• @darganon
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    1169 months ago

    A quick Google search shows that 28 CFR 29.1 is regulations for the “Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act” which allows the attorney general to implement a program where people can put a sticker on their car which means cops can then stop and verify that they’re the vehicle owners.

    That doesn’t mean license plates are optional. Normally I just smirk and move on feeling superior, however they rarely cite something as easy to Google as the CFR.

    • @[email protected]
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      699 months ago

      Lol wait, so it’s actually telling cops to please search this vehicle?

      That’s just way too funny.

      • @stoly
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        9 months ago

        In the 1980s, millions of parents took their children to be fingerprinted in the name of safety just in case they were kidnapped or something. It was very strange. I think that they were really arguing that people should do this so that their childrens’ bodies could be identified.

        • @[email protected]
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          199 months ago

          I remember this - in grade school we had a field trip to the local jail. They showed us around (I remember being freaked out by the toilets and cameras!), told us if we didn’t respect our parents and the cops that we’d end up in jail there, then fingerprinted us all. This was 1985 and I’m sure it required a permission slip but jesus what a weird thing to do to little kids.

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            Think we went as cub scouts, or maybe it was at school, but do remember being fingerprinted. Early 1990s.

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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            49 months ago

            I did that too. They told me that my dad had been there before and I was shocked. Both of my parents had to spend a lot of time convincing me that this was absolutely not true. I thought my dad was just awful for a while. Guess what, it was true.

          • @stoly
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            49 months ago

            For me, it was something like a Safeway that had a table and lines of parents and children. I hated the experience.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            39 months ago

            You are more likely to end up in jail if you disrespect your parents and cops, especially cops.

          • @n0clue
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            29 months ago

            They did this to us and they locked the whole group in a cell but somehow missed me, guess I uh really did learn about the real world that day.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          129 months ago

          Parents didn’t even need to take the kids anywhere. They did that shit to us at school, and then put a little packet together to take home to your parents.

          • @nickiwest
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            39 months ago

            Yup. I remember the day we all got fingerprinted. I’d say it was '86 or '87 when they did our whole school. I remember thinking it was super cool.

            • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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              19 months ago

              Holy shit. What sort of town was this? Was this a local police program? A state thing? A federal pilot?

              I have so many questions.

              I’m pretty sure my first fingerprints were at like age 25 to get licensed as a private eye. Did we have to do them for draft cards at 18? I cannot remember.

        • @[email protected]
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          59 months ago

          Yeah it was for our safety. I remember doing it.
          I’ve had a couple jobs that required it again anyways.

          I’d be surprised if most of those kids fingerprint records still even exist. Most of my old school records are long gone.

          • @stoly
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            109 months ago

            I believe that they were registered with the FBI.

            Apparently fingerprints change as you grow so it was probably a dumb idea to begin with. Your fingerprint as a child is different than your fingerprint now.

      • DarkGamer
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        9 months ago

        Driving without legal plates is essentially this, even when it doesn’t cite laws.