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Car Tag expiration

RaneadosRaneados police apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
edited July 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
quick little question:

my brother just got stopped for apparently having an expired tag. We live in florida.

Okay here's the skinny: he's out driving her car, he's allowed to, she let him, that's all good. Now she recently got a new tag in the mail with the expiration date of 08/07/08

the old one on the car is 08/07/07. This is the expiration date, yes? This is when the tag is good until, yes?

she was planning to put the new one on the car at about the 6th or so, 2 days or so before the old one expires.

Why was my brother stopped? The cop calls her in the middle of the night to tell her that she "should have already put on the tag"

what? WHAT? It's not expired yet, what's the point?

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Your brother looked young and they suspected him of breaking the law. They therefore pulled him over under any excuse they could think of in order to try and nab him for something. Unless he got a ticket don't worry about it.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    that's what I figured. I'm majoring in Crim and figured that was the case

    (not too up on car tags and the laws thereof)


    some cops are dicks

    :D

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Raneados wrote: »
    that's what I figured. I'm majoring in Crim and figured that was the case

    (not too up on car tags and the laws thereof)


    some cops are dicks

    :D
    *cough cough*

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    yes thanatos we know you like to be wrong

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I'm guessing it's not, but is the date in day / month / year format instead of the usual (for the US) month / day / year?

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    a nope

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    probably ran the plates at random, noticed a female-looking-name owner of said plates and a guy driving the car, made up excuse to pull him over hoping he'd give himself up or something.

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  • RoundBoyRoundBoy Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    you guys have a specific DAY? My tags just have month/ year, and are color coded.

    so 08/07 would theoretically be valid until the date was past 08/07 ... (september and beyond)

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  • localh77localh77 Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Yeah, I certainly wouldn't worry about getting into trouble for having tags that aren't yet expired. You really don't need to wait, though, just put on the new ones as soon as you get them and you won't have to worry about it.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    already replaced them with the new ones we got in the mail

    I did it to placate my mother and her fretting

    I guess solved?

    okay solved

    solved

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The cops are effing retarded about tags here, IIRC you live close to Hillsborough county?

    Yeah, the system is terrible, almost beyond words.

    Did you have to pay a fine? I had to pay a fine.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    no fine

    no nothing seeing as though we didn't do anything wrong

    otherwise I'd be pitching a fit down there as we speak

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    If it was a serious offense, your bro would've gotten a fine or would've gotten a note demanding he appear in court/wherever proving that they got new tags. Kind of like driving without a license -- they typically don't let you off the hook, and either make you prove that you do have a license or they fine you right there.

    Just a cop checking out on something he thought was suspicious. Your bro may have been driving poorly/oddly and while not breaking a law, the cop figured "eh, tags are close, I'll get a closer look."

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