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Usually getting a sporting license in New York is much more of a pain then it really should be.

 
Stores never have the paper, or a clerk, and DECALS always crashes. Hell, even when I go the NYS DEC World Headquarters vending window at 625 Broadway Albany, New Yak 12233, staffed by central staff in the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife they are struggling to make DECALS website or their printer work. You’d think at the DEC World Headquarters, they’d know what they are doing.
 
I went to Tanner’s Outdoors Sport in Spectulator today on my lunch break, and I was in and out in less then 2 minutes. I barely had time to count the $25 out before they handed me my new fishing license. I think that’s the first time that’s happened in my life.
 
bLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH you should get your lifetime sporting license. And I probably should but that seems like such a damn commitment to the future.

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During The Pandemic Lockdown, Traffic Deaths Soared To The Highest Level In 13 Years : NPR

U.S. traffic deaths rose 7% last year, the biggest increase in 13 years even though people drove fewer miles due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's road safety agency reported Thursday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration blamed the increase on drivers taking more risks on less-congested roads by speeding, failing to wear seat belts, or driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol.

An estimated 38,680 people died in traffic crashes last year, the most of any year since 2007, the agency said in releasing preliminary numbers. Final numbers normally come out in the fall.

The increase came even though the number of miles traveled by vehicle fell 13% from 2019.