Monday, July 04, 2005
The clever and the ugly
I flew to Seattle last weekend. The whole trip was interesting, but more on that some other time. On the Alaska Airlines flight, they had product catalogs from which you could purchase all types of intriguing merchandise that you never knew you needed.
One such thing is a photoblocker that you spray on the car license plate to block speed-radar or red-light cameras. The spray contains a special coating of crystals that reflect the bright flash light used by cameras, resulting in an over-exposed and unreadable picture. However, the coating isn't visible to the human eye, so your friendly highway cop wouldn't know that you are using the spray. That's going a long way to escape a traffic ticket, but I have to admit it's ingenious. And sometimes amazingly it seems to change the car color from dark to light.
If that isn't enough, you can purchase fake mud to obscure part or all of the license plate. Just a few squirts of the spray-on dirt and you can not only fool the police, but also make the neighbors think that you are really a manly outdoors type that just spent the weekend hunting deer or racing dirt bikes. Too bad it costs $11 a bottle. I need that money just to drive the truck around.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 1:32 AM
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