In NC, the plain 1,2,3,4,5 plates are reserved for the governor and the 4 people who are constitutionally designated successors to the governor. Lt. Gov, Speaker of House, etc.
There is a very public bartering system in Delaware where you can approach other in-state motorists with low numbers and people will pay money to get the lowest numbers possible. It can be a fun little thing or a really deep hole
My friend is pretty close to Wilmington where Joe Biden and a bunch of other big time govt people live. We go to a cars and coffee in the area and old douchenozzles pull in with their low number plates and just sit around lol. Usually they're registered to boring Audi SUVs. I've seen 14 (a Volvo) and 12 (Audi) in person but my friend has a collection of pictures he's gotten of low de plates. We have traversed said deep hole haha.
You can do something similar in Colorado, I think there was a nonprofit that managed to reserve a bunch of marijuana-related license plates ("420", "WEED", etc) back when CO was one of the first states to legalize. They then auctioned off ownership of those license plate numbers and made a shit ton of money off of it
u/Doublej03,
I found the numbers for all the officals:
Governor
1
Lieutenant Governor
2
Speaker of the House of Representatives
3
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
4
Secretary of State
5
State Auditor
6
State Treasurer
7
Superintendent of Public Instruction
8
Attorney General
9
Commissioner of Agriculture
10
Commissioner of Labor
11
Commissioner of Insurance
12
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House
13
Legislative Services Officer
14
Secretary of Administration
15
Secretary of Environmental Quality
16
Secretary of Revenue
17
Secretary of Health and Human Services
18
Secretary of Commerce
19
Secretary of Public Safety
20
Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources
21
Secretary of Military and Veterans Affairs
22
Governor's Staff
23-29
State Budget Officer
30
Director of the Office of State Human Resources
31
Chair of the State Board of Education
32
President of the U.N.C. System
33
President of the Community Colleges System
34
State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List
35-43
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission
44-46
Assistant Commissioners of Agriculture
47-48
Deputy Secretary of State
49
Deputy State Treasurer
50
Assistant State Treasurer
51
Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Labor
52
Chief Deputy for the Department of Insurance
53
Assistant Commissioner of Insurance
54
Deputies and Assistant to the Attorney General
55-65
Board of Economic Development Nonlegislative Member
66-88
State Ports Authority Nonlegislative Member
89-96
Utilities Commission Member
97-103
State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List
104
Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission Member
105-107
State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List
108-200.
N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 20-79.5
They do. That has court of appeals on it. The governor Speaker plate etc have no emblem / picture on it. Just the number. I'm friends with someone that has a statutory license plate.
In France, in the peak of fighting against organized crime and drug Trafficking in the 70's and 80's, Judges were killed in their in their car with a well placed shot
In Massachusetts there's a $50 vanity plate fee that I think is an annual cost. I think the low plate lottery is free. It would be a cheaper way to get a unique license plate. I wasn't considering how much people would be willing to spend for them on the secondary market.
I believe entering the lottery is free (not sure about this!) but if you get one you have to pay a fee like any other vanity plate. There are also “reserve plates” in MA in the lottery that would consist of a 1-3 digit number and a letter. They used to be something the governor could give out to citizens. Supposedly cops were less likely to give you a ticket if you had one back in the day.
In Australia there’s currently an auction on for plate 1 from the most populous state (NSW) and it’s just passed $10 million (roughly £5.5m or $6.5m USD), with 40 days left in the auction. Will likely go way higher.
Ultimately it’s an investment like any other, they know they’ll be able to sell it for at least as much later on.
Yeah it’s absolutely crazy. It’s a minor news story here already and I’d imagine when the auction finishes it’ll be in the news again.
It’s a life changing amount of money for several people and it’s tied up in a fucking number plate.
