A recent ripple in the news media and blogosphere concerns some material published in the latest book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, and also on his website. A picture appears to show the vanity plate that was spotted in Greenwich, CT. The plates read "2BG2FAIL". On a Porsche. Owned by a banker.
Sounds too good to be true - it would be like them, wouldn't it? But a sharp-eyed reader of The Blue Marble pointed out that the New York DMV allows personalized plates to be no more than six characters long. The alleged vanity plate has eight characters; in other words, it must have been photoshopped. Yet another case of journalists presenting fake evidence. It's things like this that make it unsurprising that folks today are so jaded.
Journalists are people too, I know. But this sort of thing is so politically charged, the lack of attention is inexcusable. The resentment against bankers (which I can't help sharing) runs so high that things like this only feed the fire. Truth would be a better fuel.
2 comments:
you're wrong about custom plates in ny. they can have up to 8 characters. why don't you do a little research? isn't that the point of your blog?
you're the one that should be running a retraction.
http://www.nysdmv.com/personalplates/empFAQ.htm#valid_plate_chars
From the site:
What can I use for my personalized plate combination?
For Passenger and Commercial plates:
You can use a maximum of eight (8) letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9) and spaces.
You can select to have a state image appear on your personalized Empire plates. The state image is not required. If you select to have a state image on your personalized plate, the image counts as one character. When you order your plate, enter the "at" sign, @ on your keyboard where the state image will appear. You can have only one state image on your plate, and the state image cannot be the first or last character on your plate. See examples.
nystate "empire plates" -- which is the type in the picture -- can have up to eight characters. http://www.nysdmv.com/personalplates/empFAQ.htm
the url you reference about ny plates with six characters is a different type of license plate.
get your facts straight.
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