you cant get those

they are maxed out on that

 

Good... I carpool every day, and I'm sick of all these single drivers in the carpool lane with their Priuses!!!

 

+1 for carpooling it saves the environment! hahahahahaha

 

Someone told me the chp set up a hotline to snitch on people in the carpool lane.

 

Was there a CHP car waiting on the side?




What up, SIGMA?

 

nothing much how are you philip?
you going to the races this weekend?

 

Nope, just cameras and the guy that set up the crap chillin next to the big white utility truck.

 

Thieves have been peeling off with the limited-edition car pool lane stickers the state awarded to drivers of hybrid fuel vehicles.

The DMV estimated two to three dozen drivers a month have requested replacement stickers since the Department of Motor Vehicles stopped giving them out in January, driving up the value of the yellow stickers.

"We knew it was only a matter of time," said California Highway Patrol officer Mike Wright.

Drivers suspect sticker snatchers are selling the coveted tags, which are valid through January 2011. The state capped the number of hybrids with special Clean Air Vehicle driving privileges at 85,000.

In February, someone who was sent a set of stickers by mistake put them up for sale on eBay for $10,000, although apparently the auction item was removed after there were no bidders.

Tanya Cecchin, 39, of San Jose narrowly escaped a $360 ticket last month when a police officer pulled her over for driving in a car pool lane before she noticed that three of her Toyota Prius' four decals were gone.

"I was kind of patronizing to the cop," Cecchin said. "I thought, `You poor fool, didn't you see my stickers?'"

She was able to talk her way out of the citation by flashing a car pool lane registration card she had in the hybrid.

The HOV-lane perk is one of several privileges governments have offered to owners of cars capable of running on both electricity and gasoline. Some California cities waive parking meter fees for hybrids sporting the stickers. Both the Internal Revenue Service and several states offer income tax credits to drivers of the fuel-efficient cars.

Mike Miller, a DMV spokesman, said those hoping to hawk or buy pilfered permits should not get their hopes up. The stickers are treated with a chemical that makes them blister, crack and display the word "void" once they are removed.

"I doubt someone would be able to get them off intact," Miller said.

 

If they really do blister, crack and display "void" then that just means less hybrids in the carpool lane as theives keep trying.

To really stop thievery, why not just make them put a sticker inside the vehicle on the rear windshield?

 

This thread is hot like fire.

 

There was another one on the 105 this morning

 

glad I take surface streets... and only have an intake.

 

wow i see them on the on ramp on the 91 once every three months