Um, Krystal, you should not be allowed to cover your registration sticker, and if out-of-state, it's far more difficult for the cop to run your info without having to stop you, and ask to PHYSICALLY SEE your paper reg. I don't think it's in the budget to pull every person over with a vanity ring around their plate just to run their registration. Seriously, get a grip. lol. How unsafe is it to have to hop-out of a squad car twenty times a day to check some stubborn, self-entitled person's registration? Not very. The tag is on there for a reason, TO IDENTIFY YOU, so comply with the darn law, and if you don't like it, WALK where you need to go, or take a bus. Laws effect us ALL, not just you. Your breaking the law is no different. You seem awfully selfish and self-entitled for a VISITOR to MY home-state. If your reasons for hating our GREAT STATE are as simple as VANITY, please don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out... ...As for being "trapped" in NC, there's no law keeping you here. Your hubby may be "trapped," but last I checked, you're free to go. So please, do us natives a favor and SCRAM. -joey c.