From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 03:23:02 MST
Christian Weisgerber
>Eventually, I read in the newspaper that the American forces had
>started issuing stealth license plates that largely look like German
>ones, but with the otherwise unassigned initial codes AD and AF.
>I can add HK to that list. Also, in place of the little D/EU logo
>they have the NATO one, but that's hard to see from a distance.
>The basic idea had some merit, but the implementation is pretty
>silly. The big crosshairs is still there
These HK license plates are very common in and around Heidelberg. I suppose
I am sensitively tuned into the differences between the cultures, that
I didn't need to think who belonged to the HK license plates- I knew
immediately and I could not point to the specific thing that clued
me in. I agree, they are not exactly stealth, in fact the opposite.
Amara
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