Expired safety sticker can be grounds for tow - Hawaii News

QUESTION: In October my son's vehicle was towed during the early morning hours for an expired safety check .

[vietnam7071 kaneohe]

Another HPD cover-up there go at that in the family its OK OHANA is frist always

[Scammers]

What a lot of hooey!!! Do you really expect people to believe that the valid safety check sticker was stolen? Unless there were many layers of safety check stickers piled atop one another, it is near impossible to remove an overlying one without defacing those underneath it. From the picture, that didn't appear to be teh case. It looked as though there was only one sticker present. The expired one. After a year or so in the sun, the stickers become brittle will basically disintagrate when peeled, or sliced with a blade or razor. The cop got special treatment because he is a cop. Nothing more, way less consideration for anyone else. Screw the common folk.

[bser]

You know it's B.S. that HPD is spewing about the officer's car. How do you know if the car had a safety check but the sticker was stolen. The only proof you have of safety check without a sticker is the paperwork they service station gives you and if the car is parked with no one around how do you know at all that this is the case. They saw the car w/no sticker checked reg cause it looked like a cop car and when they confirmed it was a cop car they didn't tow it.

[Stumpy]

An expired inspection is a very minor violation, you want the cops to tow for it? The will be thousands of vehicles towed if that happens. I,d just like them tow the hundreds of vehicles with no registration and they can't even handle that. No tow yards big enough.

[huh]

here is the explantion --- losing our aloha in Hawaii

if they didn't even bother to leave a note or warning and just towed --- that would be another example Californication of Hawaii

get used to it --- they are going to ruin the Ewa plain and Californicate the whole thing into City of Irvine Transit Oriented Development

don't be surprised to get an A-hole southern california police state along with it

California --- here it comes

[noend]

if you dont have a valid SAFETY CHECK,REGISTRATION,or AUTO INSURANCE....your car SHOULD be towed away..and left there till such requirements are met....we really DONT need that kind of cars on OUR roads. there must be at least 30% (0r more) of cars that lack the proper paperwork to be legally on our roads.hpd should crack down on these morons.

[wow]

noend wrote:

if you dont have a valid SAFETY CHECK,REGISTRATION,or AUTO INSURANCE....your car SHOULD be towed away..and left there till such requirements are met....we really DONT need that kind of cars on OUR roads. there must be at least 30%(0r more) of cars that lack the proper paperwork to be legally on our roads.hpd should crack down on these morons.

noend is an angry dude that hates the world

maybe you should get a kitty cat --- ah, never mind (poor kitty would be in trouble)

[Stumpy]

noend wrote:

if you dont have a valid SAFETY CHECK,REGISTRATION,or AUTO INSURANCE....your car SHOULD be towed away..and left there till such requirements are met....we really DONT need that kind of cars on OUR roads. there must be at least 30%(0r more) of cars that lack the proper paperwork to be legally on our roads.hpd should crack down on these morons.

And tow it to WHERE? No tow lots big enough on island, and HPD has no authority to enforce the "derelict vehicle law", only the Abandoned Vehicle inspector does. Under that law, an unsafe vehicle could be towed directly to the shredder and disposed of, which is what should be done with twenty percent of the vehicles on the highway right now as they are chronic's junk-a-lunkers. I was told by the mayor hisself that HPD does NOT want the liability. I was told by my representative that they "don't want to make voters mad at them." The law is in place already, just a matter of letting HPD enforce it.

[yikes]

Stumpy wrote:

<quoted text> And tow it to WHERE?

Well, with the current mayor, I'd say dump them in the Ala Wai.
The goof doesn't seem to mind having crap dumped in there.

[Obama Hates You]

noend wrote:

if you dont have a valid SAFETY CHECK,REGISTRATION,or AUTO INSURANCE....your car SHOULD be towed away..and left there till such requirements are met....we really DONT need that kind of cars on OUR roads. there must be at least 30%(0r more) of cars that lack the proper paperwork to be legally on our roads.hpd should crack down on these morons.

I agree. No Safety Check-Towed, No Registration-Towed, No Car Insurance-Towed.

[Obama Hates You]

Stumpy wrote:

<quoted text> And tow it to WHERE? No tow lots big enough on island,.

Yes there is. Its called Waianae. Its already the islands biggest dumping ground. Why not add a few more cars, they will never know the difference since they dont care about their own land out there.

[Stumpy]

yikes wrote:

<quoted text>
Well, with the current mayor, I'd say dump them in the Ala Wai.
The goof doesn't seem to mind having crap dumped in there.

They used to take them out into the ocean and dump there for reef material. It didn't take long for the environuts to put a stop to it.
There is a long process in place that takes months just to dump a car using the current method, but the A/V inspector does have the authority to declare a vehicle "derelict", bypassing the long paper trail. But being as it would take some cars away from a certain class of democrat voters, it is never utilized. If utilized, you wouldn't see cars with no windshield, doughnut spares used as regular tires, obvious junkers, all those cars could be immediately shredded. Basically cars that cannot pass inspection could be towed and scrapped without paperwork. The city and state are just too chicken to do it.

[alice]

bser wrote:

You know it's B.S. that HPD is spewing about the officer's car. How do you know if the car had a safety check but the sticker was stolen. The only proof you have of safety check without a sticker is the paperwork they service station gives you and if the car is parked with no one around how do you know at all that this is the case. They saw the car w/no sticker checked reg cause it looked like a cop car and when they confirmed it was a cop car they didn't tow it.

well said