Old Iowa license plates were found on cars in New York.
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@ReesesCupsable3 ай бұрын
This stinks of an inside job. Someone had clear instructions to destroy these plates but instead saw an opportunity for an illegal side hustle.
@glass46003 ай бұрын
I could see it being an inside job, but my first thought went to human trafficking. Especially with the white van shown around the 2 min mark. Just old plates to pass on the streets so people don’t look twice.
@AltimaNEO3 ай бұрын
Well it could also be counterfeit plates, not necessarily the original returned plates.
@Steve-fx2fb3 ай бұрын
I don't have a problem with civil rebellion.
@davidg39443 ай бұрын
@@Steve-fx2fb Try it in Russia...
@gotchagee33153 ай бұрын
@@davidg3944 Not talking about Russia, DUH
@patw36113 ай бұрын
If the plate doesn't match the vehicle make/model, that should be a red flag.
@pepperroni40163 ай бұрын
NY is a cess pool of corruption and the police are not allowed to arrest anyone or fight crime
@BeccaHetrick3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
@BeccaHetrick3 ай бұрын
Are you a millennial or something?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@gsdmom11943 ай бұрын
We have cameras in our state for toll roads. They Forever send tickets to people similar. Like, a passenger car getting a ticket for a Big Rig not paying a toll. Their cameras used to be very crappy. I flat out refuse to go on the toll roads. I got a ticket for a 35cent toll but the fine came to $20. It wasn't my car or my license plate but had my name. We had to drive 60 miles to go to court to fix it.
@beeenn6493 ай бұрын
Ya' think?
@TheHiredGun1873 ай бұрын
It either someone at the DMV or the prison recycling program selling those plates.
@kakerosa54663 ай бұрын
Amen!
@junehanzawa51653 ай бұрын
@@kakerosa5466Sounds like Iowa DMV dropped the ball by not making sure those plates were destroyed. People will find use for them otherwise. Legal or illegal.
@leonardodalongisland3 ай бұрын
Exactly-see my comment
@blazeroranger3 ай бұрын
LOL you guys aren’t car guys. License plates can be found at u pull it junkyards in Omaha. Anyone can remove it and take it.
@leonardodalongisland3 ай бұрын
@@blazeroranger Perhaps, but there's NO doubt that bad guys sell plates-and every other stolen car "part."
@justayoutuber19062 ай бұрын
A 14 year old could figure this out in a week.
@MindBodySoulOk2 ай бұрын
14 Year olds are not allowed to work for the government unfortunately.
@kamyroncain6262 ай бұрын
What government cause you a lie😂😂😂@@MindBodySoulOk
@kamyroncain6262 ай бұрын
White boy rick was a kid working for the government 😂
@michaelpowell71202 ай бұрын
If it's a week they are from Iowa.
@Faygo22152 ай бұрын
less than a week, when I was 14 I found a guy living in Canada and ordered 20 pizzas to his house.
@tallgirlhappyme2 ай бұрын
*Shouldn't you be going after The State of Iowa for NOT DESTROYING those plates?!* Sounds like someone DIDN'T do their job.
@Kinypshun2 ай бұрын
They should be going after the state of Iowa for hiring employees who sold the plates to another NY crook, instead of destroying them.
@maxokream62692 ай бұрын
Your corporate overlords have demanded this not be looked into 🤷♂️ sorry guys
@Michael-j4l3d2 ай бұрын
It's possible somebody got a database of plates taken out of circulation. In the UK people found plates for similar cars and made counterfeits causing people to get fines from places they've never been to.
@VickiRiley-jx5zp3 ай бұрын
The Department of Corrections picked up the old plates?? Jeez! This should be a no-brainer!!
@lorinfields50513 ай бұрын
No sh*t. Everyone is talking about NYC, but no one faults Iowa. You know someone from Iowa sold the plates to a NY partner. Not brain surgery.
@beethao93803 ай бұрын
corrupt to the core
@sheilaolfieway18853 ай бұрын
after seeing what New York did to Louis Rossman, New york just wants more money and they are even trying to steal money from other states.
@davidsgarage443 ай бұрын
You do realize that's who makes plates right the jails make license plates lol
@spacecoastdriver3 ай бұрын
The world has no brains now.
@YAZZYUTUBE3 ай бұрын
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?
@ij27503 ай бұрын
Exactly
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
Yep, something corrupt is going on in Iowa
@oygovalt3 ай бұрын
@@MessyPointedBlobCorrupt? Nah. Just incompetent.
@jazziez64673 ай бұрын
Yes, how are old plates attached to someone that got new plates even if you didn't return them if they weren't renewed wouldn't they fall out of the system?
@BeccaHetrick3 ай бұрын
@@jazziez6467WHAT are you trying to ask here?? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@jimmyjimjims74833 ай бұрын
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
@cgschow19713 ай бұрын
They weren't going to give you the same plate number. You simply misunderstood the term "reprinted".
