Nope. No. Don't.
It's bad to obscure your license plate. It's bad to vandalize other people's cars.
Both of these are true.
It is. It definitely is.
I get that it's annoying to see someone getting away with something. But that doesn't make it your right to address it however you see fit.
The point I'm trying to get across is that even though the other guy is wrong, that doesn't make it alright for you to do whatever you want in response.
The lawyer is doxxing the guy too. People really need to get a perspective on this kind of thing.
But by all means, do it anyway. I certainly wouldn't lift a finger to stop you.
Driving with an obscured license plate is illegal and could get someone in real trouble. Obviously nobody would want to intentionally break that law. By removing such an unintentional obstruction they are doing the owner of the vehicle a favor - provided it doesn't damage the car itself, of course.
Similarly, if you see someone throwing trash out of their car, picking it up and depositing it in a trash can does not count as theft. Removing a third-party sticker from a traffic sign does not count as damaging it.
> Obviously nobody would want to intentionally break that law.
Did they ask for help? No. Are you damaging the car? Yes. Are you intruding on others rights? Also yes.
Stop being so self-righteous.
You aren't an authority, nor has anyone asked you to be. This is no different than MOB mentality whre you think you have some kind of authority.
We have a government for a reason, to handle this kind of stuff. These people want more oversight, but at the same time, they don't want it???
Don't go around breaking other people's property because you don't like what they have. It's illegal.
Why do you get to decide what is right and wrong without a court of law? I thought we outlawed that ages ago.
That seems like a wild stretch... I guess you mean people with obscured plates feel more free to speed and/or drive dangerously, which will eventually lead to accidents and deaths?
That's rather attenuated to justify vandalizing someone's car. But even to the extent that's true, snapping off plastic bits obscuring license plates does nothing to help. The driver will either be unaware the bit was snapped off, in which case they will drive just as dangerously as before, or they will notice, and can simply replace the obscuring plastic piece, and continue to drive as dangerously as before.
It's a dangerous path to invent arbitrary moral justifications to do whatever you want. Let's say someone sees you pulling pieces off other people's cars. They might decide they have a moral right and duty to punish you. Say, subdue you and chop a finger off -- your just desert for laying a finger on other people's property. Does that sound good to you?
Except it has nothing to do with vandalism. Vandalism is when you do damage to something, not when you're removing a bit of scotch tape, (nor when you spill tomato soup on a window, by the way).
In fact, small, easily reversible and non-damaging modifications to objects/buildings as a form of protest are actually protected by free speech laws in almost every democracy.
Drivers of HN sleep.
>Person flicks a bit of plastic obscuring a license plate:
WTF thats a REdLine stop that vandal!!!
You can't grant yourself a pass to damage another person's property because of what you feel they intended to use it for, because of what you believe its value should be, because you don't like that they own or use cars, or because you have linked them to casually slaughtering countless people, the ruination of cities and destruction of society.
There are very limited circumstances in which you may take the law into your own hands. Being angry is not one of them.
And a lot of people think they have the correct ethics and idea of what is needed to keep communities safe, and believe they should be able to take the law into their own hands. I don't know if you'd be very happy with the outcome of everybody actually doing that.
I'm going to rip it off, doing my civil duty, right? Not like there are any laws preventing me from doing it it.
Get off your high horse.
Mate, we are all just trying to get somewhere safely.