Not gonna lie, I always planned on doing this as a kid.
When my dad told me it was illegal, I announced my plan to get one of two vanity plates to baffle cops:
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or
1I1I11I1I1
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The obligatory xkcd!
(Source: https://xkcd.com/1105/)
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Turns out he just bought it. 
ETA: Ninja’d by @bolamig.
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Alas, the DMV has a database of vanity plates they won’t issue. Stuff like that is almost certainly on it.
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In the opposite direction, I recall a story from years ago where an owner had a plate that the police system would default to when no plate was entered on the form.
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“For use off-road and car shows only”.
Thank goodness for that disclaimer. That’ll prevent illegal use! Oh wait…
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Doesn’t seem like it’d be worth the risk, but we are talking about Florida Man after all. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Wouldn’t an array of superbright IR LEDs screw up the CCD cameras by overexposing the area.
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Maybe I’m underthinking this, but for camera-based tolls, with a decent color print of some other sucka’s real plate taped over yours, would that work? Would the car have to be the same make, model and color? The system can’t be 100% perfect. Do they track down every failure?
But yeah, how stupid to try to cheat this. A fucking felony over a buck-and-quarter toll.
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I’ve seen plastic covers that are only transparent from certain angles. Theoretically the cops won’t notice it, but the high mounted cameras will find their view blocked.
A close enough observer will identify something as out of place.
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I’m becoming increasingly convinced that there’s a relevant hardcore song for literally every occasion.
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Very true, but it seemed logical when I was 11!
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His mistake was not using a 3M privacy screen filter turned 90deg. Clear from nehind but black from the high angle of the toll cameras. Noob…
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