Deadbeat California may need to start issuing IOU's

California's problems continue to rise..

Perhaps they should just write some more tickets? I'm pretty sure that's what has been going on in my neck of the woods. I honestly see 4-5 people pulled over driving to and from work every day whereas it used to be 1 or 2. They've now got these friggin teams of bike cops and you literally will see 3 of them writing a ticket within a half mile of each other during rush hour. I watch my speed so close now it's ridiculous!

When you move to California from another state, the law only provides you a few weeks to register your car in California. But between the dread of dealing with bureaucrats and the state's high registration fees, some drivers are perfectly content with just keeping those out-of-state tags on their vehicles. But authorities in California are asking residents -- and have made it very easy -- to rat on their neighbors for no updating their registrations.

The California Highway Patrol, an organization known around the world thanks to Erik Estrada's fine dramatic work, has launched a program called Californians Help Eliminate All The Evasive Registration Scofflaws, which is a loooong way to go just to justify calling the program CHEATERS.

CHEATERS has actually been around for a bit, but the cash-strapped state is making a renewed push to remind residents that they have an easy way to peg a $400 fine on that jerk down the block who not only doesn't mow his lawn, but has also been driving a Volvo with Oregon plates for two years now.

All they have to do is go to this website and provide pertinent info about the offending vehicle and where it was spotted... And then just sit back and wait for the CHiPs to roll up on that guy with his overgrown lawn and beat-up, out-of-state, hunk of metal.

Drivers who have gotten away with not paying for a California registration might be pulled over for a traffic violation and get caught. The ticket starts at $25 and can be as high as $204.

The CHEATERS program gets about 75 to 100 tips a day. Every year the program recoups $1 million in fees.

It's not just speeding they are catching people for. California is becoming even more of a nanny state (if that's even possible)

California Asks Residents To Rat Out Neighbors With Out-Of-State Car Registrations
[consumerist.com]



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