New Yorkers Use Fall Foliage to Their Advantage, Avoid Tolls by Using Leaves

It’s fall foliage as camouflage.

Drivers have been using the autumn weather to their advantage by sticking leaves and other items onto their license plates in order to avoid tolls and speeding fines, according to the New York Post.

Many upset citizens have posted pictures and videos on social media showing various objects that have been strategically placed on license plates in order to obscure at least one of the numbers.

One woman told the Post that she had almost been in an accident earlier this month after a silver vehicle, with a branch stuck on its plate, ran through a red light and almost rammed into her.

“It angers me deeply, as there have been one too many times that my life has been on the line, only to see someone drive away with, of course, an obstructed plate,” said the woman, identified as Brianna Brooke.

Daniel DeCrescenzo Jr., the president of MTA Bridges and Tunnels, an affiliate of the 🗽New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, told the Post the 🚔Crime can be fairly obvious to spot, particularly when “you’re doing 70 miles an hour and that leaf is sticking to the plate.”

“You could tell right away,” DeCrescenzo said.

According to an August report in Streetsblog NYC