In article >, CobraJet wrote:

> You cannot assume that the license plate on a pursued vehicle will
> lead you later on to his doorstep where you can comfortably hook him
> up. The car could be borrowed or stolen or have fictitious plates, and
> the registered address can be stale. For some reason, people with
> warrants tend to move around and not update their info. Hmm. How many
> of you have been pulled over, and the officer asks you if the address
> on your license is current? That is SOP.

While I knew better than to make a plates argument and didn't. I've had
to tell the officer that it was not current, they never asked. I had the
same physical license for a very long time, like 8-10 years because I could
just renew by mail and did so. It was so old that when I was carded
people would give it a triple take because they were too young to even
know that format once existed.

> As this issue is one big gray fog, I see valid points from most of
> the posters. The technology to shut off the ignition from satellite has
> been included in cars built the last few years. The technology to read
> a VIN "chip" on a moving vehicle with a scanner exists now. The use of
> these two will eventually be established.

So criminals will just steal older cars.

> A public service from me. Realize that the law enforcement officer
> does not know the situation when he pulls you over.

That's my other argument against road-side taxation and why speed limits
need to make sense to minimize stops. It puts the officer's life at risk
to collect a little revenue.

> When you are lit
> up, try to pull over where passing traffic will not constitute a hazard
> to the officer(s), who is looking at you and does not have eyes in the
> back of his head.

And there's the other risk to the revenue collection. Stops should be
minimized to those that are actually needed and the officers wouldn't be
put at risk so often.

> Using the above and politeness will often go a long way towards a
> lesser ticket, or maybe no ticket at all. You will often be asked where
> you learned all that. Tell them someone that used to be in the system
> mentioned it, and it made good sense.

It's showing the submissiveness to the state. I don't particularly like
it, but have done it in the past. It's a social-animal thing really. I
would prefer to live in a free country again.