@IphtashuFitz:

Looks like I have to put a blower on my Nissan Xterra to achieve this then...LOL

Thanks,
L.

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

@shorty63136: Thanks for reminding me of the existence of possibly the worst movie ever made. Its always nice to be reminded of Jimmy Fallon's pathetic career.

RoboChop

PS He was caught anyway so it doesnt matter

majortom1029

In NY you have a liscence plate on both ends of the vehicle so i hope it does it to both. He does know that all it takes if for him to get a ticket or a picture of his vehicles vin number right ?

Plus now his plate number is ALL over the net because of the pics.

majortom1029

I would have thought you would also need a rig like this for the back license plate. The toll camera's are only snapping the front license plate? Strange. What if you're super ghetto and have it on your dashboard?

RoboChop

Be like the Queen:

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shorty63136

A friend of mine had a similar setup, for street racing. All the cops get is a vehicle description.

FuturePastNow

What about the license plate in the back?

SaturnV

no they would just flag the fake plate and be on the lookout for that, in much the same way.

Overheal

Seems like a rig that would put a fake plate over your real plate would be waaaay bett

*runs off to implement idea*

dylanwho

@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass: Nope, none of that spray on crap works. The MythBusters tried all sorts of radar gun & speed camera sprays, gizmos, and other tricks. The only one that seemed to work was the high performance drag racing car that sped past the camera faster than the camera could snap a picture.

IphtashuFitz

Why did he do this if he had an EZ Pass?

Blinklink11

Or he could have used that spray which overexposes any pictures of license plates.

BigRocket

hahhahaha, that rules!!!!!, does anyone know if that spray on crap works? It supposedly puts a file that when viewed from an angle shows a blurred out plate. Anyone???

Some_F

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

mythbusters did it

GreyHammer

I love when toll runners get whacked.

Xavoc

What officer? That cable? The one thats coming into my cigarette lighter? No, officer, I had no clue what that did... I never rigged it for toll roads or high speed pursuits, or speed cameras at intersections...

SomeoneUKno

@Khuluna: Did he have to see a doctor for that diagnosis? (Cyanide & Happiness reference?)

WildWon

With the highway robbery that is the NY state highway, I'm surprised more people haven't done this. Driving through NY is like being shaken down by the mob everytime you go to exit a highway or enter NYC.

1.21Gigawatts

Remember, aspiring ninjas, it's one thing to learn HOW to tuck in your genitalia, but it's another thing entirely to know WHEN to do it.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

He seems to have suffered an epic burn. Interesting idea, if a little...unpolished, though.

Khuluna

I'm sure that Brando sells the same thing, but it also has a USB connection.

DeadWriter

Wow, how much work to save a few coins?

UniComp

@Khuluna:

You don't know how many times I've contemplated a motorised system which flicks round to a fake numberplate whenever I drive past a speed camera in Birmingham (which I do VERY often). It drives me nuts, all the speed cameras around here.

I blatantly stole my idea from Roland The Rat's Ratmobile though, I just need some cash to prototype my design then we're home free!

Christopher

So how come the wind didn't make the plate wobble all over when driving normally? After all, if it is rigged to be pulled up by a cable, the wind at even 30 mph would do that...

goglen

@nizz: $5?!?! Oh, hellz no! It's only 50-cents on the GA-400 toll in Atlanta.

Yet another reason I won't move to NY.

shorty63136

@RoboChop: I personally liked the movie. Then again, I have the tendency to be easily entertained.

shorty63136

@UniComp:

A few coins? You must not live in the NY metro area. The tolls are a minimum of $5 (one way) for cars and upwards of $40 for tractor trailers.

nizz

Ok I admit, I only read a few of the posts, but I was surprised to see no one pointed out his NAME AND LICENSE PLATE NUMBER are in this article...

Anyone from Jersey state police reading this article?

sdgmcdon

@shorty63136:

The highways aren't tolled here unless you are in New Jersey, just the bridges. There are three toll-free bridges to Brooklyn and one to Queens from Manhattan. They just rape you if you want to go from Manhattan to New Jersey, Queens to the Bronx or Brooklyn to Staten Island. Then there are the "luxury tunnels" that go into Manhattan from Queens and Brooklyn.

nizz

ive always wanted something that would make my back flip down and spray paint tailgaters....

urbanturban666

Hmmm...how about an LCD license plate that automatically changes to your hated neighbor's plate# and then changes back once the coast is clear?

leaverus

@IphtashuFitz: I sometimes wonder when they do myths like that. Like would they REALLY tell you how to speed, avoid tickets, or fool a breathalyzer? I'm not so sure. I think they may know a way to do it, but as long as they didn't test it, they didn't have to show it on the show.

@SaturnV: Same question. It is a NJ plate, so he needs both. And I'm pretty sure that they take one of the back JIC.