@jimmyjimjims74833 ай бұрын
@@cgschow1971 You would think that but the receipt they gave me (which I had to pay $6 to have the plates re-printed) clearly showed the exact same plate number that was previously stolen, in Texas our windshield stickers have the plate number printed on it and they didn't give me a new sticker because they said the sticker would still match the re-printed plates and be valid until 4/2025. So yes they tried to reissue me the exact same plate # that was previously stolen
@UmmYeahOk3 ай бұрын
Classic plates are probably handled differently, much like personalized plates. You want a regular plate, you’ll get something random that they already have at the office.
@russg93713 ай бұрын
@@UmmYeahOklooks like Texas does things different down there. If they weren't reprinting his plates, he would have been out the door with plates in his hands
@UmmYeahOk2 ай бұрын
@@russg9371yeah. The person at the DMV screwed up. When a plate is lost, if it’s a specialty plate, it has to be reprinted. But that’s not what they wanted. It was stolen, so the owner wanted a new, as in, completely different set. That requires filling out different forms. Essentially voiding the old plates, and then buying/registering new plates. More of a hassle, but it was probably more to do with miscommunication rather than laziness.
@rtel1232 ай бұрын
The first thing that springs to mind is that here, when we turn in our plates, the registration data is deleted, so this could not happen. Why is NY able to get the outdated registration from Iowa computers? Iowa needs to clean up their process.
@jeffb3212 ай бұрын
Calm down, It's a national database.
@rtel1232 ай бұрын
@@jeffb321 good point, but a deletion is a deletion.
@kchiker2 ай бұрын
The state of Iowa should report those old tags as stolen.
@michaelpowell71202 ай бұрын
They are in on the deal!
@woodstream61372 ай бұрын
Bet they don't know which ones are out there. Another issue is that people could have bought a new plate with the old characters.
@B_Bodziak2 ай бұрын
If they were supposed to be destroyed and are marked as destroyed, there is no mechanism to show them as atolen
@kchiker2 ай бұрын
@@B_Bodziak - The state police can enter the tags as stolen into their system now knowing that it was not destroyed. This way, any police officer running the tag will come up stolen.
@richanddebshawaiiadventure43402 ай бұрын
they're are too busy being gay bashing, bible thumping morons
@YungSteambuns3 ай бұрын
This is why you hang your plates in your garage as a trophy
@mobilegameclips56282 ай бұрын
Ironically in NY if you don’t turn in your plate you litteraly can’t cancel your insurance policy. If your insurance policy ends or you stop paying and it’s canceled without turning your plate in you are given a ticket without warning for lapsed insurance.
@YungSteambuns2 ай бұрын
@@mobilegameclips5628 yeah I could see that being a problem, im in washington so I honestly didn't even know that was a thing
@ArtStoneUS2 ай бұрын
Here in North carolina, we have a personal property tax on automobiles. If you're not moving the plates to a new car, you have to turn in the plates and get a receipt to get your car removed from the property taxes
@mikehannigan8482 ай бұрын
@@mobilegameclips5628 add that to the million.5 reasons why I have no desire to live in New York. Or even visit for that matter.
@jobethschlatterer16552 ай бұрын
That’s what I did!
@jackuzi82522 ай бұрын
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.
@JH-wd6dp2 ай бұрын
It probably does and New York probably doesn't care.
@bestman77762 ай бұрын
@@JH-wd6dpnope. If that was the case, NYC wouldn’t be able to trace to original owner if Iowa properly removed from the system
@rcs27492 ай бұрын
That Govt for you. I found out last year I owned a 300K Rolls Royce that kept getting toll fines from Florida. Come to find out the real owner was in the DMV office when they registered the vehicle. Their DL # was 1 digit off from mine, so tell me with all that paperwork in front of a DMV worker why didnt the DMV notice the name was different when the made the typo...I never did get that answer from the DMV fraud division.
@oldNavyJZ2 ай бұрын
@@bestman7776 They use a third party database, not a direct query of Iowa's current database. These people should sue NY and the third party.
@JH-wd6dp2 ай бұрын
@@bestman7776 The information doesn't need to be removed, and NYC would be able to see it's not currently registered. NYC should not be ticketing off a photo when the plate hasn't been registered in a decade and is clearly attached to a different make/model vehicle. They just don't care. No one is going to penalize them for writing bad tickets to compel people to court to do the investigative work for them. So nope, it likely does come back unregistered.
@akshonclip3 ай бұрын
Anyone ever having to deal with the State of New York finance department knows how incompetent they are. Ask Louis Rossmann
@michaeldecker27253 ай бұрын
They’re are not incompetent, they get their money and they’re very good at it.
@agalerex3 ай бұрын
@@michaeldecker2725Louis Rossman has a KZbin series where he fought some new York tickets - and some major incompetence. I'm guessing you haven't watched it?
@dp40133 ай бұрын
Seems like the incompetence is in Iowa, not New York. 😂
@akshonclip3 ай бұрын
@@dp4013 Plates are tied indefinitely to vehicles in every state. They don’t reissue numbers for this exact reason. So what state mailed tickets based off an old database? Not to mention the vehicle was completely wrong?
@fmachine863 ай бұрын
Not incompetent: evil.
@PaulRudd19412 ай бұрын
"It shouldn't take the world's greatest detective to figure out those plates are on the wrong vehicle" For some reason, this made me laugh so hard.
