Photo: Jimmy Hedin of Rego Park with a guilty and not guilty ruling on two tickets for the same offense/John Montone
Posted: Thursday, 16 July 2009 6:38AM
Driver Pays Price for Defective Registration Sticker
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- During the week Jimmy Hedin leaves his car parked on the street in Rego Park -- so a few days had passed before he realized he had been issued two tickets for the same offense -- failure to properly display a current registration sticker.
John Montone reports
As 1010 WINS reported earlier, drivers across New York have been complaining that their registration stickers aren't sticking to their windshields either.
The DMV has acknowledged the “unsticky” situation saying that more than 2.5 million defective stickers were accidentally handed out.
Hedin says that is exactly what happened to his registration sticker; it became unglued and fell to the dashboard.
An adhesive problem caused the defect, DMV officials said. DMV Commissioner David Swarts said the department alerted law enforcement agencies to use discretion when they come across loose, taped -- or in other words defective -- stickers.
Hedin decided to fight the tickets.
The judge gave him a break on the first ticket deciding that "the sticker became unglued unbeknownst to the respondent, does warrant dismissal."
However on the second ticket -- issued one day later for the exact same offense -- the same judge decided "the claim that the sticker became unglued does not present a valid defense."
The ticket -- and the defective glue -- cost Hedin $65.
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