# No Aston Martin Need Apply

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 5, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960 "2015-09-05T00:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960/1 "2015-09-05T00:05:48Z")

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No, Mr. Bond. [**I expect your number to come up**](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/golden-ears-bridge-tolls-evaded-with-flip-up-licence-plate-1.3215806).

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> A B.C. motorist who was allegedly using a pop-up licence plate to evade tolls on the Golden Ears Bridge was busted by the RCMP after an eagle-eyed officer spotted the canny deception.

A web search’ll turn up others, including a hide-away front plate on an 18-wheeler.

Expect an official “war on plate flippers” to be unveiled internationally.

“Golden Ears”? Breaker, 1-9. Oh, never mind.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960/2 "2015-09-05T00:11:16Z")

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Ken, you may catch some, but it will never make up for all you’re missing.

There must be hundreds…

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960/3 "2015-09-05T04:02:00Z")

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A fucking 93 Geo Metro! I’m sure his defense will be, “Why pay a toll that is more than the value of the car?”

You can’t make this shit up.

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-aston-martin-need-apply/729960/4 "2015-09-05T11:28:13Z")

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So it’s a simple pull-wire cable in a 21-year-old Metro.  
And not even a single machine gun invovled.

Given the OP’s reference to Aston-Martin and James Bond, I was kinda hoping for something cool and hi-techy.