Let's keep it a bit less political folks.....
Hard not to when emissions is nothing but a political farce to make people THINK their air is cleaner. Air is Air, we lose more to space than what is polluted. The way PA acts about emissions; you'd think the hole in the Ozone Layer is right above Allegheny county, since Armstrong (a walk across the bridge for me) does not need emissions, as parts of Westmoreland. Then, for a Police Officer to tell you, you got 30-days to inspect the thing, or we tow it? It's 100% wrong, it's private property, and a privately owned vehicle. They have no right to come onto said property, and take your property.
A friend of ours is in Germany, left his Maryland car at his moms, where I park my jeep (car port). I start it up once a month, and let it run to operating temp. I noticed last week that his MD inspection is up this month. I have to inform him, he needs to get a car cover so the police will leave it alone. That car just SITS THERE, so it attracts attention. I already witnessed a local get out of his car, go into the car port, and look at the sticker, but that was well over six months ago. Don't think they don't' know that sticker expires this month, and his plate one expires at the end of the year - He will be in Germany for 2-3 years, and he don't want to sell the car. What gives the cops the right to trespass, and investigate? IF the plate expires, you can rest assure, they will tow the vehicle from the car-port.
3 years ago, I had a boat, it sat along side my house for over a YEAR!, as I used it and parked it. I get a knock at the door, a YEAR later, a NEW ******** cop in town, tells me I can't park my boat there. I have to move it, or it will be seized. I said, how long to do I have? The ******** cop looks at his WATCH (WTF?), that arrogant act angered me, and I stepped up to him, my wife pulled me back, she knew what was next if she didn't. HE said I got a month. I said, you know, that has been there for over a year, now all of the sudden it has to go? He said there is a local ordinance about trailers, bla bla bla, you got a year out of it, consider yourself lucky. The arrogance of that man! I could park it in my yard, and have an EYE SORE, but I can't park it along-side my house? Meanwhile, another person let his EMPTY trailer on the street all the time, for months after this incident; but mine has to go? HE must have finally gotten the visit, because within 6-months after my visit, it hadn't seen it.
OFF SUBJECT:
Regrading the overstepping of bounds; DUI checkpoints; are technically illegal search and seizer under the constitution of the united States. I got stopped on my Motorcycle 3 weeks ago tomorrow. I do not have a class "M" on my license, so they said they would impound my bike, they TOOK IT, put a post-it note on the windshield, and walked it away; and so on. I was like fine, no problem. They they asked if someone can come get it, I said at 1:35 in the morning, No sir. Then they said they would hide it in the parking lot, and I can have it picked up tomorrow. I said, me and my wife will walk home, it's only 4 miles from here. They said no, we're wearing black, and it is unsafe, they would give us a ride. Then the in charge dude said to let us go. One cop made a comment, "That was a command decision, go.", the other said, "My back was turned I didn't see them." So, they said go ahead and go, we were like, THANK you, shook hands of the commander, the wife shook his hand TWICE; and so on. I get back on the bike, and "illegally" DRIVE away?! A week later, I get a ticket in the mail for driving without the proper class, boy was my wife ANGRY. I am fighting that in court, because they LET US GO, and said nothing like, we'll let you go, but we still have to send you a ticket, NOTHING. Sure, I was in the wrong for dirving without the class "M" endorsement, but if not for the checkpoint, I would not have been stopped, searched, and my bike seized. The bike was inspected, plated, and insured, it was 100% legal.
BACK ON SUBJECT:
The whole idea that the police can just come take your car for not being inspected or plated, off your PRIVATE property is tyranny. They did it to my father over 20 years ago, so it is NOTHING new. He had a Dodge Dart, in EXCELLENT shape, needed some motor work (slant 6). My dad said, I could have it, I was like cool. My uncle could have got that running for me. Well, it figures, because a week later, since it had already sat for too long, the locals came and towed it, right out of his mothers parking lot! Why? It had expired TAGS... Nobody sees anything wrong with this crap?
Pennsylvania is one of THE worst places to live, and I hate its Government for making it that way. What's not fair? Since other counties don't need EMISSIONS, they are in no danger of being towed for not having a valid sticker. So, it's ok for one county, but not the other. No conformity in this state, at all.
