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Posted by Allan Chochinov | 4 Sep 2008
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Get this guy to the Maker Faire! The Daily News reports this morning about a Queens truck driver who "took a move from the magician's playbook" and rigged up his license plate with a secret cable so that he could make it disappear as he drove through toll plazas, avoiding the $40 payment. The cable, ingeniously, was routed all the way to the cigarette lighter cavity in the dash, allowing the driver to flip the license plate up under the chassis and out of surveillance sight.
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this trick has been around in various forms for a long time on cars and bikes. I've ridden with guys who had had plate flips done manually, electronically, even just using the wind resistance tuned to push the plate up once over a certain speed and hold it up magnetically!
I like the cig lighter placement.
Okay.. but the way the license plate is mounted looks suspicious so wouldn't he get pulled over for it?
I would be inclined to hide the license plate number before gloating about my criminal activity on the interwebs...
Ken, the guy whose license plate this is has already been caught.
Since he got nailed by a cop who was watching the traffic when he flipped the plate (and because it looks so obviously weird) someone needs to do a better design on this.