In MO where I lived ~1995-2015 the annual stickers went in the upper right.
Until a fad developed for scofflaws to use tinsnips to cut off the upper right corner of plates w valid stickers, then attach that bit to their own expired unrenewed plates.
So the state changed the shape of the stickers and put the target indentation dead center in the plate. Hard to cut that out without removing and destroying the plate.
That is the most interesting and sensible bit in the thread.
Thank you for sharing your unique perspective on a very vexing situation.
They deserve to be rounded up and re-educated or eliminated / ejected. But our sorta-civilized coutry frowns on that so you and your coworkers are stuck splitting the difference. Ouch!
Not true. Some jurisdictions allow for a private individual to break a window if a child or pet is in a car on a hot day.
What part of “except in an emergency” from one of my previous posts did you not understand?
Our stickers come in a little envelope and on the envelope there is a diagram that shows a picture of a plate and an arrow pointing to the bottom right of the picture of the plate and it says “Place sticker here”.
A not insignificant number of patrolmen have pulled people over with expired tags and they pulled the little envelope out of their glovebox with the sticker on the little envelope where it says “Place sticker here”.
Too bad a license can’t be revoked for “being too stupid to drive.”
New flash: the general public is too stupid to breath, much less live. ETA: or drive
I genuinely feel for our LEOs who have to deal with the bottom 10% of our citizens all day every day.
Yup, watch On Patrol Live and you’ll get a good idea of the absolute idiocy they have to deal on a daily basis. The SovCits are the worst and the cops always hate to deal with them.
As I’ve said before I fantasize about the idea of having them declared outlaws in the original sense of the world, outside the law. Anyone can steal their stuff, hurt them, or even kill them with total impunity.
It might make a good lesson of just what benefits come with civilization and the law. There is the problem that there are some who would be willing to take that deal and go off to live in the woods.
I’m sure there was at least one novel with a game preserve kept full of human game for the ruling class to hunt.
Might be an idea we could try here IRL.
IIRC, the problem was you could renew 2 or 3 months early; but had to put the sticker on at a certain time, not too early or it obscured the current year’s validation (Probably why some creative types used all four corners). One news story about this reported on a fellow who had gotten his sticker early, and stuck it on his fridge to remind himself when the time came. When the time came … these things do NOT peel off.
My worry is that a group of outlaws might organize set up some kind of militant compound. Sure, they have no legal protection. But with that off the books, you could end up with up with a real problem if they start aggressively staking out a territory.
Classic short story though the hunter is a wealthy (and bored) aristocrat.
Just make sure your “game” is carefully disarmed before releasing them.
But yeah, the reason all those novels end badly for the hunters and game preserve owners is exactly that the game refuses to stay within their role.
Wow, that’s a silly idea. It amazes me a state could come up with a rule set without consulting the other 50-ish states where annual± stickers work fine.
When you get the new sticker, put it on your plate. The fact it obscures the prior sticker is legally immaterial in any of the several states I’ve lived and owned cars in. The sticker demonstrates your registration is valid for 12+ months into the future and that’s all that matters.
Yeah, it seems that once you have the new sticker, it supersedes the previous one.
In my state it does (Wisconsin) it does. You can apply the sticker as soon as you receive it. It means the registration has been extended to that year.
Some plates the reg gets renewed every 2 years.
More power to 'em. They’d be out of our hair at least. Also there would be a published legal notice of their declared sovereignity (is that a word?) and gangs of marauders eager to show them the advantages of community.
That makes no sense. “According to what I’ve just pulled up your tags expire in September 2025 and you’ve got a SEP 26 sticker – that’s a $150 fine, bub.”
I fear that the sovereigns would become the marauding gangs and would not be out of our hair. The biggest asshole among them would force each of them to sign a contract to be his underling and cause enough trouble that the army would have to flush them out. If we could exile them to a fenced-in “Free-range” area in Alaska, then I have no issue with it.