Vehicle registration theft. Why? January 29, 2008 8:01 AM  
Subscribe  Vehicle registration theft. Why?  My step son's truck
was broken into yesterday and the thief took the stereo, cell
phone, etc. This seems perfectly normal, but what is curious is
that they also intentionally took the vehicle registration. The
truck was parked at his job.  I can only believe that they want
to break into his house when they see his truck at work. Problem
is……the address on the registration is mine.  Any other ideas
why one would steal the registration? posted by mrleec to Travel
& Transportation (14 answers total) One possibility is to use on
a similar truck (that has been stolen) to give it legitimate
plates so it can be driven round or moved.  This used to be
fairly common in the UK, but there they'd just get the plates
made of an existing car. That way a routine traffic check would
show a plate/car match. US style ones are much harder to fake,
being stamped, but I'd have thought that stealing them (and so
having them rep