Shhhhhhhhhhh.
P.S.
Someone lost a bracket and plate at the intersection of Walden and Ransom.
I saw it driving by there, made me think of this thread 
I don’t know if it was front or rear.
I thought about stopping and being a good citizen… but then I thought they might come back for it and see me trying to grab it.
city of buffalo has no traffic court, so if it was indeed a buffalo cop and not parking authority you have no chance of wining unless you can prove you had the plate on at the time of ticket. The cop will actually show up as well and testify on his part. My advice, pay the ticket and move on. You bought the car with no front plate, liked the way it looked and continued to drive with no front plate. Cops dont give a shit if you have a plate bracket or not, you can drill it into your bumper for all they care.
Think long and hard. No homo.
I haven’t been on here in a while. It’s good to see yet another thread with people bitching about front plate laws. Go Nyspeed!
LOL at people being brainwashed that this kind of bullshit should even be considered “their job”. Any cop worth a fuck with any decency would use his JUDGEMENT to not even bother wasting the time to enforce meaningless money grab bullshit regulations.
Its not about money grabs. Its a way to pull someone over to catch a bigger fish. I guess i am just brainwashed that enforecing the law is part of the police jobs. You must do alot wrong.
Angry Viper man is angry.
Yeah- and thats all fine and good. I am not talking about getting “pulled over”. I am talking about being ticketed, harassed, and fined over NONSENSE. If a cop wants to pull me over, thats fine- but to actually write me? LOL. Way to be Captain America saving the world.
I fail to see the logic in alot of these posts. The LAW requires a front plate in NYS. You don’t have a front plate which is fair game to be ticketed by police. They enforce the law and give tickets for this “nonsense” which is part of their JOB. If i were a cop, I would do the same thing and then laugh at the rage it causes that driver to have.
I can see both sides here. If you’re a Buffalo cop (a city where drugs, murders and robberies are in the news constantly) it’s probably not a case of you being “all about your job” when you’re writing front plate tickets. If you want to use it as an excuse to pull someone over to see if they have warrants etc fine. However the minute you pull out the ticket book the whole, “it’s just a way to look for bigger fish” thing goes out the window since you’re now wasting everyone’s time on a pointless ticket. Tickets = money though, something governments can never get enough of.
On the other side, I know my car looks way better without a front plate and bracket, but I have one. I know it’s the law and I don’t feel like dealing with the bullshit of giving some armed tax collector one more reason to shake me by my ankles to see how much money they can make fall out of my pockets. It’s hard to have any pity for people who run around without a plate then bitch about it, since everyone knows how NY government operates. It’s like speeding on the 290 and bitching about a ticket. Anyone from around here knows the State Police use that highway as a major revenue stream pretty much 24/7/365 so they should be smart enough to just slow down.
This is probably more of a function of what you drive, how you’re driving it and when/where they see you. My stockish, white M3 doesn’t have a front plate and I pass on-coming Troopers, Lancaster PD and Erie Cty Sheriffs every single day on my Walden/Genesee St commute into the sticks without incident. Usually more than one LEO. I also drive fairly restrained (with V1 assistance) and don’t have any obvious mods to the car. A couple of other guys at work can say the same (2011 Camaro [grandpa guy], Solstice and a 335i).
If I get a ticket for that and nothing else, so be it… :shrug:
I got a ticket for that on elmwood near allen when I had my red cobra.
I just paid it. I think it was $90. I can’t imagine it is worth trying to fight. Buffalo doesn’t care. You are guilty to them. Period.
a little update:
i asked a different buffalo police officer about this the other night, if it’s eligible for “fix it” status. he happily obliged, gave me his card with the station number AND his cell phone number. i guess this was something that could be written off as a fix it up until recently, but even after he gave me that information, he offered to do anything he could possibly do to help me get the ticket dropped, including contacting the officer who wrote it. he said in his opinion, that getting pulled over for that in city limits is awful, and the fact that i got a ticket for it is even worse, and that is a direct quote from a buffalo police officer.
so i just wanted to point out that this guy who wrote it, while yes he was doing his job, he was also on a power trip with some of the comments he made to me and i really don’t appreciate that, i am a civilian, you are a police officer, you have no right to talk to me the way you did because in addition to protecting, you are supposed to serve the public, not threaten them over nothing. but the officer i spoke with the other night couldn’t have been more helpful, i was almost shocked at how much he was willing to go out of his way for something that didn’t matter to him and for someone he didn’t even know, and it’s a direct sign of what’s wrong with law enforcement that we can have two people doing the same exact job with completely different attitudes.
Thank god i live in hamburg.
Blasdell / hamburg cops are total bros, i’ve been pulled over 5 or 6 times now in my datsun and was only given 1 front plate ticket… but that was only because he caught me racing it was either that or a shit load of other infractions
Judge ended up reducing it to a 20$ fine
meh, sorry.
I was referring to people who say they write stupid tickets instead of breaking up fights or such.
I know, random headlight/plate tickets and stuff often turn in to a DWI arrest or something bigger.
I was probably just too annoyed at all the stupid shit in here to think clearly.
You break the law, and you get a ticket.
Simple.
Don’t cry.
Don’t want a ticket?
Don’t break the law.
lol they’re not robots. Their just people doing their job. You can fight the ticket all you want, your still gonna get pulled over again if you don’t put one on. Get off your high horse, I’m sure that officer was tired of hearing every whiney excuse given when they pull someone over. There’s nothing wrong with law enforcement, you breaking the law is what’s wrong.
You are whats wrong with law enforcement -{not to imply you are an officer}
The implication that breaking the law, a STUPID BS MINOR ONE AT THAT, gives an officer the right to be belligerent or confrontational is absolute bullshit.
A friend-of-a-friend has a good story on the matter:
A NY State Trooper pulls over a Federal Marshall for speeding who is transporting a man to trial on official business in a BIG hurry. The Trooper tells the Marshall “that this is his road and he doesn’t care what kind of official business the Marshall is on”
Well, guns get drawn, and Mr. holier-than-thou power-trip Trooper ends up sitting in the back of the Marshall’s car with the transport, and on his way to a NYC holding cell.
Serves him right. If only civilians had the power to give some of these cops a taste of their own attitude. Now, I am not saying that all cops are bad. Hell, most of them are fine. But there ARE a few assholes out there, and if you allow them to hide behind their job rather than calling them what they are, you are a bigger ass than they are.
Not sure if anyone has suggested this yet but American Muscle sells a hide-away. http://www.americanmuscle.com/flipdown-licenseplate-motorized.html They also have a manual one for like $50
Yeah, they probably got in touch with each other, decided to teach you not to talk to other cops about his policework and are planning to raid your house at 3 a.m. and plant 250 lbs. of weed in your closet.
At least for me, that kind of defeats the purpose. It’s not that I don’t want a licesnse plate up front, it’s that I dont want ANYTHING up front.