Re: Overheard on the scanner

On 1 Jun 2008 16:37:48 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> In Montgomery County, Maryland, the police will seize any bike that
>>> they notice isn't registered in that or any other Maryland county.
>>> And those of us who live outside Maryland aren't allowed to
>>> register our bikes in Maryland.  So I no longer bike in that
>>> county, lest my bike be seized from me and immediately auctioned
>>> off on the grounds that even with the original receipt I cannot
>>> prove to their satisfaction that I didn't steal the thing.
>
>> Lacking license plates, how do they justify the seizures?
>
>That just means they're less likely to notice.  But they're free to
>stop any cyclist at any time to ask him for his bike registration.
>If he doesn't have it, he walks home.

This is where actual identification as a resident of the
Commonwealth of Virginia could be of significant advantage to
you.





-- 
Doug Wickström
har fiol, vill resa