Busted and pissed.......

[StoneWhitePT2]

Originally Posted by AlexJB

Illinois is certainly a crazy place when it comes to automotove law...
How can a state revoke the motorcycle helmet law at the same time as enforcing the front seat belt law in cars!

Don't wear a seat belt, don't wear a helmet... the first can land you in court for breaking the law... the second will eventually land you in the morgue... but you won't be breaking the law!

Turbomangt, I'm just 40 mins out of Chicago just off I55, we should meet up and compare our invisible front plates

Yep Illinois is crazy with auto laws! People just dont know how it is here...Im surprised they dont make big rims illegal or spinners...

[PT GEEZR]

Ohio has the same two plate law and it will cost you a cool $94 if caught. Now here's the best part, on my ticket it gave a breakdown on traffic fines. For example, if the speed limit was 65 and I was stopped for doing 80, my fine would have been $90 (with points of course)!!! Hey officer, put down your radar gun you'll generate more revenue on the one license plate motorist...

How is the "slide to hide" holder going to change a cocky policeman's attitude on giving you a ticket? I actually had my second plate under my seat and placed it on my dash when I was stopped. It didn't matter one bit to him.

Like you, I too am bucking the system by still keeping the front plate off of my chrome bumper. Hopefully we can keep sliding on through the men in blue.

[warped]

I live in Illinois. I have been busted for tint... Told if i turn on the neon's the cops would pounce on me like a pack of dogs. and since I work in springfield I go past the damm trainers at the cop shop at exit 88. They were that last to get me for tint he was waiting to teach class and had a few min so i was a easy score. Here is the realty of it break the law and you pay the fine. You will find out the taking time from work just to lie and get a tint ticket dropped is stupid. I removed the tint and leave the car out in plane sight "parked"with the neon on just to piss them off.

[StoneWhitePT2]

Originally Posted by warped

I live in Illinois. I have been busted for tint... Told if i turn on the neon's the cops would pounce on me like a pack of dogs. and since I work in springfield I go past the damm trainers at the cop shop at exit 88. They were that last to get me for tint he was waiting to teach class and had a few min so i was a easy score. Here is the realty of it break the law and you pay the fine. You will find out the taking time from work just to lie and get a tint ticket dropped is stupid. I removed the tint and leave the car out in plane sight "parked"with the neon on just to piss them off.

Ohh I love doing that.... parking with my Neons on and my strobe lights flashing front and rear... Cops hate that... but what can u do Im parked....

[05cruiser]

Originally Posted by AlexJB

Don't wear a seat belt, don't wear a helmet... the first can land you in court for breaking the law... the second will eventually land you in the morgue... but you won't be breaking the law!

Hummm.. I think I would reverse that statement... I rolled a Renault Caravelle (rear engine two seat roadster....BIG oversteer problem) while not wearing a seatbelt...I bounced around inside that little car like a ping pong ball in a blender! If the door would have opened I would have been flattened.. That was back in '67 and I have worn a seat belt ever since..

[ucantcme]

Originally Posted by 05cruiser

Hummm.. I think I would reverse that statement... I rolled a Renault Caravelle (rear engine two seat roadster....BIG oversteer problem) while not wearing a seatbelt...I bounced around inside that little car like a ping pong ball in a blender! If the door would have opened I would have been flattened.. That was back in '67 and I have worn a seat belt ever since..

We all learn from our mistakes!!

Once something dramatic happens to them, they'll figure it out.

[JolieCruiser]

I'm from IL too. I like tinted front side windows too altho it's illegal here. You're lucky to get a Drs. note as even those are harder to get now. Some do get a lighter shade on the front in hopes of no ticket.
Glad you got a solution to the front plate. The plastic plate cover law went into effect not long ago.....around where I live people have them and they're so bad and discolored, dirty etc you can't even tell the plate is IL let alone the number on it.
The law is the law, I'm not saying I'm perfect but I can see the point, they are just trying to protect themselves....as in dark windows, can't see who is in the car and if there's a gun waiting to blow them away. I have a 21 year old niece training to be an officer so.....I'd like her to be safe. Although I do know the majority is for car show and not doing something bad.
Just my 2 cents, glad you have it all taken care of!

[lakersfan1]

Originally Posted by JolieCruiser

The law is the law, I'm not saying I'm perfect but I can see the point, they are just trying to protect themselves....as in dark windows, can't see who is in the car and if there's a gun waiting to blow them away. !

Yet you can have blacked out rear windows ..... so once again the ambigouty of Illinois law. About the only place I can drive in Illinois without being paranoid of being pulled over is in Chicago city limits, but then I really have to watch the stereo volume to avoid a noise ticket. I've been yelled at by cops for having a stock stereo system too loud. Just obnoxious. People wondered why I liked taking the 'L' trains so much versus driving.