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Nick Nostril
2023-01-31 8:08:28 AM  
Oh yeah, this idea can't miss.
 
BFletch651
2023-01-31 8:09:06 AM  
The setup for the perfect heist.
 
groppet
2023-01-31 8:10:21 AM  
Well this can't possibly come back and haunt them is some way. Maybe you could just add another spot for a new letter or digit like other states have.
 
Minus1Kelvin
2023-01-31 8:10:46 AM  
They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA
 
Sawdust and Mildew [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:10:54 AM  
Nebraska? How many cars do they even have? Maybe a hundred?
 
You Are All Sheep
2023-01-31 8:12:54 AM  
"The office says a variety of supplies needed to manufacture license plates have been slow to come in, leading to a delay in plate issuance this year."

can't you just use temp paper plates in the window for a year with a loosening of the 30/60 day mandatory replacement rule?
 
Feel_the_velvet
2023-01-31 8:15:25 AM  
Supply chain problems?   What, not enough prisoners to press them out?
 
kittyhas1000legs [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:15:35 AM  

Minus1Kelvin: They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA


FTFA: In Platte County, the treasurer's office intends to return the same plate number to customers renewing on a timely basis, if the plate's available.

Yeah, the don't just sticker the old plate.  A smrt use of resources.
 
HighlanderRPI
2023-01-31 8:17:04 AM  
Pro Tip - white styrofoam meat trays and a sharpie make excellent replacement tags
 
ModernPrimitive01
2023-01-31 8:19:17 AM  
There's no way criminals won't take advantage of this
 
Russ1642
2023-01-31 8:20:58 AM  
This will lead to brutal encounters with the police and multi-million dollar lawsuits.
 
pheelix
2023-01-31 8:28:25 AM  
If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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natazha [BareFark]
2023-01-31 8:32:38 AM  

groppet: Well this can't possibly come back and haunt them is some way. Maybe you could just add another spot for a new letter or digit like other states have.


And issue yearly stickers. Lot cheaper and no chance of confusion. I slash mine to make it impossible to peel them off and every 4-5 years, scrape the stack down to bare metal.
 
Hey Nurse! [OhFark]
2023-01-31 8:34:07 AM  

Minus1Kelvin: They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA


I did read the article and thought the same thing. Yes, it's stupid. God knows Missouri sucks and the only reason I'm still here his family, but we can get new stickers for our plates through the mail. Just go out get your vehicle inspected gather up some paperwork and mail it to them. It's quick it's easy and relatively cheap. I've had the same physical plates on my car for several years.
 
JohnHall
2023-01-31 8:36:26 AM  
The shortage will also likely prevent some drivers from getting to keep their number.

This is bizarre. Are all cars required to get new plates? I doesn't explicitly say in the article but it is implied.

In Platte County, the treasurer's office intends to return the same plate number to customers renewing on a timely basis, if the plate's available.
But the office believes most people will receive a new plate number for renewals in 2023.

Do other states do this? Is there a reason to force everyone to get new plates?
 
My Sober Alt
2023-01-31 8:36:35 AM  
The ones here come pre-slashed. In Texas I had to have an inspection sticker on the lower left corner of the windshield.  It would break apart too if you peeled it off, but I had a windshield replaced once and I didn't see how he did it, but he managed to transfer it to the new one perfectly.
 
fzumrk [BareFark]
2023-01-31 8:37:13 AM  

HighlanderRPI: Pro Tip - white styrofoam meat trays and a sharpie make excellent replacement tags


You don't even need a plate number. Just write "sovereign citizen" (incorrect spelling encouraged) on it and you're good to go.
 
Halfabee64 [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:37:39 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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Seriously!  CT dropped that AND the emission stickers on windows.  I've been pulled and ticketed for not having my emissions up to date after they scanned my license plate.  Then they whack you for double the charge when you do get it tested.  I've paid the fine almost every time since I never seem to catch the letters they send out.
 
TheSubjunctive
2023-01-31 8:39:23 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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I mean, they have renewal stickers already, they just need to let the old design ride a bit longer.  My state used to send you a whole entire license plate every single year.  Somebody realized that was dumb and they went to stickers in the late 1970s and replaced them every 6-7 years.  Then, with the 2008 economic crisis, they realized that was dumb.  So right now I have an 18 year old plate with a 17 layer thick tower of renewal stickers on it.
 
Flowery Twats
2023-01-31 8:40:13 AM  

Minus1Kelvin: They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA


Difficulty: Nebraska.

JFC -- I've had the same plate for like 40 years. Every year or two I get a new sticker. Every 6 or 7 years, I peel part of the sticker pile off before adding the new one.

