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Here's why an elderly woman's old Star Trek vanity plates are still generating parking tickets years after she stopped driving

Allan Rose Hill
Dec 06, 2024
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Long Island resident Beda Koorey, 76, is a lifelong Trekker. Such a fan of Star Trek that she had vanity license plates on her car emblazoned with NCC-1701, the registration number of the USS Enterprise. In recent years though, Koorey has received tens of thousands of dollars in parking tickets and a slew of bridge tolls,…

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