MMeM, Vol.13 Issue 6 – Trickery

I realize that license plate stickers for cars and trucks can be pricey. Once a year, states require that citizens pay a one time tax for their vehicle to have license plates, essentially allowing them to use public funded and maintained roadways. It’s a big ask, I get it. The stickers are usually color coded by month in a state so let law enforcement knows at a glance who may or may not be driving a vehicle that is not up to date.

For years, it was a practice when I was growing up, to use a razor blade to slice up the sticker after it had been applied to your plate to keep thieves from peeling it off of your plate in order to then re-apply it onto theirs. Over the years, states have claimed to develop better stickers that made that practice unnecessary, but “olds” still like to use that extra step of security.

Well, it seems that some determined thieves in Colorado have decided to run around this peel and re-apply effort with a much more aggressive method.

Yeah, they are using tin snips to cut out the corners of the actual license plate themselves, with the stickers still on them all together! COME ON! Just pay the damn fee and be done with the shenanigans already you deadbeats!

These hooligans remind me of the parking ticket scofflaw a few months ago that just removed the wheels from their car when booted and used the spare tires to drive away! Talk about resiliency, I guess, or ultimate HARD-HEADEDNESS!