More Appealing
May21
Again, this is based on something that really happened. The person in question didn’t have a history of marrying women who weren’t Americans, but his application was rejected anyway, because they flagged it as possible citizenship fraud.
Fuckin’ bureaucracy.
I’m not gonna say “I told you so,” but I’ll reiterate: I put a lot of stickers on my car. Some are funny. Some are pithy. But none of them have anything to do with guns. Tip to the wise.
Let’s get some metal up in this shit.
Word. I have a bunch of Magpul and Ruger stickers, but putting them on anything in public view is asking for trouble (not to mention my frequent road trips – AZ plate + I HAS GUNS LOL = probable cause to search in CA and IL). The only thing on my car is an HRC DAD magnet, which has gotten me roughly equal amounts of thumbs-up and social-digit-up.
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/daily-news/080619-Study-Aggressive-Drivers-Tend-to-Have-Bumper-Stickers/
My car is covered with gun stickers. It’s also left unlocked, and there has never been a gun in it unless I was carrying it. It’s also a beater.
Never have seen anyone react adversely to them – but then, I don’t frequent liberal cesspools like Chicago. Rockford, where I work, is in the sane sector of IL.
I stay off school property anyway, not having any kids in the system any more.
I don’t put much on my car. I’m not a frikkin’ mobile library service. I’ve had enough shit swiped out of my car that I’ve long learned to NEVER leave anything in it that I can’t afford to lose. And yes, that means when I’m out shooting, I’m hauling my pistols the the rifle range, and my rifles to the pistol range. *shrug* The peace of mind is worth the extra effort.
I also never leave ANYTHING in my car at a gun show – ‘Cause you *know* some enterprising crim is trolling the parking lot looking for a quick smash-n-snatch shopping experience.
Love the Serenity reference.
But since Maria was born in the states that makes her a citizen. More likely Omar is the reason for the flag married 9 times with a name like Omar means they might think he’s the long term alien just trying to get citizenship do we even know how long any of his marriages have lasted? Or if he is a natural or gained citizenship?
Omar has an FFL, he’s legal.
Citizenship is not a requirement to get an FFL.
I agree on the “gun bumper stickers” point, but it’s not just guns. It was pointed out to me that not only do bumper stickers say a lot about a person’s personality, they can give criminals valuable info about a person’s life and their habits.
– Stick figure family with personalized “career” characters = Can tell a home invader what mom and dad’s jobs are (and what hours they’re likely to keep), if there are children, if there are pets (like a threatening dog or a harmless cat).
– “Proud parent of an honor student at” = Hey, I know where your kid goes to school now! Particularly useful for creepos, especially combined with the aforementioned stick family.
– Political stickers, particularly related to war, guns, and “Coexist” = Optimist, pacifist, people should all just get along, doesn’t like violence or guns, probably low-threat target.
– Videogame, home entertainment, and tech-company logos and slogans = I own expensive electronics equipment!
Obviously, none of this is flawless, but to the smarter-than-average criminal with a knack for profiling potential victims, a lot can be easily discovered just from the innocent stickers people put on their cars. Not saying not to decorate, just that it’s always a good idea to really consider what you want to broadcast about yourself.
I agree completely, but at a certain point, even your car itself says a lot about you. Old rusted beater, probably not much inside worth stealing or it could say, easy to pick the locks and steal whatever is inside. Shiny waxed BMW sportscar… could be a mac book or DSL in their to steal. Etc.
This.
People who drive beaters are generally either poor, or they don’t view cars as anything more than appliances (like a clothes washer). The former typically don’t have the money for expensive toys, and the latter often aren’t inclined to have expensive toys.
As such, one of the easiest ways to minimize the possibility of your car getting broken into is to drive an old car that looks like it has seen better days.
Stickers say just what, about the drivers, exactly?
Otherwise, an excellent collection of anecdotes, coming soon to Snopes.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
Not everyone removes their stickers when they sell a vehicle.
I have no stickers on my car.
My wife has one sticker that I had made up for her.