@glefic2 ай бұрын
These traffic cameras have really becoming a joke they totally strip us of due process
@Joe90MC2 ай бұрын
Where is the Iowa Attorney General? He should be going to NY to solve the issue with the NY City court system.
@fujisan-zu4nd2 ай бұрын
he cannot, he owe the gov money if he is caught outside of his palace.
@Tortilla.Reform2 ай бұрын
Why would he have to go there hahaha, it’s 2024, phones and email and exists
@MindBodySoulOk2 ай бұрын
@@Tortilla.ReformPlus they don't want to do much in the way of actual work.
@paperman97082 ай бұрын
They don't care about anything like this. Their only concern is advancing their own career and pocketing as much money as possible while doing so. I had the same thing happen with stolen plates and I was nearly arrested over it. I got lucky that the guy was caught with a bunch of license plates in another state. The state trooper that arrested him personally handled it for me because the local PD were going to arrest me for unpaid tickets if I didn't turn myself in within 24 hours. Without his help I would have been screwed because the local PD just didn't care that the plates didn't match the vehicle.
@3msinatas2 ай бұрын
his Epstein Barr virus won't stand for it. on cammera that is. with 8yr olds
@beccahaaby10073 ай бұрын
They best check their employees, someone is selling them.
@Mikemikeswehomenow3 ай бұрын
Yep.
@DarthVader19773 ай бұрын
They just make fake ones.
@amzarnacht67103 ай бұрын
Likely it was a box or two of plates that were poorly stored and some enterprising BLM member found them recently. OFC they immediately thought of NY and it's millions of citation (only) cameras...
@BeccaHetrick3 ай бұрын
I think you "best check" your grammar... And all of the English teachers in the school system you went to need to be fired....
@scruf1533 ай бұрын
@@BeccaHetrick what are yall talking about
@BenCoombs3 ай бұрын
Who at the Iowa DMV is reselling plates as a side job?
@A3Kr0n3 ай бұрын
Probably someone at the Dept. of Corrections.
@zoomanx96613 ай бұрын
Guess, who usually gets busted in New York with fake plates on their cars?
@BenCoombs3 ай бұрын
@@zoomanx9661 Americans
@zoomanx96613 ай бұрын
@@BenCoombs ok 👍
@deliveryguyrx3 ай бұрын
Pookie the Plate Pirate! ARRRR!
@57970292 ай бұрын
I had a similar situation with New York. I received multiple violations, from different agencies, for a white Ford van. These were temporary, Florida paper tags, that were issued to our dealership. They showed up 5 years after we closed down. It took many responses and phone calls to stop the threats from NYC.
@synw3llth0rn322 ай бұрын
This is an inherent problem with traffic cameras. Just a photo or video that does not show the drivers face should not be prosecutable evidence.
@Furluge2 ай бұрын
Exactly. They should be required to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were driving the car. How are they going to do that without any images of you in the car?
@lucycarola3 ай бұрын
I work for the courts and we’ve gotten so many folks that end up spending the 72 hrs in the pen for having weird driving charges that have warrants, and I’ve suspected for a long time, that this was happening. That the DMV, has been messing w plates for a while now. I almost got arrested when my plate was stolen and switched for someone else’s. Now, I look at my plate everyday. It’s the DMV they gotta look into.
@ricksmith47363 ай бұрын
We don't know WHO is in America..... 3rd world country it is becoming...
@Tortilla.Reform2 ай бұрын
🙄 keep falling for divisive fear mongering
@VampageRampage2 ай бұрын
@@Tortilla.Reform Keep closing your eyes to reality! When it finally slaps, it’s gonna hit so hard you’ll have a schizophrenic episode with that level of cognitive dissonance! Fact-no one cares more about you than you, and no one is actually more interested in you than criminals and hackers for very obvious reasons🤑
@youtubyoutub23042 ай бұрын
Yeah all the advanced computers, space shuttles, medical and educational properties sure makes America a 3rd world, hell they’ve even got running water and electricity, now that’s poor
@space_void_infinitum2 ай бұрын
@Tortilla.Reform your a scumbag
@space_void_infinitum2 ай бұрын
It's devolving into one very rapidly. Empires fall
@nhansen1972 ай бұрын
Lesson here, never turn in old plates.
@inthedarkwoods20222 ай бұрын
In Iowa
@AlexLightGiver2 ай бұрын
$430 fine in Louisiana if you don't. And we paid for them at the DMV
@Burnlit13372 ай бұрын
As absurd the charges may be, you know there will be people who will simply pay the fines just to move on with their day. I hope more victims of NY's incompetence will see this and get their money back.
@bigdye19762 ай бұрын
This is why traffic cams should not give tickets. Zero evidence the vehicle matches plate.
@user-sw9jo7fe3d3 ай бұрын
And suddenly, a worker at the recycling center had a money-making scheme come to mind.
@us4freedomforever3 ай бұрын
This goes up the ladder at both Iowa's DMV & DOC. 12 years of having to purchase new aluminum for license plates. Who accounted for all that lost revenue from recycling fees?
