Illinois "New front license plate law"
03-09-2010 | 12:04 PM
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As I understand it, the front plate serves mainly as a flat surface perpendicular to the direction the car is travelling for the cops to aim their radar guns at when you're hauling ass towards them; when those beams hit a rounded front bumper they bounce off all wacky-like and don't read true.
Or at least that's what I read on the internet... so it MUST be true...
WI is also a front-plate required state but nobody gives a $hit up here. I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for this offense in the great MKE... and Milwaukee is the Hawaii of the Midwest, after all...
Or at least that's what I read on the internet... so it MUST be true...
WI is also a front-plate required state but nobody gives a $hit up here. I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for this offense in the great MKE... and Milwaukee is the Hawaii of the Midwest, after all...
03-09-2010 | 01:05 PM
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I didn't have the plate on till i started going to oakton community is des plaines... The very fist day of class I got a ticket and the plate was in the front window too! I guess the cops don't have anything better to do then drive down every single isle and look at the front of cars... 
03-09-2010 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by chazzguitar,Mar 9 2010, 03:04 PM
As I understand it, the front plate serves mainly as a flat surface perpendicular to the direction the car is travelling for the cops to aim their radar guns at when you're hauling ass towards them; when those beams hit a rounded front bumper they bounce off all wacky-like and don't read true.
Or at least that's what I read on the internet... so it MUST be true...
WI is also a front-plate required state but nobody gives a $hit up here. I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for this offense in the great MKE... and Milwaukee is the Hawaii of the Midwest, after all...
Or at least that's what I read on the internet... so it MUST be true...
WI is also a front-plate required state but nobody gives a $hit up here. I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for this offense in the great MKE... and Milwaukee is the Hawaii of the Midwest, after all...
Even then, you have LIDAR Diffusors and scramblers that can be used legally.
03-09-2010 | 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Luder94,Mar 9 2010, 02:54 PM
If that's the option I have...I'm fine, I'll just rock a front plate.
Thank you anyway
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Thank you anyway
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I hate it here so I'm with you
03-09-2010 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by phils03s2k,Mar 9 2010, 04:05 PM
I didn't have the plate on till i started going to oakton community is des plaines... The very fist day of class I got a ticket and the plate was in the front window too! I guess the cops don't have anything better to do then drive down every single isle and look at the front of cars...
Plate in the front window looks worse than the plate on the car.
03-09-2010 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by midwesta,Mar 9 2010, 05:41 PM
I would ticket a car with a license plate in the window before I ticketed a car with no plate at all.
Plate in the front window looks worse than the plate on the car.
Plate in the front window looks worse than the plate on the car.
03-09-2010 | 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Luder94,Mar 9 2010, 04:14 PM
Even then, you have LIDAR Diffusors and scramblers that can be used legally.
http://www.guysoflidar.com/illinois-...mmer-laws.html
03-09-2010 | 05:24 PM
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There are only a handful of cops who use LIDAR or "laser" and there is no way for a cop to tell if the laser is sending back a error or a actual jamming error. But jammers only work if the line of sight hits the actual jammer...
Then again if you get caught by one in the City, well its thrown out... http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/no...ickets-09-nov09
Then again if you get caught by one in the City, well its thrown out... http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/no...ickets-09-nov09