# Saw a SovCit licence plate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398 "2023-02-26T15:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/61 "2024-01-13T00:43:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > There are state laws against rigging your car up to resemble a police car. Some states have specific details in their vehicle code about the lights police vehicles and only police vehicles may display. I have thought about getting a Crown Victoria for my fake business, Polite Maintenance. The front fenders would have “POLITE” in low contrast colors. The doors would have a “seal” made of garlands and crossed shovel and rake with the words “Polite Maintenance” wrapped around the top and “We service and protect your lawn” around the bottom. Maybe some red and blue plastic pans on the roof. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/62 "2024-01-13T23:06:26Z")
I had a friend who once owned a Crown Vic, with a luggage rack on the roof. Said it was irritating to drive at night, as cars in front of him would slow down, until they saw he wasn’t a cop. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/63 "2024-01-13T23:10:24Z")
Saw an Oregon plate, but the color and script were off, there were no tags and it had three numbers that were offset all the way to right. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/64 "2024-01-14T01:29:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I had a friend who once owned a Crown Vic, with a luggage rack on the roof. Said it was irritating to drive at night, as cars in front of him would slow down, until they saw he wasn’t a cop. When I was in high school, one of my broke HS pals bought a former local city police car at auction. Plain white, but with the badly painted over city seal & other markings and numbers. Of course the city had removed the light bar and the spotlights through the A-pillars. My friend had one of those spotlights and put it in the driver-side holes left by the City. And put a CB antenna (yes, _that_ era) through the antenna hole left on the roof. We spent a lot of time cruising in that car. It was a mobile traffic jam. Wherever we went, everybody suddenly started driving conservative, and doubly so at night. The headlight and taillight pattern on that year, make, and model were quite distinctive and the city still had lots of those cars and had had for a 3-4 years now. Everyone in town knew how to recognize those cars from a distance. And did. Good times. Unless you were in a hurry and then it was a PITA. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/65 "2024-01-14T02:30:21Z")
'74 Monaco? [![](https://www.dhautomotive.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bluesmobile-01.jpg) ](https://www.dhautomotive.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bluesmobile-01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/66 "2024-01-14T02:33:09Z")
It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/67 "2024-01-14T02:34:42Z")
It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/68 "2024-01-14T20:05:29Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > [Man Killed by Cops During Traffic Stop Had ‘Sovereign Citizen’ License Plate](https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yxw9/utah-sovereign-citizen-chase-allan?fbclid=IwAR09LpPVklpOs-TjvysertQPjIZiDlR8EBah9NRXiHB-_Tz88KWtUCdpuCI) That site cant be reached, but here- > **[Farmington police shooting of suspected sovereign citizen Chase Allan ruled...](https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/09/13/farmington-police-shooting/)** > > The Davis County attorney has determined that Farmington police officers were justified when they shot and killed a man suspected of being a sovereign citizen earlier this year. This is why “Fuck Around and Find Out” is a thing. > [@mixdenny](#): > > Maybe some red and blue plastic pans on the roof. In many states you can have yellow flashing lights legitimately. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. You have all seen “Blues Brothers” right? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/69 "2024-01-14T20:21:10Z")
I am deeply shocked at the revelation that Allan attended a conference “which featured speakers who shared misinformation about COVID-19, vaccines and the 2020 election, with multiple references to the QAnon conspiracy theory.” It’s almost as if crank magnetism is real. \*it’s misleading to refer to “the QAnon conspiracy theory” in the singular since there are many different although related ones. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398/70 "2024-01-14T20:30:07Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > \*it’s misleading to refer to “the QAnon conspiracy theory” in the singular since there are many different although related ones. OTOH, believers in _any_ of them tend to believe _all_ of them. So in one sense, yes they’re unrelated and e.g. the MH17 shootdown isn’t related to black helicopters or COVID vax hoaxes. OTOH, they are all part of a coherent coordinated disinformation campaign run by QAnon for significant profit and no small fun (for them). Depending on how splittist / lumpist one chooses to be, these can reasonably be seen as all one interconnected CT, much as all the seemingly separate toadstools in a lawn are probably connected underground into a single mega-fungus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-sovcit-licence-plate/980398.md?page=3)