http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/...
One of the often cities reasons is, and I'm not making this up, some drivers dislike because it appears to have Clemson University's school colors. Only in the South can fans of one team get an entire state to spend around 45 million to change a license plate because of perceived colors.
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You mean in all the years I've been driving around sporting something like this, I've been unwittingly supporting Clemson?
Please, let me pay my fair share of $45 million NOW! /s
Voted as one of the best plates and they are going to change it to the bottom plate as the base design
That's South Carolina, where it's still legal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
And a moped and a golf cart on 55mph roads without a license.
Don't know if it still applies, but you used to not even need trailer lights for a trailer you towed. I think there was a size limit, but still.
Still true, within limits (size, daylight only, etc).
What's wrong with that?
I always do but how does that impact anyone else but the rider?
I will always wear a helmet and a dull face one at that but I sure don't like someone telling me I have too as if I'm some little kid.
If someone else doesn't wear a helmet, who cares, it's not endangering me or impacting my freedom in any way.
I may be wrong, but if I am driving a car and cause an accident with a motorcyclist that ends in his/her death due to not wearing a helmet, don't I get charged with Vehicular Manslaughter and need to go to court?
If motorcycle riders who choose not to wear a helmet would sign a waiver that they won't get taxpayer paid medical treatment I would agree with you. Being in Coastal SC where we have two of the largest bike rallies in the U.S. every year I see plenty of bikers hurt and killed they cost time and money to treat them from the accident scene to the level 1 trauma center. To make it worse the people who usually die are the passengers not the rider.
I identify with libertarian principles as well, but traumatic brain injury care is incredibly expensive to society and detrimental to the family who has to take care of the TBI survivor. Working 5 years in a neuroscience critical care unit will shape your perspective on that.
Kudos on your choice of helmet, though. I was working in the trauma room one particularly fine Sunday day shift and we had two separate single vehicle motorcycle crash patients come in, back to back. One was wearing a full face helmet and was admitted for a day for observation for concussion. The other patient had a skullcap on and had an extensive hospitalization for a Le Fort III fracture, where your face is basically no longer connected to your skull.
http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/get_the_facts.html
This is the plate we had pre-2008, which was quite popular. Should have just stuck with our state bird, the Carolina wren, which, in addition to actually representing the state, was color-neutral, attractive, and inoffensive to Gamecocks and Tigers alike. Edit: it's a wren, not a chickadee.
Anyway, welcome to the Palmetto State!
Maybe they can save $45M by not mailing out new pates to every registered driver every time there's an update. Let them phase out naturally - mail us the little stickers like they do in VA.
Did they change the temporary tags since I left? Basically a piece of cardboard with "new car" written in Sharpie? That would be an area to improve if they're worried about visibility by police. And having lived in two states that require front plates (VA & NY), I would be more than confused by the "official" personalized vanity plates (that aren't real plates) that SC is going to offer.
Temporary tags changed in 2012.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/12/21/met_365217.shtml#.VUaOxN...
And hey, in case you missed it, it's now legal to get a tattoo in SC! No more driving to NC just to get inked! Actually, that changed in 2004, but folks around here are still pretty excited about it.
After that law changed, they told the Navy students down in Charleston (Goose Creek) don't get a tattoo, but if you do, still don't get it in SC because it is "new" and will probably still be unsafe until a few years had passed to adjust to hygiene practices, etc.
Kinda looks like a wren, but a cool plate
You're right, it's a wren. Long day, sigh.
If you live/are from South Carolina, you should probably know that is a wren. By the way, it looks nothing like a chickadee.
"it looks nothing like a chickadee."
Shut up bird nerd! Oh wait... or is that me?
I love the current plate was very happy to get it when we moved here last year. Here is the kicker, supposedly all the "special plates" will be white and black also, no more custom colors, just when VT was getting close to getting a state plate here.
Custom colors will still be allowed in the special logo area, if I read it correctly.
Just the logo area, several plates have custom colors over the entire plate currently.
Any idea how close we are to getting an SC plate? Really want one.
It's coming along, the last official news I heard was they were working on funding. One of the upstate alumni groups is spear heading it.
It's not crazy, it's sports...