The Snitch Trying to Get Ghost Cars Off the Streets 

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“ most people don’t care about what’s on other people’s license plate but he does because he’s a Snitch “ 😭🤣

I had to follow a commercial vehicle that hit my car and fled the scene. His plate was intentionally obscured. Followed him right back to his business and drove through the gate right behind him. They had security to harass me and demand I leave and even served me a no trespass notice, but I just sat patiently in my car and the cops were on my side once they got there and he got a hit and run charge against his CDL. The cops and i laughed in theur faces over their complaint that I was trespassing.

The only 2 times I've been hit in my life were by people with fake insurance and fake plates. One was also drunk to top it off and nearly killed the other person they hit when their car flipped (they hit me after hitting the other car full force so I was thankfully uninjured), and the other time I was on my Vespa and flew through the air 20 feet. I'm so sick of it. I'm in Denver and see expired and illegal plates daily in the city and parked on my street selling drugs in broad daylight. I'm not one to judge morally, but safety wise, I have no idea why this isn't seen as a bigger concern for law enforcement in big cities. If I miss a single day of putting a new sticker on my plate, I get a $75 ticket. If I call the police because I heard a shooting and see a car with bullet holes and expired plates parked in front of my house, they do nothing even when the person returns and continues selling drugs daily with a bullet wound in his leg. What is going on?? (Also, I don't think the shootout drug dealer living in his car in front of my house is completely equal to someone who DOES pay taxes and work and pay rent, but either way, it just seems like there's a common denominator with people who have illegal tags just so happen to also be the worst and most reckless drivers around, speaking from first hand experience.)

I just have a feeling that this snitch is gonna get more than just stitches 😂

That dude is definitely going to find himself in the wrong situation with the wrong person and end up a news story himself.

The cops do it all the time, obscuring the tags on private vehicles

Wait, is this the guy that claimed to have " had PTSD" just from pulling the trigger on an AR-15 while being 'inflicted with an injured shoulder' from the recoil of that rifle? Call the asylum. One of their escape mental patients is on the loose!

They call everything you can’t track “ghost” 🤣🤣

When even the cops have ghost cars something is wrong. I've been in hit and runs and they all got away because the cameras could not identify the plate. It's infuriating to people who actually follow the law and I understand why he is doing this.

The story about registration/licence plates that makes me laugh was in England when someone unscrewed the plate of a speed camera vehicle, then attached to their own car and drove up and down the road past the detection vehicle at an excess speed about 30 times.

Reporting 10 cars every day is a good living 😂 for $75 a pop

The same man who was terrified of an ar 15 is worried about people avoiding speed cameras and parking tickets, im shocked 😂

He needs to be careful doing this because people are crazy

The dude who sells plate hiders is definitely the type of guy who would do a hit and run

Man can’t get a car so he’s doing this 😂😂

Wait till he gets a ticket from NYPD for riding his bike in wrong lane.

I know people who don’t live in the US watch us and scratch their heads. I just know it

Snitching on himself ,can’t even help himself 😂

Dude is going to end up in a dirt nap. He'll come across the wrong person.

The City should make an app with a $50 bounty. Take a picture of the plate, the vin.

The problem with slightly crazy people is that they tend to forget that there's real crazy out there. Putting your hands on the wrong/right person's car might not end well for ya.

He gonna mess around touch the wrong whip and get touched 🤣

This man must have been beaten up so many times as a kid.

The boldness to continually mess with peoples things with a perverted sense of justice - whether they are right or wrong. This guy is living on borrowed time.

Ghost gun, ghost car, just wait til they hear about the ghost person... they only carry cash 😆 🤣

I live in Brooklyn and noticed that cops are typically the ones obscuring their license plates. All you have to do is take a drive from Brooklyn through LI and you’ll notice every other car with an obscured or fake plate also has a blue lives matter sticker or two along with a PBA badge. 😂 You’d think these overcompensated pensioned clowns would at least not give it away that easily.

He's gonna be a victim of a hit and run - and that person will have a ghost plate. Thats life.

You could put up a plate reader at major points in the city and flag every ghost car. have officers near by to go pull them over, arrest the driver and impound the car for auction.

Imagine if you own a ghost gun and a ghost car and you come outside and see this guy messing with you’re license plate… smh

As a former cop it seems to me that the penalties for using this equipment are far too low to be taken seriously.

