When will I be caught?

My motorcycle license plates expired in May-2003. I've already put 190 miles on it in the last week. How long do you think I can keep riding it before I get pulled over? And what will they do when they stop me?

Those tags are really small on a bike. I bet they can't even see 'em.

Plus, don't they start using the colors over again on the little stickers? I bet they have come back around again.

And those windy mountain roads require too much attention for the cops to be squinting at your tags.

I say never.

A guy I worked with years ago made it five years on expired tags. I honestly don't think he'd have been caught if he wasn't using an obsolete plate style. oh yeah, and he was drunk enough to sideswipe a parked cop. i think he'd have been fine otherwise.

I figure with the big upsurge in moth-balled bikes getting back in service a crack down on expired registrations is coming. But odds are you can slip by the rest of the season.

I think you won't get caught until you get pulled over for something else... so I give it a month. :)

heehee, an ex got pulled over and it was discovered he had purchased a sticker for his motorcycle and put it on his car. Uh, duh!

I don't think you will be caught until you are unlucky enough to have a cop pull up behind you on your bike at a stop.

lol! This sounds a little like the game I played with the gas tank yesterday. It's just, well, dumb and I know it.

I had an expired driver's license for about three or four years and was only tagged with it on three occasions. Twice in air ports and once in a restaurant trying to get an alcoholic drink.

I got an email today...

Driving Ticket fine increase in PA:
Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for
violation of PA Law 39:3-29 (failure to show your
driver's license, registration, or insurance card at
the time you are stopped) is going from $44.00 to
$173.00 Please make sure your vehicles have the proper
documents in them. If you jump in the car to run to
the store and forget your wallet with your license
in it and you are stopped.... Oh well... you just
spent $173. And the fine for not having all three
documents is $519!!!

:eek:

That's ridiculous. All of that information is available through computers. Why do you need to carry pieces of paper? This is the 22nd century, isn't it?

Call it a tax on the forgetful. Gotta offset those budget cuts somehow.

Everytime when I notice that this thread has new posts, I have to come and see whether you got caught or not... :)

Did he get caught?! . . . oh . . . nevermind . . .

Yeah, me too.

PA pays for road repairs and such with traffic fines.

HungLikeJesus;472316 wrote:

My motorcycle license plates expired in May-2003. I've already put 190 miles on it in the last week. How long do you think I can keep riding it before I get pulled over? And what will they do when they stop me?

Last night, I was coming home from my favorite restaurant. The light turned green. As I crossed the intersection to the freeway entrance ramp, red and blue lights came on behind me. I put on my right indicator and looked for a place to pull over.

Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over? [Why do they always ask that?]
Me: No.
Cop: Your plates are expired.

I gave him my license and insurance, but I didn't have the registration in the car. [I found it when I got home amongst a pile of magazines and old mail.]

He went back to the car and we waited. He finally came back after about 20 minutes and said that the computers were being slow and he wasn't able to confirm that I'd renewed my plates (which were only four months expired), so he'd written me a ticket. It's $84, but I can get it waived if I show proof that I renewed back in April.

I wasn't on my motorcycle, I was in my Insight (with my wife, who was very nice about it - considering that it was my fault we'd been pulled over and she really had to pee).

So, I've answered the question of "what will they do?" But I didn't get caught with 5 year old tags on my motorcycle. (My truck tags are also expired, since February).

I think I might end the experiment and just put the tags on all of the vehicles. I think if I get stopped again they won't be so nice about it.

Things could have gone a lot worse. I'd had one margarita with dinner and one shot of tequila after (the manager insisted). With the new, lower BAC limits in Colorado (0.05 DUI and 0.08 DWI), those two drinks might have been enough to put me into that first category. Fortunately, that never came up.

You are lucky. I can smell tequila breath from several feet away! :) But the question was not about your car, it was about your motorcycle. So you are right, the question still stands.

I'd call this a sign. Get everything renewed.

I'm with SP. Fun while it lasted, but harder to plead ignorance now you've been pulled over once.

And btw - I know you'd have been well within the UK limits, so I'm not questioning how safe you were to drive - but DON'T DICK ABOUT WITH ALCOHOL LIMITS! Bloody hell mate, if the threshold is so low that you think you might have been over, don't let anyone insist you have another. The Manager won't be the one to lose his driving licence - you will.

Said with love.

SG - thanks. I feel I got off quite lightly.

(By the way, the manager already has lost his driver's license, as have at least three of the restaurant's employees. It's a dangerous place.)

never--if you're the dog

...or the ex