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Since the plates are issued in pairs and Oregon requires both front and back plates - it’s a matter of time before one vehicle gets pulled over for that missing front plate (experience but mine was a broken front plate bracket).

Wonder if they both have front plates too? Looks like my hood, wonder if I'll spot one!

I wondered if it was a bizarre optical illusion of some sort, but no?

Glitch in the Matrix

My first thought was that these are both undercover vehicles, but I can’t actually work out how the dupe plates makes sense there. The idea put forth here of a stolen front plate seems too small world-y, but I can just about buy that explanation.

Is this Portland, Oregon? Then it's maybe just some good Samaritan working hard at keeping the place weird.

Everyone missing the *weirdest* thing, a Hoonigan license plate frame on a *Prius*

I had that happen. Then bought special screws for the new plates that you needed a tool for, that came with the screws.

same front plates but different

so the multiverse is real

yikes

How?

Lots of good guesses here: 1. Two cars, same household, sharing plates 2. Driver 2 stole a plate from driver 1 3. Fake plate with number chosen to match a matching car All are plausible. Only 1 would be able to show registration if pulled over, but fake plates are a known problem.

Maybe they got the two plates in the mail and thought, "we can have fleet vehicles now"

Specifically blue Priuses

Excuse me? Is this a multiverse vehicle?

wait ... tell me you've seen gymkhana...

“Whonigan?”

I figured the car on the right stole the other guy's plates and uses the plate cover to hide the expiration stickers. Based on that Facebook post, I might be correct.

Ghost cars!! See, someone with a 3D printer and enough blue filament can download illegal car plans off the internet. It's been theoretically possible since the early 2000s. There were even TV commercials warning about it.

one stole the other’s front plate and now doesn’t have to pay parking tickets or tolls

Similar feeling

nah its cool they were registered in different months

I was told decoherence prevents this from happening.

My number plate used to be LL6301. A neighbour two houses away had LL6303. Same make, model, and colour.

@gothtatertot.bsky.social 🤯

There's a car parked on the way to my friend's house that has a license plate exactly one letter (Q -> R) away from mine! Unfortunately it's on a bike route so whenever I see it I can't pull my car over to take a photo with both of them

this one is honestly weirder to me, THAT is a freak occurrence that can't be as easily explained away by potential fraud.

The weirdest thing I see is sunshine in the winter in Oregon.

Fraud

The sovereigns dig the freedom that good mpg affords?

This was my first thought! Doubles of a picture car. Ofc the issue with that is that the picture car is not allowed to drive on the road with the fake license plate, they are supposed to drive with the real plate and the fake, cleared-for-filming plate goes on before filming...

the only information you can find out from a car’s license plate is what make and model of car it belongs to, which you can also figure out by looking at the car

The one on the right is mine

Just one example

I’m seein’ double. Four Priuses!

Huh.

Priiidentity theft.

How is that possible?

Not yet

Same owner saving money by using the front plate for the other car?

Well they DO send you two plates and two sets of stickers...

Time travel

Could it be a household with two cars but they are splitting the registration as if they only had one? The secondary car’s VIN wouldn’t match, and you’d need to make a fake sticker every year, but otherwise it would maybe just work?

Transporter malfunction