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Originally Posted by m4recruiter
The Officer informed me that the reason he pulled me over is because I have a plastic cover on my license plate. I acknowledged it and played dumb that I didn't know it was illegal - I told him I would remove it since he informed me to this. The cover is actually smoke-tinted.
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3 pages of replies and everyone focuses on the secondary offenses.
In most states there are law against anything obscuring your license plate. There are plenty of instances to be found on the internet where a simple license plate frame have caused a driver to be pulled over for obscuring some minor part if the plate.
With the advent of red light cameras and photo radar, many buy license plate covers in an attempt to cause the car's tag to be unreadable (most are totally worthless).
By putting that cover on your license plate it is like waving a red cape in front of a bull saying "I am attempting to fool traffic detection systems - please pull me over as it will average out the fines I avoided otherwise".
Without this, you probably would have not been pulled over at all.
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Originally Posted by m4recruiter
"where there's smoke" kind of thing.
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Given the color of the covering, an interesting choice of words.