Full disclosure - I pretty much spent every summer growing up in VA, and spent 4 of the happiest years of my life stationed there at Langley AFB. Having said that, Virginia has one of the most obnoxious(not it's representatives and employees but its policies) and intrusive state governments in the Union. The vehicle stickers are a good example of that, and I'm glad this guy won a round. Sadly, the politicians aren't being made to pay back every dime they got through illegal means but are instead gearing up to close the loophole. From www.washingtonpost.com, H/T to www.reason.com . EFL'd, RTWT.
A Ticket On a Taurus Grows Into Much More
Legion of Citations In Va. May Be Void
The Great Virginia Parking Ticket Battle began with a burst of expletives one Saturday morning in October 2000, when Woodbridge resident Robert W. Eberth, a retired Navy captain, found a $35 citation on the windshield of his 1990 Ford Taurus. NO VALID STATE INSPECTION, it said.
Eberth had been ticketed under Prince William County Code 13-322, mandating up-to-date inspection stickers for vehicles parked on public roads. True, Eberth had allowed the Taurus's registration to lapse. But he was saving the car for his teenage son and had parked it in the private lot of his apartment complex.
Eberth examined the ticket. He cursed a little more. Then he looked up 13-322 on the Internet. "Something is very wrong with this picture," he said to himself. He checked the box marked "contest."
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