FTA: Ovetz believes he was a victim of "selective enforcement because of his political message and the policeman's own bias."

Guess what, Prof- despite what you think of yourself, you're just not that important.

Cops is San Francisco have nothing better to do then pull over folks on a bullshiat "obstructed view" violation? No real criminals to catch, Barney Fife?

I could see if the whole or most of the window was covered with a opaque sticker of some sort, but it seems really petty to pull someone over because of a sticker on their rear window.

The Prof. sounds like a jackass, too, but he may have a point about why he was actually pulled over.

slobarnuts:Section 3 means that it ALSO applies to snow or ice. It doesn't mean it ONLY applies to snow or ice.

We also have that law here. You cannot drive with anything on your front or windshield, or anything hanging from your rearview. However, I see plenty of state parking stickers, state-issued handicap stickers, and college window stickers from state-run colleges.

This is selective enforcement. The law is only tenable if it IS selectively enforced.

I'm willing to bet this is the type of guy who has so many "bumper stickers" that they have become "bumper/fender/trunk lid/rear window stickers." He's already misconstrued the law as it was actually written, I'm going to say that he's also failed to mention that it wasn't just one sticker on his back window either.

keylock71:Cops is San Francisco have nothing better to do then pull over folks on a bullshiat "obstructed view" violation? No real criminals to catch, Barney Fife

Right - because the SFPD is such a small organization that the cops on patrol also have to solve all the murders, find all the kidnappers, and eat all the donuts.

This guy was *dying* to get pulled over to make a big deal out of nothing. Who puts a bumper sticker on their window?

People who put bumper stickers on their cars should be forcibly sterilized.

And any political bumper sticker you have on your car may as well say "Please Pigeonhole Me".

Idiots.

ThatGuyGreg:keylock71:Cops is San Francisco have nothing better to do then pull over folks on a bullshiat "obstructed view" violation? No real criminals to catch, Barney Fife

Right - because the SFPD is such a small organization that the cops on patrol also have to solve all the murders, find all the kidnappers, and eat all the donuts.

This guy was *dying* to get pulled over to make a big deal out of nothing. Who puts a bumper sticker on their window?

Oh, like I said, the Prof. sounds like a jackass, too... I've no doubt he was just itching to make a big deal out of this...

I've got a couple of stickers on the rear window in my van, and I've never been pulled over for 'em (never been pulled over for any reason actually), and I believe we have the obstructed view law here in MA.

Now, if this guy was also committing another traffic violation and gave the cop a boatload of grief, I could understand tacking on the obstructed view charge, but from the article at any rate, it seems like he was pulled over specifically for the sticker on his rear window, and like I said previously, unless we're talking about a sticker that takes up most of the window, it strikes me as a very petty reason to pull someone over... particularly in a large city like San Francisco.

Kyosuke:keylock71:Now, if this guy was also committing another traffic violation and gave the cop a boatload of grief...

I'm betting that's the side of the story we aren't hearing.

Could be. Also, maybe if he hadn't gone all aggro with the cop, he might have just gotten a warning to relocate the sticker... who knows?

Has anyone ever done the math and determined if there is an actual formula where the number of bumper stickers on a vehicle is in inverse proportion to the value of the vehicle the stickers were attached to, and the relation of the number of stickers to the douchebagginess of the driver?

Came here to say the the prof is an asshat. See that has been covered.

Add one more to the "prof is an asshat" column for me.

Whamdangler:keylock71:I've got a couple of stickers on the rear window in my van,

I believe vans may be specifically exempt, because vans are not even required to have rear windows. I know they were exempt from rear window obstruction laws in Jersey (where I used to drive a delivery van).


Good Point... The two rear windows are the only windows I have besides the front windshield and the driver and passenger side doors... my wife calls it the "Chevy Kidnapper".

sigdiamond2000:People who put bumper stickers on their cars should be forcibly sterilized.

And any political bumper sticker you have on your car may as well say "Please Pigeonhole Me".

Idiots.

Wow. You must be a blast at parties.

You know who else wanted something as serious as forced sterilization for mind-numbingly trivial reasons?

/my balls
//not yours