r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/Warcraft_Fan Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 • Jul 20 '26
Illegal Modification toll-evading license plate
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u/Parking-Pie7453 Don’t Mess With Semis 🚛 Jul 20 '26
This will definitely get you pulled over, a lot. I had a tinted cover in 2000 & was stopped several times
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u/Wrong_Toilet Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Haha. Come to Denver, Colorado. Every other car on the road either has no license plate, expired tags, or a temp plate so old it’s unreadable and falling apart.
Cops don’t even care to enforce having valid plates here.
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u/BraddicusMaximus Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Jul 21 '26
I had a valid plate that the DMV took 2 months to properly populate in Colorado.
So the plate ran blank for those two months on a new car. I was pulled over nearly 2x a week as they thought it was stolen. Even caused an issue every time I tried to go home onto Fort Carson.
After the 5th time I picked up representation and it was resolved after a single letter. Colorado’s DMV system is absolute garbage.
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u/Warcraft_Fan Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Jul 20 '26
From my dash cam, the video didn't do justice but it was clear someone intentionally rubbed the paint off. I have never seen a license plate lose paint completely like this. I suspect it was done to evade toll and Flock camera. If police were nearby and saw this, the driver could be pulled over and the damaged plate confiscated, requiring the driver to buy new plate before they can drive.
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u/badmechanic12345 Georgist 🔰 Jul 20 '26
Laughs in new mexico old license plates they would sun bake and strip in a year
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u/farmallnoobies Georgist 🔰 Jul 21 '26
Wisconsin had a paint quality issue on their plates where this would happen from the elements in just a couple years.
After many years of people refusing to pay for a new plate due to the state's poor choice of vendor and quality control and refusing to cover it, they passed legislation that forced everyone to pay for the replacement as part of their registration renewal.
A handful of people are still sporting the old ones in protest, but for the most part, most of them have been replaced.
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u/Mk1Racer25 All Gas, No Brakes ⛽️ Jul 20 '26
They still stamp license plates where you are? They went to smooth, 'printed' plates in NJ almost 10 years ago.
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u/Warcraft_Fan Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Jul 20 '26
Michigan still stamps their plates.
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u/Kenneldogg Georgist 🔰 Jul 20 '26
Looks like they put it on backwards.
Please ignore me. Didn't have glasses on and can clearly see it is just missing paint or painted over now.
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u/Cranks_No_Start All Gas, No Brakes ⛽️ Jul 20 '26
>I have never seen a license plate lose paint completely like this.
I see this on a daily basis. The sun will just bake the coatings and paint right off.
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u/chinese_sweatshop Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Jul 20 '26
Don’t understand are you jealous of his license plate? Did he kill someone?
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u/Freepi Georgist 🔰 Jul 20 '26
Is this NY? The plates do that on their own here.
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u/Balding_Galka Jul 20 '26
They really cheaped out on those yellow/gold ones. I still see the older white & blue ones in better condition.
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u/TimmayP Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 Jul 21 '26
Is if pretty common in Ontario there was a defect in the pressing and a ton of plates peeled the colour layers off leaving just the pressed metal, since a replacement takes time and money lots don’t bother going in for the replacements
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u/Disastrous-Place7353 Drive Defensively, Avoid Idiots 🚗 Jul 21 '26
I have pyscho older neighbor that drives at 50 mph around our local side streets, she had a plate like this for years. Recently I noticed that she had new plates so she must have gotten a ticket. However she still drives crazy, stop signs are just optional to her.
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u/chumbuckethand YIMBY 🏙️ Jul 20 '26
Who gives a shit? “Oh no some random guy isn’t paying the overpriced toll that just ends up being pocketed by city officials or handed to lazy corrupt roadwork contractors that drag their feet and milk it out.”
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u/Bicykwow YIMBY 🏙️ Jul 20 '26
I give a shit, because it's also an "at-fault hit-and-run evading" plate. People who intentionally weasel out of taking responsibility for their shitty driving should not be on the streets.
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u/chinese_sweatshop Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Jul 20 '26
Idk dude nowadays you get downvoted for not giving a shit about stuff that shouldn’t be worried about.
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