![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:06 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Who needs a thumb when you have a shoe?
If you’re interested, it’s a Kia soul with a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:21 |
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I tend to flip-flop on this issue, too.
![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:30 |
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Actually for this to work some one else has to have a shoe. Or you have to give them yours, or I guess you could set up your phone/camera on something with a timer then walk around and hope your actually blocking the plate.
![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:40 |
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Ok, my semi- mon thly rant about license plate hiding. Hundreds of people see my plate every day when I drive to work, errands, etc. I park my car in a public lot, the whole time plate shamelessly displayed naked to the world. All or most of these people have a quick and easy way to “ steal ” my plate number (cell phone). If bad people want to do bad things they have every opportunity, not going to worry about a Craigslist picture.
![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:43 |
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Spotted tonight on FB.
![]() 08/16/2020 at 23:56 |
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Also, you can pull Carfax info with a license plate number, makes you wonder if some of the people who do it are trying to hide something about the car.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:10 |
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I did learn that if you just put a picture of your car with the plate online, Google remember it. I can type in my plates and see an image result on Google, I had no idea. Too late now!
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:14 |
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Is balancing that there really much less work than taking the plate off or popping the photo into a photo editor?
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:15 |
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Because of the license plate cover I can’t tell what kind of car that is and tell you why you should look elsewhere.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:15 |
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I just always blurred my plate here because the car isn't registered to me, but to my parents for insurance reasons. Not my privacy being protected here, not that it really does all that much.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:41 |
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Neat.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:42 |
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Unquestionably.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:43 |
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Unquestionably less effort?
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:45 |
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Yes.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 00:47 |
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Indubitably. But is a more polished result worth it?
![]() 08/17/2020 at 01:04 |
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Hard no - I’m firmly in camp “obscuring your plate is stupid”.
![]() 08/17/2020 at 01:06 |
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It’s creepy that it reads text and remembers it in a random picture. Useful for the police/feds I bet. What else does it remember?
![]() 08/17/2020 at 05:16 |
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I use cover plates the cars don’t belong to me and some don’t want their car licence plates online because of ‘cloning’, where some can look up a similar car to their own, copy it’s licence plate, so as to avoid congestion charge fees, add credence to an otherwise illegal car (no insurance, no inspection/MOT/TUV, driver with no licence, stolen vehicle, etc...) also makes avoid speeding fines from ANPR cameras and passing police cars with ANPR cameras. Because any fines, issues are directed to the registered owner of the licence plate who is completely unaware until letters and/or police arrive at your door. It’s then on the registered owner to prove it wasn’t them which can takes weeks or months of time, energy and stress.
Yes, I could edit the licence plates on the computer, but that means having to upload the images, edit them often losing picture quality, etc...
I had Piglet for three years and the only pic I can find under a cursory look is from a dealership advert, three months after she left us.