"No, I did not have a headlight. No, the bike was not registered in the State of California. He actually wrote a ticket for not having a headlight and not having one of those little blue and silver stickers on the bike. The thing is, one of those citations, perhaps the one for the license, required my physical presence in traffic court in front of a judge/magistrate."
The state always looking for a way to control your behavior. So happy to have moved out of that dump of a state in 1983! Don't even have a desire to visit. Midwest is the best!