Comments on: Edumacated http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mik http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/comment-page-1/#comment-4620 Mik Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:08:29 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/#comment-4620 Don - I love snopes, and constantly use it for those stupid (repost this, forward this and so and so will donate a kajillion cents to poor, dying seven year old) emails that go around my office constantly, usually by hitting the reply all button and pasting the snopes link. Don – I love snopes, and constantly use it for those stupid (repost this, forward this and so and so will donate a kajillion cents to poor, dying seven year old) emails that go around my office constantly, usually by hitting the reply all button and pasting the snopes link.

]]> By: Mik http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/comment-page-1/#comment-4619 Mik Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:04:13 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/#comment-4619 I worship a new god, his name is wayan.... *watches wayan's head splode* I worship a new god, his name is wayan….

*watches wayan’s head splode*

]]> By: Don http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Don Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:15:48 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/#comment-4618 The question of a mix-up on who gets the citation reminds me of one of my favorite TRUE urban legends, <a href="http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp" rel="nofollow">the man who had a vanity plate that said "NO PLATE" who got thousands of citations from the system... one for each reported violation where the officer had written "no plate."</a> The question of a mix-up on who gets the citation reminds me of one of my favorite TRUE urban legends, the man who had a vanity plate that said “NO PLATE” who got thousands of citations from the system… one for each reported violation where the officer had written “no plate.”

]]> By: wayan http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/comment-page-1/#comment-4617 wayan Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:27:05 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/06/29/edumacated/#comment-4617 One very good rule that I suggest any driver should live by: any mistake on a citation will void the citation. Wrong street or lack of quadrant, wrong car type, color or in this case, plate number. Better yet, with the hand-written tickets, if a box is not checked or the hand-writing not clear, bye bye ticket. Of the dozen tickets I found on my vehicle before I went car-free DC, I only had to pay for two. One very good rule that I suggest any driver should live by: any mistake on a citation will void the citation.

Wrong street or lack of quadrant, wrong car type, color or in this case, plate number. Better yet, with the hand-written tickets, if a box is not checked or the hand-writing not clear, bye bye ticket.

Of the dozen tickets I found on my vehicle before I went car-free DC, I only had to pay for two.

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