Brilliance in Government

[plural]

I got a new tag for my license plate recently
and
when I was putting it on
I noticed something

on the bottom of the tag
was printed my license plate number

my first thought was wow
that is a simple and brilliant solution
now it wont do you any good to steal
someone else's tag
cause the license plate wont match

which is I am sure exactly what
the brilliant minds in government thought as well
unfortunately
unlike those so called brilliant minds
my brain was unable to avoid
the massive brick wall
that such logic was heading at unchecked speed

and

boom

it dawned on me just how incredibly stupid
the idea actually is

it becomes the perfect example of government ineptitude
by focusing on solutions which appear good
which appear to help the situation
but in reality
do absolutely nothing

why?

where does the logic fail in this so that it becomes entirely irrelevant?

The problem with printing the license number on the tags
is that it is so small as to be unreadable by an officer
unless he has already pulled over the vehicle
however if he has already done so
then the first things he will have in his hand
is the operators license, insurance & and [expired] registration
because if you stole a tag it was to avoid renewing your registration
so you are busted not only for an expired registration
but also for theft of the sticker

that the license number is printed on it
play zero part in the equation

which means that our tax dollars were spent
designing and deploying a system
to achieve that entirely useless aim.

only in our current time and space
a world of consumerist overkill
could we develop the stealth moron
and arm them with this
this imost insiduous form of stupidity

But look around you
stupid people are breeding
and the rest of us
are taking this half ass form of thought
loading our rifles with it
and blowing their brains to kingdom come
simply out of convience and laziness

Comments

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Ummm...

I think the point was to enable a metermaid to impound a car on a parking violation. That way the local goverments get maxiumum bang for the buck.

[plural.livejournal.com]

I dont think they have meter maids in this state man

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

maybe not, but what costs less when giving out a parking ticket:

1) calling in every plate to see if the stick is valid
2) printing the plate number on the ticket.

I'm guessing compared to the amount of extra revenue they get from the impound lot 2) is justified. Either that, or the impound lot lobby worked real hard to boost their own renue.

[iamjosh.livejournal.com]

2 things -

First It kepts most people from putting it on another car then claiming they lost the last tag.

Example:
Hi this bob, I got my tags in the mail / I picked them up and I've lost my tags, I've already paid $$ can i get a replacement set.

Then bob paying for a replacement set (reduced fee? / or free)

and tabbing 2 cars and hoping he doesn't get pulled over

and then it all becomes null and void anyway because I'm sure before they have you pulled over they've already ran your plates and it told them you are expired. Before they even get to asking you for all your stuff.

Just a couple of thoughts.

-j

[plural.livejournal.com]

ahh the old adage of

"keeping honest people honest"

[iamjosh.livejournal.com]

you got it

[bookfoole.livejournal.com]

It is probably part of an internal accounting control. Most of these are done after they catch someone using a certain scam (probably an employee of the Secretary of State).