I’ve noticed something strange lately: it seems some folks are toying around with their license plates.
Sure, people put funny frames around their plates, which itself is a problem. Have you ever gotten too close to a vehicle ahead of you simply to get a clearer view of what is written on the license plate frame? Some frames obliterate the information on the top and bottom of the plate, which is where the state name is normally located. That I’ve always had an issue about.
What I’ve noticed is that a large number of plates seem to be missing paint around the numbers and letters. If the folks making the plates found a defect in the painting process, I’m sure they would do something about it, but in this case the missing paint shows traces of scratches around the imprints. This would lead me to believe that people are actually taking steel wool to their plate numbers.
This is most disturbing when one stops to wonder why anybody would want to disrupt the readability of their vehicle’s identification, and the obvious answer is to avoid such identification. Are there that many people afraid of the law driving around our highways? Would you want to share the road with them? It’s bad enough to deal with the fact that our roadways are becoming anarchist Autobahns in which everybody feels compelled to disregard speed limits and common sense to get where they’re going, but when one has to resort to disguise to do so, that is sad indeed. I’m just saying. . . .
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