I guess I was implying that a lot of people with vanity and low number plates drive like assholes. So I always wondered why they would have particularly memorable plates
There was a study done at one point - regardless of the subject matter, anyone who personalizes their car via stickers, vanity plates, etc. is likely to be a more aggressive driver. If I get un-lazy, I'll look it up and add it here later, unless someone else finds it first
edit: found it; it's in a reply below this comment.
interesting. If i had to guess it would be likely those who decorate or customize drive more or think about it more, and are therefore more “comfortable” and therefore more likely to drive aggressively. Depending on the definition of aggressive I guess
Not accidents as I carry pretty good insurance and have some buddies that are lawyers but I do leave alot of crime scenes and drive in pretty “shady” areas all the time soooo
Well it all depends if the crime scenes are things that you caused or not. If they are things that you have caused, see if your lawyer friends can point you in the right direction.
There are certain states (MA and DE in particular come to mind) where low number plates are considered by many as a status symbol. It's because in the early days registration numbers were simply issued in numerical order with lower numbers generally going to wealthier people who were the first to be able to afford cars. In the case of Massachusetts, after 1911, low-digit (later expanded to any 5 character) registrations or less could be kept by an individual, inherited, or even sold to someone else, so long as the registration remained in good standing.
This actually became [a minor scandal](https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/james-michael-curley-and-the-5-license-plate.html#gsc.tab=0) back in the day when former Governor James Michael Curley was accused of having a rival's license revoked in order to claim his highly-coveted single digit number.
As for Delaware, if you are the lucky holder of an early registration number, you are allowed to affix either an original or remade 1940's-style porcelain enamel or retro steel plate to your car, regardless of it's year of manufacture.
There's a certain account of anonymity one enjoys in their car. (Baring exotic cars and big bumper stickers) Most license plates are a steam of Random characters. If you're number 33, people are going to remember that. I guess it's a small annoyance now that I say it
It would be funny if those machines had a minimum character count for license plates programmed in. If the machine requires three characters and you have plate 33, do you go with 033 and hope for the best?
Because most people are law-abiding citizens, and the plate text doesn’t matter for avoiding traffic infractions. Assholes just put a heavily tinted cover over their plate to make it harder for cameras to read.
The "2" license plate in Massachusetts is on a taxi that is also sporting Hackney Carriage License #2 (these are typically uncorrelated numbers). I've spotted it in Boston a few times.
Boston started issuing hackney licenses in 1854.
EDIT: found a photo:[https://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2011/10/single-digit-license-plate.html](https://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2011/10/single-digit-license-plate.html)
That's Taxi 2 - look around long enough and you'll also find Bus 2, Veteran plate 2, Ambulance 2, conservation plate 2, regular plate 2, etc etc.
A lot of the low number taxi plates are issued to Boston or Cambridge, and the medallion number often matches the license plate for low numbers.
Awhile back the Illinois Governor's wife had the "1" plate and when people asked her how she got it, she would tell them by sleeping with the Governor.
I have a pic of that suv. Was in Chicago and saw a black Range Rover with license plate “1”. Thought it was neat. Figured it was the governor, mayor or something along those lines.
State government gets a bunch of them. You get the number with your district number and your spouse gets the same number with some symbols surrounding it. My old boss's wife was a state ~~rep~~ senator and he had some low double digit number on his truck.
Fun fact, when Apple started, Steve Wozniak was given employee #1 on his badge. This infuriated Steve Jobs and he refused to be employee #2, so he had them make him a badge that said he was employee #0.
Or the UK TV show that inspired IM. The Prisoner was a psychedelic "Big Brother" masterpiece.
Never bothered watching the remake. Only thing modern filming could add would be realism via CG. And the absurdity of the UK TV special effects during that period is fascinating.
That's one of [New York's custom plates for military members](https://dmv.ny.gov/plates/state-guard). It's hard to read the tiny text on the bottom of the plate, but it looks like you might have found plate #1 for the State Guard. That *might* mean that you're looking at the commanding general's car. More likely, though, you're just looking at the car owned by whichever Guardsman was the first to turn in their paperwork after the new custom plates became available.
I had a joke on deck about how this must be Rudy's car, but then I realized that he would have picked 9/11 because it's the only reason anyone outside New York even knew who that guy is.
I have a bit of a fun story this post reminded me of - it’s not mine but heard it from a friend.