@Gump-tion3 ай бұрын
Somebody working in the DMV had a nice lil side hustle goin. But the jig is up!
@nannuartworks58122 ай бұрын
NY is notorious for this kind of behavior. A friend had a repair shop in NYC then moved it to Texas. He dissolved the old company and started a new one so they would not get confused. NYC sent him a fine for not having NYC workers comp insurance on employees in Texas. This is not all they have done and was the reason he moved.
@Annoyed_Human2 ай бұрын
Rossman is ur friend?
@TheKuptis2 ай бұрын
You personally know Louis Rossman?
@edwardwood65322 ай бұрын
Agreed, this is was Rossmann described. Replace that jtag.
@bikerider760582 ай бұрын
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.
@MilwaukeeF40C2 ай бұрын
I have never owned a motorhome not driven since 1992. Now we know you are a hillbilly.
@richanddebshawaiiadventure43402 ай бұрын
that's why the rest of the country views texas as a shithole they wouldn't be caught dead in - maybe stop bashing on the mexicans and deal with the real problems assholes
@VintageToiletsRock2 ай бұрын
NYC take notes. NYC is acting as co-conspirators in this license plate fraud by simply doing what they always do: not give a damn about the little guy.
@fdavidmiller22 ай бұрын
Sounds like a great class action lawsuit.
@tombeck27923 ай бұрын
I keep my old plates
@MagicM1KE4203 ай бұрын
I destroy mine
@TheMW2informer3 ай бұрын
I got plates with 1970s registration stickers on them 😂
@patriciamueller39863 ай бұрын
In iowa you need to turn in the old plates in order to receive a refund for the portion of the year that went unused. I don't believe it's optional unless you want to write off that money.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k3 ай бұрын
Well you turn them in because each year if you go to renew your sticker. They will automatically charge you because they think that car is still in your possession. I had that happen on this Honda pilot I had gotten rid of two year ago but forgot to take them in. They thought I still owned that so when I paid online for the plates to my other cars they charged me for that Honda I hadn't owned for a few years when I took the plate in then that car was taken off the registry
@biform132 ай бұрын
In Mass your insurance stops ONLY when you turn in the plate.
@michaelbabella90123 ай бұрын
ummmm, $300 in fines issued, which means that plate number is on the 'hot sheet' in new york and given to ALL RMP cruisers, yet they dont and havent pulled the van over despite catching it on traffic cam TWICE on the SAME street at different times on different days...something smells like something that came outta the east river here...outdated plates being sold to illegal immigrants, or human trafficking? someone in new york is covering something up here or being told not to stop the vehicles in question...40 plus plates are in question: my spidey sense tells me this is a bigger story than media is gonna be allowed to cover... why do i say that...the state of New York sent an 'e-mail' rather than an OFFICIAL LETTER to this family telling them the fine is being removed...arent we all told EVERYDAY to look at 'suspicious' e-mails as 'spam' or "phishing'? what state, what DOT office ANYWHERE sends an 'e-mail' as an 'official response saying they are quashing a lawful fine?
@peterschorn13 ай бұрын
And they're all registered to guys named John--look: John Whorfin, John Yaya, John Smallberries...
@Mike__B3 ай бұрын
Your hatred is overthinking this. License plates being used by people who are tired of paying fines and fees from automated ticket cameras. Plus you realize that traffic cams aren't issuing tickets in real time right? That camera footage is analyzed later and tickets sent, so yeah it's not shocking that the vehicle was not pulled over despite being flagged twice on the same street in one day.
@seymourbutts46543 ай бұрын
Cops are rarely on top of their game.
@J-ge7qe3 ай бұрын
@@Mike__B b.s. nobody reviews the video. The tickets do go out automatically.
@gordonwardhaugh82663 ай бұрын
Make sure people when you turn your old plates in they are returned in two pieces❤❤
@alfre45542 ай бұрын
You can 3d print a lot. Vin tags, plates, etc.
@stopthephilosophicalzombie90172 ай бұрын
I don't understand how NYC can bill someone for plates from car that is no longer registered to them and obviously expired. Pure insanity. They better not send those fines to bill collectors.
@MichaelMauldinExplores3 ай бұрын
The exact same thing happened to me in Union County Georgia. I turned my tag in and six months later it showed up in New York. I believe my tag as well as around 125 others were sold after being turned in to our county tax office. These folks can upload a copy of their receipt for turning the tag in if they can still get one. My receipt is what cleared me. It was easy to do on the New York website. NYPD eventually seized my tag and destroyed it.
@rbryson073 ай бұрын
12 year old receipt?
@mrbyamile69733 ай бұрын
@rbryson07 exactly, and "eventually ceased the plate" but didn't mention that since it's New York they likely let the person with the plate on the car walk away without even giving them a ticket.
@asbestosfiber2 ай бұрын
@@mrbyamile6973 Wut? One minute New York is chasing people half way across the country and the next minute they are letting them go. NYC has lower violent crime rates that a lot of places
@PalmBeachDog3 ай бұрын
Welcome to America. Easy for the criminals. Six months of red tape and hard work for the law abiding citizens.
