5mo ago

cars driving around without number plates

this might just be me but lately i’ve seen like 5 cars without their number plates on driving around

is this a tiktok (or more likely) a facebook trend?

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Yeah I've definitely noticed it more over the past ~12 months than I think I did before that.
Sometimes no number plates, sometimes only one number plate instead of the normally-required two. IDGI.
- After having my car stolen and learning about how these people operate,, they're all most likely stolen vehicles.
  
  Even the ones where they've only removed one number plate?
I see it a lot round my part of Melbourne too. I think there's many reasons, one of which is sovereign citizen bullshit.
Don't know why people don't DIY, like this.
- At least here, a single missing plate isn't criminal and might not be caught, but any modification or self made forgery is and will automatically get you stopped and probably fined. In which process the vehicle gets run through the system. YMMV.
I had my plates stolen off my car a couple of years ago.
A real pain.
Police report.
TMR
$’s
Tell everyone the new number:
insurance
tolls
parking
work
Assumed they were taken so a stolen car could pretend to be me. Therefore reporting and making them of less value to the thieves was top of mind. And making sure fines and tolls could be knocked back.
From memory with the police report number it’s legal to drive for 14(?) days.
Once you’ve noticed one, you keep seeing more, it’s like seeing the same model of car as yours every day when you had not noticed seeing them before buying one.
I've seen many put them on the inside of their window, harder to see (esp if tinted), and probably harder for pranky teens to steal?
You can drive without plates if you get approval in a few states iirc, could just be coincidence?

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