Worse yet. He's expected to still have to pay them all. Afterall, a ticket means he broke the law, right? And tickets have nothing to do with revenue generation, right? RIGHT?

O_o

From now on they should use "Boobies"

It took over 10 years to figure out that '0' was some guys license plate number?

Reminds me of the guy whose plate was "No Plate" and he got arsetons of tickets because of it

Feddor said he went to the Revenue Department and the Department of Administrative Hearings for help, but was unable to resolve the issue. Hearing officer Zipporah Lewis made several calls to officials in an attempt to help Feddor, but he said "the people she encountered at the other end of the phone seemed to be annoyed and bothered by her. Most tried to quickly end the call."

I guess you could say it took some time for it to register with them.

How did I know, prior to reading TFA, that this was from Chicago? Gee, I wonder...

I told him



was a bad idea, but did he listen to me? Noooooo...

Who the heck gives out 0 as a license plate anyway?

How much you wanna bet this isn't the end of the story. A year from now we see a new Fark headline "Man goes on rampage after trying to get erroneous tickets excused for over a year".

I mean, after all, it IS Chicago.

So, was this a vanity plate reflecting his personality?

License plates are a huge racket in Illinois.

I always use dummy values when testing software I'm writing, but... I make sure it's really a dummy and not a real one.

tothekor: Worse yet. He's expected to still have to pay them all. going to get a refund for any paid tickets. Afterall, a ticket means he broke the law, right? And tickets have nothing to do with revenue generation, right? RIGHT?

FTFY, sir.

tothekor: Worse yet. He's expected to still have to pay them all. Afterall, a ticket means he broke the law, right? And tickets have nothing to do with revenue generation, right? RIGHT?

FTFA: Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Tribune officials were unaware there was a "0" plate in circulation -- Feddor's family has been using it for 40 years -- or that he was receiving tickets from the equipment testing. He said the tickets would be wiped out and any fines payed by Feddor would be refunded.

I really hope that was an attempt at a joke...

phareous: Who the heck gives out 0 as a license plate anyway?

Personally I would think that would be an -awesome- license plate.

/seeing if its available in his home state

"Drop the zero and get with a hero."

Should the Chicago PD or IL State Police be doing testing on things like this, instead of the Department of Revenue? But citizen it's for safety, not revenue!

bravian: phareous: Who the heck gives out 0 as a license plate anyway?

Personally I would think that would be an -awesome- license plate.

/seeing if its available in his home state

Of course its telling when I hit our DMV site via Firefox that it just ends up crashing the browser.

/divide by zero error?

This is why people don't think the government can handle stuff like health care.

The key here is that those in law enforcement have a special kind of stupid on their side when it comes to policy and... well... enforcement.

Drone1047: License plates are a huge racket in Illinois.

Yes, but what isn't a racket in Illinois.

It would help if I read my posts before hitting submit.

My post should read;
Shouldn't the Chicago PD or IL State Police be doing testing on things like this, instead of the Department of Revenue? But citizen it's for safety, not revenue!

So is this guy doing it right?

Check out the body art link on that page.

/geek joke
//This story appearing on Slashdot in 3...2...1...

What IDIOT software tester couldn't query the database to figure out that "0" was in use??? Terrible test case quality.

/hope somebody got fired
//my lead QA guy is awesome and I don't have to micromanage him one bit
///which allows me free time to post on Fark

davideo_games: The key here is that those in law enforcement have a special kind of stupid on their side when it comes to policy and... well... enforcement.

The Department of Revenue is not "in law enforcement." It seems Fark has a special kind of stupid on their side when it comes to cops.

HeartBurnKid: tothekor: Worse yet. He's expected to still have to pay them all. Afterall, a ticket means he broke the law, right? And tickets have nothing to do with revenue generation, right? RIGHT?

FTFA: Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Tribune officials were unaware there was a "0" plate in circulation -- Feddor's family has been using it for 40 years -- or that he was receiving tickets from the equipment testing. He said the tickets would be wiped out and any fines payed by Feddor would be refunded.

I really hope that was an attempt at a joke...

It was. Never said I was comedian

Pay the Man: So, was this a vanity plate reflecting his personality?

probably the shape of his body

logieal: So is this guy doing it right?

looks like two of those are D's and not 0's.

I always knew Planet P was wrong.