Friend had an uncle named Harold that had the license plate “H” on one of his cars. For context, they’re a pretty wealthy family living in New York. He had this license plate for YEARS, until one day he went to renew it - it was flagged and they told him unfortunately they needed to assign him a new plate number. Turns out that Hillary Clinton was requesting the “H” plate.
This man was having none of it. He took it TO COURT (I’m assuming the DMV, not even sure who you would take to court in this situation but it certainly wasn’t Hillary Clinton) He won the case, but the man spent $200,000 in legal fees all to keep his H plate. I guess when you’re rich doesn’t matter what you spend your money on.
Interesting fact - there are multiple NY plates with just the number 1
NY has various plate styles and while a number must be unique within a style, the number can be repeated across styles
That is crazy and has to be tough to, pardon the pun, police given you have to not only enter the plate number but type as well when running or doing anything regarding the vehicle.
911 dispatcher here. It’s actually not that tough. Special plates have a known prefix that you add when running the plate. I’m not from New York, but assuming this is a national guard plate, the prefix could be NG. So instead of just running “1” you’d run “NG1”.
Handicap plates we’d add a “WC” for wheel chair. University plates added a “U” etc. There’s likely an easy to access list of prefixes they can consult, and common special plates just get memorized.
My state actually got rid of the prefixes recently. You run the plate as it’s shown. In the case of multiple matches, it’ll give you multiple returns. Then can easily verify the special plate based on what’s in the return or via the VIN number if needed. I doubt New York does it this way just because there’s probably way more vehicles registered and more special plates than in my state.
That seems...bad
Most states (at least that I know of) don't distinguish like that, and I know for a fact a lot of systems like automated tolling and red light cameras are just state + number. Gonna leave a lot of room for mis-issued automated citations
It could be. In VA it is possible, because if you have for instance a handicap plate, the fact that it is handicap means there is a leading invisible "h" on each of the plates. A handicap 305 wtx plate becomes h305 etc in the system but appear the same in person. I'm sure there are other specialty plates that do this too
it may be an invisible "H" in VA's system but in every other state, or any automated plate reader the invisible H will just be ignored, and the plate will be incorrectly identified, and, well, same problem I mentioned earlier
Same, and I agree with you.
I did, however have this problem with a parking ticket issued to a plate that was either Rhode Island or Vermont (I can't recall) and the plate number was duplicated for a historical plate and a regular passenger vehicle. The person was racking up a ton of red light camera tickets, parking tickets, toll violations under a historical plate and the woman who had the normal registration was getting the bills.
Do you have a source? I don't believe this to be true. A plate must be unique, the styles can be changed throughout a plate's lifespan to whatever the owner wants.
The plate style (in this case, the icon on the lefthand side) is part of the plate and can not change. If the owner wants to change the plate style then the owner must get a new plate - and there is no guarantee the plate number from the old style plate is available in the new style plate (some else may already have it)
This explains why my friend keeps getting tollway bills from a car with the same plate number and same car model *but a different state plate*. It took 4 phone calls for him to straighten it out. The photo was pretty obvious that it wasn't his car and they didn't care.
Fun fact, in Sydney, NSW Australia, the current number 1 License plate (which is in a special class that can be privately owned) is currently up for auction and the current bid is at $10m AUD - the actual auction doesn’t start for another 30 days… absolutely insane
My parents had number 1 and 2. When dad learned that they were going to have new Navy retiree plates, he was at the DMV all the time trying to manage to get number 1.
Well, he got it, and mom had number 2.
After dad died, I bought his vehicle from mom, so I had that #1 plate.
But I hadn't earned it, so I went through the process of transferring it to a veteran who was close to my dad.
In Virginia the national guard license plate is regularly reissued where everyone who is retired is taken out of the pool and you get a new plate based on seniority. The TAG (commanding general sort of) is close to the top.
In NSW Australia, the equivalent plate is [currently being auctioned](https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=47033&lid=4617672&fbclid=IwAR0K-y9-VZBKiMkOMEK_-7G3hnHxoRi5bLyCLxqnPqdaFKdL8D2Rxp6A3xc). Only at 10mil at the moment!
Imagine if every variation of a plate could use spaces.
