I went to DMV yesterday to renew my plates and surrender my dmnshea plate since Gary doesn’t love riding the Bandit with my personalized plate. In my wisdom, I got numeric plates for both bikes so we can switch off.
Anyway…
The DMV woman tells me I have a parking ticket in SF that needs to be paid before i can renew. It’s $115. Hmmm, i think to myself, i never got a parking ticket in the city and not only that, when the ticket was issued, I was riding in the SW. She tells me, I can present whatever case I desire, but without paying the ticket, DMV can NOT renew. So, I pay the damn thing and renew. She gives me all the paperwork back and I see that I have just paid a ticket for James Kinsinger, who is the guy that bought my OLD Bandit.
Now, I am seriously confused. I ask this woman, what exactly James has to do with this 07 Bandit as the ticket was on the 07 Vin. WTF??
Well, three hours later, with no resolve, no refund, I left DMV with a temporary sticker and a huge written explanation to place on the Bandit until this is cleared up. Apparently, when James went to register his purchased from me 00 Bandit at AAA, they keyed in the old plate since it was on the title. Even though it had been reassigned to my new Bandit, they looked at the first DMV screen and recorded Jame’s info, making him the “new” owner of my 07, which DMV states, making all the previous paperwork I had done, inapplicable. So, in short James owns my 07 and the 00 was never registered. I am the last registered owner of it.
This took a supervisor and 4 others 3 hours to figure this out as I tried over and over to explain that I owned two Suzuki Bandits, and both had at one time, dmnshea plates. Talk about dementia…
I am still without tags, title or registration and have owned and ridden said 07 Bandit since August 2010, which is when I reassigned the dmnshea plate. :whistle I think it’s high time to use numeric plates on my bikes as obviously the transfer of a personalized plate is too much for DMV.
I am without words and apparently without a Bandit…