Dark numberplates - New ****wittery or something else?

[Benmac]

Travelling about over the past couple of weeks I've spotted a few cars with dark or perhaps smoked numberplates front and rear. Always on "yoof" type cars and too many spotted to be a one off or some fault with an otherwise acceptable plate.

These were definitely modern plates just very heavily tinted not old fashioned black and silver ones.

Net effect seemed to be to make the plate pretty much illegible. Surely though any such muppetry is a BiB magnet?

So is this the new cool thing to do for the kids, is it perhaps soemthing to do with Pokemon hunting maybe or just general chavvy idiocy?