In Belgium you don't get a mere ticket for masking your plate. Expect a heavy fine, your car can be seized and that is before the police check your car insurance.

This is a serious problem because when you get into a serious accident and a car takes off. You get the plate number and the cop runs it. The police come back and tell you. So sorry, the plate is not registered. Can’t help you. How would You feel? Now imagine if your family or friend got killed and they couldn’t track down the perp. It’s a growing problem and probably a reason why insurance rates keep going up in New York. That along with uninsured drivers. Nobody looking at the big picture until it hits home.

Self-proclaimed illegal street racer says speeding tickets are unfair

He's gonna get hurt soon... better stop what he's doing while he can. Some people WILL come after him for this especially after you brought it to light.

The funny part most of these “ghost cars” are government and state employees. A few were arrested totaling 100k n fines so don’t portray this like these aren’t family and friends of state and government officials.

I swear this guy is doing all this just because he cant get a car

That leaf one is smart AF, you could argue that you didn't do it and you are unaware

Using police as a revenue stream is why this BS is happening.

Why I get a 60 second ad wit no skip🤦🏽‍♂️😭

This problem with ghost cars is common all over the country. Where I live the paper tags are lamented in plastic so the weather does not ruin the tags.

All they do in North Carolina is just go without a plate or use an expired plate from a few years ago. I've seriously seen so many in parking lots and going down the road it's insane. They _never_ get caught, either. In the meantime, I had my plate go out one Friday and got a $139 ticket the next day. I was waiting on payday, which was on Saturday, so I could take care of it, but the cop didn't care. It's amazing how some people can get away with it for years and others who never violate the rules get got two seconds after.

Wanna know whether or not the speed limits/cameras are unfair? Anytime you see a cop, get in front of him and do exactly the speed limit. Good luck trying to find one that doesn't swerve around and cut you off.

Imagine simping for your local govt/surveillance state that much...

Probably a bad idea to touch any of my vehicles, even if you dont like what you see. Dont come to TX. 😅

This guy is the type to get bit by a zombie and not tell the group

In my hometown back in China, if you cover your plate and you got spotted, your driver’s license will be suspended on site and not allowed to drive in the next 2 years 😂

As someone whos been in a headon collision with someone who ran a red light, and then fled the scene on foot because their car got totaled. You, "i got places to be" means nothing to me. We all have places to be, you just think your special and deserve to go as fast as you want, anywhere you want, do anything you want at the expense of others. I truly hope he was arrested right ofter that interview for possesing and distributing fake license plates.

Picture Him Calling People Assholes , Meanwhile He’s Trying His Best To Tell On People That He Doesn’t Even Know!! 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️💯

This guy should go to Compton CA and do this. Lmao. Be the shortest episode he ever made.

If your plate "never been registered to any vehicle" when PD runs it, wouldn't you get pulled over and get problems

For New Yorkers to do this, there must be a lot of speed cameras and tolls for the city.

When you fine people outrageous sums for driving 1 or 2 mph over the speed limit with hidden cameras, you push people toward doing this.

5:29 props to the smart businessperson who opened the anime store across from the school lolollolol

This guy is the saddest kind of person

This guy is a little too comfortable with touching people’s cars.

This only seems to be a problem in the USA. Try driving around in most European cities, see how long you get away with it. There again, having "outstanding tickets" isn't a problem here either. If you don't pay, your vehicle is impounded until you do, and you get the bonus of having to pay the storage. There again, vehicle inspections seem to be on a more, shall we say, "voluntary" basis in the US. In most European countries you get the first one or two yers clear, but then your car needs to be inspected regularly, if it's illegal, you fix it. If it's dangerous, you don't drive it. If it's not inspected, you get a fine, if it stays uninspected it gets impounded. Several countries simply crush cars that are not insured. I'm not saying that illegal vehicles don't exist, but most jurisdictions take them very seriously.

He has nothing better to do😂😂😂

traffic enforcement cameras aren't fair anyways..

No fucking way in hell his name is Gersh Kuntzman

Bruh I just got a one minute ad that's unskippable. What has this world come to?

Where I live, unmarked police cars are illegal, in order to prevent criminals to impersonate police and rob or kill citizens. So they came with a trick: they use a very, very small police badge on the car's windshield, impossible to see from a normal driving distance to claim their car is not unmarked. I believe someone will challenge that strategy in court some day.

