why do ppl blur their license plates in pics?

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i don get it, not like they cant do anything with your plate #, not anything that im aware of anyway.


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you seen gone in 60 seconds?

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haha, you can all have my 240

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Yeah, I have heard that people can do stuff with the number..but what about all the people that see it when your drivin down the road..same dif. to me...Mav

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i work for the government typing car titles for the state of tennessee i can take peoples license plate #s and look them up on the system and find out all of their information. good stuff.

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But what would be different like say you where driving down the road and saw my plate....wouldnt that be just the same as you seein it in a pic on here?? Or is it that some people just dont want people like you lookin them up?? Mav

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Altiman94 wrote:haha, you can all have my 240


what color and how much??

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If youre on the road no one is going to write it down. A photo on the Internet is like a written, distributed record.

-Jesda

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True

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i know of a website that i can type in plate numbers(FL only) and get their addresses :eek:

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oh you mean like this.


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you still don't have a full set of teeth

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sorry for the high jackHey GEO, is the greddy lip fiber or urathane? kthxs

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Urathane

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i won't spell it out... but I can get anybodies address that I want from just a license plate number because of the occupation of a family member. And he is a straight shooter... imagine if there were (and there probably are) slightly crooked cops who will sell you the information off of a license plate number for $50 a pop.

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Not only that, but alot of people post a list of mods and such when they post pics of their car. It's like a shopping list for a thief. They know what you have, and they can find out where the car is if you don't blur your license plate.

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Yeh True

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i do mine allot cleaner...

example...

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Blurring your license plate is a very very good idea. Just about everybody knows 'someone' holding a government job that can look you up if you ever cross them. I looked up the topic on google one day, there's a lot of corrupt cops that use it to track down someone that cut them off, etc. I heard of one guy calling this man's house leaving messages that he " would hate to see something happen to his wife." Pretty nasty.

Although, I can't say how many times someone screws with me on the road while i'm minding my own business --- i want to hunt them down so I could TP their house. :D

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skydragoness5 wrote:i want to hunt them down so I could TP their house.
anything but TP.....The humanity…

THE HUMANITY!!!

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Actually, instead of TP'ing their house. I have an even better idea:

I work at a pet supply store and there's a product that we sell that is meant for ponds called: Microbe Lift. What it is is a bottle of highly concentrated bacteria meant to establish an ecosystem in a pond (to eat the fish waste, and keep everything in balance). This stuff smells TERRIBLE, simply opening a bottle (we have a pond inside the store) makes some customers leave. It stinks to all hell. Anyhow, simply pouring that into the crack of a door or trunk of a car (especially in the summer) will definitely make the car unbearable--AND THEY'LL NEVER KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM.

Anybody remember that episode of MythBusters with the Corvette they tried to sell after it had 3 pig corpses in it for 3 months?

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skydragoness5 wrote:Anybody remember that episode of MythBusters with the Corvette they tried to sell after it had 3 pig corpses in it for 3 months?


yup

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lol, or just pour it next to teh AIR CONDITIONING UNIT outside their house in the summer so the stink gets sucked into the house.

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Oh god...I'd hate to be the person that crosses sky.

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GEO wrote:lol, or just pour it next to teh AIR CONDITIONING UNIT outside their house in the summer so the stink gets sucked into the house.


THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS :D

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I dunno, I think I'd just stuff a dead pig in the air conditioning unit...**** subtlety:D

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Actually the AC unit that is on the outside is releasing the hot air....not sucking in air.. just FYI...Mav

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Hmm. I thought the sides suck the air

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nah, the sides are like the radiator in a car..sorry, I am in an AC Class...so im just tellin what I learned..not tryin to be a smartass....but like i said..the sides of the outside unit are like the radiator on a car, in that when the refrigerant goes through the lines and cools off so it can go back where the air is being sucked in (usually somewhere inside the house where the filter is) and absorb more heat and release it again outside...and thats basically how the cycle works....the sides on the outside unit may suck air, but it is a suction produced by the fan on top... mav


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