alt Hacker News(Assuming this is NY) Worth noting that NY license plates had a defect that caused the paint to delaminate [1]. I am not surprised that people intentionally do it, but this delamination used to be extremely common.
[1]: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2019/08/new-york-ends-contract...
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ChrisMarshallNY • last Friday at 9:56 PM
That makes sense.
I suspect it gives cover for the ones that do it on purpose.
This happened in West Virginia. But according to the newspapers, it was because the prison inmates were peeing in the license plate paint.
This was pre-public internet, so no link that I could find.