Rivets holding your tag on .... that's a great idea.
Rivets holding your tag on .... that's a great idea.
I had the tag stolen off of a company truck I had driven home about 10 years ago. What was sad is I got home late the night before and saw a strange car in front of my neighbors house with about 4 people in it. They left as soon as I pulled up (I was in a different vehicle). I knew it was suspicious and looked all around and didnt see anything missing that night. The next morning I noticed it immediately. Called my employer and Owassos finest and they instructed me to make a cardbaord sign with the tag number on it and stolen tag written on it. He even gave me the tag number to put on it. Drove it like that for about 3 days until my employer got the new tag for the truck.
On a related note when one's tag is loose, never make fun of the local policeman, by make fun of I mean mention to the wife that the policeman looks asleep, he isn't and your tag has either finally fallen off or was stolen in the past day or so. He will inform you that your vehicle is missing a tag. Luckily the wife saved the receipt of the new sticker for the tag so you could prove that you did pay for a tag.
Impound/storage fee plus towing fee and possibly a fee to the local PD before they allow a release from impound.
When I was in the Army we had a joker that we never found out who it was but they swapped about 20 tags in the parking lot probably when we were in the field and none of us knew it until I got pulled over by an MP because my tag came back to a truck out of NY. When the officer told me the name of the person the tag was registered to I was like hey that guy is in my platoon so we go back to the barracks and I see my OK tag on another guys car so then we had about 10 MP cars in our lot and the CO called a formation to the lot on a nice hot day it was not fun at all. So the moral of the story is every time I am near my car I look at the tag now and I know my tag number because before when I was younger I just didn't care about that kind of stuff, looking back on it I never really paid attention to a lot of the things I do now 10 years ago I could tell you the serial number to my rifle but I didn't know my tag number.
Yeah, we attach our tags with really unusual style screws so the chance of Mr. Bad Guy having the right tool is slim, he'll move on to an easier target. The key to not getting robbed, burglarized or otherwise the victim is not to be completely badguy proof, it's just to be a harder target than the next person down the street.
My ex had her tag stolen while her car was in the shop.
Really seems unjust - We had to pay the towing and impound fee. Not to mention the lost time to send an employee out of town to retrieve our truck. I really don't want to calculate the cost of being an innocent victim.
I'm suprised you didn't weld it on, with a bars over the top, knowing your steel/welding abilities....LOL!
I agree. Why not? That should have been a quick fix?
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