MustangForums.com - Front license plate problem....

Man, I had my plate in the front windshield. But here's my funny story to go with it.

Just got done with soccer practice, put my phone on the top of my car. Well I left, realized the phone had been there and decided to turn around and look for it. So I turn into this nursing home, planning to just turn around and go back to the stadium. I turn into the place, happen to end up in the handicap spot and go to back up. All of a sudden there's a cop there. He stops, and I'm at a loss of why he would pick me up, so I really don't think he is, plus his lights aren't on. So I go to back up, thinking he'll continue on his way. I gave him a funny look when he didn't move, and I suppose in my stupidity revved the engine to try to get his attention that I was backing up.

He gets out of the car, asks me to step out and have a seat in his car. This cop is a jerk. First he asks what I was doing, I'm 18, so it's not like it would matter if I'm out for a cruise or not, but I was honest and said I had had soccer practice and realized my phone was on the roof when I left. Then he proceeded to question why I had tried to run, and I finally convinced him that I wasn't, just was naive to the fact he was trying to pull me over. Finally, he got to his point, and while I'm sitting there in the car, he tells me I didn't have a front license plate. I say it's in my windshield and he says that that's illegal.

Honestly, I did not know that having it in the windshield wasn't legit, as I see people like that all the time, but he said I should have known and wrote me a 56.00 ticket. Then he accused me of being rude and that I should get fined for parking in a handicap zone, but it's hard to move your car when your blocked and further more forced to sit in the cop car.

Through it all, two lucky things did happen. My phone somehow got lodged under the spoiler, and he didn't see that my insurance card was for my other Mustang, as I accidentally mixed the two up and had them in the wrong cars. I am sure if he would have saw that it said the wrong mustang he would have accused me of not having proof of insurance.

I'm sure if I hadn't of stopped to turn around I would have been fine, as I pass cops all the time without a front plate. Never the less, I plan on gettting a different front bumper at somepoint, so I just drilled two small holes into it. When I do feel like taking it off, the holes aren't noticable from a distance of a few feet. But also, even windshield placement for plates doesn't work. Oh yeah, and I sware I was not rude to the cop, I really didn't want a ticket.