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Hah, in California I used to have HX.

The short plate came back to bite me: Years after I had moved to another state, an automatic license plate reader on a toll road (91 Express Lanes) in Los Angeles misread someone else's plate as mine. It was kafkaesque: My public records request for photographic evidence was blocked because, if I was correct that the offending driver was not me, the law prohibits the release of records revealing others' driving patterns.

The other plates available when I did a similar search were BO and IR. In retrospect IR wasn't a bad choice.





I have an iteration of NO PLATE, and have received numerous citations and impound notices. At this point, I just ignore them. Registration renewal is possible, only because my local county office understands the situation (years of this).

Of course I could change my license plate, but not'gonna.




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