[bogie]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99941,00.html

Gwinch, be sure to let us know how you _really_ feel about this...

[Mark Tyson]

It sends the wrong message to our young people," said Gregory Wims, president of the Victims' Rights Foundation in Maryland. "It's sort of like a badge of honor. It sends a bad message."

Oh, get a life.

[sm]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99941,00.html


OAK PARK, Mich. — Some people are turning to an inexpensive and controversial way of customizing their cars: applying decals of bullet holes.


"So real-looking you have to touch them with your own finger to tell," says the Web site for Sterling Heights-based U.S. Auto Trends (search), which offers vinyl stickers depicting .50-caliber holes and smaller ones that look like they came from a .22.

Not everyone finds the stickers funny.

"It sends the wrong message to our young people," said Gregory Wims, president of the Victims' Rights Foundation in Maryland (search). "It's sort of like a badge of honor. It sends a bad message."

Daniel Morton, 21, placed 10 bullet-hole decals on his 1994 Honda Accord to make it look as if it had been riddled with gunfire.

"A lot of people ask me about them and think my car got shot up," Morton said Monday. "I just try to be different."

Morton, who works for a rubber and plastics manufacturer, said it was cheaper than, say, customized wheel rims.

"I just spent a few dollars instead of $20,000," he said.

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Oh puleeezz!
I've seen these around, and in most cases so discreet , one really has to look. I've seen sheeple think the vehicle door was opened into something, or the trunk was damaged by backing into something.

There are far worse things displayed that send "messages". The reality is I bet unless one is in the loop, they don't know what something stands for.

The scariest message I've seen and far worse that a vinyl bullet hole was a "Hillary for '04" bumper sticker...now that IS evil. ugggghh got the shivers on that thought.

[Brian Dale]

Ummm ... never mind.

[Balog]

What I've always found amusing about these things is that they show the metal expanding outward, as though the gun was fired from inside the vehicle.

[Futo Inu]

I saw one of these in the car next to me in the parking lot at Walmart couple weeks ago, and while I found it amusing, I also found it hard to believe someone would put one on a car that nice. It was a late 90ish gray Crown Victoria or similar in very good condition.

[Standing Wolf]

Dumb.