@beaverc28843 ай бұрын
Sounds like the facility that was supposed to shred the plates is up to something fishy.
@GS-zc4sk2 ай бұрын
Real fishy
@Davido502 ай бұрын
Someone inside Iowa DMV is definitely culpable.
@RomperRuined2 ай бұрын
NYS DMV no longer REQUIRES old license plates to be turned in to them, but left up to the motor vehicle owner to destroy them. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
@timothybaker82343 ай бұрын
Every flea market I go to has people selling license plates, older and newer. Lots of people collect them.
@Bill-im6nt3 ай бұрын
And a lot of the things at flea markets are stolen. I had my hose and sprinkler stolen off my front yard. When I talked to the police as to why anyone would bother, they told me, "Where do you think all those hoses and sprinklers at the flea markets come from."
@Heavenly_Fury3 ай бұрын
@@Bill-im6nt But typically they are older plates that what makes them valuable at least that what I think
@gabesmath1053 ай бұрын
@heavenly_fury and hopefully old enough to have no profile on the dmv server anymore so nothing comes back to haunt the past owner.
@Action-Owls-Coop3 ай бұрын
Im curious. How much do plates usually go for at those markets? Mine was stolen/or fell off the back of my car and Ive been paranoid about it ever since. Im wondering if thieves actually have enough financial incentive to seal them off of cars. BTW for anybody wondering, if you aren't 100% sure that your plate has been stolen off a current car that you use, DONT report it to the police until you are sure. You will not be able to drive that vehicle with the remaining plate on.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k3 ай бұрын
Those are not old Iowa plates. We still use that same style of plate here to date
@juanmacias4183 ай бұрын
New york could care less, they just hoped that these people would "roll over" and just pay the fine......
@shabadoo243 ай бұрын
They just want your money
@ricksmith47363 ай бұрын
Pay these Clowns, says Hochul......
@justayoutuber19062 ай бұрын
Could care less or "couldn't care less"?
@Wrangzilla2 ай бұрын
@@justayoutuber1906 Same thing.
@allanbard60482 ай бұрын
"Just paying a fine" is what the Punisher used as a tactic to end a crime family a bit at a time. 🙃🙃
@louisbouchard68693 ай бұрын
If Iowa was not so insistent on receiving income from traffic cameras themselves, the simply solution would be to tell New York that they cannot collect their fines in Iowa. Minnesota did that with Illinois and their Tollway years ago and suddenly, the Tollway cleaned up their act.
@User_yhvz3 ай бұрын
Traffic camera’s? Where?! You talking about the sensors? Because I’ve yet to find a speed trap in iowa. Well, most of iowa. Some small towns are douches but that’s usually closer to Minnesota.
@louisbouchard68693 ай бұрын
@@User_yhvz Sioux City (which is in a forever fight with South Dakota to get their driver's addresses) and Cedar Rapids to name 2 places.
@russg93713 ай бұрын
Minnesota is trying to change it. I haven't followed it up in awhile but there was a bill going through the state Senate authorizing the use of traffic cams for speed enforcement
@louisbouchard68693 ай бұрын
@@russg9371 I have seen that but the question is, will such a law pass court scrutiny. I think the MN Supreme Court ruled years ago that traffic cameras were unconstitutional based on the state constitution (City of Minneapolis was using red light cameras) so my guess is that it would require the voters to change the rules to allow it (and I doubt the voters will do that).
@HarmonRAB-hp4nk2 ай бұрын
traffic cams....I'm canadian, the way I see it is... They got a guy selling em for money, they were turned in right, means trash compacter... so they must of had plans to scam peopl with them later on when things blew over about how the plates went missing. I'm not surprised, you have many corrupt ppl leeding you. greed will leed them to hell... hope they know all the money in the world wont save them :-)
@Emancipatriot2 ай бұрын
This is what happens when you have tolls like they have in NYC. Can’t really be surprised with how creative they are getting. I feel for these people that it happened to
@martincaidin41662 ай бұрын
Iowans: We're obviously the victims of a scammer. NY: Tough shit. Give us our money.
@A3Kr0n3 ай бұрын
Wisconsin let me keep my old license plates when I got new ones this year.
@azul88113 ай бұрын
I have a buyer in NYC if you’d like to sell them…
@junedeike61443 ай бұрын
I have all of mine and one from my ex.😂
@Keaton08013 ай бұрын
@@azul8811congratulations, you just admitted to license plate fraud 😂😂
@azul88113 ай бұрын
@@Keaton0801 _Whoosh!_
@werefrogofassyria66093 ай бұрын
The Werefrog also kept the plates the last time they were changed, and live in Pottawattamie county. They said new plates needed this year. The Werefrog renewed by mail, and they mailed new plates. The old plates are sitting in the garage.
@txbrn5123 ай бұрын
how are they not counterfeit if they all match the years 2012-2014 from the same county, the prison they got sent to obviously didn't destroy them
@KB-kp2oz3 ай бұрын
You're asking how they all are counterfeit if they are all almost identical? Hahaha. That's literally a condition for being counterfeit. Are you a bot?
