it's Friday: we had a grad student here in Philly ( he moved from a "safe" town somewhere America to scary Philadelphia) and he "graffitied" (is this a word?) his new car so it wouldn't be vandalized :-) On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote: > > That does bring up an interesting idea, though. There was a guy in > Make magazine (or maybe just on the blog?) who did a write-up on how > to make your care look like a business' car so you could park in > loading zones with your lights flashing and not get a ticket because > it looked like it was supposed to be there. > > How hard would it be to make a car look rusty, scratched, and just > generally in bad condition (without actually damaging it, I mean) in > order to discourage thievery? > > mike > |
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