# Driver busted in ky trying to use homemade license plate apparently hes not the only one recently

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 8, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driver-busted-in-ky-trying-to-use-homemade-license-plate-apparently-hes-not-the-only-one-recently/920079 "2020-09-08T02:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driver-busted-in-ky-trying-to-use-homemade-license-plate-apparently-hes-not-the-only-one-recently/920079/21 "2020-09-08T17:42:25Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I can’t think of a Seinfeld episode like that…

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tujqM2u-BVo/hqdefault.jpg "Cosmo Kramer - The ASSMAN (Seinfeld)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tujqM2u-BVo)

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driver-busted-in-ky-trying-to-use-homemade-license-plate-apparently-hes-not-the-only-one-recently/920079/22 "2020-09-08T18:23:35Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I never used a fake license plate. But I will confess that when I was in college I made a fake parking permit to display in my car’s windshield. You could tell it was fake from up close but I was gambling that campus security would only be looking at cars from a distance.

Are you sure you’re not me?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driver-busted-in-ky-trying-to-use-homemade-license-plate-apparently-hes-not-the-only-one-recently/920079/23 "2020-09-09T00:17:20Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Are you sure you’re not me?

Well, I don’t remember posting this.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driver-busted-in-ky-trying-to-use-homemade-license-plate-apparently-hes-not-the-only-one-recently/920079/24 "2020-09-09T00:21:44Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Did the number correspond to the actual registration number issued to that car? If it did, there was no attempt to deceive.

He had no phony registration sticker. The sticker, on the plate. It was the sticker. He had a fake plate, it lacked a fake sticker. But you still need a real sticker. I’d imagine you need a real plate, too, but the sticker. He didn’t even have a fake one of those.

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