@user-wf8ol5hv6k3 ай бұрын
Different numbers but same county Mr KB retard
@charlesyoung74362 ай бұрын
@@KB-kp2oz The wrong word was used. The plates were properly issued in Iowa, but were legally invalid for further use once turned in. Probably they were aluminum to be recycled for new plates, that never made it to the furnace. The real question is where the New York users were getting renewal stickers for them. Now those could be counterfeits.
@cvn65552 ай бұрын
@@charlesyoung7436 Lots of states not issuing renewal stickers anymore.
@leemelone64823 ай бұрын
DO NOT TURN IN YOUR PLATE TO THE DMV DETSTROY IT and if you have to pay a fine , so be it. Or destroy it and report it stolen
@MaekarManastorm3 ай бұрын
Exactly but people are not that smart
@billyhatcher6433 ай бұрын
I keep my plates I never turn them in
@brassmule3 ай бұрын
@@billyhatcher643Same. 30 years of car ownership, multiple states, never turned them in.
@JH-pt6ih3 ай бұрын
My first reaction, "People turn in their plates? I didn't even know that was a thing and I've had cars in multiple states." Is that an Iowa law or something?
@alanm28423 ай бұрын
@@JH-pt6ih if i buy a new car and it gets totaled out a month later, then turn in old plate to get refund on taxes paid on that vehicle
@julirichmond32 ай бұрын
Once you turn in your plates The responsibility is no longer yours
@deepwork22 ай бұрын
as a license plate collector, this is really easy to do. You can get old plates for cheap and put them on your vehicle quite easily. Could be an inside job as well, but it's not difficult to get your hands on old plates. Just saying.
@WolfieBeat3 ай бұрын
The person that labeled this video needs to take English lessons........
@50buttfish3 ай бұрын
At least grammatically review their post before, posting their crap.
@TheMW2informer3 ай бұрын
Are Iowans unable to keep their old plates?? Most people in Wisconsin keep theirs and put them on the garage wall or give them to a bar.
@ke23953 ай бұрын
It would appear that people in Iowa need to give their old plates back to the county they reside or register their vehicle in.
@RANDOMNATION9073 ай бұрын
When I went to trade school in Ohio, the plates stayed with the the person they were registered to. Not the car. So if you bought another car, the plates and registration would be updated for the new car, and you put the old plates on your new car. I actually live in Alaska. Up here, you can get new plates every two years, and there's no 'turn in old plates' policy. So you can do what ever you want with the old plates. Also in Alaska, if your vehicle is 10+ yrs old, it costs $215 bucks for a lifetime registration. No more DMV visits unless you really do need new plates. But you can also get replacements mailed to you.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k3 ай бұрын
You can but if you go online to pay for the yearly sticker they will automatically charge you another year on that car even if you had sold it years ago. The DMV thinks that car still belongs to you.
@ARandomDonut3 ай бұрын
Since the county issues the plates, the county is the one that decides whether they want them back after expiration. Most counties in Iowa don't have this requirement, my Polk County plates are sitting in my bedroom after I moved to South Dakota
@KenNickelson3 ай бұрын
In Oregon you can drive for years on out of state expired plates and tags.. the police won't inforce the laws on automobile licensing..
@ricksmith47363 ай бұрын
You Californian locusts figure this out?
@sugarfree83033 ай бұрын
Seems like Maine has the same issue.
@gertexan2 ай бұрын
A friend of mine drove for at least five years on Oklahoma (his home state) plates while living in Chicago.
@timothynelson69182 ай бұрын
Iowa should sue NY state for harassing its citizens.
@SaltStorm0072 ай бұрын
“Iowa department of corrections picked them up”.......HELLO....THERE IS THE ISSUE😂🤯
@GO-xs8pj3 ай бұрын
They should not be giving speeding tickets via cameras anyway.
@scruf1533 ай бұрын
if it was not for the speed cameras this criminal activity would not have been discovered
@TheRealScooterGuy3 ай бұрын
Agreed. My state doesn't use them on the grounds that you don't get to confront your accuser in court.
@genoaoak2 ай бұрын
In Chicago, the private company who paid a flat rate to the city (not a typo) to install and monitor speed cameras (the company monitors the cameras and sends out tickets and the COMPANY keeps whatever fines they collect) got caught editing videos to make it look like people were speeding and running stop signs, etc. Gee, what could go wrong? Scammed me out of $200.
@weird16002 ай бұрын
Law enforcement and New York are not words that belong together!
@Imm_Maddix3 ай бұрын
People hang on to old plates all the time. The question is; why isn't the plate just completely removed from the system. Why is it coming back on a database? Obviously the numbers get regenerated at some point, but there should be a mandatory period before numbers are reissued.
@thomasschwarting51082 ай бұрын
It's happened to me before! I turned it in to motor vehicles and SOMEHOW the plates got out and I was getting parking tickets in NYC! So I decided the next time I have to surrender plates, I'd breakem' in half. Motor Vehicles tells me "oh no, you can't do that". Well how else can I be assured that they won't get out again?
