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Criminals who are involved in crimes with cars could put stickers on their license plates to change the letters or numbers (not to encourage crime or anything). Then, if anyone saw their license plate, they could take off their stickers soon after. This is better than covering it up, for example, because
the police won't see anything wrong. You could change PIE 3 to BTF 8.
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do you really think this has never been tried, it has certainly been in movies so many times over the years. |
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Why not use the stickers to change "PIE 3"
to "PIE 3"? That way, the police will be
looking for the wrong car from the start. |
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wow, i really dont know where you were going with that [MaxwellBuchanan]... |
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so, you're saying that by covering the REAL license plate with the real license plate's alphanumerics, the fuzz would notice that it's covered and would assume the alphanumerics below it are different? |
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i was lead to believe that these stickers would be undectectable... |
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How to turn this into a proper hb idea: The stickers are the same colour as the background or figures, as the case may be, but the background- and figure-coloured stickers are reversed as regards their reflective properties. That way, the plate appears as normal in ordinary light but displays a different number under camera flash or car headlights. There are lots of reasons why one might want to do this, but you'll have to think of them yourself. |
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But [+] for trying and for general subversiveness. |
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I prefer [Maxwell]'s idea - if you cover your license plate with an obvious sticker of your real license plate number then, as you flee the scene of a crime, police will assume your license plate is different. However, if you're stopped on the way to the supermarket by police who are suspicious about your covered-up license plate, they'll discover you've done nothing wrong. |
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"Honest citizens have nothing to fear from the police" (allegedly). |
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The idea of concealing your real license plate behind a badly made facsimilie of the same license plate has a sort of Zen beauty about it that is hard to ignore. The next logical step is probably the licence plate haiku.....however this level of double bluff is probably a bit much for most police forces, who would probably prefer to shoot first and dodge questions later..... |
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//however this level of double bluff is
probably a bit much for most police
forces// |
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The next logical step is actually to dress
up as yourself and then not commit a
particularly audacious crime. I have tried
this, and it gives one a feeling of
unassailable invincibility. |
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and invisibility - magic! |
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The trick is to use one's visibility as a form
of concealment. As long as people can see
you, they needn't look for you. And if they
aren't looking for you, they're very unlikely
to find you. |
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This gives me an idea... If I could only make a rubber mask of my face, I'd be free to rob banks with immunity... |
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I think you mean impunity. |
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Having said that, isn't immunity the ability to commit a crime and be immune from prosecution? |
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I think "immune" in that sense is possibly a
word that's crept erroneously into common
language. "Impunity" means not being
subject to punishment, whereas
"immunity" means not vulnerable to the
effects of disease, injury etc. I suspect
that phrases such as "immune from
prosecution" arose from some
confounding of the two meanings. |
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I think you mean compounding. |
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To "compound" is to add to, combine or
exacerbate (as in "compounding a felony"
or "a compound verb"). |
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To "confound" is to confuse (in either
sense; to befuddle [someone] or to
mistake one for another). |
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Sorry [StephenFry], you're right. |
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That's a quite interesting thought. |
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Having satisfied 100% of my daily
requirement of alcohol, I'm retiring. Don't
forget to switch the lights out when you
leave. |
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