Quote Originally Posted by nermal View Post
I'm not that concerned with someone stealing them either, wouldn't take much less time than a screwdriver and they are registered under my name anyway.
AFAIK people steal plates for several reasons:
- To steal petrol by doing a drive away
- For use in other crimes where they wanted to use a car
- To "clone" a similar car so the original owner of the plates receives all the speeding & parking fines.

I believe the latter can be quite a nuisance, forcing the original owner to get new (different) plates and lots of arguments along the lines of: "It wasn't me ..."