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[Robbie Honerkamp <robbie@shorty.com>]

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Subject: Motorist Registers During Traffic Stop
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:13:13 -0700
From: Honerkamp, Heather <Heather.Honerkamp@echostar.com>
To: 'Robbie Honerkamp' <robbie@shorty.com>

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Motorist Registers During Traffic Stop
Fri Dec 5, 8:49 AM ET  Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. - In less time than it took a North
Brunswick patrolman to write a ticket for an unregistered
vehicle, the driver got his car registered online Thursday.

When officer Jason Zier pulled over a 1992 Mazda 626 on
Thursday afternoon, the vehicle's registration had expired.
By the time he'd finished writing up Sean Leach for the
infraction, the car was legal again.


That's because the 36-year-old Jersey City man had a cell
phone, a friend with a computer who he could reach and the
foresight to use the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's
online registration service.

Leach's ingenuity did not save him from getting a ticket,
but it did keep him from having his car towed - and getting
socked with the towing bill.

Zier pulled Leach over on Route 130 after noticing the
sticker on his license plate was expired, the Home News
Tribune reported for Friday. When Leach told Zier he had not
gotten around to renewing his registration, the officer
mentioned that drivers can register online, North Brunswick
Police Department spokesman Capt. Donald Conry said.

Leach took the renewal form the commission had sent him from
his visor, which contained the access code he needed to
renew. While Zier issued the summons and ordered the tow,
Leach called a friend who took his credit card number and
other information and renewed the registration for him, Conry
said.

When Zier came back with the ticket, Leach told him the car was
now registered. The computer inside Zier's patrol car confirmed
it.

"It's immediate," Conry said.

Zier canceled the tow truck - no longer needed since it was to
tow an unregistered car off the road.