I'm sorry but what kind of nutter changes his name to 'human' and what government agency let him?
Bloke named 'human' demands 'COPSLIE' licence plate
A man named "human" rolled up at New Hampshire Supreme Court last week to argue his right to sport the vanity licence plate "COPSLIE". The unemployed accountant - formerly known as David Montenegro - applied to the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for the provocative plate back in 2010, Reuters reports. Instead, …
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Monday 11th November 2013 08:17 GMT DrXym
I don't know if this guy counts but it is reminiscent of people in America who proclaim themselves "sovereign citizens", change their name, trademark their name (and issue false liens for people who use them), avoid licence plates, and engage in lame tax dodging schemes. I thought this was just an American thing but the UK and Ireland have a similar movement called "Freemen of the land". Idiots have got to have a hobby I suppose.
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Tuesday 12th November 2013 00:40 GMT Eddy Ito
Re: They saved the guy from himself
I imagine that is what he was going for along with the likely video evidence he would wind up bringing to the police harassment suit. Truth be told, he could probably make quite a bit of cash before the plods caught on and might even get restraining orders against some individual officers. It seems pretty well thought out considering the alternate plate so we know he was spoiling for a fight. By denying his first choice the DMV played into the trap so he can get some extra publicity and perhaps harassed by cops who really have no sense of self control and are offended by learning of the request.
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Monday 11th November 2013 11:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Alternatives
And Fail alert!
The guy isnt inciting hatred against the police with his vanity plate as he isnt asking anyone to hurt them, neither is he insulting any one peace officer directly.
He is mearly stating what should by now be considered a fact that cops lie. Given revelations here in the UK about things like hillsborough & plebgate, how anyone can think cops tell the whole truth & nothing but the truth is nothing short of a miracle.
Whatever happened to 'I disagree with what you are saying, but i defend to the death your right to say it' ??
Or are the police so fragile that they cant take any criticism of them or anyone speaking out against them?
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Monday 11th November 2013 09:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
WTF ... when I was living in California in the late 90s there was a case there were someone had the number plate RAPNJAP (chosen because RAP and JAP were his and his wife's initials). However someone reported this to the DMV claiming that "JAP" was a degrading term for Japanese people and as a result this number plate contravened various "hate speech" rules. Result was DMV cancelled the number plate along with all others that contained "JAP" as a substring. WTF indeed
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Tuesday 12th November 2013 05:53 GMT cortland
The California DMV helpfully inserted spaces on my Amateur Radio plates to rid it of a forbidden number/letter combination. As a result, I was once detained by civilian law enforcement, and once held at gunpoint as a suspected terrorist (on a USAF base; I'm a retired soldier) when the person "running" the plate didn't see or know about 1) the category for radio license plates and/or 2) the spaces inserted.
Everyone needs a little excitement once in a while. I told the folks on the Air Force base, I proposed to leave the shortwave radio at home next visit -- and wear a turban.
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Friday 15th November 2013 20:06 GMT Michael Wojcik
WTF indeed
Shrug. Personalized plates are a profit center for the State. That profit could be eaten up quickly if they ended up defending themselves in court from residents who decided they were offended by someone's choice of plate - regardless of whether said plaintiff had any chance of convincing a judge or jury that the plate was offensive. People willing to sue over being denied a particular plate appear to be much rarer. And in many, perhaps most, cases, people who are denied one particular personalized plate will try something else until they find one that's acceptable, so the State gets its money anyway.
So the economic incentives strongly favor ridiculous restrictions.
Personally, though I favor strong protection, and liberal interpretation, of freedom of expression, I don't think human has a winning argument here. There's nothing preventing him from putting a bumper sticker that says "COPSLIE" right above or below the plate, so it's hard to argue that there's any effective restraint here.
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Friday 15th November 2013 20:10 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: Making life complicated
more or less correlative numbers
What sort of numbers are "correlative"? Or, conversely, are not?
I've never seen "correlative" used as an absolute before. Generally it indicates one entity relates to another somehow. (The hint is in the name.) But perhaps I'm not very civilized.
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Tuesday 12th November 2013 14:08 GMT attoman
Cop Lie by Law and so do Attorneys
In the U.S. cops can lie whenever they like and it is lawful if done as part of an investigation. Thus copslie is a truthful and lawful statement New Hampshire will lose in court and with any luck be heavily sanctioned.
More disturbing is Lawyers lie both prosecutors and defense lawyers. Caught frequently judges condone this behavior by not bringing charges against the attorneys. This is reprehensible and suggests that an honest court and judge is a rare commodity in the U.S.