Old Iowa license plates found on cars in New York
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Published 2024-07-03
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All Comments (21)
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This stinks of an inside job. Someone had clear instructions to destroy these plates but instead saw an opportunity for an illegal side hustle.
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Anyone ever having to deal with the State of New York finance department knows how incompetent they are. Ask Louis Rossmann
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A 14 year old could figure this out in a week.
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The state of Iowa should report those old tags as stolen.
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The Department of Corrections picked up the old plates?? Jeez! This should be a no-brainer!!
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This is why you hang your plates in your garage as a trophy
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Where is the Iowa Attorney General? He should be going to NY to solve the issue with the NY City court system.
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My question is why those plates still tie to the original owner. If plates are turned in to the government, there should no longer be an owner or vehicle associated with them. If someone asks the Iowa DMV for the owner of a vehicle with that plate, it should come back unknown/unregistered, not with the names and addresses of people who turned them in. In addition to the issue of someone looting turned in plates for sale on the black market, the Iowa DMV could help its residents by updating its records.
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If the plate doesn't match the vehicle make/model, that should be a red flag.
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They best check their employees, someone is selling them.
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Lesson here, never turn in old plates.
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This explains why I can't find my license plate. Now it makes sense. The great plate scam of 2024.
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It either someone at the DMV or the prison recycling program selling those plates.
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The major question here is why didn't Iowa remove those plates from their system when they were turned in which would have unattached them from the previous owners?
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A simular incident happened to a friend of mine, someone painted license plate numbers that matched his plates he received a fine from a different state that he never went to as well. Took him weeks to straighten it out.
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Iowa should sue NY state for harassing its citizens.
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Someone stole the classic plates off my van recently, I went to the tax office to get new ones and they said "sure we'll have yours re-printed and you'll get them in 2 weeks". Why the hell would I want the exact same plate if someone stole them, now there's 2 cars out there driving around with the same plate that makes no sense. I actually had to argue as to WHY I wanted new plates not re-printed ones
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And suddenly, a worker at the recycling center had a money-making scheme come to mind.
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Sounds like a great class action lawsuit.
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I live in Texas and someone stole mine off an old motorhome that had not been driven since 1992. I got a bill a couple of years ago because someone put them on a Tahoe and went down the Toll Road nearby. I haven't ever been on that toll road and never owned a Tahoe. They corrected the bill.
