I had my motorcycle sitting in the driveway on Friday. I had wheeled it out to ride to work but it wouldn't start so I left it there and took the car. Today I just noticed that the plate was gone. I definitely didn't take it off myself. Should I just call the bmv and report it missing?
Never had an issue with things missing in this neighborhood, there were other things sitting around that would be easy to take and are still here. I can't think of any other reason it wouldn't be on the bike.
Yeah, somebody probably swiped it rather than put their POS through registration. Call the DMV and the police and report it stolen. DMV shouldn't give you a lot of hassle. Sucks, though.
call police now and report stolen. that happened to me too.
That's really weird.
Heck, I look in your driveway and count the number of things that would go missing in a couple days if left at work, and I work in a fairly nice neighborhood.
When I was seventeen in Raleigh the plate was stolen from my car. I reported it stolen to the police. 4 months later it was used on a bank robbery getaway car in Arizona. Get a police report asap
itsarebuild wrote: When I was seventeen in Raleigh the plate was stolen from my car. I reported it stolen to the police. 4 months later it was used on a bank robbery getaway car in Arizona. Get a police report asap
Follow this mans advice. This has happened to at least two of my friends.
File a police report. One was stolen off of my old truck that I had in my back yard. Took the police report to the DMV and got a new tag no problems.
Yes, you have to file a police report first. Even it not stolen. Lost the plate on my trailer.
Police report filed. I was planning on selling it soon anyway so I threw it on craigslist as well.
At one point in CA, registration was so expensive people were stealing the plates or just cutting the corner with the sticker off with tin snips. Scoring the stickers with X-cuts became a thing to try to make them impossible to peel off and reuse without mangling them.
Same issue in Florida with stickers. As Will mentioned, I used a razor blade and made an * from corner to corner and side to side, so it makes peeling it off impossible.
I have hears of people steeling inspection stickers off rental's. But not registration stickers off plates. Hummm I should look more carefully at the plates on my cars.
Will wrote: At one point in CA, registration was so expensive people were stealing the plates or just cutting the corner with the sticker off with tin snips. Scoring the stickers with X-cuts became a thing to try to make them impossible to peel off and reuse without mangling them.
It never got cheaper, they just made the stickers harder to remove and gave them ID numbers that match up to the plate number so you cannot do that anymore. California never makes things cheaper its just not their way.
wearymicrobe wrote:Will wrote: At one point in CA, registration was so expensive people were stealing the plates or just cutting the corner with the sticker off with tin snips. Scoring the stickers with X-cuts became a thing to try to make them impossible to peel off and reuse without mangling them.It never got cheaper, they just made the stickers harder to remove and gave them ID numbers that match up to the plate number so you cannot do that anymore. California never makes things cheaper its just not their way.
Not true.
We impeached Gov. Gray Davis for (among other things) illegally tripling auto registration costs. Once we threw him out, the registration came back down to where it was prior to his illegal act.
funny you mention that. I purposely did not put my 2016 stickers on until it expired. The other day I notice some cross cut marks on my 2015 sticker. The world we live in...
Ohio puts your license plate number on the sticker. (They print them out while you are standing there in line, takes like 5 seconds)
If you forget to put the sticker on your car, if they pull you over, they just tell you that you aren't displaying the sticker. The computer already knows that your registration is up to date.
(here ends my weekly "Ohio is friggin' rad" post)
Will wrote: At one point in CA, registration was so expensive people were stealing the plates or just cutting the corner with the sticker off with tin snips. Scoring the stickers with X-cuts became a thing to try to make them impossible to peel off and reuse without mangling them.
That happens in Philadelphia as well. I actually stopped putting the registration sticker on my plates and would just keep it in the glove box with the card. While I've been stopped a number of times for various reasons, the lack of a sticker has only been commented on once when a Philly cop stopped me and ran the plate before he even got out of his car. After the registration came up valid, he came up to me and said I was free to go.
I, however, would never leave the sticker off. I don't want to give a cop a reason to pull me over.
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