Alabama man fined $19k for 'XXXXXXX' vanity plate!Byline: ANI Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , Oct 20 (ANI): Scottie Scottish terrier, Scottie a small (19-23 lb) thickset dog with short legs. The coat is hard and wiry, trimmed to a short length on the body but allowed to be full and longer on the legs, under the body, and over the eyes and around the muzzle where it forms a beard. Roberson Roberson is a surname, and may refer to
Huntsville, town (1991 pop. 14,997), SE Ont., Canada, on the Muskoka River. It has lumber mills and a woodworking plant, but it is sustained mainly by its year-round tourist trade. has been slapped with 19000 dollars worth of fines, courtesy his vanity plate vanity plate n. A license plate for a motor vehicle bearing a combination of letters or numbers selected by the purchaser. which has seven X's - XXXXXXX. Birmingham parking patrols strike seven X's in place of the plate number, whenever any car is found parked illegally without license plates or at meters that are no longer valid. However, Roberson said his plate was a souvenir of the days when he built custom cars and was called "Racer X." And he uses seven X's, as seven is his favourite number. Roberson revealed that almost a year back he started getting letters over outstanding parking tickets, at times even 10 in a day in 10 places. Last November, he called up city officials, but the notices kept pouring. "Whenever I call, nobody seems to want to help me...One woman said not to worry about it because they didn't have the manpower to come arrest me," al.com quoted him, as saying. The officials later told him that the tickets had been issued by mistake as his vanity plate read XXXXXXX. City spokeswoman April Odom confessed last week that Roberson had been wrongly fined and that he would not have to pay anything. Birmingham Traffic Engineer Gregory Dawkins said: "Maybe we need to go with nine X's, or maybe we just need to leave that part blank altogether." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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