Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen?

neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think they might mean the registration tags. But I’ve never heard of those being stolen.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess it could be theoretically possible. I remember the ones here in Norway being a PITA to take off, so it was usually easiest to place the new one over the old one.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same in the US. My stack is nearly a mm thick. I imagin someone could steal them… but it would be faster to unscrew the whole plate and take it home to work on it

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      • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or just cut off the corner with a pair of these bad boys Image

        (Seriously, don’t steal people’s tags, that’s shitty and stupid)

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Only 1 mm? That’s like two years

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  • Denvil@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My dad taught me to score them. I find it strange, scoring them prevents the supposed thief from being able to get the tag off cleanly, so they wouldn’t want to apply it to their car because it’d look sketchy?

    Unlike your totally normal and not at all now obviously damaged and sketchy looking tags?

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    • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The ones we’ve gotten have always come pre cut, if you want to remove one without tearing uses a flat razor, you can even dig into the paint on the license plate, the company that makes them probably makes extra to do this step and is probably the only reason it’s still done.

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• Tm12@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL i have been blessed with pre-cut tabs my whole life. Ontario and BC had fancy stickers to make them hard to steal, I never understood why. Eventually we got rid of them.

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• anothermember@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never heard of it either, in the UK we used to have something called a ‘tax disc’ that was displayed in the window of a car but you’d have to break in to get that.

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