This has happened to me on more than one occaision, so i am thinking it may be a way out of speeding tickets. I haven’t had a front plate on my vehicle in over 4 years. I have never been pulled over for it… I have however, recieved several front plate tickets. Every time i recieved a NFP ticket, i had been pulled over for speeding. If an officer pulls you over, especially on the thruway, he is probably going to write you a ticket… i was definitely going to get a speeding ticket this morning until i told the officer that i had 10 points on my license (not true) and that another ticket would result in me losing it. So he came back with a NFP ticket and told me to be on my way…
Chances are, if i had a front plate on, i would have gotten a speeding ticket. Of course, being polite helps greatly. A counterpoint to this argument is a once that i can recall i was pulled over and the officer said “well there are 2 things i could have written you a ticket for: no front plate and speeding, but i just gave you a speeding ticket”… maybe if i had a front plate on there i would have gotten off with nothing? i dunno…
just some food for thought.
and for 73gia/audisniper: i have a lotus elise. I. ME. MINE. lotus elise. i have a lotus. it makes me better than you. mine. me. elise. lotus. and more better than any VW owner. mine. elise. lotus. belong mine. elise mine. ME!
The only place I’ve ever been pulled over for NFP was tonawanda/kenmore, once in my old car and also last summer. I was speeding both times, and both NFP tickets were dropped :tup:
Ive gotten tickets for both before at the same time, I doubt its saving you anything. It gives cops a excuse to pull you over even if you havent done anything which I rather not deal with. If you roll through a town like angola, kenmore, village of hamburg with a small police force that enforces everything your going to get a ticket for front plate if you have been speeding or not.
As much as I hate to say it I have to agree with Newman on this one. I have not ran a front plate since 1998. And I dont think I will ever run one. I have been pulled over so many times for speeding and they always give me a No front plate ticket as a break. But I also have had them give me a no seat belt ticket as well for a speeding break… But now I have a close friend who is a State Trooper and that always gets me off the hook…
OMG when did you get a Elise??? Why did you not post it up and tell all of us… Also I want to give you a heads up. I was at the mall this weekend and I saw that Rave Girl was having a huge sale… Maybe you can pick up some more clothes cheep…:gay3:
I’ve been pulled over for no front plate.
I wasn’t speeding or driving wrecklessly.
I was going 35 in a 35 through Corfu and the cop got me for the plate.
I just showed up to court with the plate on and it was thrown out.
Just tell the cop, that your plate bracket was broken in a parking lot and you are waiting for the dealership to get you a new one.
When I had to go to court in Kenmore I got there early with a digital camera, found 2 cars without front plates parked in front of the damn courthouse, and took pictures of them. Upon showing these pictures to the DA, one of the cars, a red Jeep belonged to him :lol: The ticket was dropped immediately.
once in the civic, i was open header at the time getting pulled over for no front plate. i didn’t even have the plate with me and the trooper was like, well just get it on there so we don’t have to do this again lol. no ticket either
my friend got pulled over a while ago cause of not front plate on the thruway and the cop asked him y he dont have one on and he said casue it make his car look like crap and the officer said “ok then just put it on take a picture of it and send it in and ur ticket will be dropped” needless to say ticket was dropped
Yeah, you can’t do this anymore now. It is an immediate $90.00 fine, I believe. You also stillhave to show up to court to show them that it is on now. I do not believe that they drop it anymore.
