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For those of you who remember my little treatise on forging parking permits
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=59825
I got three more souls this month who really can be forgiven even if they HAD read the list, since they did things I had never ever encountered before, so now, I'll have to add them, to wit;
- If you do scan in a legit permit, remember to cut out EVERY part of the piece of printer paper you print it on that is NOT the permit. You did pretty good cropping the sides, top and bottom, but then when you didn't cut out the circular part at the top, where it's supposed to wrap around your rearview mirror, and left it a big, blank, opaque circle of nothingness (kind of what's between your ears right now, I wager) and then left it sit ON THE DASHBOARD. I got suspicious, very suspicious. It might have gone unnoticed if the permits in that lot were also white, but they are NEON ORANGE in color, so the part you forgot to cut out kinda stood out just a tad. Also, note, that the 6 digit number at the bottom of the permit you scanned was it's serial number, unique to that permit, meaning that in just a short walk of 10 feet down the row, I found the REAL permit bearing that same number already displayed in another vehicle. Hanging off the mirror like it should have been. The fact both you and him were the only cars with New Jersey plates in the whole lot did not help you blend in. I hope you were drunk when you two hatched that plan, maybe it was your buddy's idea, if so, he can pay the $105 to get the car back.
- Permits for most lots are printed on very unique colors of paper, they're off-white with a bit of green or blue, just enough to give them a noticeable bit of hue, but not so much you could look at them and say without a doubt that "that's light blue" or "that's dark green". This is quite intentional. If they were just plain green or yellow, like the basic colors one would find in a store-bought back of construction paper, people might be enticed to cut out bits of said paper, glue them OVER the dates on a legit permit, and then write new dates on that. But, since the colors are kind of odd ones, that simple approach isn't feasible. You thought you'd engineered the perfect way around that, obviously. I'll give you 10 points for realizing that the only way to perfectly match the color of the paper was to use the paper itself. Namely, you cut off the bottom 2'' of the permit which doesn't have anything printed on it, and then used THAT portion to mask over the dates and write in new ones. And they were valid dates too, not a case of "September 31st" or "February 30th" , so 10 more points. Now, here's the bad news, I'm going to deduct 500 points from you for apparently thinking I wouldn't notice that your permit was now a full 2'' SHORTER than it should be, which made me look closer and see the glue-job, which was quite good actually. Final grade -480 points and you owe me $105.
- Permits are PRINTED, no matter how good you THINK your penmanship is, you can't come CLOSE to matching it, I can't believe you even tried that, but you did spell everything right, thank goodness, otherwise I might have actually become violently homicidal right there in the parking lot.
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=59825
I got three more souls this month who really can be forgiven even if they HAD read the list, since they did things I had never ever encountered before, so now, I'll have to add them, to wit;
- If you do scan in a legit permit, remember to cut out EVERY part of the piece of printer paper you print it on that is NOT the permit. You did pretty good cropping the sides, top and bottom, but then when you didn't cut out the circular part at the top, where it's supposed to wrap around your rearview mirror, and left it a big, blank, opaque circle of nothingness (kind of what's between your ears right now, I wager) and then left it sit ON THE DASHBOARD. I got suspicious, very suspicious. It might have gone unnoticed if the permits in that lot were also white, but they are NEON ORANGE in color, so the part you forgot to cut out kinda stood out just a tad. Also, note, that the 6 digit number at the bottom of the permit you scanned was it's serial number, unique to that permit, meaning that in just a short walk of 10 feet down the row, I found the REAL permit bearing that same number already displayed in another vehicle. Hanging off the mirror like it should have been. The fact both you and him were the only cars with New Jersey plates in the whole lot did not help you blend in. I hope you were drunk when you two hatched that plan, maybe it was your buddy's idea, if so, he can pay the $105 to get the car back.
- Permits for most lots are printed on very unique colors of paper, they're off-white with a bit of green or blue, just enough to give them a noticeable bit of hue, but not so much you could look at them and say without a doubt that "that's light blue" or "that's dark green". This is quite intentional. If they were just plain green or yellow, like the basic colors one would find in a store-bought back of construction paper, people might be enticed to cut out bits of said paper, glue them OVER the dates on a legit permit, and then write new dates on that. But, since the colors are kind of odd ones, that simple approach isn't feasible. You thought you'd engineered the perfect way around that, obviously. I'll give you 10 points for realizing that the only way to perfectly match the color of the paper was to use the paper itself. Namely, you cut off the bottom 2'' of the permit which doesn't have anything printed on it, and then used THAT portion to mask over the dates and write in new ones. And they were valid dates too, not a case of "September 31st" or "February 30th" , so 10 more points. Now, here's the bad news, I'm going to deduct 500 points from you for apparently thinking I wouldn't notice that your permit was now a full 2'' SHORTER than it should be, which made me look closer and see the glue-job, which was quite good actually. Final grade -480 points and you owe me $105.
- Permits are PRINTED, no matter how good you THINK your penmanship is, you can't come CLOSE to matching it, I can't believe you even tried that, but you did spell everything right, thank goodness, otherwise I might have actually become violently homicidal right there in the parking lot.
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