OT-Cash for clunker program

[JIPJOBXX]

As some of you know I used the trade a clunker program two weeks ago to buy a new car! Well this morning I got a call from our local police department and they had arrested a guy who's car had my old license plates on his car. Very interesting as who ...would think that someone would steal the old plates and use them on there car? Oh well got it straighten out and the bad guy is now in jail.

[Captain Neon]

Salvage yards are full of unexpired licence plates. One of the reasons that the State of New York (and probably many others) requires licence plates to be returned when a vehicle is taken off the road.

When I lived in Arkansas and Minnesota, the police put out warnings to the public about licence plate theft, and to notify the local police if one's plates had been lifted. I used to work with a guy that displayed his plates through the rear window and the windshield after the previous set got lifted. Another guy used to take them off every night before he went to bed.

Since the purpose of licence plates are to identify and track a vehicle to its owner, it only makes sense that some one planning illegal activity might get hold of some currently unexpired plates from a recently scrapped vehicle to place on a non-descript vehicle. Makes him harder to find.

[Don Jordan]

I worry about the plates on my Plymouth - they are '48 CA plates. Of course I don't know what anyone would do with them - they are registered to me. But people will steal anything.