[2dogs]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/10/14/offbeat.bullet.hole.ap/

Bullet hole stickers a controversial fad

Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Posted: 8:51 PM EDT (0051 GMT)



OAK PARK, Michigan (AP) -- Some Americans are turning to an inexpensive and controversial way of customizing their cars: applying stickers of bullet holes.

"So real-looking you have to touch them with your own finger to tell," says the Web site bullet1.com, which offers vinyl stickers depicting .50-caliber holes and smaller ones that look like they came from a .22.

Doug Rock, 25, buys the stickers from a North Carolina supplier and sells them on the site. He said he's working his way through nursing school and has sold millions since 2001.

"They're a great gag item," Rock said. "Otherwise, I guess it's just for the look, it's like a fad. I honestly don't think it will fade. My business is doing nothing but growing."

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. "It's sort of like a badge of honor. It sends a bad message."

Daniel Morton, 21, placed 10 bullet-hole stickers 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.

[OF]

This country needs to lighten up something serious. It's amazing some of these blissninny's even manage to have a bowel movement. They're stickers for crying out loud.

- Gabe

[Rebel Gunman HK]

I like em.:evil:

[mattd]

I put them on my body and people think I'm a cyborg.

[DMK]

"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." And exactly what message is that Gregory?:confused:

I don't get these folks. They go around saying "Oh, that's bad! I don't know why it's bad, I just know it is" :barf:

[dinosaur]

I had em 30 years ago. My mother just rolled her eyes.:rolleyes:

Glad to see some otherwise unemployable bozo got a job as a spokesman.:neener:

[Kreed]

As part of CLEA (Citizens Law Enforcement Academy), last night I was with a group who went on a tour of the court building, which has detention areas built into it. I was amused to see a few of these decals decorating a couple of doors in the facility.

http://www.joebrower.com/images_RKBA/Gadsden_flag.gif

[BamBam-31]

Have a couple on my ear muffs. Several of my buddies have the exact same pair, so I had to do something.

Stickers promote vandalism and violence!! Stars, rainbows, bulletholes, ban them all!! Fo' da childrens, fo' da childrens!!

[Carlos]

And exactly what message is that Gregory?

I don't get these folks. They go around saying "Oh, that's bad! I don't know why it's bad, I just know it is"

I agree. I would like to know that message too.

I'm glad the 3 bullet hole stickers on the back of my car are causing somebody some pain. Really, I love em.

[Ol' Badger]

I have a real one in my truck! I was at a gas station on the edge of SE D.C. and I hear pops and then a smack against my truck. I walked around and looked and said "Well No Sh*t" and finished pumping and left for home. No one has ever pointed it out to me or said a thing! Just goes to show ya.

[mattd]

I know some people in gangs and they don't even have to buy the sticker to have the effect.

[Bravo11]

I have a couple of dings in the tailgate of my truck and I put a couple of gun shot stickers on them. Last weekend I saw a guy reach over and touch them then showed them to his buddy, I think they got a real kick out of it.

[Sisco]

Don't have any on my cars. Lots of them at work on locker doors and hard hats.

[Rogelio]

I think that those look cool....

What is the supposed incorrect message they are sending?? I don´t get it!!

[Skunkabilly]

I wonder if these same people get upset with stickers of skulls and flames?

[OF]

What is the supposed incorrect message they are sending??You are not allowed to have fun with unapproved fun-inducing devices!!!!

- Gabe

[Psssniper]

My little brother and I were in Redding visiting my Dad recently. He had to go in for some major surgery and we all were staying at a hotel near the hospital. The afternoon before the surgery, little bro and I took the car out to get it cleaned up and looking good and found a pack of the magnetic bullet holes at the auto parts store. We made a nice pattern across the passenger door (where 'ol dad would be riding shotgun the next morning at 0530 ) The morning of the surgery, while walking out to the car I mentioned that I had heard shots fired in the middle of the night, little bro said he heard them also. 'Ol dad said it was probably just someones car backfiring. When we got to the car and he saw the passenger door he was furious! "They shot my car!! I can't believe it, they *#%@&&$^% SHOT my car!" We all had a good laugh and the bullet holes now reside on his refrigerator. Also relieved the pre-surgery tension we were all feeling.
Laughter is good for ya!!

[CR_OPSO]

As part of CLEA (Citizens Law Enforcement Academy), last night I was with a group who went on a tour of the court building, which has detention areas built into it. I was amused to see a few of these decals decorating a couple of doors in the facility.

Somebody put them on the outside door of our jail, too. I'm surprised the Chief hasn't gotten someone to scrape them off.
CR

[CZ-100]

My neighbor put them on his Bald head.:D

[sm]

"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."
Real curious what this guy thinks is good message. Sheesh, lighten up and get a life. Kids are exposed to a bunch of stuff a whole lot worse. Maybe this Wims fellow is just jealous his groups aren't as good as the decals :D

I dunno, I thought the fake legs hanging out of trunks a few years was funny, remember those? "Mother In-Law in Trunk". I know some ladies that made "Daughter In-law in Trunk" signs...bad message,no...sense of humor...yes

[Aerodog]

Gray Davis just signed this into California Law.......

Any person who, within this state, manufactures or causes to be manufactured, distributes, transports, or imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives or lends any stickers of bullet holes , except as provided by this chapter, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for four, six, or eight years.

[Don Gwinn]

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=87045&highlight=bullet+hole+stickers

Last year, dad put one of those fake legs in the trunk door of one of Virden PD's squad cars. Most of the city's employees thought it was pretty funny . . . .

