LazaroFilm 57 points 3 years ago

That reminds me of the guy that added code next to his license plate and would crash traffic cameras that way.

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YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 62 points 3 years ago

Is this the dude in California that got “null” as a license plate and ended up getting all the fines for which California couldn’t determine whose car it was that ran the red light?

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LazaroFilm 51 points 3 years ago

No, it’s this one: https://hackaday.com/...

But the NULL is pretty smart. You get all the tickets but then it’s harder for them to find your actual tickets among all those invalid ones. So you could probably contest them all easily.

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Artyom 32 points 3 years ago

"Contest them all easily" -> go to court twice a week and wait in line for an hour to get them waived forever in the off chance that you get a real ticket which only happens to most people once every couple of years.

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Vilian 3 points 3 years ago

the off chance that you get a real ticket which only happens to most people once every couple of years.

you are missing the point, now he can always run at 300km/h

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Aganim 14 points 3 years ago

So you could probably contest them all easily.

Actually from what I read he was pretty screwed as the tickets were not turned over by the judge.

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LemmyKnowsBest 2 points 3 years ago

okay but I'm pretty sure license plates have a character count limit.

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Thisfox 32 points 3 years ago

Student names that really exist in my local area: "L-A" (pronounced "Elldashah") and Hazmat (shortened to Mat). Not had a Bobby Tables yet, but getting that dash into Eldashahs name was a difficult task, I am told.

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GrabtharsHammer 16 points 3 years ago

I've heard so many claims of Ladasha and Elldasha, along with reports of Lamonjalo and Orangelo. I'd expect them to be more prevalent with so many people reporting they know one.

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palordrolap 8 points 3 years ago

Allegedly real names that didn't break a database so much as people's brains:

Female (fe-MAA-leh) - the story goes that the mother didn't know the word "female" or didn't know it was spelled that way, so assumed the nurses named the child for her.

Ampersand (pronounced as the regular word) - the mother liked the sound of it, and well, IMO, it does have an "Amber" + "Amanda" + "Sandra" kind of ring to it (Not now, Lou Bega).

Shithead (shuh-THEED) - there may be at least two people with this name, or else I've heard the same urban legend / of the same person from two different directions. That is, I had heard of this name prior to chatting online with someone who claimed to have met a person by this name.

In before someone posts the Key & Peele sketch.

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Jambone 6 points 3 years ago

In the mid 80's, a friend that worked in a hospital was telling about unusual names. My favorite:

Syphilis (SUH-fill-ess) - the word was on the mother's chart, she liked it as a variant of "Phyllis", and thusly named her baby.

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ouRKaoS 3 points 3 years ago

I have encountered a fe-MAA-leh in the wild. Also a Darealest and Dacoldest (brothers), and I saw a sign from the hospital listing a new baby named "Yahansum Guy"

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clay_pidgin 1 point 3 years ago

My name is Shithead and I walk like this.

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SeabassDan 0 points 3 years ago

"My name is Shithead and i can do a blackflip"

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Lamedonyx 7 points 3 years ago

To be fair, Gaylord is an actual name that exists, and yet, you probably don't know any.

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mob 2 points 3 years ago

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points 3 years ago

I do.

We even have hotels named after the family.

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GrabtharsHammer 1 point 3 years ago

I have personally known two Gaylords. And there was an olympic gymnast by that name.

But I only hear those other names in stories that have a weird class/race component, and the sheer volume of reports with no corroboration is suspect.

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Thisfox 2 points 3 years ago

Dunno, teachers meet a lot of students, seems likely to me that a lot of us would encounter the same kid and not forget her.

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McFarius 14 points 3 years ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no evidence that anybody has ever named a child la-a. My mom used to tell this story all the time, and I believed her for years that this was a real name until I googled it and read up on it. The name is an old urban legend that may pre date Internet lore.

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Thisfox 6 points 3 years ago

How odd you think that. She was on my roll call for a term (high school). I am not going to tell you which school, as doxing a student is wrong, so I guess Elle is going to have to remain a myth for you.

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LemmyKnowsBest 4 points 3 years ago

So I guess the YouTube video that came out debunking the name "L - A" preceded the birth of the real actual L-A who you met.

I'm not doubting you. I don't know you. I'm just saying there's a YouTube video that debunked any existence of a person with such a name at the time the video was made.

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DragonTypeWyvern 3 points 3 years ago

One commenter always tells the truth, the other always lies.

Quick, which way is up?

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PsychedSy 8 points 3 years ago

Hazmat is such a badass name.

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MalditoBarbudo 30 points 3 years ago

There is a professional ski athlete, Canadian I think, called Nullmeyer, I always think of "little bobby tables" when I see her, but seems like ski tv and databases were made by people that sanitize the inputs

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paholg 3 points 3 years ago

You'd think that, but they aren't. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

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MentalEdge 28 points 3 years ago

A classic

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