A common, but often over-looked crime in the St. Louis area is the theft of those little license plate stickers. Sure, most people are pissed, but not bleeding when they realize they’ve been victimized, so it’s not exactly at the top of everyone’s mind, but estimations are that the sticker theft costs the state of Missouri around $10 Million every year. That’s a lot. Like “turn out the lights and lets do this thing…no kissing though” a lot. Oh like you didn’t do stuff for money in college!

Rep. Denison estimated more than 5,000 stickers were stolen, just from vehicles in the City of St. Louis in 2009;  3,000 in the Springfield area; tens of thousands state wide.  He said going to windshield stickers like New York and Texas, would  allow Missouri to recoup $10 – $12 million in registration fees and sales taxes that people avoid paying now by using stolen stickers.

“They put them on the inside of the windshield (in Texas) and it stopped the theft,” he said.

Perfect! As everyone who’s parked downtown for any length of time at night knows, you definitely can’t break a windshield! You also can’t just use a tool like a razor blade to get at the precious stickers any more, you’ll need a more sophisticated and harder to find tool…like a rock.

via Fox2

One of our fine readers out there took a few of our stickers, modded them, and stuck them on his motorcycle helmet. Which means that as of this moment, this gentleman will have to get a little helmet for down below because the chicks will be throwing themselves at his crotch all day and night. I’m not talking figuratively and I’m also not one of those douches that say ‘literally’ when they mean figuratively. The is the reals: Chicks will lose control and dive for his crotch.

Frankly, and somewhat ironically, its probably no longer safe to ride a motorcycle with those conditions in mind.

We’re a real website now baby!  We have stickers!

They are a little basic in this first run, but we think they turned out great thanks to our friends at Contagious Graphics.

So how do you get them?

One way is to find me.  If I’m out and about I’ll say so on the Punching Kitty Twitter page so try to meet up and I’ll give you a few.

You can also email me here: editor at punchingkitty dot com and tell me you want some stickers along with your address and I’ll drop a few in the mail for you!

Yup, its just that simple.

What should I do with them?

Put them on your laptop, your car, your notebook, your cat, street signs, anything really, and then snap a photo of where you put it and send it to us!  We would love to see where you put our stickers and if you say its ok, we’ll post it up here to share will everyone else!