XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: metroboyeh5@yahoo.com 
  
 On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 11:34:27 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels" 
   tickled my privates with this: 
  
 >John Mann wrote: 
  
 >> It's the same with the cars I see every day parked on my block and in 
 >> my neighborhood; in this area, 1/3 to 1/2 of the cars do not carry NY 
 >> plates.  I'm not familiar with registration fees for New York; I don't 
 >> own a car here.  But I am familiar with the fact that the city has one 
 >> of the highest insurance rates in the country. 
  
 >And why would you think that? 
  
 Ummm...ok; I think that primarily because people who own cars here 
 tell me that.  Guilty of stating a fact based on hearsay.  The last 
 car I owned and insured was in California; I recall in 1992 that it 
 ran me about three or four hundred a year.  I can't claim I paid the 
 full registration fee; in California, it's based on the year model and 
 price of the car; the friend I bought it from put the buying price 
 down as $50 (I actually paid $500), so I paid something like three 
 dollars or some ridiculous small amount to register the car (1983 
 Toyota Tercel). 
  
 (Hey, wait a minute; I also saw something in the Daily News about New 
 York's insurance rates a year or so ago; but can't cite it.  Dammit.) 
  
 >> My guess; widespread (and apparently officially sanctioned by 
 >> indifference) insurance scamming. 
  
 >That would explain the endless radio commercials about insurance fraud. 
  
 Apparently no one is too impressed by them. 
  
 "It's my mom's car; she just lets me use it when she's not in the 
 city." 
  
 I saw the same thing while I was living in California vis a vis cars 
 registered in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, but not nearly as out of 
 hand as out of state registration seems to be here. 
  
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