Tag Applied for…
August 30, 2007
I don’t think anything on the road, other then someone flicking a cigarette butt out the window, irritates me more then someone driving around with a cardboard license plate that says…”Tag Applied For,” “Lost Tag,” or “Tag Stolen.”
Why is this person not in jail? How can you drive around with a cardboard sign on your car that basically says, I am doing something illegal, but please forgive me because I have a cardboard sign on my car that explains the whole thing? If that really works, which it must because they are always driving and not pulled over on the side of the road, then I should be able to do that with my driver’s license, put one up when I need to speed or when I don’t have time to wait in a traffic jam.
I’ll get a bunch of cardboard and a tile knife and when I get in a traffic jam I’ll write, “I am in a hurry to get home to see my wife”, to explain why I am driving in the median. When I get too many speeding tickets, I pull out my cardboard drivers license, which says “my other one was taken away because of too many tickets.”
It’s just plain dumb.
August 31, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Wow…I’ve never seen that one before.
September 25, 2007 at 3:45 PM
I just moved to Georgia where I first saw this and thought the same thing. But then I bought a used car from a private party and found out that the license plate stays with the person, not the car, and I had to drive the car home without any plate. They told me I just have to use a cardboard “Tag Applied For” sign until I can get it registered. It seems pretty stupid to me, but I guess that’s how things are done in Georgia.
March 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Actually, I bought a car on a Friday evening and tag office didn’t reopen until Monday morning. Thus, in order to avoid being pulled over every 50 yards for no tag, I put a “Tag Applied For” tag on my car for the weekend and was fine. That’s what the DMV told me to do when I called a few days before I bought the car.
January 4, 2009 at 4:56 PM
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Only in the South. Ironically I tend to notice the vehicle because they have just committed a traffic violation (eg. speeding,following too close, erratic lane changes). I guess this helps car thieves,bank robbers and the child abductors elude capture. I want to put an end to this.
April 28, 2009 at 7:59 PM
How funny. I would have agreed but i just left the Tag Office in Mississippi. The Purple Heart tag that I got has to be made. It has a 14 day waiting period. I’m gonna try the “Tag Applied For” tactic, since I will be driving from Mississippi to Ft. Drum in Watertown, New York, in 4 days. My police chief says that I will be a target for any officer that has a quota to fill.
July 16, 2009 at 4:14 AM
wow you have too much time on your hands
September 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM
I would have agreed with this myself, but it’s funny cause I have to do something similar this weekend.
I have to pick up a car I’m buying from a private owner in another state, and there is nothing I can do to get a GA tag until I get here, so “Tag Applied For” label it is.