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My dad went through something similar, though on a smaller scale. His van had a folding wheelchair lift on the back, which would block the view of the license
by lotharbot 10y ago
My dad went through something similar, though on a smaller scale. His van had a folding wheelchair lift on the back, which would block the view of the license plate from a distance but not from up close. Based on current law, this was perfectly legal, but some police officers had been trained otherwise in the past and hadn't received updated training like traffic agents had. Eventually, after he successfully contested a few tickets, the police department used a picture of his van in their training manuals -- and he put that picture in his back window, with a label for what page of the manual it was in, and stopped getting tickets.
- XaspR8d 10y agoThat's some beautiful self-referentiality. Here's a photo of your handbook, which contains a photo of this exact car. If only he could have made it appear recursive...
- lotharbot 10y agoI wouldn't be surprised if he photographed the van with the photo in the window to submit to the police as an "updated" photo. He was a software engineer for a few decades and it would fit his sense of humor.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoSneaky/easy version, he'd just photoshop his displayed page to have that in the photo. He'd be displaying a fake page, identical in all details, except for the recursion. "You won't believe the one difference in this ..."