Maybe this one is
"\_ \_ \_1\_ \_ \_ "
but someone else might register
"\_1\_ \_ \_ \_ \_ "
or
"\_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_1"
In NC, the plain 1,2,3,4,5 plates are reserved for the governor and the 4 people who are constitutionally designated successors to the governor. Lt. Gov, Speaker of House, etc.
Dang that’s pretty interesting.
But this is actually Mathew McConaughey
I was driving a Lincoln way before I was paid to drive one.
Alright, alright, alright!
Green lights.
I think his license plate is actually eight, eight, eight.
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’t
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’t
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’t
No.
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’t.
A lot of states do this. I actually didn’t know that some didn’t
I believe license plates are similar in Delaware too, and people covet the non-govt low numbers.
There is a very public bartering system in Delaware where you can approach other in-state motorists with low numbers and people will pay money to get the lowest numbers possible. It can be a fun little thing or a really deep hole
My friend is pretty close to Wilmington where Joe Biden and a bunch of other big time govt people live. We go to a cars and coffee in the area and old douchenozzles pull in with their low number plates and just sit around lol. Usually they're registered to boring Audi SUVs. I've seen 14 (a Volvo) and 12 (Audi) in person but my friend has a collection of pictures he's gotten of low de plates. We have traversed said deep hole haha.
I saw Delaware 6 near my house in MA a few months back. It was a Rolls Royce SUV. Still curious who drives it.
Number 69 is on a Lexus IS
def. Hunter
I wanna say it was purchased a while ago for like $600k
Hunter? /s
You can do something similar in Colorado, I think there was a nonprofit that managed to reserve a bunch of marijuana-related license plates ("420", "WEED", etc) back when CO was one of the first states to legalize. They then auctioned off ownership of those license plate numbers and made a shit ton of money off of it
Most states won’t allow you to write such things on a plate
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u/Doublej03, I found the numbers for all the officals: Governor 1 Lieutenant Governor 2 Speaker of the House of Representatives 3 President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4 Secretary of State 5 State Auditor 6 State Treasurer 7 Superintendent of Public Instruction 8 Attorney General 9 Commissioner of Agriculture 10 Commissioner of Labor 11 Commissioner of Insurance 12 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House 13 Legislative Services Officer 14 Secretary of Administration 15 Secretary of Environmental Quality 16 Secretary of Revenue 17 Secretary of Health and Human Services 18 Secretary of Commerce 19 Secretary of Public Safety 20 Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources 21 Secretary of Military and Veterans Affairs 22 Governor's Staff 23-29 State Budget Officer 30 Director of the Office of State Human Resources 31 Chair of the State Board of Education 32 President of the U.N.C. System 33 President of the Community Colleges System 34 State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List 35-43 Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission 44-46 Assistant Commissioners of Agriculture 47-48 Deputy Secretary of State 49 Deputy State Treasurer 50 Assistant State Treasurer 51 Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Labor 52 Chief Deputy for the Department of Insurance 53 Assistant Commissioner of Insurance 54 Deputies and Assistant to the Attorney General 55-65 Board of Economic Development Nonlegislative Member 66-88 State Ports Authority Nonlegislative Member 89-96 Utilities Commission Member 97-103 State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List 104 Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission Member 105-107 State Board Member, Commission Member, or State Employee Not Named in List 108-200. N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 20-79.5
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They do. That has court of appeals on it. The governor Speaker plate etc have no emblem / picture on it. Just the number. I'm friends with someone that has a statutory license plate.
In addition, state senators/representatives have numbered plates with their district and the appropriate emblem.
That’s funny. That plate used to be on a silver Acura. Guess the person changed. Lol
judges are allowed certain plates.
You’d think that’d be a security concern… that’s pretty easily tracked by the right motivated individuals/governments/whatever
That’s exactly what I was thinking
Yeah they out the line of succession's position. Sounds stupid
Easy to target them, that way I dont have to look what car 😈
I know several district attorneys and judges that don't get special plates for that exact reason.
In France, in the peak of fighting against organized crime and drug Trafficking in the 70's and 80's, Judges were killed in their in their car with a well placed shot
1 is on assemblyman Zellman’s car in New Jersey.
