Anyone using anti-photo license plate covers?

[STIBungy]

Anyone have something like this:

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html

They are $25 and I'm thinking about picking up a couple for myself.

If anyone else is interested, I can ask about a groupbuy or discounts for large orders.

[exciv2000]

cool, see if you can get a groupbuy on them and I'll be in.

[Bedlam]

There was someone here on HAI with one at the last Thornton meet..I dont remember who it was tho....

-Bedlam

[ryanman]

Aren't they illegal? They are here in TX.

[STIBungy]

I'd like to find out more details on whether or not they are legal here in CO. Hrm, I see lots of Federal Heights cops around all the time. Maybe I'll just pull up to one of them and ask them...hahaha.

I found an ebay seller selling them for even cheaper:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6755&item=2456094340

I emailed the seller asking about a groupbuy.

[BluByU]

I watched some show where they showed how the police get around stuff like this. They take the photo and reverse the colors or something like that and the plate is shown plain as day. Just make a dropdown cover that's controlled by a button if you're ever passing a photo radar van. I had one on my old gixxer made out of cabinet hinges and I pulled the plate up with a lawnmower throttle cable.

[Steve_C]

hey, you live up in federal heights or something? you don't have to pull them over to ask, i can just ask when i go to work. as long as it doesn't block the visablity of the plates, it should be good. just say it's a protector for the plates, but i don't see much use in buying one since photo radar is pretty much gone. get yourself a nice v1, and you should be set

[STIBungy]

Steve, yeah I live in ghetto heights.

I have a V1 as well. The more the merrier.

[Cheio]

hey, you live up in federal heights or something? you don't have to pull them over to ask, i can just ask when i go to work. as long as it doesn't block the visablity of the plates, it should be good. just say it's a protector for the plates, but i don't see much use in buying one since photo radar is pretty much gone. get yourself a nice v1, and you should be set

I just got a ticket from one too. :Peace:

[STIBungy]

Cheio, ticket from what?

[hsunchen]

but i don't see much use in buying one since photo radar is pretty much gone. get yourself a nice v1, and you should be set

Just passed a medium gray late 90's Astro van w/ photo equipment on Folsom in Boulder this morning. I think now that they're NOT everywhere, I'm not looking for them as much and it's easier to be nabbed.

Also up here in The Republic some of the busy intersections on 28th and Arapahoe have red-light-photo radar systems too.

[Weston-work]

These license plate covers are illegal in Colorado. However, the spray stuff that reflects the flash and causes it to be overexposed is completely legal for the time being.

Of course, if you get a photo ticket, it's a joke anyway. State law says that it has to be served to you by an officer before you are required to show up in court or pay any fine.

I got a red light one in January of last year and I just blew it off... I was in compliance with state law (completely in the intersection before the light turned red), but I think Boulder's city ordinance is vague enough that I might be considered guilty. Anyway, the first letter was basically "pay this fine by this date, or else", so I called their bluff and ignored the letter. Then they sent a second notice and extended the date, which really just confirmed that they were bluffing, so I ignored that letter too. It's more than a year later and I haven't heard anything else about it. Maybe they'd come knocking on my door and serve me a summons if I lived in Boulder, but I'd like to think that the Boulder Police have better things to do. In any case, they haven't bothered me in Longmont.

Now I'm sure someone is going to come up with some silly idea that they can issue a warrant, but they can't since I was never served by an officer, so of course my name has come up clean every time it has been run since then.

[STIBungy]

Hehe, watch the next time you get pulled over, the cop will tell you there's an outstanding warrant for you.

[Weston-work]

I would have found out about it the last time I was pulled over, but it doesn't matter because they can't do that since I was never served a summons. I had no obligation to respond to those letters in any way, and they can't even prove that I recieved them since it was just regular mail. Their big bad empty threat was that they were going to issue a summons and take me to court if I didn't just blindly send them my money, but obviously that didn't happen.