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Originally Posted by Spidey
From your profile, I am going to assume you live in Vancouver. If that's accurate then I wouldn't be surprised if the cops didn't show up to your call. I can imagine how busy the cops are dealing with drunks, domestic assaults, robberies, break and enters, all of which are higher priority calls than a traffic incident/disturbance that could potentially damage property, or worst case the idiot drivers themselves. The police don't ignore calls because they are lazy, they attend calls according to priority. If you lived in Richmond and made the same complaint, I assure you it would be dealt with sooner, as the two cities have carry different call loads and priority calls.
I don't agree that not having a front licence plate is not advantageous. Does enforcing a front plate have the same direct effect in driver safety than catching a car that ran a red lighter excessively speeds? No. But having a front plate has its advantages. As I already mentioned, it assists cars from being identified. Whether the car is stolen or is involved in crimes or even a car that's excessively speeding causing a hazard.
The people I see being happy with no front plate seems to be the ones more concerned about esthetics of their car than saving people money.
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I agree with this 99.9%.
However, I do not live in Vancouver and I prefer to keep my exact location private (sound like a weirdo I know) but where I live car issues are very common and the police are more than happy to jump to it the majority of the time.
My biggest issues is these kids do this in a school parking lot. A parking lot that sees many young people pass through it during the day some some at night (school yard party'ers). I don't want to see people get hurt.
As for the no plate on the front, there are advantages to it of course, but $14million dollars worth? The people on here will not like them due to the asthetics of them on there cars, I agree with that totally but I also see other advantages of this that will effect every tax payer.
Regardless of all this banter, the fact of the matter is we have front plates, your cars have front plate mounting points....put the front plate in them and save yourself the worry of getting tagged for not having one.