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3rd October 2006, 20:43
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Plates and license gone again
After taking back my license that they took from me in Austria 4 months ago in the dustball race , last sunday i was coming back from a trip and at 2am sunday morning they stopped me with 220km .
Now that i call bad luck , 500km at that time of the night the road was clear
i even had the V1 closed and 10km from my home there they where dammit.
They took the plates and license for 1 month 
License i can stand but the plates < its to obvious you cant go anywhere without plates .
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3rd October 2006, 21:58
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John, that sucks.
Can you give a breif breakdown of how that works in your country? Here they suspend our liscense in the computer system. But they dont take plates, cause others could drive.
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3rd October 2006, 22:22
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Bad luck 
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3rd October 2006, 23:32
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Ouch, take the plates? That is a new one...
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3rd October 2006, 23:38
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only for a month! Thats not bad. In the USA (or in georgia) the cop will shoot you first, then take you to jail, then you get your license suspended for atleast 6 months if not a year.
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4th October 2006, 09:53
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The law says : If you are 20% higher than the road limit (which never exeeds 120km anywhere & instantly makes you an outlaw)they take your plates car & driving licence there is no price to pay , after a year a paper comes to you and you go to court for the rest .
Thats not all , they can acctually take you to court instantly and if its friday you sleep in a cell until monay morning and straight to court .They almost never do that though but still if you argue or missbehave they can thats the law .
Taking plates is very common in Athens , even if you park your car where you are not supposed to they take your plates for a month but in this case they leave a ticket with a price to pay & there is an option to pay tripple the money after 3 days and go get them back .
The best speeding laws i've met so far are in Germany where there is a speed limit in bends or certain points of the road and when through you can go as fast as you like but only in the left lane of course !!!
Anywayz can you imagine how i feel driving my ford connect van(at least that has plates) and having my baby parked iam fed up .
3 weeks and counting
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4th October 2006, 15:06
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John, that sounds like a lot of governmental, SCATA.........good luck buddy...you should have told them...scatastamootraso !!!! LOL
Gregorio
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4th October 2006, 15:33
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Sorry to hear that John! 
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4th October 2006, 18:19
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Bad luck mate.
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4th October 2006, 22:39
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Thanks for the sympathies lads , and lolll at gregorio 
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4th October 2006, 23:44
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could've been worse, they could've taken your car.. sorry man..
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5th October 2006, 08:20
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In the US you would have been jacked for going that fast! They might take it away for a few months + heavy court fees + etc!
That being said, I feel for you m8.
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