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Ken Schram Commentary: What's Next? Tickets For Confusing Bumper Stickers?

August 28, 2003

By Ken Schram

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SEATTLE - Welcome to the world of the Washington State Patrol, whose new motto must be something like, "Honest, the ONLY reason we're giving you this ticket is because we're concerned about your safety!"

First, I think full-disclosure is in order here.

I mean, I don't want to be thought of as a Jim Compton (Seattle Councilman) so...

I've gotten two gifts from the Washington State Patrol: a WSP coffee mug, and a baseball cap that says "Click it or Ticket."

Just wanted to up front about that.

Now, have you heard about the Patrol's "window tint squad?"

Eagle-eyed troopers are out with a glorified light meter, pulling folks over to measure how much ambient light filters through their car's tinted windows.

Too little? Too bad.

It'll mean a $101 ticket and orders to fix those windows or risk having your car impounded (Guess the troopers can't see who's not wearing a seatbelt through dark windows!)

It's no wonder the legislature didn't raise taxes. Instead, all lawmakers had to do was give the patrol some extra pens and lots of leeway!

So, what could be next on the patrol's "Let Us Protect You" list?

How about not clearing bugs and bird droppings off our windshields? That could be an obscured vision ticket!

Maybe under-inflated tires: an impaired braking ticket?

Whatever, we can all rest assured it WILL be for OUR OWN safety because certainly: It couldn't be about the money.

damn straight! don't get me wrong, I am against illegal tinting, as much as anyone else, but this guy is right, it's gone too far.

I guess we are having a server problem. I checked the server stautus and the server this site is on is being bombarded by something, it's 20 times busier than normal. Hopefully things will return to normal soon.

I ordered colored films from them when I was doing graphics for another shop, it was the worst quality film I've ever seen. Right off the roll the stuff was HEAVILY distorted. As I understand it, they only sell factory reject film.

http://www.tintdude.com/favicon.ico

it should just appear if you drag the address in the brouser to your desktop. If it doesnt, just save that pic or the asshat pic to your computer, then right click on the icon that is on your desktop and hit proerties, then hit "change icon", browse to the file you just saved and presto

glad to see you johnny, I thought you gave up on us

if someone has posted a large pic it will do that, that's the only time I have ever noticed it

the only ones not underlined are search engine spiders....bots...here to read the forum to include it in the search engine, the rest are clickable.

http://www.tintdude.com/forum/index.php?sh...ic=2055&hl=felt

there are a couple of other threads about it too somewhere

it's still here, I'm going to put a link to it in the navigation area up top soon

http://www.tintdude.com/tinters_registry.html

I will delete it right now, thanks for the heads up

tint or webwork hmmmm

it's friggin rediculous, earlier there were 20 guests and 2 members here, so I said fug it, and made it so that you have to log in to see the board and lo and behold most of them logged in and it was all the regulars. Aparently alot of people dont like the way things are here so they lurk.

I dont think so, because it's way to much work. Whenever I edit the site, I'd have to edit it twice, once for each skin.

nope, thats ass gas

aw c'mon, you've never heard of flass glass? it's the latest thing

it might have been too big, it wont work if it's too big. Make sure its 160 pixels wide or less.

contact info to order?

I saw this on the google banner

http://www.solutiaautomotive.com/pages/default.htm

I guess the offer laminated replacement glass for side and back glass with tint etc.

You must be a participating member to post here,

that means 50 posts or more. If you are a

new user and you post here, dont be surprised if your post gets deleted.

congrats tark :beer :beer

the damn eurovans look easy too

sweet rig dude I'd like to get something like that for my apartment