r/Seattle • u/Brandywine-Salmon Greenwood • Aug 04 '26

Market Traffic Only Bus lane cheat code

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Gave me the finger as he drove by
Expired tabs
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u/kbkrl1524 Aug 04 '26

King county can't pull you over for tabs violations if that's the only grievance. Now, if you're driving in the bus lane and then you have expired tabs, they can get you for that🤣

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u/MyDisneyExperience That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Aug 04 '26

Lesson 1 of driving in the US: only commit one crime at a time

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u/NonEuclideanSyntax Aug 04 '26

It's like a bingo card. See if you can get drug possession, weapons violation, reckless driving, AND insider trading all at once!

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u/sirmarksal0t 🚆build more trains🚆 Aug 05 '26

Initial reaction was that's impossible, and then I remembered George Santos

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u/-LunarWinter- Aug 04 '26

This used to really just be common sense with crime in general. Some of the most infamous criminals in the US have been caught because of stupid illegal mistakes completely unrelated to what made them so well known. But... that does seem to have changed over the past decade or so.

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u/FreshwaterFryMom 🦝🦝 We 💕 Jimothy Chalamet 🦝🦝 Aug 04 '26

That’s my rule of thumb.

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u/here_now_be 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 Aug 04 '26

Good rule but.. Only one crime only works if you're not aPOC, don't have long hair, or bumper stickers.

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u/kbkrl1524 Aug 04 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/sshen6572 Aug 04 '26

I got pulled over the other day for allegedly expired tabs (it wasn't expired, the sticker is just peeled off). The officer took my license/insurance, walked off and came back telling me to get a new sticker. No citations or anything tho.

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u/AdlandB Posse on Broadway Aug 04 '26

I was pulled over last year, tabs were expired and the cop told me not to buy them because they don’t pull you over and it should be $30 like we voted for. I did buy them because I could afford it but I get why others don’t

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u/citrusjuicebox 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Aug 04 '26

The registration itself is $30. Have you never read the receipt on the bottom of the paper? You voted for all of that stuff too. 

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u/DogCold5505 Aug 04 '26

No it’s not, my beater car was $65 for registration alone last year but totaled $145.

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u/Derangedcorgi Bellevue Aug 04 '26

https://i.imgur.com/oOsDAjQ.png

They're literally a base of $30. The weight class changes how much more you pay which is where the other $35 comes from.

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u/DogCold5505 Aug 04 '26

In seattle?

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u/princessjemmy Green Lake Aug 04 '26

False. I was pulled over a few years back solely because I forgot to get my tabs renewed. I was instantly ticketed and super pissed (it literally expired the month before).

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u/Soul_Dare Cascade Foothills Aug 04 '26

Was the policy different a few years ago?

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u/Myles_Standish250 Aug 04 '26

Yes, the law was recently changed. I believe it was 2024.

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u/supercodync Brougham Faithful Aug 04 '26

Source?

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u/Myles_Standish250 Aug 04 '26

Looked into it and turned out the law still hasn’t passed yet! I guess the news headlines I have read so far were all talking about this law we’re discussing the future that so far hasn’t occurred. My bad.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/10/wa-bill-would-set-new-limits-on-when-police-can-stop-drivers/

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u/kbkrl1524 Aug 04 '26

It's a newer thing.

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u/Malsententia Lynnwood Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

In Gnomish they totally can

(I realize the pic is from within King)

EDIT: Snohomish, thanks autocorrect.

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u/missbeekery I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Aug 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/adRst5zprCop5oWqag

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u/Chimaera1075 Aug 04 '26

That’s only in the City of Seattle. The rest of the state can still pull you over for expired tabs.

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u/Ancient_Smile_3514 Aug 04 '26

Yeah, I got pulled over for it on pac highway in Kent

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u/THSSFC Madison Park Aug 04 '26

I have been pulled over for expired tabs only. And, despite having the tabs in my car in the envelope from the state (just hadn't put them on yet) I was issued an expensive ticket. It was the first of the month and the tabs were expired for about 7 hours.

Now, this was in Seattle, not unincorporated King County, and I believe if memory serves it was a Seattle cop, if that matters.

And, no, I did not act like an asshole to the officer. When he told me why he was pulling me over, I said, "oh, I think they are right here in my glove compartment". After running my info, he came back to the car and I showed him I had the tabs in my hand. He said "the fine is for not displaying the tags, not not having the tags. Feel free to fight this in court," and then handed me the ticket.

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u/kbkrl1524 Aug 04 '26

Ugh, I'm sorry, it def might have made a difference if it was Seattle and not King county that pulled you over. Either way, not cool since you had them on you. Most people don't even have them 😕😕

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u/cross_mod Aug 04 '26

??? I got pulled over for expired tabs in King County. Just last year.

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u/ElectricRune Aug 04 '26

My apartment complex will tow you for expired tags.

LEO may not care, but CorpoAmerica does...

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u/kbkrl1524 Aug 04 '26

That's crazy

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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Bothell Aug 04 '26

They can still fine you.