@Tin_bAnger2 ай бұрын
You have to provide proof of registration. They can enter these plates in their system and and pull them over. My guess is that gangs or human traffickers got a hold of these. As an Iowan, we do have a problem of unmarked cars, but I think that issue lies at the state level. The cost to register your vehicle here is not a flat fee, it's a % of the MSG price of your vehicle. So even if the car a pile of junk and it's MSG is $25,000. You're charge $200-$250.
@peterschorn13 ай бұрын
" 'Cause I'm Finfeather Lewis and this here is Willard Clark, and we the Pottawattamie County Plate Patrol."
@williamramey19593 ай бұрын
The incompetence and thief was among the County employees. And yet, they have no idea how this happened.
@MrSloika3 ай бұрын
And they wanna blame New York.
@mercdragons3 ай бұрын
I will bet illegal immigrants have something to do with the plates.
@ricksmith47363 ай бұрын
How dare you... America needs them....And Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.....
@MrSloika3 ай бұрын
I'll bet you a 'real Mucian' flyover type sold them those plates.
@jonstechchannel2 ай бұрын
Sounds like Iowa didn’t destroy them like they shouldve
@scotsmanofnewengland77132 ай бұрын
Iowa Department of Motor Vehicle should be responsible for the destruction of those plates at the get go.
@ajfurnari24483 ай бұрын
It'd be interesting to see how many other people affected by this, are from standard white Ford vans
@Inthefoxhole2 ай бұрын
Makes you think
@mattp40793 ай бұрын
Lady needs to involve her Congressman or Atty General. Dealing with the NYS bureaucracy is a nightmare.
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
The Iowa attorney general should be investigating who in Iowa is stealing plates at the DMV.
@MarkfromNewYork3 ай бұрын
NYC not NYS
@MrSloika3 ай бұрын
@@MessyPointedBlob Forget it, you're trying to use reason and logic with hillbillies.
@mayavenuemisfit8142 ай бұрын
@@MarkfromNewYorkNew York State as a whole isn't much better than New York City.
@davidgolf32452 ай бұрын
This explains why I can't find my license plate. Now it makes sense. The great plate scam of 2024.
@MilwaukeeF40C2 ай бұрын
I had some awesome friends who just liked to steal license plates from vehicles parked overnight by drunks at the night club next door to their apartment complex, and hang them on the wall. When the roommates went their separate ways, they had a license plate draft with the top picks being BOO 4AM and 419 BGT (Better Get Tokin').
@dave28702 ай бұрын
@@MilwaukeeF40C They sound like dicks
@eskegit28762 ай бұрын
Lol i'm from new york. I dont blame you for not wanting to come over here lady! 😅
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
I'm confused, the entire news piece avoids the real story. Someone at the Iowa DMV is stealing plates.
@MarkfromNewYork3 ай бұрын
well since its BIG BAD NYC it must be that right.. it cant be some clowns from the DMV in Iowa took the old plates and sold them right..
@user-wf8ol5hv6k3 ай бұрын
There has to be a buyer in order to complete the transaction tho.
@brianh63 ай бұрын
Don't you think a news team would actually report on what the scheme was if they knew the "real story"? News channels live for such things. I didn't need the news team to tell me "we think something illegal happened in Iowa". That's pretty obvious from the story. In the video it was mentioned the plates get turned over to the department of corrections for recycling as standard procedure. How do you know your "real story" is accurate? It could very well be someone at the department of corrections instead of the dmv who is the culprit in Iowa here.
@MrSloika3 ай бұрын
Because that kind of 'journalism' is a dog whistle to the local hillbillies. It's much better for ratings to blame NYC.
@ExploreWithIsaac3 ай бұрын
Just one more reason red light cameras and speed cameras should not exist. When you get a ticket from a city you have never been to. If they were to pull the vehicle over, the issue would be resolved rather quickly with the person that was driving getting their vehicle impounded.
@scruf1533 ай бұрын
then how would we know about this crime if you drivers would obey speed limits and stop sines and trafic lights you would not get a ticket
@TheBandit76132 ай бұрын
Red light and speed cameras are not allowed in Nevada. It's actually illegal. I love Nevada.
@Bill-im6nt3 ай бұрын
I'm so shocked NYC police didn't cooperate! It's almost all they care about is the $$$$ until it gets on TV!
@markg70302 ай бұрын
Any summons generated by camera in NYC is automaticly guilty. There is no way to plead " Not Guilty". It is unfair! A woman's car was towed on the back of a truck and she got the summons. What a big problem she had on her hands. It did get resolved.
@benerval72 ай бұрын
Never pay NY for anything
@JobberSteve2 ай бұрын
New York is a cesspool of the US, followed by San Francisco, LA, baltimore, chicago, Philadelphia
@fortunatecookie90553 ай бұрын
"Old Iowa license plates found on cars is New York" It is? Really? Are you sure about that?😎
@wannabetrucker74753 ай бұрын
Iowa needs to pay, someone in their dept messed up., or sold them on the sly.
@ricksmith47363 ай бұрын
I would check on DEI employees with the names Pedro, Gonazalez, Migueal, and Ai carumba..... Poor America.....
@MrScotttraynor2 ай бұрын
@@ricksmith4736 easy ricky your white hood is showing.
