License Plate Spotting Thread

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  1. RealVector

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    When I drove to Luxembourg, I saw a car with a New York plate on the motorway, but I couldn't take a photo
     
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    That might be the NYPD officers stationed in France

    Yes, as part of their Bureau of Counterterrorism branch, they have officers posted in cities such as Los Angeles, Paris, Lyon, Santa Domingo, and more.
     
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  3. RealVector

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    That would actually make sense as I saw another NY plate when I was driving to Southern France in 2022
     
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    They have been quite controversial, as they normally get in the way of local law enforcement.
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    Here’s an HAI video on it
     
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  5. RealVector

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    Saw a Swedish plate while walking to school this morning, it's the first one I've seen south of Schleswig-Holstein :)

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  6. Alex death

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    I saw a Citraen DS 3 with a Palestinian license plate, I live near Gaza, but I’ve never seen a car with a Palestinian license plate, I hope this guy came to earn money...
     
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  7. RealVector

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    My spots from Cologne this week:

    A few Slovenian plates (probably because of the football match):
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    LJ = Ljubljana

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    CE = Celje

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    KP = Koper

    Two Italians plates, both with year
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    07 = 2007 (not really visible in picture, it appeared a bit "washed out" and was only visible from a certain angle)

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    12 = 2012 (bit blurred in the picture)

    Two UK plates (those guys were our room neighbours, they were pretty cool :))
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    (vanity, JBT = Johnson Bros Tours)

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    BF = Birmingham

    One Swiss plate
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    ZG = Zug

    One Danish plate without Euroband
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    Another Swedish plate! (bad picture quality, it was raining heavily and I saw it out of the building we were in so I didn't manage to get a decent picture, but it is readable)
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    Aaaand a little bonus pic which I spotted in Brühl (a town outside of Cologne)

    a German plate with a red registration sticker (illegal and fake)
     
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    Just managed to finally get my first picture of the new Slovak plates on my way to Michelstadt Station. Saw another one last year but the truck was passing by too fast so I didn't get a picture. (Also, summer holidays in Hesse start tomorrow! :D

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    those are new? i thought they are fake slovak plates when i saw them (fake like some fake illegal copy)
     
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    yup, they are used since 2023 and were implemented because Slovakia was running out of combinations (as you can see, this plate does not have regional coding any more)
     
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  11. Alex death

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    I saw a mini today with this strange license plate:
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    I don't have a picture sadly, but imagine what I saw: red 8th generation Honda Civic with a plate saying ''P6-UFO''
    The irony.
     
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    On the topic of plates spelling out words, here are some pictures of German plates (where the last one or two letters can be customized) spelling out a word:

    o_O
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    "HASI", German diminutive of "rabbit" and a common name couples call each other
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    "GOAT"
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    "WOHOO"
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    aaand a bonus one my friend saw, "DIEB" is the German word for "thief" and the sticker reads "escape vehicle"
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    Spotted my first Norwegian plate on the A45 in Germany today :D

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  15. andrzejserafin5

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    trucks from june (i have more license plate photos but i can't put them all because there is a limit)
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    Britain
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    Hungary
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    Kazakhstan
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    North macedonia
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    Serbia
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    Ukraine Lviv region
    Cars (can put only 4 because 10 files max in one post) :
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    Fake Ukrainian license plate, Ternopil' region
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    Ukraine Kropyvnyts'kyj region (anyone know what is this car?)
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    Ukraine Kyiv region
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    Finland
    i only know ukrainian regions for license plates not for other countries sorry
     
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  16. RealVector

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    Did you see the North Macedonian plates recently? Because MK plates are no longer valid and the sticker is not correct...
     
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    that photo was made in june when i was on a truck trip to Rastatt. that was the last time i spotted a north macedonian plate (because that was the last time i was on a truck trip but i will go once again soon). i saw the north macedonian plate in Sinsheim on the big parking near museum
     
  18. RealVector

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    that's interesting, because that truck is gonna get pulled over when it reenters North Macedonia :p
     
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    when did the MK plates exactly go unvalid? i made the picture on 26th june (26.06.2024)
     
  20. RealVector

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    oh I misremembered something. So it seems like the plates are only invalid for cars since 2019, as far as I understand it, MK trailer plates are still valid. But still, that sticker would probably get it pulled over
     
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