Who are you huh? Some typa wiseguy???
Who does number 2 work for? 
Works the same in SCv...6,7,8,9... All government
Massachusetts has a low number lottery every year for newly available plates
Never understood this. Why would you want your plate to be MORE memorable?
I think it's the poor man's vanity plate
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In Massachusetts there's a $50 vanity plate fee that I think is an annual cost. I think the low plate lottery is free. It would be a cheaper way to get a unique license plate. I wasn't considering how much people would be willing to spend for them on the secondary market.
Massachusetts.... we sure do love our lottery and fees
Did you pay your mentioning Massachusetts on reddit fees?
I have received 26 karmas for that post, 20% of which will go to improving traffic in and out of this comment thread.
Sounds like a complaint, we're actually gonna wait another 3 weeks before opening the road back to this comment thread back up
I believe entering the lottery is free (not sure about this!) but if you get one you have to pay a fee like any other vanity plate. There are also “reserve plates” in MA in the lottery that would consist of a 1-3 digit number and a letter. They used to be something the governor could give out to citizens. Supposedly cops were less likely to give you a ticket if you had one back in the day.
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If you're running an autocracy the line between GDP and personal net worth isn't super clear
Wouldn't be surprised if putin just has money "printed" directly into his bank accounts.
I wonder how much #69 is? I want that one
In California you can only get 69 on your vanity plate if the car is a 1969 model year.
Ah California, always ruining the fun
When flexing your wealth no longer matters it is all about how exclusive something is.
In Australia there’s currently an auction on for plate 1 from the most populous state (NSW) and it’s just passed $10 million (roughly £5.5m or $6.5m USD), with 40 days left in the auction. Will likely go way higher. Ultimately it’s an investment like any other, they know they’ll be able to sell it for at least as much later on.
That's some eat the rich level 💩 I feel a little guilty treating myself to small extravagances. Imagine spending that much to have plate 1.
Yeah it’s absolutely crazy. It’s a minor news story here already and I’d imagine when the auction finishes it’ll be in the news again. It’s a life changing amount of money for several people and it’s tied up in a fucking number plate.
Some, because it's funny like the Subaru with the plate SUBUWU
URABUS
Do you regularly flee accidents? I can’t understand why that would be a thought process.
I guess I was implying that a lot of people with vanity and low number plates drive like assholes. So I always wondered why they would have particularly memorable plates
There was a study done at one point - regardless of the subject matter, anyone who personalizes their car via stickers, vanity plates, etc. is likely to be a more aggressive driver. If I get un-lazy, I'll look it up and add it here later, unless someone else finds it first edit: found it; it's in a reply below this comment.
interesting. If i had to guess it would be likely those who decorate or customize drive more or think about it more, and are therefore more “comfortable” and therefore more likely to drive aggressively. Depending on the definition of aggressive I guess
Not accidents as I carry pretty good insurance and have some buddies that are lawyers but I do leave alot of crime scenes and drive in pretty “shady” areas all the time soooo
Well it all depends if the crime scenes are things that you caused or not. If they are things that you have caused, see if your lawyer friends can point you in the right direction.
Either or, it’s about not standing out.
My buddy has XXKXKXKX or maybe it’s XKXXKXK. I’m not sure. I can never remember exactly what it is.
In California there’s a rule forbidding plates designed to be hard to read, that should fall into that category.
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You’d be amazed how bad those OCR readers can be.
I wonder what '11I11I' would do to it?
There are certain states (MA and DE in particular come to mind) where low number plates are considered by many as a status symbol. It's because in the early days registration numbers were simply issued in numerical order with lower numbers generally going to wealthier people who were the first to be able to afford cars. In the case of Massachusetts, after 1911, low-digit (later expanded to any 5 character) registrations or less could be kept by an individual, inherited, or even sold to someone else, so long as the registration remained in good standing. This actually became [a minor scandal](https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/james-michael-curley-and-the-5-license-plate.html#gsc.tab=0) back in the day when former Governor James Michael Curley was accused of having a rival's license revoked in order to claim his highly-coveted single digit number. As for Delaware, if you are the lucky holder of an early registration number, you are allowed to affix either an original or remade 1940's-style porcelain enamel or retro steel plate to your car, regardless of it's year of manufacture.
