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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 12th, 2011
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Timothy (TRiG)
July 12th, 2011
Is covering the back window like that legal?
TRiG.
Scott
July 12th, 2011
So…who volunteers to run the license plate number?
Regan DuCasse
July 12th, 2011
Well, actually, yeah. It’s illegal to place any opaque obscurity on the windows of a vehicle. In some states TINTED windows are illegal. Especially front tinted.
Anyway, having an offensive bumper sticker is legal. In some states the DMV limits speech on license plates.
I used to have my pink triangle and rainbow stickers torn off of my car. My equality bumper sticker is in the lower corner of my windshield from the INSIDE.
Where it doesn’t obscure. It’s not on there permanently, but no one can get to it.
Something tells me this hump’s lack of even caring about his OWN safety in traffic says more about his lack of smarts than the rhetoric he’s got plastered all over his trailer.
Ryan
July 12th, 2011
Man, I sure hope he doesn’t back into a tree or anything. That would be a real shame.
Timothy Kincaid
July 12th, 2011
Ya know, this sort of thing is one of our community’s real advantages. When average folk see this, their first reaction – regardless of the messages posted – is “look, a crazy person.” And when they read the message, they associate it with the type of person that does this.
Dave H
July 12th, 2011
Trailer trash, indeed! This person just exudes classiness.
Regarding obscuring the windows, this appears to be a trailer towed behind a vehicle. As such, I think the driver is required to have larger mirrors on both sides of the towing vehicle. There is no expectation that the driver should be able to see all the way through the rear window of the trailer.
People like this are far more obsessed with homosexuality than most of the readers of BTB are.
Regan DuCasse
July 12th, 2011
Good point Dave! I wasn’t sure if it was a towed vehicle or not.
Your last sentence is truer than these folks would ever admit. But I have seen it for myself.
Ben In Oakland
July 12th, 2011
As a gay man, I’d like to be obsessed as they are, but either a) i don’t have the time, or b) I’m a married man.
Or both.
kiprian
July 12th, 2011
I don’t think it’s a trailer, there are the remains of a hitch. Some of us are just obsessed about other things.
PLAINTOM
July 12th, 2011
He had to cover the windows of his mobile meth lab.
Kith
July 12th, 2011
Okay if you have two working rear view mirrors right and left, in most states you can have your back window fully obscured. Be it tint, privacy screens or decals. Such items in most states must not interfere with any lights on the vehicle.
So as much as you want to go “Rabble rabble illegal back window blockage rabble” much like the comments themselves, the physical objects themselves are not illegal.
Hyhybt
July 12th, 2011
Whether it’s towed or a motor home, you cannot normally see usefully through it from the driver’s seat. Even if they don’t have curtains on the inside, which they normally do. (The last one I was in, the curtains not only were attached top and bottom, but also had velcro to keep them closed as the vehicle bounced along the road.)
Hyhybt
July 12th, 2011
Basically, a motor home is equivalent to a panel van. You’ve seen them; no windows on the sides or back. In this case it has them, but they’re for looking out when you’re living in there, not for on-the-road use.
Amicus
July 13th, 2011
I believe you cannot simply turn your vehicle into a giant sign/advertisement, regardless of covering the windows, in every state.
I looked it up when NOM rolled through town and they had a “crazy car” following their spiffy bus, like a pilot fish…
Rob in San Diego
July 13th, 2011
Is this a for sale add? I’ll pay $50 bucks for it… Sanitizing the inside alone will cost more then it’s worth.
Hyhybt
July 13th, 2011
Lots of vehicles are marked to be, essentially, rolling billboards. Look at the sides and back of almost any tractor-trailer, for example. Some places, advertisers pay commuters to have their cars wrapped, and in one area I used to work, there were vehicles that were essentially a flatbed truck with a billboard mounted on them, driven around for the sole purpose of advertising. Meanwhile, the lights and tag aren’t obscured; assuming everything works and there are appropriate mirrors, it should be legal.
Not that anyone crazy enough to write like that, much less then cover the back of their vehicle with it, has any business on the road :)
TampaZeke
July 13th, 2011
I find it interesting that a number of you have assumed that the owner is male. Why is that? We should know by now that women are just as capable of being crazy, hateful and bigoted as men are. Do I really need to remind people of Palin, Bachmann, Gallagher, Brewer, Schlafly…
Timothy (TRiG)
July 16th, 2011
That level of obsession is very likely a sign of mental instability of some kind.
TRiG.
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