• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This looks more like paranoia than tips about privacy. Everyone has a fucking giant TV inside their home. Everyone has hobbies.

    Unless you are actively targeted by some psycho… or the police. This just makes everyone thinks everyone else around them is out to rob and steal from them. But being from the US and from the police, it’s not very surprising. You also need a gun to protect yourself and your family from potential home invaders, you never know because the country is full of robbers and violent people! Don’t trust anyone! Just get your kids from school in your giant bulletproof SUV and drive straight to your McMansion where you can barricade yourself with all your precious stuff. In fact you should also take care to hide your McMansion behind a fake facade of poor people’s houses to avoid having less fortunate people target it as a potential place to rob.

    Every poor person is plotting to rob you! So if you show clues and get robbed, it’s gonna be your fault and the police will let you know you were stupid for putting a dirt bike sticker on your expensive SUV.

    Anyway, this is all just ridiculous in the first place. If someone wants to know you’re not home and steal crap from you, stickers or not, you’re already sitting in your fucking car, while not being home. It’s already a pretty big clue. Otherwise, are home invaders that diligent in the first place? Are they going to stalk people before robbing their home? Really, the stickers on my expensive SUV parked in front of my big house and the big garage is indicating that there might be expensive crap in my house and in my garage? I’m shocked to see how revealing those stickers can be!

    In fact, this being from the police just shows how much they profile and judge the shit out of people before even speaking to them.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah; as a black person, the whole thing was just so obviously in the vein of White Flight rhetoric, etc.

  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    A friend advised me to put lots of Hello Kitty stickers on my bike so that nobody would want to steal it. I wonder if the same logic applies here.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    “How’s Max doing?”

    “Max is fine”

    hangs up

    “Your Foster Parents… are Dead”

    Plot Twist: The Dog’s name is actually Wolfie, the car sticker is a trick to fool mass surveillance.

    Take that, Skynet!

    (Sorry if this is offtopic, but I had to post it)

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    It’s not wrong. Not quite as much info as following the average person on socials, but it can be a lot of info at a glance.

    Once had a cop show up one day, just asking about something going on in the area, and noticed an empty TV box by my trash can outside. Suggested I uh, don’t do that. Basically a big sign pointing to my house “brand new TV inside!”. Not done that since.

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      1 year ago

      My solution for the tv box is unfolding the box inside out and tying it into a bundle if it doesn’t fit in a recycling box. Also maybe don’t put out your boxes right after Black Friday or holidays.

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        I cut up the cardboard and use it for various things around the house, like putting it under the car when I do an oil change, or as liners for the wire rack shelving in my cold storage.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    The amount of “OREGUNIAN” and Sig Sauer decals on people trucks, cars and the occasional Jeep Liberty in my area is tragically comical. Just drive through any neighborhood where garages aren’t common and you could pick out ten houses to rob later.

    You couldn’t ask for a bigger target to paint on yourself.

  • Neineon77@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    reminds me of the lewd dark magician girl decal my friend gave me and suggested to my wife we put it on the car lol

    do you think they’ll find out we’re gay if we do that?

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      That seems like a small price to pay to have a dark magician girl decal in people’s faces in bumper to bumper traffic lol.

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      I go “Gray Man Theory” with my car and try to blend in as much as absolutely possible. I drive a popular reliable car in a popular color with a standard license plate and no stickers. I figure there is no reason to stand out and cars are some of the easiest ways to waste a ton of money.

      I’ve genuinely considered putting a ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag or MAGA sticker on it just because it’d make cops in the area think of me as a friendly but I don’t think I could live with myself.

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    Yeah no robber is doing this.

    Stalker yes. But most people don’t get stalked.

    And this is coming from someone who thinks any bumper stickers that contain any words is trashy.