• abbotsbury@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Apparently it is not the standard design for an Indiana plate, so it must be a custom. Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.

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        5 months ago

        Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.

        The chances are exactly the same as getting any other random number (assuming the ‘4 letters, two numbers’ pattern is allowed in the random pool at all).

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          5 months ago

          The probability of getting BOOG88 is the same as any other random series, but the chances of getting a random series that also has two extremist dogwhistles is very small

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          5 months ago

          The chances are exactly the same as getting any other random number

          Which are also pretty small.

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        5 months ago

        Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.

        But not impossible.

        I’m just imagining the guy that randomly got that license plate with no idea of any possible meaning.

        He just can’t understand why his car is always the victim of such vandalism. Every time he gets it fixed, he finds it keyed again, or the tires flat, lights smashed…

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          5 months ago

          Sure, I’m not saying this is smoking gun proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, but at the same time, it would be one hell of a coincidence.

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            5 months ago

            Yeah, I’m not saying it was random chance either. I’m just amused by imagining the possibility of some poor sad sack who got it and can’t figure out why everyone hates him.

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          5 months ago

          No, actually impossible.

          The “randomly assigned” plates aren’t random, they’re sequential. They have a pattern, like letter-number-letter-letter-letter-number-number, and they stamp plate after plate to ship out to DMVs to have ready. Every state has a pattern, they look random by design - they only pick certain letters and cycle through the numbers before picking the next run, you won’t get something like this on a “random” plate

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          5 months ago

          The change for an individual of getting it randomly may be pretty small, but also doesn’t matter. The change the OMV/DMV gives out this plate is all that matters.

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            5 months ago

            This. It doesn’t matter that this specific guy got it. It matters whether or not it CAN exist. If it CAN exist, then eventually someone will get it.

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          5 months ago

          The link you posted shows the example plate with AAA999. Usually all of the plates of a specific design have a specific schema of letters/numbers. Not sure if this is the case with that particular plate, or if that’s just a random example they went with.

          Either way, we can’t determine a person’s affiliation from just that license plate, just use it as a signal to possibly be wary around them.