A car decal on Patsy Nielsen's vehicle read, "My Husband Needs an O+ Kidney." A driver who saw the decal at a stop sign turned out to be a match and became their living kidney donor earlier this year.

The county board voted to begin to use license plate reading technology to enforce vehicle registration and vehicle personal property tax requirements instead of relying on car window stickers.

The detail in the decal was so small that the Vermont state trooper cleaning his patrol car had to get face to face with it to confirm that what he saw was really what he thought he saw.