This guy's mindset: If anybody's getting extorted, then *everybody* should be getting extorted. That way nobody feels left out of the racketeering campaign.

touch my car like he does you won't ride that bike ever again! Snitches get stiches lol

lol, that dude covering his face is jagoff 😂

I always imagined that most people on bikes spend their free time like this guy.

the most new york answer "i got places to be"

Every time I see a plastic plate cover, there’s a PBA shield or something similar on the front 😅😅😅 they think they’re above the law and get away with it.

Nice job sneaking in the Ghostbusters Firehouse at 5:26 😆

The problem is that the speed cameras are only affecting people who might be going 5 Mi over the speed limit. On the other hand, truly dangerous people like the person that was interviewed get away with doing much worse and not facing consequences. There needs to be a more targeted approach towards people being openly thoughtless in their driving and have some discretion to people that might have just made a mistake.

In Adelaide Australia, the police cars are equipped with plate-recognition cameras that INSTANTLY alert the police to every wonky number plate they detect and allow them to stop the driver immediately. Even before they get to the driver's window, the police know everything they need to know about both the driver and the car. The fines for this type of crime are pretty hefty so nobody with any common sense even tries these days to fool them by fudging their plates.

The plate switching thing like something out of James Bond.

This dude would get himself killed in LA in a week

A lot of the tickets are also bogus. They can claim you broke a traffic law and they dont have to prove it. They send you a letter that will months after any court date you wouldve had. Which makes you automatically guilty by not showing up on a crime you never knew you committed.

Hes the type of kid we went school with and remind the teacher about homework

Did you say you ran someone's license plate, how did you do that? Is that a publicly accessible web site?

Speed camera are the biggest scam in the city…How doing 31mph is speeding?? 🤔

Until traffic fines are tied to an individual's income, they are abusive towards the poor.

The guy who wants to go 50% over the speed limit, complains about being held accountable, and doesn’t see the issue sums up the problem. Bunch of criminals

He’s annoying because I’m sure he’s never paid those excessive tickets before!

now they are driving around with the plates that have the name of the dealership on them

Did he just say he pays property taxes but only rents??? 😂😂😂

The irony of Vice calling somebody a snitch 😂

Hmmm, I live upstate, I occasionally see NY plates where the paint has largely peeled off. Now I’m wondering if that was an accident. Or maybe not. Also, maybe upstate troopers should take notice of damaged plates and actually pull people over for them.

Do you know how many a holes that ride on bikes? Much more than car drivers.

He should be careful! Sometimes big time criminals do this so he should be careful really careful

Vice news is the most hardcore news outlet out there. They’ll simultaneously get perspectives on polar opposite views

Remember this guy is also the guy who claimed to get PTSD from shooting an AR-15

“Why do you care so much? 🤨” 😂

Nice of that guy to make himself known to the public

I see a lot of people driving around with no plates. It annoys me because I know they are not paying vehicle registration or insurance like the rest of us

Bicyclists first need to device if they’re pedestrians or they’re their own thing and need to follow the rules of the road themselves.

officers breaking the law are not reprimanded. they are just told to hide it better next time

About 8 years ago, NY state changed the design and color of the plates. Within a year the paint was bubbling and peeling off. Now they want us to buy new plates

Never understood why people can’t just leave home on time instead of driving like an absolute idiot.

From the driver's perspective, I would have a lot less of an issue if the funds from fines didn't benefit the city/ police force. It creates a reason to ticket / punish people vs serving justice . Some of these issues your snitch found like on the government car was a bent plate, when people walk by and catch a plate on their jeans, it bends them in. I had this happen on my jeep, it was definitely not on purpose or for the benefit of less police visibility. I'm happy to drive safe and I hope others do also. I just don't like policing for profit

Just to prove that it's about safety and not the money, when you're caught, take away their vehicle and the owner's driver's licence for a month.

Parking enforcement vigilante... 😮

There is actually a good argument to be made about the unconstitutionality of traffic camera tickets. Since an officer doesn't pull you over and issue the ticket, they can't really prove who was driving the car.

Irony 101: best way to obscure license plate to avoid speed and red light cameras? Put on a bike rack!