New York, December 1 : An Obama supporter has taken off a license plate bearing the name of his favourite president – in a bid to save them from thieves!

Jonathan Lifschutz had obtained his ‘Obama’ plates from the Department of Motor Vehicles without knowing that they would become a thief’s magnet.

The Long Island supported replaced his new plates with old ones after having even caught a man trying to nick it off him.

"Those plates will probably, at some point, become a collector''s item - in someone else''s house," the New York Post quoted the financial analyst as saying.

"I decided that they will best be preserved if I took them off and just carried them in the car,” the 50-year-old added. (ANI)