TOY: Re: Re: door laws AFAIK:att Johnny B

["Scott Ellinger" <ellinger@xxxxxxxx>]

> > I didn't get a ticket in Utah when I was there for the ARCA
> > thing, I didn't have anything that'd tip the cops off that I was
> > a 'wheeler.  Drive a stupid little econo-death-trap (like my
> > MR2) and they don't hassle you... but they hassled Brian for
> > having too much lift for a sub-100" wheelbase, then didn't
> > believe him when he told them it was a 104" wheelbase,
> > and *wouldn't* let him prove it.  (he had a tape measure in
> > his toolbox)

> Did he get a ticket? That would be so bogus!

He got off with a warning about his tires sticking out and not
having mudflaps, basically the cop told him that his truck was
not street legal in Utah, and he shouldn't be driving it there.
Just barely shy of "go away and don't come back".

> I would fight that one and force that cop to show up in court to defend
> himself. Also show that the truck is legal in the state it is registered
> in and mention repricosity.

Had I actually gotten such a ticket (for violating a law that
didn't apply to me), I'd not only show up in court, but file a
complaint of harassment against the cop that wrote it.

As for the truck being legal in the state it's registered in, 
the Sniper is registered in Colorado, and for good reason.
No inspections, no emissions controls (in some areas of
Colorado), no nothing... where I live, I could roll out a tube
buggy creation, paint it John Deere green, Caterpillar
yellow, olive drab, or desert tan (I live in farm country, two
miles or so from a National Guard motor pool) and not
even tag it.  As long as it didn't actually leave the county,
nobody in the county I live in, would hassle me at  all, 
they'd just assume it was either an implement or an Army
thing.  The kids down the street run all over town in a go
kart, my neighbor drives his ATV's on the street.... I very
seriously doubt that anybody'd question my "overgrown
ATV" in town anyway.  :)

But aside from the registration, there's no way of proving
that his truck is legal in Colorado either.  No way of 
proving that it's *not* legal at the same time.  Colorado
just doesn't care, basically... but some of the cities in the
state will show you exactly where and what it's illegal on.

--scott  ellinger@frii.com
http://www.rockstomper.com