{"id":1103,"date":"2004-07-22T22:32:36","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/dammit-jim-im-a-computer-glitch-not-a-license-plate\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T22:32:36","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:32:36","slug":"dammit-jim-im-a-computer-glitch-not-a-license-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/dammit-jim-im-a-computer-glitch-not-a-license-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"dammit, jim!  i&#8217;m a computer glitch, not a license plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/newsjournal\/local\/2004\/07\/22notagtagsbringf.html\" class=\"broken_link\">&#8216;NOTAG&#8217; tags bring flood of tickets<\/a> [news journal,  july 22,  2004]<\/div>\n<p>Jim Cara wanted a vanity license tag that would make people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>But when he chose &#8220;NOTAG&#8221; for the plate on his Suzuki Hayabusa,  a sleek blue and silver motorcycle with a speedometer that reaches 220 mph, the joke backfired.<\/p>\n<p>The new tag arrived Saturday under an avalanche of Wilmington parking violations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the traffic tickets say, &#8216;Notice of violation. License number: no tag,&#8217; &#8221; Cara said.<\/p>\n<p>City computers, talking to state Division of Motor Vehicles computers, had finally found an address for ticketed vehicles that lacked license tags: Cara&#8217;s home in Elsmere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I messed up the system so bad,&#8221; Cara said. &#8220;I wonder if they can put me in jail or something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>John Rago, communications director for Mayor James M. Baker, said an incorrect computer code used by the contractor that processes the city&#8217;s parking violations helped land the tickets in Cara&#8217;s mail. City officials planned to have it corrected Wednesday, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>rawk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;NOTAG&#8217; tags bring flood of tickets [news journal, july 22, 2004] Jim Cara wanted a vanity license tag that would make people laugh. But when he chose &#8220;NOTAG&#8221; for the plate on his Suzuki Hayabusa, a sleek blue and silver motorcycle with a speedometer that reaches 220 mph, the joke backfired. The new tag arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}