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You can have non-alphanumeric characters on license plates? What do the cops do if they need to catch you? Do they put out an APB for emoticons?
'); DROP TABLE Tickets;--
Like the guy with the NULL plate who got all the tickets for which no number could be found.
Truly a tragic tale.
This username means you also get "mentioned" a lot in big chatrooms where people post code/logs
Honestly, as annoying as that'd probably be, it'd also be great. You could likely argue any ticket was a mistake.
I read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
NULL too.
I think that's what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
They both seem equally plausible. "NO PLATE" would be officers writing it in, and if they left it blank the computer would turn it into NULL.
I bet "BLANK" could cause similar issues
Little Bobby Tables got his driver's license.
Use the cyrillic letter А on your licence plate instead of the latin letter A. All your speeding tickets would be mailed to someone else
It seems that everybody who doesn't know Cyrillic thinks that Д is the Cyrillic A...
Meanwhile, the guy in ~~the slave labor camp~~ prison making your license plate: "Alright, thats an A, I'll key in an A here"
You do know the cyrillic A is just А(serbian) or А(russian)??
Or the 🅰️ emoji
They already consider similar looking letters as the same. If someone has the license plate "OOPS" , if you try and register "00P5" it will say it's taken.
I don't think you can? But, you can use a space and add an equal sign sticker instead
Are stickers allowed?
It might depend on the state, but I think anything other than registration stickers in the designated spot could count as a defaced license plate