Nebraska has, what, 50,000 people? How can you screw up license plates? Oh, wait -- is Nebraska one of the red states? I'll bet the guy in charge of the DMV forgot to place the order or something...
 
Great_Milenko
2023-01-31 8:40:54 AM  

Minus1Kelvin: They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA


Or just ditch the concept altogether and get rid of dates and stickers.  Hell, Pennsylvania usually tries to make things as complicated as possible and they did that several years ago.
 
rick42
2023-01-31 8:42:59 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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New Jersey reporting...I've had the same plates since 1998 or '99. The state even gave up issuing stickers quite a while ago. The plates have some kind of plastic coating that's slowly peeling off. Maybe I'll be a wild man and get new ones next time I buy a car.
 
Russ1642
2023-01-31 8:43:57 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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My province got rid of the stickers a year ago. Anyone who needs to know registration information has the ability to look it up instantly online anyway.
 
geekbikerskum
2023-01-31 8:49:24 AM  
Massachusetts, have had the same plates since 2005 and occasionally you still see the green-and-white plates, which were last issued in 1986, around.

I used to live in Delaware which started their current plate design in 1965. They recycle their plate numbers. If a car hasn't been registered under a particular number in 3 years, they'll reissue the number.
 
iamskibibitz
2023-01-31 8:49:54 AM  
The format LLL NNN (L = letter N= number) supports over 17 million combinations. They don't have that many cars there.
 
Cajnik [OhFark]
2023-01-31 8:50:11 AM  
Your stamped piece of metal is expired
 
geekbikerskum
2023-01-31 8:50:32 AM  

Great_Milenko: Or just ditch the concept altogether and get rid of dates and stickers. Hell, Pennsylvania usually tries to make things as complicated as possible and they did that several years ago.


I moved to Massachusetts decades ago but used to live in Delaware.  At the time, back in the '80s-'90s, sticker theft used to be a huge issue.  Is it still?
 
moothemagiccow
2023-01-31 8:52:13 AM  
Libertarians are mad max anarchists
 
SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 9:06:02 AM  
Yeah. This well in no way be abused for probable cause......
 
baka-san [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 9:12:03 AM  

My Sober Alt: The ones here come pre-slashed. In Texas I had to have an inspection sticker on the lower left corner of the windshield.  It would break apart too if you peeled it off, but I had a windshield replaced once and I didn't see how he did it, but he managed to transfer it to the new one perfectly.


It was probably a new sticker, they are allowed to do that when replacing windshields
 
Dead for Tax Reasons
2023-01-31 9:13:16 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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or put them in the car window and just have a plate with no stickers to worry about
 
KingKauff
2023-01-31 9:15:12 AM  

Hey Nurse!: Minus1Kelvin: They don't make stickers or something to cover one number with a different one? This is stupid


/DNRTFA

I did read the article and thought the same thing. Yes, it's stupid. God knows Missouri sucks and the only reason I'm still here his family, but we can get new stickers for our plates through the mail. Just go out get your vehicle inspected gather up some paperwork and mail it to them. It's quick it's easy and relatively cheap. I've had the same physical plates on my car for several years.


During the lockdown, GA put in kiosks so all you do is scan your driver's license, pay the twenty dollar fee, and it spits out your sticker. It's really easy, especially since there's a tag office about a mile from my house and right next to the emissions place.
 
Dead for Tax Reasons
2023-01-31 9:15:57 AM  
every fark up is just 'supply chain issues' now

double use of deflecting blame from your fark ups and can shift it onto biden hating america!
 
pearls before swine
2023-01-31 9:20:46 AM  
Go to the junkyard and harvest old plates.
 
EBN-OZN
2023-01-31 9:20:52 AM  
Jeebus, are the Nebraska DMV people really that stupid at math? (Rhetorical question)

If they are so bent on replacing metal plates instead of issuing annual stickers, maybe they could at least, you know, add another digit so they don't run out of numbers.
 
Katwang
2023-01-31 9:25:38 AM  
This always seemed to work when I lived in Atlanta.
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Fursecution [BareFark]
2023-01-31 9:28:47 AM  

EBN-OZN: Jeebus, are the Nebraska DMV people really that stupid at math? (Rhetorical question)

If they are so bent on replacing metal plates instead of issuing annual stickers, maybe they could at least, you know, add another digit so they don't run out of numbers.


Here in MN, they replace perfectly good plates after 7 years, so now I have to memorize another number.

