To me, paying a ticket is the same as paying interest.
It's money wasted, even more so when it is easily avoidable.
A good friend of mine is a police officer in the DFW Metroplex, and when I texted him if there was a mandatory front plate requirement in Texas, he texted back:
"Not right now, because they messed up last time they wrote it, but you may not want to push it with some Podunk department."
Well, the best curvy roads around here just happen to all be in Podunks, so the plate is mounted high..........
TO