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Back in March, I posted a thread about a beer truck I saw with a homebrew license plate on it.
Now as bad as that was, they at least got some credit for using some quality printed labels and weatherproof stick-on numbering/lettering that was at least legible from a distance.
The guy I saw on the way home tonight though, gets no points at all.
In a knot of bumper-to-bumper traffic, I ended up behind a dark green Jeep Cherokee (one of the old boxy ones with the 4.0L engine) with a homemade plate
This thing was just beyond pathetic. It was every bit as bad as the WORST fake parking permits that Argabarga has described.
First of all, it was made form CARDBOARD.
Yes that's right....it was a (sloppily) cut-out rectangle of corrugated cardboard.
Next, it was HANDWRITTEN using a sharpie marker.
Across the top was written "FLORIDATAG" (no, I didn't forget the space. It was written without one. AND the G was obscured by the screw holding it in so it looked like "FLORIDATA"), below that, the plate number, and below that "Lost Tag"
Even worse, it wasn't even written on there straight; all the writing was at a cockeyed angle.
And from only HALF the safe-following distance it was completely illegible. It may as well have been the grease-stained bottom of a pizza box. The only reason I had been able to read it in the first place was because traffic was bumper to bumper and I was close enough to read it.
But what really blows my mind about this is the fact that the guy was from Florida.
And I saw him in Massachusetts....
I find it difficult to believe that he made it all the way up here without getting stopped and towed away for not having a valid plate. For his sake he'd better hope he gets out of Massachusetts with his skin intact because lack of plates/valid registration automatically gets you towed and you can't get the car out of impound until you get the plates and registration sorted out (had a friend who learned that the hard way).
Now as bad as that was, they at least got some credit for using some quality printed labels and weatherproof stick-on numbering/lettering that was at least legible from a distance.
The guy I saw on the way home tonight though, gets no points at all.
In a knot of bumper-to-bumper traffic, I ended up behind a dark green Jeep Cherokee (one of the old boxy ones with the 4.0L engine) with a homemade plate
This thing was just beyond pathetic. It was every bit as bad as the WORST fake parking permits that Argabarga has described.
First of all, it was made form CARDBOARD.
Yes that's right....it was a (sloppily) cut-out rectangle of corrugated cardboard.
Next, it was HANDWRITTEN using a sharpie marker.
Across the top was written "FLORIDATAG" (no, I didn't forget the space. It was written without one. AND the G was obscured by the screw holding it in so it looked like "FLORIDATA"), below that, the plate number, and below that "Lost Tag"
Even worse, it wasn't even written on there straight; all the writing was at a cockeyed angle.
And from only HALF the safe-following distance it was completely illegible. It may as well have been the grease-stained bottom of a pizza box. The only reason I had been able to read it in the first place was because traffic was bumper to bumper and I was close enough to read it.
But what really blows my mind about this is the fact that the guy was from Florida.
And I saw him in Massachusetts....
I find it difficult to believe that he made it all the way up here without getting stopped and towed away for not having a valid plate. For his sake he'd better hope he gets out of Massachusetts with his skin intact because lack of plates/valid registration automatically gets you towed and you can't get the car out of impound until you get the plates and registration sorted out (had a friend who learned that the hard way).
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