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A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times,
by subway 11y ago
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office.
More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue tickets would crash any time they tried to issue the ticket.
- johnward 11y agoWhen it backfires: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/16/10425167-mans-vanity-plates-attract-20000-in-tickets http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/16/10425167-mans-van...
- emmelaich 11y agoThese guys need the Maybe monad on their forms.
- uremog 11y agoBest life hack.
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- gricardo99 11y agoI just checked, NULL is not available in California, but this one is ("INVALID"): http://imgur.com/1KhRws2 http://imgur.com/1KhRws2 But, I wonder how much more frequently you'd get pulled over with a plate like that. the CA DMV lets you check for custom plates online: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/ipp2/initPers.do https://www.dmv.ca.gov/ipp2/initPers.do
- rconti 11y agoI'm pretty sure "INVALID" lets you park in disabled person parking spots.
- dcminter 11y agoWhen I was working at British Airways a decade or so ago there was* a problem with a screen-scraping programme that terminated the crew printout whenever there was a passenger needing medical assistance on the flight manifest because the text "invalid" was assumed to be an error condition. *Actually long enough ago I can no longer recall whether this was something that happened while I was there or just a tall tale that was doing the rounds in the department.
- cehrnrooth 11y ago'NO PLATE' and 'NO TAGS' are taken but 'NO TAG5' is available if anyone wants to take their chances. -edit 'MI55ING' is available too.
- rwhitman 11y agoThat is amazing. Not that I endorse criminal activity or anything, but I imagine the amount of power you now have to evade traffic violations, get away with jewel heists etc, must have made the wait well worth it
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- rexreed 11y agoI've always wanted a license plate I1II0O0O just to mess with the automated license plate scanners and video tolls
- habosa 11y agoMany states don't allow both "I" and "1" or "O" and "0" in their character set. NJ is one that doesn't. However in NYC I saw a limo with the plates "1I11II1"
- CurtMonash 11y agoI always wanted to have an MMO character named "Bobby Tables". I do have one who's the III, only it's spelled Ill for reasons of forced capitalization.
- cmarschner 11y agoWouldn't be a problem if they used the FE font. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y agohttps://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/
- manifestsilence 11y agoLots of quotes of Bobby Tables, but here's the really relevant XKDC :) https://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/ Edit: as someone else jumped to mention as well. Howdy there.
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- jlgaddis 11y agoI have an LLC called "NULL VENTURES LLC". I often get mail that is addressed to: " VENTURES LLC" I still laugh a little bit every time.
- darpa_escapee 11y agoNull and various other strings are banned for use in license plates in many states. Think plates that might confuse humans (0/O and 1/l in words, NA, NONE, NO PLATE/TAG etc etc) and make it difficult to accurately read/write out a plate.