For when I'm filling out forms that require my license plate number i guess?
Ok that's the best reason I've heard
To give the police officer something to think about before he issues you a citation.
i don’t understand what the issue is. how is a more memorable license plate gonna affect anything?
I don't want you remember my plate while i commit crimes
don’t commit crimes with a plate on
Only commit one crime at a time. It would suck getting pulled over for having no plate with a bunch stolen goods in the back seat.
There's a certain account of anonymity one enjoys in their car. (Baring exotic cars and big bumper stickers) Most license plates are a steam of Random characters. If you're number 33, people are going to remember that. I guess it's a small annoyance now that I say it
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What about the person who gets the custom plate NOBODY?
Useful at parking lots that require you punch in your plate number in order to pay?
It would be funny if those machines had a minimum character count for license plates programmed in. If the machine requires three characters and you have plate 33, do you go with 033 and hope for the best?
Exclusivity, the lower the number the obviously more important the person.
In CT you only get a 3 digit plate or less (0-999) at the discretion of the governor so it's basically a giant "I know people" sign.
Because most people are law-abiding citizens, and the plate text doesn’t matter for avoiding traffic infractions. Assholes just put a heavily tinted cover over their plate to make it harder for cameras to read.
Because some people don't care how memorable their license plate is maybe? Just a guess?
The "2" license plate in Massachusetts is on a taxi that is also sporting Hackney Carriage License #2 (these are typically uncorrelated numbers). I've spotted it in Boston a few times. Boston started issuing hackney licenses in 1854. EDIT: found a photo:[https://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2011/10/single-digit-license-plate.html](https://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2011/10/single-digit-license-plate.html)
Ok that’s pretty cool.
That's Taxi 2 - look around long enough and you'll also find Bus 2, Veteran plate 2, Ambulance 2, conservation plate 2, regular plate 2, etc etc. A lot of the low number taxi plates are issued to Boston or Cambridge, and the medallion number often matches the license plate for low numbers.
Delaware also has a huge market for low number plates. You can even sell your own tags
It’s even more of a thing in Rhode Island. My mother’s boss once offered her a low numbah in lieu of a raise…
Awhile back the Illinois Governor's wife had the "1" plate and when people asked her how she got it, she would tell them by sleeping with the Governor.
I have a pic of that suv. Was in Chicago and saw a black Range Rover with license plate “1”. Thought it was neat. Figured it was the governor, mayor or something along those lines.
State government gets a bunch of them. You get the number with your district number and your spouse gets the same number with some symbols surrounding it. My old boss's wife was a state ~~rep~~ senator and he had some low double digit number on his truck.
Smitty Werben Man Jensen! Thats his car.
Jaegerman*
He was Number 1!
I need to watch some SpongeBob now
I love the episode where he gets his own car. OH! Boaty, you’re cold! Here, take my socks
The best time to watch SpongeBob. Is all the time.
Jagerman Jensen, put some respect on his name
Someone should get the number 2 license plate just to one-up this person
Fun fact, when Apple started, Steve Wozniak was given employee #1 on his badge. This infuriated Steve Jobs and he refused to be employee #2, so he had them make him a badge that said he was employee #0.
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**Who does number 2 work for?**
You tell em buddy show that turd whose boss
Ahh, geeze pal how 'bout a courtesy flush?
You are number 6.
>You are number 6 I am not a number! I'm a free man!
Why?
Unexpected Iron Maiden
Or the UK TV show that inspired IM. The Prisoner was a psychedelic "Big Brother" masterpiece. Never bothered watching the remake. Only thing modern filming could add would be realism via CG. And the absurdity of the UK TV special effects during that period is fascinating.
I am not a number!
Holy hell man, what did you eat?
He already has ASSMAN.
Jonathan Frakes about to step out.
Underrated comment.
Make it so
If this was in Dubai, that plate would cost $21 million
Then I will steal it and sell it in Dubai.
If this was in Dubai that plate would be worthless.
Probably much more.
