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In a rather unfortunate coincidence, Ohio started issuing yellow plates with red text to people with too many DUI convictions a decade or so back. You don't oft
by mauvehaus 6y ago
In a rather unfortunate coincidence, Ohio started issuing yellow plates with red text to people with too many DUI convictions a decade or so back. You don't often see plates from NM in OH, but when you do, it's a bit confusing.
- rhplus 6y agoThis seems... wrong? The driver is not the car and vice versa.
- selimthegrim 6y agoI think these cars usually have breathalyzer interlocks by that point. Some of my cousin's family members have had those plates.
- bregma 6y agoNot only that, but such a thing is probably illegal in the USA [0]. Someone needs to take it all the way through to the SCOTUS, although being forced to wear a scarlet letter as a form of public shaming has been ruled on before, if I understand correctly. [0] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-is-shaming-a-legal-form-of-punishment-for-crime https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-is-sh...
- ericmay 6y agoFWIW I can’t recall seeing one of these plates in 10+ years. I have seen them before, though. Part of my family is a little, uh, rough, and when someone would get these in the past we’d say “oh so and so got their party tags”. So I’ve always remembered them as party tags... lol.
- theandrewbailey 6y agoOne of my dad's friends called them "party plates", and that was over 20 years ago. https://thenewswheel.com/a-bit-about-ohios-scarlet-letter-plates-for-dui-offenders/ https://thenewswheel.com/a-bit-about-ohios-scarlet-letter-pl...
- ericmay 6y agoWas looking through the comments and saw this. Glad I'm not alone in remembering these. We called them "party tags" instead of "party plates", though. I wonder how many people remember that being a thing in Ohio.