This one ought to go in RISKS-DIGEST:

[story.news.yahoo.com]

WILMINGTON, Del. – A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding the bag. Jim Cara thought the “NOTAG” plate he got for his Suzuki motorcycle would give people a laugh.

Instead, he found that the laugh – along with more than 200 parking violations – was on him.

The new tag arrived in the mail Saturday, along with an avalanche of Wilmington parking violations.

“All the traffic tickets say, ‘Notice of violation. License number: no tag,’” Cara explained.

Officials said city computers linked to state Division of Motor Vehicles computers finally found an address for ticketed vehicles that lacked license tags: Cara’s home in Elsmere.

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