ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -25th August, 2025

Episode Date: August 24, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; leaves on number plates...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium podcast network, it's Fletchforn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. So Fletch and I, Haley, when you went to the bathroom, which is discussing number of... I'm entitled to a bathroom break. Hey, we didn't say you weren't. I could be dealing with feminine issues. And here you are condemning me for a private moment as a woman. We were just...

We were chatting about something. When you were out of the room, I was going to fill you in. Taking my break that I am in. entitled to and I will be taking that every day heads up yeah it's fine I've got no issue with that I'm glad you're going to me

the soapbox I do have a fucking issue do you know what if we're going to do this we're fucking go okay we've learned something there's a new device we were talking about number plates and how the black number plates with the white riding look cooler than the white number plates of the black rider

because you're getting a ranger and I said oh my god you're going to ask them for the black number plate with the white riding and then we were talking I thought they were banned and we were talking about then there was in New Zealand there was a while where it was

a black number plate was silver writing and those have been silver's gone I think it was a reflective issue yeah and when the flash went off on speed cameras

yeah you wouldn't see it or if it was night and car lights and kind of yeah I'd love brass because you know how I love brass fitting on your mint

vintage car yeah and it's like black with just brass screwed in no they don't do those so We worked out that the new ones are black with white writing. And I said when we were talking about number plates that are hard to read,

because you know if you ever see a number plate that's like 0-000-0-0-0-0-0-0. It's to confuse you, right? So you can't report it because you can't remember what order it was in. 1-1-I-I-L-1. I don't know that. I don't know that. When you drive straight over them,

they actually don't get a chance to look at the plate. Yeah, exactly. Or remember it. Hit him hard. I thought maybe their nickname was just, oh-oh. Oh, zero. So we're talking about number plates And I said to Fletch the other day

I was out And I saw a car with a leaf on the number plate What do you mean a leaf? Like a maple leaf No No well the New Zealand version of a maple leaf Like an oak tree's leaf That's a green leaf

Was it stuck from a tree? No it was brown because it's like winter Yeah right And that's what I thought Oh there's a leaf stuck on their number plate How like So I grabbed it to pull it off It was a fucking sticker

Made to look like a leaf That they'd put over their number plate so that you could not identify, even if you took a photo, there'd be deniability. And this is what I said to more, and I said, that's kind of stupid because you would be pulled up by the cops

and then you would be, I'm sure there's some kind of... But you just say, I did not put that on there. I have no idea. No, you could, maybe you could say that, but they could tick it, there'd be some kind of... Yeah, the obstruction of plate. Even if you've got a really dirty plate, they can, like, well, they'll pull you over

and tell you to clean the plate. But they can, like, find you if you've got... got a plate that makes it look like you're actively trying. So it's a two, it's a $200 fine. It's an offense to obscure or render a vehicle's registration plate. Allegible. Allegible.

He's just learning to read. And so that would be 200. Allegible bachelor. Allegible bachelor. So that would be a $200 fine. And so we're going to talk about this. And then Shannon pops in with there's a thing online that magnetic and with the remote to and we were like, what are you talking about?

Has she sent us through this video of this thing you can buy online? Two videos, you take your number plate off and behind it you put like a metal magnet bracket, some kind of electronic device. Then you mount your number plate to that and then you put a leaf on it and then you're driving in your car

and if you get pulled over by the police you push a button on a remote in your car and it disengages the magnet behind the plate that's being powered. I guess it gets powered by the light that usually lights the plate and the leaf falls off. It's a very believable leaf.

It's not. Because that's what I said, the sticker looked like a leaf. Yeah. Yeah, you would want to glue an actual leaf. Yes. On to the magnet. I will say, we're not encouraging this at all. No, no, at all.

Like we've just said, it's a $200 fine. But you hear about those, there was that guy in America, there was a famous toll bridge, and he had one of those James Bond. Oh, a transporter, click. Yeah, and it would flip the number plate around. So it would go from the fake one when he went through the toll bridge. When he got off the toll bridge, flick it around to his actual plate. Genius, eh?

So naughty Oh my God I've got tolls But you must just be able to buy these on team It's insane Don't we don't do a car And we're not encouraging that But I mean God

People have thought of literally everything Yeah I know God we just want to get away with it all Actually No I think that was a natural out I feel like that was a natural out Yeah I was just going to say

You've reopened the investigation After we pretty much put a cold cold case to be Well I don't even know if we're going to include this But Fletch encouraged me to run a red light this morning No I did it Carl Peter Fletcher. Well, no, but I said to Haley, it's only like 4 at 4.46 a.m. No other cars.

No other cars. It doesn't count. So I did. And now I'm like a criminal and I've been wrapped with... Which intersection? Because you know, this one's got a red light camera. No, no, no, no, no. None of the, like, more tucked back streets.

Just that little side street. Don't worry about it. He was just like, just go. That's the cyclist in them. Yes, yeah, that doesn't buy any of those. And, you know, cyclists don't have number plates. Doodah. Do da.

They also don't have... um earbags or side cushions all the doodoo da day