One of the rare funny internet stories that is grounded in truth!

Snopes has an account:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com>wrote:

>       Funny ,I just heard about a guy who had a personal plate made that
> read "NONE" thinking it would just mess up the System . What it did was get
> him 12000 parking tickets . Be careful what you wish for.
>       Any way ,what is the difference if your car is parked on the street
> or driving down the Freeway or parked at the grocery store .  I think the
> people who worry about it are the same people who lock their front door
> when they are outside gardening and they keep their glove box locked  .
>        Big deal if people want to want to find out where you . Go by this
> motto and life will be better    "Be nice to your neighbors ,they know
> where you live .
>
>
>                                               Stacy
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ben T <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's how I solved this problem. My plate reads "SYNCRO". I figured
> > people would think I don't have plates and that those are just very large
> > vehicle badges with the cars name. ;-)
> >
> >
> > BenT
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 2012-07-27, at 11:52 AM, Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is this really a risk?  Can somebody use this info in a bad way?  Is
> it
> > a
> > >> security or privacy issue really?  And how would somebody use this
> info
> > or
> > >> do something with it?  I really cannot think of how some bad guy would
> > do
> > >> something with the info.  I guess if someone worked at the DMV they
> > could
> > >> look up my address (and get arrested), but so what, you can do that in
> > >> other ways.
> >
>
>
>
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