Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!mcdchg!nud!sunburn!gtx!al
From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <758@gtx.com>
Date: 20 Sep 88 15:43:16 GMT
References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <57438@ti-csl.CSNET> <741@etive.ed.ac.uk> <492@sp7040.UUCP> <827@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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In article <827@cernvax.UUCP> rbt@cernvax.UUCP () writes:
*
*What about that guy in U.S. that got a brand new plate for his car. I do not
*know why, but he choose the word "NONE". Well, the following month he received
*a ridicolous fee from the local police station. He was always parking in the
*wrong place, many times a day, sometimes even twice or three times in different
*parts of the town.
*
*Finally, he went to the police station to complain. There they worked out that
*the bill was computer-made, and the standard plate reported for plateless car
*was "NONE".
*
*He changed plate.


sounds like a missed opportunity to me.  If he were creative, he would
have argued with whoever types in the license numbers to translate
"NONE" into something else, like "-----".  He would then be free to
park wherever he chose.



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