problem with Uninsured Motorists | III in this country. So much so that companies offer "uninsured motorists" coverage for drivers to add to their own polices. Only in America as you Aussies would say.