license plate shenanigans

I think I've acquired my very own Vector! (He sends out the weekly notices
for
our barbershop chorus.) This week's mails included a one- or two-paragraph
frenzied warning to Check Your License Plate every so often and make sure
it's
still there, because People Are Stealing Them and then doing drive-offs at
gas stations using the stolen plates, because of the high price of gas,
you
see, and when they do this Your Plate Number Gets Blamed!, so you should
watch
out for this from now on!

Unfortunately, I deleted it before thinking 'hey, this is short enough to
post in its entirety', so I don't have actual telltale details - but
anyone
else encountered this one recently? The motivation behind it, to me,
points to
it being fairly new...

....oh, okay, #1 on snopes.com for 'license plate', "collected via email
May 2008", and two earlier from July 2006. So duh. The one I saw, though I
can't swear to the exact matching of exclamation-point number patterns,
was 
definitely the first one. (Snopes sez yes on drive-off thefts, which is
quite believable, and no on license-plate stealing to facilitate them,
which
is also believable because criminals are a cowardly and super^W^W^Wnon-
thinking-ahead lot, by and large. But yes on license-plate stealing,
though
to facilitate disguising of stolen/getaway cars.)

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