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They Dispense Street Justice, One Defaced License Plate at a Time
- Kaibeezy 4y agohttps://archive.vn/shDhR https://archive.vn/shDhR
- 082349872349872 4y agoty for the first archival of this story that's worked!
- Kaibeezy 4y agoI got a ton of appreciation for posting an archive link for the article about teen Luddites the other day. Any idea whether HN has a policy about this sort of thing?
- 082349872349872 4y agoWhile I am normally sympathetic with sticking it to the man[0], in this case I find myself leaning to the (re-)taggers. If these scofflaws wish to civilly disobey, they would do better to remove[1] their plates entirely. [0] cf https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/tandf/journals/content/ucha20/2002/ucha20.v015.i03/09332480.2002.10554810/production/09332480.2002.10554810.fp.png_v03 https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t... [1] instead of folding, spindling, or mutilating?
- fxtentacle 4y agoReading the article, this seems to mostly be a safety issue. One of the guys got punched by an angry car driver and then police couldn't do anything due to the missing license plate. Similarly, one missing/obscured plates become common enough, it gets easy for criminals to use that as a cover for a getaway car.
- milky-taste 4y agoHe got punched because he harassed a driver in public. There’s a nice phrase for his behavior: Fuck around and find out.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoCar rentals seem like the obvious place to do this. Blame it on the rent-a-car company or the previous driver, while avoiding both the toll and the egregious rent-a-car company admin fee.
- IshKebab 4y agoGiven that this is illegal and police cars come with ANPR shouldn't it be fairly easy to just drive around fining people? Probably pays for itself if it really is that common.
- c22 4y agoDo automatic number plate systems detect and flag cars without plates?
- IshKebab 4y agoNot right now but I don't think it would be hard to achieve.
- lost_tourist 4y agoI think they don't because right now people would really throw a fit if thousands of people started getting tickets for expired tags on top of already bad relations with the police. Better to save the ALPRs for heftier crimes than expired tags and bad paper plates.
- ehvatum 4y agoMany of those vehicles belong to BIPOC and undocumented immigrants who do the necessary and underpaid jobs required for NYC to function at all. Vigilante broken-windows policing cannot be the answer to lawless behavior.
- djohnston 4y agoWhat on earth is your point, that they shouldn't be subjected to the same enforcement expectations as everyone else?
- ishvanl 4y agoConsider that underpaid BIPOC and undocumented immigrants are less likely to be able to own a car and are thus, as pedestrians, more at risk of injury from reckless drivers. Also consider that a $200 fine, while still unfortunate, is a hell of a lot easier to recover from than being hit by 2 tons of SUV at high speed.
- milky-taste 4y agoWho cares?
- rayiner 4y ago
- nullcaution 4y agoFrench, PoC was originally a French term long ago, and was popularized again by MLK under a different context. But beyond the history, which is interesting dont get me wrong, this is a moving goalpost. Once BIPOC becomes unacceptable, soon will its successor. All that matters is intent, I do not think _anyone_ here had the intent of disparaging any particular race, and to prejudicially think someone is using it that way counterproductive and regressive. This isn't your form to rule.
- rayiner 4y ago
- leephillips 4y agoSad hallway monitor.