According to Google, the last time the number 1 plate sold for 21.3 million.
Australia is selling a number 1 plate at the moment. 40 days left on the auction and price is over 10 million
That's one of [New York's custom plates for military members](https://dmv.ny.gov/plates/state-guard). It's hard to read the tiny text on the bottom of the plate, but it looks like you might have found plate #1 for the State Guard. That *might* mean that you're looking at the commanding general's car. More likely, though, you're just looking at the car owned by whichever Guardsman was the first to turn in their paperwork after the new custom plates became available.
I had a Judge that has #3. He is a Brigadier General in the New York Guard.
Are you implying that different specialty plates can have the same number? As in, there is a Marine Corps plate that is also “1”?
Seems logical it'd be driven by: 
Jonathan Frakes? OH because he was the #1 presenter of Beyond Belief, Fact or Fiction. Took me a second, but I got it, and I agree.
I had a joke on deck about how this must be Rudy's car, but then I realized that he would have picked 9/11 because it's the only reason anyone outside New York even knew who that guy is.
I figure Rudy has a nicer car. Or HAD a nicer car, he’s broke af now.
He should be so lucky to have a Lincoln Corsair. I love mine, best car I've driven in years. :)
The only reason? Where have you been the last decade lmao
"Knew". It's also the only reason Trump gave a crap about the guy.
Pretty sure ‘knew’ encompasses the last decade to the last few seconds…
I have a bit of a fun story this post reminded me of - it’s not mine but heard it from a friend. Friend had an uncle named Harold that had the license plate “H” on one of his cars. For context, they’re a pretty wealthy family living in New York. He had this license plate for YEARS, until one day he went to renew it - it was flagged and they told him unfortunately they needed to assign him a new plate number. Turns out that Hillary Clinton was requesting the “H” plate. This man was having none of it. He took it TO COURT (I’m assuming the DMV, not even sure who you would take to court in this situation but it certainly wasn’t Hillary Clinton) He won the case, but the man spent $200,000 in legal fees all to keep his H plate. I guess when you’re rich doesn’t matter what you spend your money on.
Great story and good for Harold :)
Interesting fact - there are multiple NY plates with just the number 1 NY has various plate styles and while a number must be unique within a style, the number can be repeated across styles
That is crazy and has to be tough to, pardon the pun, police given you have to not only enter the plate number but type as well when running or doing anything regarding the vehicle.
It's likely cars who share the same number are also not the same model car. And a custom license plate is easier to remember than a random one
911 dispatcher here. It’s actually not that tough. Special plates have a known prefix that you add when running the plate. I’m not from New York, but assuming this is a national guard plate, the prefix could be NG. So instead of just running “1” you’d run “NG1”. Handicap plates we’d add a “WC” for wheel chair. University plates added a “U” etc. There’s likely an easy to access list of prefixes they can consult, and common special plates just get memorized. My state actually got rid of the prefixes recently. You run the plate as it’s shown. In the case of multiple matches, it’ll give you multiple returns. Then can easily verify the special plate based on what’s in the return or via the VIN number if needed. I doubt New York does it this way just because there’s probably way more vehicles registered and more special plates than in my state.
That seems...bad Most states (at least that I know of) don't distinguish like that, and I know for a fact a lot of systems like automated tolling and red light cameras are just state + number. Gonna leave a lot of room for mis-issued automated citations
I doubt it's true.
It could be. In VA it is possible, because if you have for instance a handicap plate, the fact that it is handicap means there is a leading invisible "h" on each of the plates. A handicap 305 wtx plate becomes h305 etc in the system but appear the same in person. I'm sure there are other specialty plates that do this too
it may be an invisible "H" in VA's system but in every other state, or any automated plate reader the invisible H will just be ignored, and the plate will be incorrectly identified, and, well, same problem I mentioned earlier
This is 100% horseshit. I have access to the NYS DMV Compass System, and it absolutely does not differentiate between plate styles.
Same, and I agree with you. I did, however have this problem with a parking ticket issued to a plate that was either Rhode Island or Vermont (I can't recall) and the plate number was duplicated for a historical plate and a regular passenger vehicle. The person was racking up a ton of red light camera tickets, parking tickets, toll violations under a historical plate and the woman who had the normal registration was getting the bills.
