Article: Are your bumper stickers giving away too much information about you? Know your audience.

Nothing firearm related. I don't care so much but I don't want to be responsible for putting my wife in a situation. We have a couple German Shepherd stickers in the window, mainly so we can quickly identify the car in a sea of Rav 4's in the parking lot. Not as bad as our old Grey Accord but there are plenty.
 
Only thing on my truck is the Marine Corps seal plate on my front bumper.
My last ride had a tiny NCGO sticker above the rear window wiper motor.
 
JustKeepSwimming said:
Be the grey man. Or the gray man.

Luckily my hair and beard complete the ensemble.
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Hence my screen name…

I’ll wear a shirt or hat that gives me away occasionally but even that is more subtle and mostly only people on the know would recognize it.

But never anything on my vehicles. Although I’m considering one or two offensive stickers on my Toyota rock crawler (I figure a caged truck on 40s is ok with a let’s go Brandon sticker or something the like).
 
I have my Amateur Radio callsign on my cars, one afternoon a guy in a newer mustang parked in the street and walked up to my wife in the driveway as she
was getting out of the car, kind of put her on high alert, he was dressed nice and was polite, he said he noticed the plate on the car and wanted
to get help repairing a radio. He gave her his business card and I called him later that night, he apologized for walking up on her and I invited him to our
next radio club meeting.
 
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No stickers... none. I won't even buy a new car until they removed the dealership decal from the car.(learned that one from momma). They hate taking it off, had one guy say it won't come off. 2 secs later i had the whole thing removed. He couldn't believe it. I said Good thing i got it, it almost cost you a sale. He was shocked.
 
Some will say that it is victim blaming to say gun related stickers make your car a target for a break in and in a manner it really is. But pragmatically speaking plastering your car with gun stickers is a bit asking for it IMHO. Let's call it taking an additional risk without real need.
 
johnnyb said:
AR15.com owns the likeness of the “stylized” bfl they use on their website and merchandise. They are fairly aggressive in pursuing infringement to from what I’ve seen.

No idea why part of that sentence is italics, won’t let me remove them either lol
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No where near as aggressive as they were when the Avilas owned the site. They were ruthless on enforcement.

Since they sold the site to brownell’s I think that has mostly gone out the window.
 
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Mr. Bggs said:
No stickers... none. I won't even buy a new car until they removed the dealership decal from the car.(learned that one from momma). They hate taking it off, had one guy say it won't come off. 2 secs later i had the whole thing removed. He couldn't believe it. I said Good thing i got it, it almost cost you a sale. He was shocked.
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Takes seconds to remove with that. I've used it to remove a crap ton of sticky tape residue from the truck, was surprisingly easy.
 
Someone once told me you are what you advertise and your vehicle is a rolling billboard, so if you want to invite who knows what put stickers and signs out, the thing I can not understand at all is the people that post up their every move "I'm going to the airport, I'm going to the store etc. I know it is narcissism and the fear of being excepted, but give me a break, this is an open invitation to the criminals of the world.
 
Scooterrolls said:
the thing I can not understand at all is the people that post up their every move "I'm going to the airport, I'm going to the store etc. I know it is narcissism and the fear of being excepted, but give me a break, this is an open invitation to the criminals of the world.
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I have several examples of this, but one that sticks in my head comes from my days as a supervisor.

I had a 3rd shift employee that couldn't just fill out a vacation request like everyone else, he had to jot down the reason or excuse for the requested time off. There was not a space for that because that info was not required, but for whatever reason, he felt compelled to include it.

I came in one morning to find a request taped to my door. He was asking for Friday night and Sunday night off (which would include the weekend) because "I will be in Atlanta visiting my mom."

I caught him before he left and let him know that adding info like that doesn't guarantee him the time off, but the bigger thing for me is, "You just let every one of your coworkers know that your house will be empty those four days."

The look on his face.
 
The "come and take it" ones feel too much like a challenge.

Buddy's neighbor across the street put one on his truck when he got his license and the very next day somebody broke in.
 
Clinet said:
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That reeks of a prank.

There was a time at work where you pretty much had to do a walk-around of your vehicle before going to lunch or home because the pranks had gotten that bad.

