just about everyone in New York "knows someone" who'll slap a sticker on the car without so much as a cursory look. Especially in these rural areas. I've seen some ridiculously dangerous vehicles on the highway that have a current NYS inspection sticker in the windshield. It takes about a half hour to inspect a vehicle, and for that labor they receive about $20. If caught the vehicle inspection station would lose their NYS inspection privileges, something which brings in an extremely small revenue stream anyway. All they have to say is "it wasn't that way when I inspected it" and little can be done to refute that. It's an inconsistent method to make sure all vehicles are safe and compliant, but many states don't even have that much assurance of vehicular safety. 
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