Whats Up With People Blocking license Plates In Ads?

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Whats Up With People Blocking license Plates In Ads?

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In about 30% of Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace ads, people go to great pains to cover their license plate in the pics.

Whats up with that?

What can a person with a picture of a license plate do that someone behind you at a red light cant do?
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Same as people covering the serial number of their gun when posting it on line. GARY
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Same geniuses who place their registration stickers all over the plate instead of the upper-right corner. 🙄

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N4KVE wrote: Sun Oct 17, 2021 9:50 pm Same as people covering the serial number of their gun when posting it on line. GARY
Well...there is some concern about firearm serial #'s...

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/201 ... al-numbers
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There is a registration and record title system for automobiles, not guns. Not yet at least.
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I still don't get it.

You block the license number in the picture, but one trip to the corner for a pack of smokes = 150 people seeing the same license plate you just covered up in the picture. :roll:
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I can see it. Though your point about 150 random people seeing a tag has merit, those people won’t necessarily have any interaction with the vehicle owner.On the other hand, consider the Facebook universe, with an average mentality of someone in junior high school. Vendettas, etc.”Swatting”. Paranoid? Maybe. It only has to happen once. “Richard’s Theorem on statistics”states, if the calculated probability of an event is .001%, if it happens to you, the probability becomes 100%.

Not being on Facebook, my probability is null.
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REDinFL wrote: Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:37 am I can see it. Though your point about 150 random people seeing a tag has merit, those people won’t necessarily have any interaction with the vehicle owner.On the other hand, consider the Facebook universe, with an average mentality of someone in junior high school. Vendettas, etc.”Swatting”. Paranoid? Maybe. It only has to happen once. “Richard’s Theorem on statistics”states, if the calculated probability of an event is .001%, if it happens to you, the probability becomes 100%.

Not being on Facebook, my probability is null.
the old days when someone would flex their internet muscles you could search where they messed up and had posted say a pic of their new mustang in their driveway a year or so back, grab the plate, have your LEO buddy run it, find out where David "talksalota" Smack lives at 1234 Main street, let him run his mouth a little more and when he used to say something like bring it tough guy, send him a $ 5.99 Domino's with Anchovies and cheese and then ask him in the open forum how he likes the fishy pizza the next day, then watch all the butt hurt, when he figures he can't hide in his moms basement anymore. :mrgreen:

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rentprop1 wrote: Mon Oct 18, 2021 12:14 pm ...grab the plate, have your LEO buddy run it...
One public records request to FLHSMV to determine who ran my plate, I then own that cop, his pension and his Department will have a bronze plaque with my name on their lobby wall. ;)

Nonetheless, if someone does happen to run my plate, they'll see this when they roll up to my registered address... :lol:

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TC6969 wrote: Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:09 am I still don't get it.

You block the license number in the picture, but one trip to the corner for a pack of smokes = 150 people seeing the same license plate you just covered up in the picture. :roll:
Or, they block the plate on Facebook Marketplace, yet the car is parked in their driveway, house address showing, profile indicates their real name, where they work, where their kids go to school and what they had for dinner last night. :roll: :lol:
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