personalised plate gets man lots of tickets

[Amby 490]

The owner of a car with the personalised number plate 'XXXXXXX' has received parking fines for every unidentified car in his city.

Traffic wardens in Birmingham, Alabama, enter seven letter Xs onto their forms when they issue tickets to cars without plates, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The default code matches the vanity plate of a motorist from nearby Huntsville, who has received nearly £12,000 worth of parking tickets intended for other vehicles.

Scottie Roberson, 38, chose the personalised plate as a combination of his nickname "Racer X", and his favourite number, seven.

Mr Robertson says that he has contacted city officials to alert them to the problem, but the notices continue to land on his doorstep.

At one stage he was receiving up to 10 fines a day - all for parking offences in different areas of a city he has visited only once in five years.

"Whenever I call, nobody seems to want to help me," he told The Birmingham News. "One woman said not to worry about it because they didn't have the manpower to come arrest me."

Since going public with his complaint, officials have arranged for the fines to be dismissed and are working on a new ticketing system for cars without plates.

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The bolded part made me LOL for real

[Niels Bohr 72]

Simple software fix. Probably will take a software engineer or developer to come with a solution in less than a day or two. But, the contract for the day or two will probably be around a few thousand of dollars. Nice to make that in a day.

The owner of a car with the personalised number plate 'XXXXXXX' has received parking fines for every unidentified car in his city.

Traffic wardens in Birmingham, Alabama, enter seven letter Xs onto their forms when they issue tickets to cars without plates, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The default code matches the vanity plate of a motorist from nearby Huntsville, who has received nearly £12,000 worth of parking tickets intended for other vehicles.

Scottie Roberson, 38, chose the personalised plate as a combination of his nickname "Racer X", and his favourite number, seven.

Mr Robertson says that he has contacted city officials to alert them to the problem, but the notices continue to land on his doorstep.

At one stage he was receiving up to 10 fines a day - all for parking offences in different areas of a city he has visited only once in five years.

"Whenever I call, nobody seems to want to help me," he told The Birmingham News. "One woman said not to worry about it because they didn't have the manpower to come arrest me."

Since going public with his complaint, officials have arranged for the fines to be dismissed and are working on a new ticketing system for cars without plates.

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The bolded part made me LOL for real

Edited October 21, 2009 by Niels Bohr