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Driver with ‘N O’ vanity plate receives thousands of dollars worth of unpaid parking tickets
Apr 19, 2018, 12:22 PM | Updated: 5:25 pm
(Courtesy Beau Chevassus)
(Courtesy Beau Chevassus)
It might be time for Enumclaw’s Beau Chevassus to ditch his vanity license plate.
Chevassus tells KIRO Radio’s Ron and Don Show he’s received a few thousand dollars worth of other people’s parking violations.
The plate simply reads “N O.”
When someone receives a violation from a parking company in Seattle but doesn’t have a readable license plate — or one at all — it is marked with “NO,” Chevassus explains.
“Apparently, that generates a lot of tickets for the owner of a vanity license plate,” he said.
He has more than 40 different letters from collections. The tickets are generally for expired meters, or not paying for parking at all.
But why not just change the plate? The plate is in reference to his nonprofit studio, Knok Studio. He has two letter Ks on either side of the license plate frame. Apparently, the Department of Licensing wouldn’t allow him to have the vanity plate as “Knok.”
Listen to the entire interview here.