How retarded is it that they're testing using the live database? WTF This flies in the face of basic QA control.

Brown Sauce: Drone1047: License plates are a huge racket in Illinois.

Yes, but what isn't a racket in Illinois.

Exactly. Ric Romero surrenders.

I once got my ex-landlord's rental house boarded up once in a similar event...

FTFA: He said the tickets would be wiped out and any fines payed by Feddor would be refunded.

Payed? PAYED? What the hell is "payed"? Jesus H. Christ of Latter Day Saints! THE WORD IS "PAID"!!!

logieal: So is this guy doing it right?

No! He's standing in the way of the light so whatever photo he takes will be too dark to see.

I remember reading an article that talked about how you should get a license plate that is either a series of zeroes and O's, or ones and I's. The idea was that police could not effectively read your license plate, if ever the need arose. It sounded like an interesting idea, but I feel that it would just piss off cops more.

While everyone else biatches about the idiocy of the non-query testing, I'm going to go ahead and biatch about the brilliant use of the English language by this stellar reporter:

"...He said the tickets would be wiped out and any fines payed by Feddor would be refunded."

Really? I mean, it's not like they were trying to spell "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" or something.

/brilliant reporting (and editing)
//brilliant
///grammar Nazi, my lawn, etc. etc.

Sarah Jessica Farker: looks like two of those are D's and not 0's.

I think that's great.

How much do you wanna bet that if that guy gets tickets more than half of them are invalidated because the ticket incorrectly notes his plate as "OOODDOO" or "OODOODO" instead of "OOODODO"?

logieal: So is this guy doing it right?



How'd he take the picture with no arms?!?!

Amazing!!!

Gilliam317: I remember reading an article that talked about how you should get a license plate that is either a series of zeroes and O's, or ones and I's. The idea was that police could not effectively read your license plate, if ever the need arose. It sounded like an interesting idea, but I feel that it would just piss off cops more.

Though in retrospect, it seems the man in Logieal's pic did the same thing except with D's instead of O's.

At the bottom of the article:

Next Story: City to employees: Wear underwear (new window)

Reminds me of:

remus: I always use dummy values when testing software I'm writing, but... I make sure it's really a dummy and not a real one.


If only there was some database that could be queried to find out if the number was taken or not.

But they're not all "zero" or "oh" . It's a combination of letters and numbers.....

zero - oh - oh - dee - zero- dee - oh

/sneaky bastid, he is....

Goddamnit I expected a humorous vanity plate thread and will now leave disappointed.

/was going to post a pic of SFCRKR plate on a black 'vette but you don't deserve it.

Just remember, these are the same folks we want to entrust to run our health-care system.

"Sorry, Mr. John Smith of 34th Street in Chicago, you can't have that cancer treatment. You see, there's a John Smith on 4th Street in Chicago who we just paid for his cancer treatment. You must be trying to bilk the system."

I have heard this story before!

This may just be an urban legend but. . .
When California first started issuing personalized license plates, one guy got the license "none". Turns out every city in California towed his car away multiple times. It was even in several different impound lots at the same time. And the bill! I heard it was about $53,000. This would be back in the 70s I think.

Anyone know if this is true?

FTA: "Feddor said he went to the Revenue Department and the Department of Administrative Hearings for help, but was unable to resolve the issue. Hearing officer Zipporah Lewis made several calls to officials in an attempt to help Feddor, but he said "the people she encountered at the other end of the phone seemed to be annoyed and bothered by her. Most tried to quickly end the call.""

Government employees too "busy" to give a crap and help you? SHOCKING.

Wow.

State of Illinois : 170
Unfortunate Citizen : 0

Catsaregreen: Just remember, these are the same folks we want to entrust to run our health-care system.

*rolls eyes*

No. This is the same folks who you want to entrust with PAYING for your health-care system.

Do you similarly disparage your local firemen as being incompetent beaureaucratic fools since they, too, are funded by tax dollars?

(or do you work for an insurance company and you're worried that your "denying care to paying clients" job might be on the line?)

Catsaregreen:

"Sorry, Mr. John Smith of 34th Street in Chicago, you can't have that cancer treatment. You see, there's a John Smith on 4th Street in Chicago who we just paid for his cancer treatment. You must be trying to bilk the system."

The current system is better.