This was in the days before Cricut, so the signs were made of bits poster board and written on with magic markers.
 
kcult said:
That reeks of a prank.

There was a time at work where you pretty much had to do a walk-around of your vehicle before going to lunch or home because the pranks had gotten that bad.

This was in the days before Cricut, so the signs were made of bits poster board and written on with magic markers.
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I wint to Amazon and bought a bunch of different ones. I do put one on the pickups win I go into stores tho.
 
Mr. Bggs said:
No stickers... none. I won't even buy a new car until they removed the dealership decal from the car.(learned that one from momma). They hate taking it off, had one guy say it won't come off. 2 secs later i had the whole thing removed. He couldn't believe it. I said Good thing i got it, it almost cost you a sale. He was shocked.
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I take them off or tell them not to put them on. One tactic that has worked well for me is, I tell them that if they want me to advertise for their dealership, they're going to have to give me something for it like free oil changes for life. That usually gets their name removed pretty quickly.
 
I have one advertising the local Catholic radio station. Perhaps I should fear the visit from the FBI terrorist task force?


That said, I've had a DTOM front plate for 15 yrs and never had a break in. I think the risk is more internet lore than actual risk. It's good to be who you are.
 
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I have a red balloon on my junk that says "You'll float too" an ode to old Pennywise. Wife and I play bumper sticker bingo where we guess what guns are in the vehicle by the make, model, license plate, and stickers. "Don't tread on me" guarantees a break glass for prize.
 
Flashpoint said:
I've got feet on both sides of the fence on this one (hopefully it's not as high as my crotch). I can certainly see why it's not good to advertise where one works or lives, the makeup of family members, or how affluent one is (but the vehicle itself probably projects that). I'm not as sure about things like hobbies and pastimes, even though they may imply expensive toys, and I'm really against not wearing your ideals about life and even politics on your sleeve/bumper. Is it dangerous? Could your car get keyed? Maybe. Therefore you take as much precautions against that as you can, rather than cower and hide and not allow the world to see that conservative/libertarian views are MAINSTREAM and not only held by fringe lunatics. Also you are standing up and letting other like minded folk know they are not alone. That's why I'm also for open carry when dressed and acting respectably (with proper retention, etc.).

I just sold this bike but I used to ride it to meet my friend in probably one of the most liberal places in NC (Saxapahaw) for beers regularly, and probably wore gun or trump shirts there on occasion. That's a three percenter sticker on the tank. It's recognizable to most real conservatives but not most liberals. Remember what I said about taking some precautions?

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I can see in circumstances like high threat environments such as getting home in lawless conditions like after an EMP, etc. one would want to be a gray man as in not displaying any capabilities/weapons others would want, but in day to day living I think gray is hiding and plays right into the hands of our enemies, it's not good for us. Grow a pair people.

Sorry for the mini OT rant.
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I realize I'm somewhat contradicting myself above, saying we should wear our conservative/right minded beliefs on our sleeves/bumpers like the left does theirs, but then choosing a relatively stealthy right minded symbol to display on my vehicle. The truth is my girlfriend who I have been living with for approximately 15 years is somewhat of a liberal and we have a pact not to put political stickers on our vehicles. So although what I said above I believe in my heart, I'm being at least partially a hypocritical douchebag.

So to make amends I'm now searching for gun or related stickers to adorn my new bike and at least one of my vehicles. We'll see if the GF notices. It's not 100% political like a Trump sticker and some Dems like guns, so.... Any suggestions will be considered and I will post a pic when said sticker(s) is/are in place.
 
Cool story Me. I also am from Cleveland. I have heard of fans vandalizing cars after losing games, especially if it was a Steeler game, big time rivalry. Pennsylvania tagged cars would suffer. I am ashamed to admit that some Browns fans are sore losers.

Having said that, I was able to get tickets for me, my wife and 2 grandsons to game 1, Browns/Panthers last yr in Bank of America stadium (georgeous stadium, BTW). Our tickets were in a party room full of Panther fans who were very friendly and cordial to us, even when the Browns won in the last seconds of the game.
 
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Best way to go about it imo is putting anime stickers all over your car so everyone thinks you're just some broke 20 year old. Nobody wants to catch a charge for busting into a car that might have a flea market katana at best in it 🤣
 
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