@TheGreatSnafoo2 ай бұрын
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.
@sofakingrad35302 ай бұрын
If it were a republican behind the wheel of the white van, NYC would have them in prison for 30 years right now
@dpacheco73493 ай бұрын
Wait, the prison picked them up? What mystery?
@shabadoo243 ай бұрын
Here where I'm from, old plates go directly to a recycler and baled right away
@JasonBlack663 ай бұрын
yes, cut your old plates in half. if you cant cut, keep bending them in half until they snap. they are usually think aluminium.
@popeshop58632 ай бұрын
I know damn well every single stinking cop in NY has those plate readers.
@adriangreene9083982 ай бұрын
This is what they get for over charging on tolls.
@kgraham58203 ай бұрын
There’s not much in life that’s not messed up at this point.
@Tortilla.Reform2 ай бұрын
Really? You fall for the news fear mongering that easily?
@patmcbride98533 ай бұрын
NYC needs to be on the hook for 3 times the amount they are trying to extort when the plates are obviously on the wrong vehicle.
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
There's no legal requirement for a plate to be on the "right vehicle". all the plate represents its you paying the registration for "a vehicle" which gives you a tag to show that. The real problem is there is something corrupt in Iowa. The DMV should have destroyed the plates but they should have also disconnected the plate number from the original owner. The problem isn't NYC here.
@patmcbride98533 ай бұрын
@@MessyPointedBlob The plates are not legally registered.
@bloodlove933 ай бұрын
I'm almost surprised that stealing license plates isn't and seemingly hasn't ever been a thing.
@shellysmith10373 ай бұрын
when the economy is in the dumper, and it is....people do whatever to get by.
@monas.68393 ай бұрын
It is very much a thing where I live
@olindetroit76363 ай бұрын
It been a thing for decades all over the country. This is nothing new.
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
It was a thing. It is still a thing in some places. Generally it's a bad idea to steal plates these days because a competent state will mark the plate as stolen and issue a new plate number to the victim. That plate now gets flagged as hot on numerous roadway scanners mounted on bridges, cop cards, highways and more. All around bad idea. In NYS, pretty much every cop has plate scanners on their car now. They can and do ticket you for expired inspections without having to even go car to car on foot to check. Lol
@scruf1533 ай бұрын
another reason I don't own a car there too much trouble
@mastermind20322 ай бұрын
I live in Brooklyn, not far from where that picture was snapped. I've seen this exact van on the street in that area of Brooklyn, off of Linden Boulevard. It's the only Iowa plated vehicle. I recognize that county name and the first numbers.
@PhilipDeLamarter2 ай бұрын
Citizen's arrest! Gotta be an illegal alien!
@SuperDragonWagon3 ай бұрын
Somebody stole the plates !!! stand your Ground IOWA!!!
@MessyPointedBlob3 ай бұрын
It's people in Iowa stealing the plates you know...lolol
@davidg39443 ай бұрын
Because the answer is always a gun? Always? I hope you never argue with a family member...
@JamesAllmond3 ай бұрын
That's creative! New Yorkers not be helpful to out of staters when money is involved? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
@dripskee64433 ай бұрын
take a shot every time you hear a story about some BS with New York lol
@BufordDuckworth3 ай бұрын
Take a shot every time you see a news story about incest in red states.
@Ferd4143 ай бұрын
B-b-b-but... I don't wanna die of alcohol poisoning!!!!
@carymarshallfelton91883 ай бұрын
Seems like the BS is in Iowa. Someone is selling those tags there.
@dripskee64433 ай бұрын
@@carymarshallfelton9188 But NY is the one refusing to take action on people using fictitious tags. Now I can't hate on those using them, NY sucks. BUT they could just use rep plates
@psycho-nutkase92332 ай бұрын
I don't wanna look up a bunch of NY stories tho... 😂😂
@henrysantos1212 ай бұрын
Always is something new in NYC
@BlenderRookie2 ай бұрын
NYC incompetence. Government incompetence.
@DOboyle732 ай бұрын
If they have proof of return, it’s not their problem.
@ShawnStafford-19782 ай бұрын
I'm from Iowa. They are older looking license plate designs.
@Renee-kk1hf2 ай бұрын
Cartel distributes to illegals
@MrBender2472 ай бұрын
This is simple. When plates were returned to Iowa, there were then placed in the hands of prisoners at corrections facility. The people riding around on these plates are now going through tolls and doing other acts with no intention on paying. The best part is the plates don’t match vehicles and when the long arm of the law catches them they will have to explain how they got the plates. This is a felony.
@matthew31362 ай бұрын
People can print out any plate state and number they want at home. It’s not hard to figure out. Eventually they match with an actual plate.
@grege98622 ай бұрын
Something smells fishy in Iowa.
@jeffreysokal72642 ай бұрын
I wouldn't call them "innocent" Iowans since they voted for Trump; I'd call them complicit.
@PhilipDeLamarter2 ай бұрын
Just proves Trump's point that him and his supporters getting persecuted.
@oriolephan2 ай бұрын
It is NYC this doesn't surprise me. Just watch Louis Rossmanns troubles with the city