October 30th, 2009
When you have a car like mine (’95 Saturn with 140,000 miles on it, the clear coat’s peeled off and rust is starting to form, plus scratches, dented areas and all-round ugliness), you’d think it’d be immune to any criminal intent, right? Nope. Check out the license plate.
Some asshole took metal shears and cut the first letter of my plate off, along with what he really wanted, the registration sticker. SO annoying. I don’t drive it much and it was parked on the street for a few days, then I went shopping just now and discovered it. On the upside, I got to call 911 which was exciting. (I called my precinct first and they told me to do it, it really wasn’t my idea). Now I have to go through the rigmarole of getting it all squared away.
Workout wise, I had a good one today, 13 miles with 4x10min@HP w 4min recoveries. The fast bit averaged out to 7:03 pace and my HR was back to where it should be. Unbelievable how a bit of water (ok, lots of water) can make such a difference.
I’m going to stop here because I’m simply stewing over this license plate thing. I need to grumble and pout heavily and if I write more, I might get distracted and end up in a great mood which would ruin everything. So big love, signing off…rasmfrasm!@#$!@#$.
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seriously, only in philly.
hahahahaha … getting part of the plate stolen is almost as damn annoying as some cop writing a ticket for an expired inspection sticker when it is not expired … that took me letters and letters and forms and to get out of last year in NYC and I even was threatened I’d have to pay all court fees if I don’t just pay the freakin’ ticket …
They wanted the sticker…. WOW! Of course anger aside it is kind of funny. Just think what the DMV folks will say.
I have heard of whole plate stealing, but taking the time to cut it apart???
I guess this is why Texas switched to putting the stickers inside the windshield.
Sheesh, Flo, that’s crazy. I know the bandit probably thought it would take you longer to notice if just part of the plate was gone, but I can’t help but think that it would have been faster to just steal the whole thing with a socket wrench….
Oh man, you are having such a rough string of luck lately. It will get better. It has to.
It was OZY – 2865? Can’t have been an ex-pat Aussie — they would have souvenired the whole plate.
Where is the 26.2 sticker??? bahahha
Here the sticker has your license plate number on it so few people steal them anymore.
If they wanted the sticker so bad, why didn’t they just PEEL it off? Gosh, I am so sorry that happened to you. What a pain! Glad the running is still going awesome, though. Oh yeah, your last post inspired me to drink more water- THANKS!
Here in New York, we have stickers that go on the inside window (plus an inspection sticker). Trouble is, lots of those from the last batch don’t stick. Mine is among them.
Not only in Philly. I lost a whole plate once, they simply unscrewed it. The worst part was having to report it to a very bored cop. I took the report to the DMV and walked out with new plates, no fee. Cool.
Wowwww. Do you ever feel like you are living in an asylum? When I think life couldn’t get wierder, I surf on over to G-I-M.com. Sorry about your string of bad luck!
PS why do I always get the one-eyed starfish icon?