Upstate granny gives up cherished ‘BELLA’ license plate after getting tickets meant for NYC biker with copycat tag

It was a license to bill.

An upstate granny had to give up her beloved “BELLA” vanity plate because she was being flooded with speeding tickets meant for an NYC biker with a fugazi copycat tag.

Sharon Ritmo has gotten 10 speed-camera tickets since June meant for an NYC motorcyclist — despite the fact that she’s an Albany grandma who’s never ridden a motorcycle in her life.

The unidentified biker illegally placed a souvenir vanity plate, also “BELLA” — Italian for “beautiful” — on his motorcyle in order to evade camera tickets, a practice officials refer to as “ghost plates.”…

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