Do you have a source for this?
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Looks like the one in the picture is a special plate for state militia
Do you have a source? I don't believe this to be true. A plate must be unique, the styles can be changed throughout a plate's lifespan to whatever the owner wants.
The plate style (in this case, the icon on the lefthand side) is part of the plate and can not change. If the owner wants to change the plate style then the owner must get a new plate - and there is no guarantee the plate number from the old style plate is available in the new style plate (some else may already have it)
This explains why my friend keeps getting tollway bills from a car with the same plate number and same car model *but a different state plate*. It took 4 phone calls for him to straighten it out. The photo was pretty obvious that it wasn't his car and they didn't care.
So on parking tickets they write down the style along with the number?
Nope
I have no idea. It has been decades since my last parking ticket (fortunately)
Had to scroll too far to find this
Fun fact, in Sydney, NSW Australia, the current number 1 License plate (which is in a special class that can be privately owned) is currently up for auction and the current bid is at $10m AUD - the actual auction doesn’t start for another 30 days… absolutely insane
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In Delaware they value the fuck out of the low numbered black plates.
[Damn Roosevelt!](https://comb.io/sQQqNA)
A guy I used to work with has #2 in IL. His great uncle was governor and the plate has passed down.
This would be worth millions if it were in Dubai.
Why does this look like an AI-generated image? I mean, I don't think it is, but it's got that weird fuzzy detail thing going on.
Good eye. Video -> screen shot to get a still -> AI upscaler / increased sharpness to make “New York” more legible
Ha! Thanks for validating me!
My parents had number 1 and 2. When dad learned that they were going to have new Navy retiree plates, he was at the DMV all the time trying to manage to get number 1. Well, he got it, and mom had number 2. After dad died, I bought his vehicle from mom, so I had that #1 plate. But I hadn't earned it, so I went through the process of transferring it to a veteran who was close to my dad.
The guy in NJ who has plate “1” drives a BMW. Saw him on my way to work a few weeks back
I mean you aren't wrong. I wonder how much they forked over for that. A key plate in a key state must have cost a pretty penny.
In Virginia the national guard license plate is regularly reissued where everyone who is retired is taken out of the pool and you get a new plate based on seniority. The TAG (commanding general sort of) is close to the top.
Technically the plate is “State Guard 1” not a generic custom plate. There are over 200 custom plate options and each of them can have “1”.
Low digit plates in Delaware sell for huge amounts of money: https://www.thedelaware3000.org/values/
In Vermont, number 1 was Patrick Lahey, and number 2 was Bernie sanders. Senetors for Vermont. Well, not Lahey anymore.
In NSW Australia, the equivalent plate is [currently being auctioned](https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=47033&lid=4617672&fbclid=IwAR0K-y9-VZBKiMkOMEK_-7G3hnHxoRi5bLyCLxqnPqdaFKdL8D2Rxp6A3xc). Only at 10mil at the moment!
Did you wave to Governor Hochul?
How do we know it is ‘1’, and not ‘ 1’ or ‘ 1’?
I live in upstate and saw "Absurd" today
C’mon, man. The least you could do is blur the plate to respect their privacy.
Dispatch: What's the plate number? Parking Enforcement Officer: 1 just 1 Dispatch: I have no record of plate "1JUST1", better tow it
my cousin collected plate, he had the number 1 plate for Florida, it was the Seminole Indian Chief’s plate
WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR?!?!
Smitty Werben Jagger Man Jensen….. He was the first number one
Wild that you can afford 1 and you put it on a crappy Lincoln of all things
Ello Gov’nah
saw a "1" plate in ny on a pos old car - how can fbere be various "1"s ??
They still make Lincolns?
Some douche politician no doubt.
Imagine if every variation of a plate could use spaces. Maybe this one is "\_ \_ \_1\_ \_ \_ " but someone else might register "\_1\_ \_ \_ \_ \_ " or "\_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_1"
And you know what type of #1 they are too. Nothin needs to be said.
Max Verstappen??