Why don't I believe any of this? I mean it sounds so neat right off. Get gets screwed by someone and then screwed because he got screwed. Classic FML formula. You could just do this for everything. Today I got my PANTS stolen. On my way to get more PANTS I got a ticket for not having PANTS. FML. The problem, of course, being that this is in no way representative of life. I'm sure if your car was indeed impounded, it would not have been simply for no plates. Afterall, the plate is merely to show that your car is registered. If you had the registration - VOILA - you can get more plates! If even a minutia of this is true, I'm betting you are a skeevy little scofflaw who had unpaid parking tickets - why lie to an anonymous website about it?

This sounds like BS to me. I was cited a couple of times when I had one of my plates fall off in an accident. It's a "fix it ticket", like a broken tailight. Unless you already had issues like a suspended drivers license or something, there is no reason why they would impound your car. They don't impound cars for missing plates :P, you get a fine and an opportunity to fix it.

Even though this FML looks pretty dang fake... That was a pretty stupid thing to do. Had you not been pulled over, they still would've impounded your vehicle as soon as you got the station, not to mention they would've also arrested and fined you for driving illegally in the first place. A telephone call to your local police station would've sufficed. You brought it on yourself. Oh... #26, 29, 88 Right idea. Wrong number. 911 is supposed to be an emergency number. This kind of thing is better settled by just reporting it to your local PD - emergency number not required.

Here's the whole story; I got up one morning for work, went to my car, plates were stolen (just the back). I called the police in SLC, UT (801)-799-3000 (non-emergency). The dispatcher took my information and told me she'd mark the plates as stolen but i'd need to file a report to get a replacement plates from the DMV (the DMV doesn't allow you to get duplicates unless you file a police report for lost/stolen plates so you cant have multiple cars and multiple tags). The dispatcher told me a police officer could meet me there in an hour however i was already late for work and the police department is about 9 blocks away from my place so i (YDI, i know) decided I would drive down there really quickly and file a report. WITH a police report cops won't impound your car. Without the police report, they do -- and i've come to learn don't give a crap about your story. I was literally 3 blocks away from the police station when it happened. When I went in and filed a police report (after having to walk the remaining 3 blocks) the police officer told me that I can fight the impound by fighting the charge, and since I now have a valid police report they will refund the impound fee. BTW i got pulled over on my way to the DMV with the police report after I got my car out of the impound and the police officer happily let me go. Lesson learned, just wait for the cop, but I was in a hurry and late for work.

YDI for not just calling the police.....

Fake fake fake. They will not impound you for driving without plates unless you are not registered.

As someone who works in law enforcement, I can tell you that yes it is illegal to drive without plates, and if a cop pulls you over, your car is going to get towed because the officer is not allowed to let you drive off without tags. And all you have to do is call the non-emergency police line (Most 911 centers will transfer you to non-emergency if you don't know it), who will send an officer to you to make the report. Your tag then gets entered into the system as stolen, and you take the report number to the DMV to get a new tag. And the only time you get fined for calling 911 for a non-emergency is when you do it incessantly, or refuse to hang up after getting the non-emergency number, which then constitutes as 911 abuse.

the law doesnt care if your plates were stolen. you still cant drive without them. use a phone genius.

YDI for not doing what everyone else in the world would do-CALLING THE POLICE RIGHT THERE!

ok, my plates were stolen last year. I PHONED the police, reported it, and borrowed a car to go and get replacements. YDI for being an idiot.