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It didn’t end well because their system was bad, not because he did anything particularly wrong. CA fucked up and gave him every ticket where a cop had typed in NULL while simultaneously allowing him to use NULL as a license plate number. I honestly think he should sue.

It broke the website when he tried to renew. He ended up using a reference number to renew instead and that means (so far as I can tell) someone somewhere on the DMV knew this was a problem and tried to fix it. The only problem is they didn’t fix it and didn’t notify him that his plate was no longer allowed. He should have received a letter about it.

Every cop who didn’t fill in the license plate number for a ticket should be on the hook too.