<VV> 'F Nader' plate too racy for Iowa

[Norman C. Witte]

I know I am sounding in late, and I don't advocate pestering Mr. Paulson in
the slightest, but I think the replacement plate should say FPAULSON.  At
least until he complains about that, too.

Norm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Underwood [mailto:tonyu at roava.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 1:23 PM
> To: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> 'F Nader' plate too racy for Iowa
> 
> At 06:32 hours 06/02/2006, vairtec at optonline.net wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > I found a listing for:
> > >
> > >  Joel Paulson
> > >  3213 West Street
> > >  Ames Iowa 50014
> > >
> > >  Phone 515-292-2206
> > >
> > >  Maby someone should check this out?
> >
> >NOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Don't give this person any more reason to think that
> >Corvair owners are wierdos, nutcases and crackpots!
> 
> 
> 
> ...there remains a certain irony about this.
> 
> 
> Someone *Should* ride by this fellow's place and see if *he* has a
> personalized plate on any of his vehicles.     No interaction, no
> knocks on any doors, just ride by and look.    Perhaps this guy is
> displaying something that is offensive...
> 
> While they're at it, maybe they should see if this fellow is
> violating any city ordinances as well...  it *is* our civic duty to
> contribute to the system, isn't it...?
> 
> 
> Turnabout is fair play, after all.
> 
> 
> A few years ago here in VA, there was an SUV owned by two women with
> the personalized plate 2 DYKES.   They'd had the plate for some time,
> until somebody somewhere complained and the DMV sent them a letter
> demanding the return of the plates.
> 
> Their argument was that if the plates were OK before, they should
> still be OK after the fact and that since nobody ELSE out of the
> hundred thousand or so people who saw the plates had complained, just
> the *one* ass-hole, they felt their personalized plates should be
> left alone, seeing as how they had PAID for them and the DMV had
> initially issued them with no questions asked.
> 
> Then someone among the VA DMV rewrote the policy on personalized
> plates which made their 2 DYKES plates "unauthorized"...  in spite of
> the grandfather clause which was argued.    In the end, the women
> lost their case because it wasn't worth the expense of fighting it in
> court.
> 
> 
> If this sort of thing ever happens to me, the "offended" individual
> better be living the life of Mother Theresa because I'm gonna be
> looking into their own sphere of existence and if they as much as let
> their lawn go too long between mowings I'm gonna be on the phone (a
> pay phone) to downtown.
> 
> That "awakening the sleeping dragon" thing works both ways.
> 
> 
> 
> Here's to success in defending the plates.
> 
> 
> tony..
> 
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