Ain't that the truth! I saw a 'ghost car' once - no license plate, front OR rear, and no paperwork taped to the back window, either. It was obviously roaming the streets, just looking for people to kill, maybe even a school bus full of kids! Scared the living crap out of me - I didn't stop shaking 'til I got home and chugged a cup of hot & sour soup...
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In the early days of license plates, it was more of a name tag so people could tell their vehicle from someone else’s absent some kind of customization to the vehicle.
Then the States started REQUIRING them to ensure taxes were paid etc... Once again, government takes a not bad idea and uses it to screw with people and extort money from us.
Now it’s being ramped up in the 2A argument because government is scared of not knowing who has what... No other reason. It’s about CONTROL. Their control over US.
“I saw a ‘ghost car’ once - no license plate, front OR rear, and no paperwork taped to the back window, either. “
Are you from California? You know there is actually a laws against that... even brand new cars need temp “dealer plates” I wonder if you are considered an accessory now for not reporting the sighting. You better lay low for awhile.
So you saw Steve Jobs cruising around?
He was famous for NEVER having license plates on his car.
What you didn’t know is he had a series of identical high end cars that he leased. You don’t have to have plates for the first 6 months, and when the time was up to get plates he instead got a new car... an identical car.