[Bruce H]

I wonder what kind of Wim Mr.Wim would be whimsical about? Where do they have to dig to find there people.

[BowStreetRunner]

Sheriff i interned for had a few on his DUTY car
hehehe

[Gus Dddysgrl]

I want some, but am afraid they'd get lost in among the rust and dirt spots.

Gus

[pcf]

There's nothing quite like free advertising, this is the first time I've heard of this......but as with many controversial things its usually someone griping that makes it known.

[bogie]

I've got a couple of bursts on the tire carrier on the back of my van.

And I had a few random clumps on the Critter Gitter. Coupled with the matte camo finish, they looked REAL.

[CGofMP]

...and then there are those people you TRY to get mad... but wont....

I got a few of these things and one day I stuck them on the camper shell of my Dad's truck (he works as a local rangemaster). I was fully expecting him to think they were real and then get p.o.ed at me for doing it.

Of course it didn't work out that way. Turns out the ol coot had a sense of humor about it! DAWGONE IT!

He has left them on all this time and parks so as people at the range can see the darn things.

piffle...

Charles
;)

[voilsb]

I've seen 'em on a ricer, but that's it. It looks pretty dumb on this particular car, but maybe they'd look better on trucks.

[Standing Wolf]

No, and I'm not putting fake rust decals on my car, either.

[gbelleh]

I used to drive an old rusty 1970 Malibu in high school. It had a real shotgun blast in the back bumper.

[Moparmike]

Makes me want to get a beater truck and take the tailgate off, hang it, and use it for target practice w/ the shotgun. I figure a box of slugs and a box of 00buck should do the trick.:D :cool:

Then I could get out about 100yds from it and shoot it w/ a .22, for the dents. Then I could say it was some gang-banger with a wondernine.:D :rolleyes: The big holes are a .45.:D

Anyone got a grenade? I could take off the bed of the truck and put it in the corner...:scrutiny:

[Ian Sean]

Good for him, hope he makes a million at it! Good old American entrepenorial spirit.

[Carnitas]

No Gregory, a Clinton/Gore sticker sends the wrong message. Fake bullet holes are irrelevent.

[Justin]

Personally, I think fake bullet hole stickers are tacky as all get out. But if they give other people warm fuzzies, I've got no problem with it.

As for this idiot:
"It sends the wrong message to our young people," said Gregory Wims, president of the Victims' Rights Foundation in Maryland. He merrily goes about proving that the left can be just as puritanical as the right.

[Navy joe]

No Gregory, a Clinton/Gore sticker sends the wrong message. Fake bullet holes are irrelevent.

Hmmm, would Ogre still hate fake bullet hole stickers if we put 'em over top a Clinton/Gore or other leftista sticker?

I have a real one in my truck! I was at a gas station on the edge of SE D.C. and I hear pops and then a smack against my truck. I walked around and looked and said "Well No Sh*t" and finished pumping and left for home. No one has ever pointed it out to me or said a thing! Just goes to show ya.

Umm, if my ride starts aquiring extra holes I am not gonna stick around for the rest of my gas. Probably why I never buy gas in D.C. in the first place.

[Peter Gun]

One of the southerners (MA) at my hotel had them on his car when he checked in. We were shootin the ???? and I asked him if hed rather have real holes for free. Funny reaction: He laughed at first, but then apparently remembering where he was, looked over the counter at my hip bulge. I just smiled. His smiled kinda faded. I'm not sure if he knew I was kidding.

[mattd]

I think a .22 at 100 yards will go thru a tailgate.

[Azrael256]

My car is a really dark blue. Do you think they would still work? I could put them in between the "Kick ???!" bumper sticker and the "On the 8th day God created beer" one.

[wendy]

They are quite popular at National Street Rod Association shows :D

I did see a guy this spring at the street rod nationals in Springfield, MO who had actual bullet holes in the tail gate of his pickup. :)

[SteelyDan]

I just wrote, and then deleted, a long post about a real bullet I got in the rear driver-side door of my car. I'll just say that I hate "political correctness," because it doesn't tolerate fake bullet holes, and it even prevents a discussion about real ones.

Still, I thought that bullet hole was kinda cool, and I never got it repaired. By the way, it was just a small hole; it looked nothing like the fake ones.

[JohnBT]

I strung a line of them across the mirror on my parents' dresser in 1964 or 65. It was next to the closet where my dad kept his guns and my mom didn't think it was funny when she got home from work. My dad got a chuckle out of it though.

(Note: My guns were in my closet. That's the way things were back then.)

John

[chevrofreak]

i drive an old police cruiser, and i think they would look great put in little bursts along the side and rear of the car ;)

[Carnitas]

Hmmm, would Ogre still hate fake bullet hole stickers if we put 'em over top a Clinton/Gore or other leftista sticker?

Now there's an idea!

Bullet hold stickers on the Hillary/Clark '04 sticker. Do you think you'd get some attention with that?

[Guntalk]

I sneaked in and put a string of these along the fuselage of a friend's 1945 Beech 18.

He loved it! Keeps 'em on there and gets lots of comments. Flying too low, you know.

"Yeah, I just got back from Mexico, and was having to stay just over the tree tops, and . . . "

[mete]

My girl friend went with me to a shooting match. There were a few cars there that had bullet hole decals.I didn't mention any thing at the time . Later at dinner she mentioned it, she thought they were real ! I asked , 'where did you get that idea ? '. She shrugged and said ' they're shooters '

[HABU]

I was at a gas station on the edge of SE D.C. and I hear pops and then a smack against my truck.Maybe Malvo and Muhamad didn't like your ride.:evil: