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Nate Nagel

On 11/05/2011 06:11 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:55:42 -0500, wrote:

Nate Nagel wrote:

I actually had the sticker removed from one of my license plates once.
Got pulled over the same day that I discovered it (and actually on my
way home from my then-girlfriend's parents' house, in whose driveway I
noticed the missing sticker, and it was a Sunday, so I had no choice
but to drive home in the car with the missing sticker) :/ Cop was a
jerk because I had my registration card in the car, I came up clean
in the system, and you could even see a little corner of the sticker
remaining on the plate, so it was obvious that I wasn't a deliberate
scofflaw but a victim of theft, but I still had to sit at the side of
the road for about 45 minutes before he decided to give me a ticket
anyway. Grr. Of course this was in Ohio where the cops are
notoriously hardasses.

When we had that problem in my state, the publicized circumvention was to
score the sticker several times with a razor blade. The thief would then
have to remove many pieces.

We've since gone to driver's side front windshield stickers.

The windshield stickers I'm familiar with are pretty flimsy already.
Windshield replacement techs can transfer them about 50% of the time but they
have advantages the normal perp doesn't.

Eh, some of them can be transferred, some can't. I remember my dad had
to get a new windshield in his old Chevy truck years ago, and the tech
actually cut that piece of the old windshield out and he had to leave it
on the dashboard until the next inspection interval rolled around (this
was in PA, at the time as I recall you had both an inspection and a
truck weight class sticker.) The Virginia inspection and county
stickers transfer though. In fact, the glue on the VA ones is so weak
that they start looking pretty shabby a couple months before the
inspection is due, especially if the car is parked outside so that you
get condensation on the inside of the windshield...

nate

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