H<\/span>ere in the home of Midwestern Meditations, the bankrupt state of Illinois, things are eroding, cracking, and rusting away. Take license plates for instance. How long do you think that states have been making plates in aluminum for obvious reasons? Here in ILL the aluminum plate debuted in 1950. Yeah, using the old three-letter USPS abbreviation for Illinois seems tremendously appropriate these days.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, apparently someone in the license plate construction process used a type of paint that contained a corrosive metal subsequently making the use of aluminum plates useless. Heck, I have a license plate that began the, all to familiar around here, bubbling up rust pattern around the letters (WTL NX YR).<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the CUBS made that license plate officially NULL and VOID last year, and I have a generic state issued ready to rust model.<\/p>\n

The other day I saw a pristine example of our state’s great plates. Usually, I would think about obstructing the plate for the person whose plate this was, but obviously that work was not needed in this case.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that plate is completely unaltered via photographic software.<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard about people getting confusing combination of letters on their plates to make it harder for police to look up or write down their plates, i.e. MNMMWNM? Well, if speeders and criminals exercise a bit of patience here, they can just let nature take its course.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard of people getting tickets for having an obstructed view of their license plate such as a tinted plate cover, etc. Obviously, no one can read this plate and it should warrant a ticket, but who should get the ticket? Not the driver or registered owner of the car, but I think the State of ILL should get the ticket!<\/p>\n

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…let nature take its course. Here in the home of Midwestern Meditations, the bankrupt state of Illinois, things are eroding, cracking, and rusting away. Take license plates for instance. How long do you think that states have been making plates …<\/p>\n

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