The stick figure families are whatever, but when they put the names under them; good grief, how dumb are you!?
Anything I have that I don’t want stolen, doesn’t get advertised. Period.
Back in the ’90s I had 3 Depeche Mode stickers on the back window. Dunno what that said about me but probably something wrong.
What gets me when it comes to personalized car decoration has been the recent trend in these parts to put a dedication to a dead relative, usually a child by the looks of it, on the back window.
“In loving memory of Blah D. Blah, 1998-2014”
I loves me some Halloween. I loves me some Día de Muertos. I’ve done my share of wandering around cemeteries back east where they have proper headstones. It ain’t the death that gets me, but the cheap, crass presentation. $5 in vinyl lettering so that any ol’ random stranger who ends up behind your car gets to share in your empty, impersonal expression of grief. Really?
Please don’t link to WSOC. They went on record a few years ago saying that the local homeless in Charlotte should be run over as sport.
Please don’t tell me what to do. YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD.
My favorite enterprising gun thieves stationed a a guy with binoculars on a parking ramp outside of a gun show, with a couple of smash & grab accomplices on the ground working the surface lot.
Mr. Binoculars watched for people who reached the door, saw the “no concealed carry/loaded guns inside” sign and returned to their vehicle to drop off their pistols before entering the show. He then vectored the smash & grab team onto such vehicles… They got DOZENS of pistols in one morning by doing this.
Just so.
I save the gun stickers for the toolkit I keep all my gunsmithing supplies in. Helps to distinguish between the gunsmithing supplies toolbox and the mundane tools toolbox.
I wish I had a bumper sticker which said “My political philosophy is too well-developed to be restricted to a bumper sticker”.
Then you’d be one of those people I complain about when following, because the print would be too small for me to actually read your bumper sticker. 😉
“My political philosophy is too complex to fit here”
There, fixed it for y’all.
Heh, I looked at the back of one of my friends’ cars. It had the whole stick family. So I sent her a note.
You could literally convince any member of their family to get into your car using all the personally identifiable information on her car. Had last name under stick figure family which had all their names, and the dog. Had the company logo of the place where the husband worked. Had the list of firearms possibly in the house. Had the club that the mom worked at. Had the school where her kids went.
My vehicle, NEVER has any gun stickers on it. Some I said “Dang that would be great” and then I remember I like to travel. Lets see, an RV with NRA sticker on it… Sounds like probable cause to search by California cops. Even if not, “Anonymous tip”
Go Omar! Blows dem up!
Dad always told me don’t advertise what you don’t want stolen. No stickers on cars, no signs in yards. Hell there was a gang operation a few years back where they would go to gun clubs and mark tires and license plates for later theft so advertising it is just doing the work for them.
“Hell there was a gang operation a few years back where they would go to gun clubs and mark tires and license plates for later theft”
Since I’ve never seen any news story actually confirming this (that is, citing actual verifiable examples of theft), multiple referenced “sources” have explicitly denied it, and it’s on snopes, I’m fairly confident that this is bullshit.
Sorry, forgot copy in the link.
May not have happened. Still plausible it *may* happen, dependiong on how enterprising the crims get.
the only sticker on my car is a “body by Tupperware” sticker..it makes folks go WTF..Then they realize i drive a Saturn,which used plastic body panels
Link missing from two lumps. I always search for two lumps because that is more search friendly than failure to fire. An added bonus is that I like the crazy cats and have three crazy cats of my own.
Very wise indeed.
So, I take it that a Nevada quickie wedding is out of the question?
About 6-12 months ago, the localish authorities caught wind of a huge cache of pipebombs at one of the self-storage places in the area.
They decided to transport them to a nearby park (somewhat over a mile away) and dispose of them by blowing them up. It took them about four hours to dispose of them all, and every single explosion shook my house. The only real problem I had is the fact that the ASSHOLES didn’t actually start blowing them up until about 10:30 or 11 at night. In the middle of the damned week.
That shit *still* pisses me off.
The least they could’ve done was invite the locals over, and buy some beer.