/grumble
 
Paddy [OhFark]
2023-01-31 9:30:50 AM  
Why not add another letter or number? Why change the plate at all? I gues there are processes behind all that like insurances etc where people thought hey, when we make them change the bloody plate, they have to come by every year and we don't have to bother about it.

In the Netherlands, the plate is tied to the car, some owners have the number engraved in the windows to make car theft difficult.
Germany has a plate for every county and the plate remains with the car as long as it isn't sold to someone else. Every county could theoretically issue about 7 million different plates.

There are so many ideas out there how to solve the problem of number plate shortages that it takes a special kind of lazy to ignore all that and come up with that idea.
 
EBN-OZN
2023-01-31 9:38:40 AM  

Fursecution: EBN-OZN: Jeebus, are the Nebraska DMV people really that stupid at math? (Rhetorical question)

If they are so bent on replacing metal plates instead of issuing annual stickers, maybe they could at least, you know, add another digit so they don't run out of numbers.

Here in MN, they replace perfectly good plates after 7 years, so now I have to memorize another number.

/grumble


MN here too. I never saw the logic in replacing them so often. It's not like they wear out. Maybe people don't want more than 7 stickers piled up on the corner of the plate.

We never seem to run out of letter/number combinations, and we have 3x the population of Nebraska.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-01-31 9:40:14 AM  
There are over 2 billion combinations.
 
Thank You Black Jesus! [BareFark]
2023-01-31 9:44:37 AM  
gawd im glad i left Nebraska when i did.

3 values in order - jesus, conformity and football.

can they add another digit or use stickers?  no, they can't.  they won't.  remember in the 70s when there was the push to switch to metric like THE REST OF THE GODDAMNED PLANET?  it was the Nebraska mentality - "it's awkward clumsy difficult and outdated and that's the way we like it.  if it was good enough for jesus its good enough for us" - that kept it in check.

it's kansas with what could arguably be described as a 'city'.  theyd rather double up license plate numbers and deal with the fallout than make any changes whatsoever.  great place to live if you strive for mediocrity but independent thought or deviation from social norms will be met with strong resistance - and that's in the 'city'
 
MythDragon
2023-01-31 9:51:25 AM  
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Great, now someone else is gonna have 1I1-III1.
 
Kyle Butler
2023-01-31 10:16:08 AM  
Dispatcher:  Plate number comes back as a 2007 Hyundai Sonata not a  2016 Toyota Camry

Deputy Sheriff: Get out of the car, show me your hands, SHOW ME YOUR HANDS, blam blam blam blam blam blam blam blam .
 
Sword and Shield [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 10:21:38 AM  

pheelix: If only there was a way they wouldn't have to replace every single license plate, every 6 years. If only.
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Yep.

I had the same plate in Ohio (a custom one that meant something to me but didn't look like anything- just a couple letters and 3 numbers) for 11 years. Add new sticker on top of old one, and keep going. The only problem was the county sticker (what I think is an Ohio-only thing- a sticker with either the county name, or the county number if numbered in alphabetical order) was white on red and would fade to just pure red after a year or two. There was no way to order a new one, so you'll see a lot of Ohio plates with a red sticker in the corner.

I'm at 6 on my Michigan plates and am replacing this year since the sticker is starting to peel. Legally I don't have to (the rule is 10 years or if the plate is illegible) but it bothers me.
 
Grumpyoldgeek
2023-01-31 10:24:04 AM  
If you're a ham radio operator in Texas, you can get your callsign on your plates for up to 3 vehicles.  At one point I owned two cars and they had the same plates.  When the police ran them it would come back as 1991 Mazda or 2014 Honda.  The plates have "Radio Operator" on them right under "Texas".  Best thing is, they don't cost any more than regular plates.
 
propasaurus [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:30:46 AM  
California has approved the use of a digital license plate.
 
Cajnik [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:41:47 AM  

propasaurus: California has approved the use of a digital license plate.


A group of cybersecurity researchers recently published a report on various weaknesses they've discovered in connected cars. The hackers found ways to precisely locate cars from major OEMs, including customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and loan statuses.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42443613/digital-license-plates-tracked-study-shows/
 
wheresmypen
2023-01-31 10:48:36 AM  
Been using the same plate for 20 years. Renewal sticker has the plate # printed on it.
Hell, the plate is older than the car.
 
HailRobonia
2023-01-31 11:40:32 AM  

wheresmypen: Been using the same plate for 20 years. Renewal sticker has the plate # printed on it.
Hell, the plate is older than the car.


"The plate is older than the car" sounds like some sort of pithy saying. "You know what they say about HailRobonia - the plate is older than the car if you know what I mean..."
 
Wangus67
2023-01-31 11:41:47 AM  
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
 
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