@sdgmcdon: Wouldn't matter. Port Authority caught him. Jersey State police have no jurisdiction on PA property. Unless he did this on the Pike, PWay, or AC Express. Then he would fall under Turnpike Authority.

@urbanturban666: Set up a windshield wiper nozzle, pump, and tank to come out right under your plate facing up. wire it to your brake lights, and add a cut off switch. When it's flipped on, when you hit your brakes, it will spray.

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

Better to have a 100% tintend plastic piece slide down from above the plate from the trunk. infact, mythbusters did that to beat a traffic cam as a joke.

aeroworks

Duuude! That's illegal!

ripfire

why not try to put infrared lights in your license plates so only cameras can see them that way when you run through the no stop lane all the cops cant tell and when the camera takes a picture it is whited out

Zomb

@nizz:

Maybe to you poor people that's a lot of money...

UniComp

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: great idea... the washer fluid can be replaced with sugar water... thatll draw the flies and bees when they park lol...

urbanturban666

@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass: Strangely enough not a far fetched idea. Some Xterras actually did come with a supercharger.

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mca1990

There's always this too:

[www.sigmaauto.com]

2-7offsuit

Or these

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shenanigans

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: I've always kind of figured that too about Mythbusters. For the breathalyzer episode, they actually borrowed it from a police station. There's no way the cops would have agreed to that if they were actually going to show how to beat it.

2-7offsuit

@shorty63136: Naw, you need this. Only at Bullrun.

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shenanigans

I looked up some info on those sprays awhile back, and some people did a scientific analysis on the liquid, it was just hair spray! Made it shiny so the numbers were unreadable!

SexCpotatoes

Believe it or not, this mod is REALLY popular in Taiwan. All those street cameras there get owned by these mods, and cops over there rarely give a damn to take a closer look. Too bad I don't live there anymore...

neko613

As someone who has spent plenty of years driving toll roads in the NY/NJ area I just have one thing to say to this Super Genius....

Just pay the damn toll dumbass. It has to be cheaper then what you're paying now.

Oh and while your at it, try registering and insuring the vehicle where you live in the Bronx, instead of using a phony NJ address to get cheaper insurance.

Jrsy

@Jrsy:

no, people get the NJ address because Jersey is so much cooler than NY.

helldiver

my idea was a lcd screen instead of a license plate.

but I ain't gonna build it or test it hehe.

helldiver

All my relatives in the city used my address in VA to get cheaper insurance, it's a big difference. Who wants to drive around with a Jersey license plate anyway?

ultrasonoro

I remember seeing something similar on the Screensavers. I thought it was a pretty interesting trick, to switch between two license plates... But the legal repocutions could be too much of a risk.

thammuz

While we're discussing out-of-state license plates here... why are there so many Florida license plates in NYC? Seems like there are a disproportionally large number of them here compared to other states (like Massachusetts,Connecticut, etc.).

Cars with Florida license plates in NYC seem to be worse drivers too.

M.O.D.O.K.

@M.O.D.O.K.: Same, contrariwise. I hate being near anyone with a NY plate here in Florida...

StarChaser Tyger

Yeah, this is one of those tricks that works short-term, but eventually pisses off the authorities enough that they'll lay in wait for you. Making your license plate disappear won't do jack when there's a cop on your tail and a roadblock setting up in front of you.

Recently, I heard of some guy who got busted for using a device that would cause the stoplights to turn green as he approached (like they use in some firetrucks to clear the way so they don't have to stop at every intersection) so he'd stop being late for work without having to actually leave earlier. Eventually they noticed that the lights on a specific route were going off their timing cycle every day, and they just watched traffic tapes to see what sort of cars were driving past when the incidents happened, and once they figured out that there was always a white truck driving through each time, they just laid in wait for him to drive through on the way to work. They picked him up, and I believe he got hit with felony charges for possession and use of the device in question.

@M.O.D.O.K.:
They're probably the same thing you find all over Northern US. Snowbirds who move south for the winter, and north for the summer. They buy whichever plates are cheapest, which in your case is probably Florida over NY (here they keep the local plates).

Purple Dave

@StarChaser Tyger: Florida has low taxes, compared to NY. So people buy a house there and claim residency. Florida's apparently pretty tight about you actually living there 51% of the time, and it's probably cheaper to register a car there (guessing) than in NY.

moosiest

Dude is screwed. If he looses this one he could go to jail. Really. For your average joe, its just a big fat ticket. But as soon as you involve a commercial vehicle it becomes a criminal offense, not just a misdemeanor. Good luck dude...

The_Bronze

All he needs is Bobby Donnell and a judge that slept with an attorney at the same firm. :P

misterburglund

@helldiver: you must not be from around here...

Jrsy