Getting a speeding fine is enough to drive anyone to road-rage, but Brian McCrary decided to do something entirely different with his rage. While browsing the local police department’s website, he saw the domain was close to expiring…
Pity the police chief at Bluff City, who saw his website turn into a shrine for speeding fine contesters, hellbent on complaining about their unfair tickets. Police chief David Nelson excused it away, commenting that “It just slipped my mind. If you open up a Web site and let it go down, somebody can buy it – I did not know that.” [BluffCityPD via Switched]
Image Credit: Dave Bleasdale
Anon
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 9:36 AMAwesome. We have a big police corruption problem where I am so this news makes my day ^_^.
Paul Macca
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 10:34 AMThis wouldn’t work with a .com.au domain as I believe there are additional rules over ownership … you can’t just register a company name without having some right to the name etc
Robert Pettigrew
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 10:55 AMSome domains also have restrictions on tranfering of ownership Eg the .gov.au addresses. Even if it expires a user will not be able to purcahse it.
This may apply to other domain addresses also.