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August 28, 2010
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I guess this makes it hard to enforce a speeding ticket?
Michael Jennings (London)  Eastern Europe • How very odd!

Bucharest, Romania. August 2010.
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That's right! Stick it to the Man, Vols!


Posted by Laura at August 29, 2010 07:02 AM

Oh, shoot. I meant, "Stick it to the Man, Cavaliers!"


::grumble grumble::

Like anyone in Romania would know the difference.

::still hides head in shame::


Posted by Laura at August 29, 2010 07:07 AM

A ticket is only for dumb Westeners.
In many parts of the world people never pay a ticket, at most they pay a bribe to the cop that caught them.
The number is not immune to this procedure.


Posted by Jacob at August 29, 2010 02:08 PM

That's not to dodge a ticket, that's to warn others to expect crappy driving.


Posted by Wind Rider at August 29, 2010 07:17 PM

Are Tennessee and Virginia in the same county?

Cheers


Posted by J.M. Heinrichs at August 30, 2010 12:55 AM

Is there a joke I'm missing here? While it would be unusual to see an American license plate on a car in Romania, I don't see anything about it that would be more difficult to enforce speeding tickets against it than any other car with a foreign (or at least non-EU) license plate.


Posted by Joshua at August 30, 2010 03:49 AM

When the congestion charge zone was introduced in London, I wrote to TfL enquiring how they proposed to enforce the scheme against people with foreign numberplates they could not identify through DVLA, or in the case of Arabic ones not even read. Answer came there none.

I suspect one is probably immune to camera enforcement. But I understand in some parts of the country police have been arbitrarily seizing, as unlicenced, individual cars with foreign plates that they see on two occasions more than 6 months apart. (If you bring a car into the country and keep it here, then you have to licence it here within 6 months.)

I am waiting for some continental businessman who visits regularly to get them for violation of EU free-movement laws.


Posted by guy herbert at August 30, 2010 07:58 AM

"No, honey, I told you I'm not lost and I'm not asking for directions! Rockefeller Center is just a few lights further on."


Posted by Eric at August 30, 2010 03:38 PM

Looks like Valerie Plame is back 'undercover' again, folks !


Posted by Alasdair at August 30, 2010 11:04 PM

If a driver is DHUA and is stopped and written for same, how does it affect the enforcement of the citation whether the plate is from Manchester or Flanders or Virginia or the PDRK?

JM-
They're two different states, next to each other.


Posted by Sunfish at August 30, 2010 11:33 PM

Mate of mine, in a hurry to register a grey import, rang in for the new registration number. Unfortunately, he misheard the number, so until the car was scrapped it ran around with number plates that didn't match the documentation. Never once got a speeding ticket, presumably lost in the system.


Posted by Jackthesmilingblack at September 3, 2010 11:14 PM
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