WeekEndWarrior
Shake and Bake
I’m not defensive. Sorry if I insulted other Kawasaki riders. Moral of the story is I hope he’s ok and heals quickly. For fuck sake. Sorry too if my sarcasm is too strong for snow flakes.
Rider Down on Skyline at Alpine/Page Mill Rd
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I’m not defensive. Sorry if I insulted other Kawasaki riders. Moral of the story is I hope he’s ok and heals quickly. For fuck sake. Sorry too if my sarcasm is too strong for snow flakes.
RVFRick
Well-known member
I agree. Posting the plate adds nothing to the post, is irrelevant and invassive. Someone poor soul had an unfortunate accident.
I assume the posting was simply to warn others of what happened and where and not to embarrass someone. At least obscure the plate.
I wouldn't appreciate someone posting identifying information about me or my personal property without my consent. Finding it in a police report is one thing but serving it up on the web is callous.
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superhypered
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This post was made to bring awareness to high risk areas to help promote safer riding for all our riders on two, three, or four wheels.
Instead, you all dump your toxic waste on this thread because of a license plate. The entire point of that picture was to document damage to the vehicle as the front was okay.
To satisfy the salty ones, I have removed said picture with the license plate attached.
I also want to note that it is illegal for anyone other than a member of law enforcement to run a license plate on someone else, however it is permissible for reasons of motor vehicle/driver safety and theft. In addition, most, if not all, of the license plate lookup sites, as well as other personal information lookup sites are often proven to be scams.
This is stated in United States Code: Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 123 › § 2721
Subsection (A) describes a general overview. Subsection (B) describes permissible uses.
Sources:
United States Code
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2721
California Vehicle Code
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=VEH&tocTitle=+Vehicle+Code+-+VEH
DMV Reference
https://www.reference.com/vehicles/laws-regarding-looking-up-license-plate-numbers-a8026f44fd52b4d
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Instead, you all dump your toxic waste on this thread because of a license plate. The entire point of that picture was to document damage to the vehicle as the front was okay.
To satisfy the salty ones, I have removed said picture with the license plate attached.
I also want to note that it is illegal for anyone other than a member of law enforcement to run a license plate on someone else, however it is permissible for reasons of motor vehicle/driver safety and theft. In addition, most, if not all, of the license plate lookup sites, as well as other personal information lookup sites are often proven to be scams.
This is stated in United States Code: Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 123 › § 2721
Subsection (A) describes a general overview. Subsection (B) describes permissible uses.
Sources:
United States Code
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2721
California Vehicle Code
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=VEH&tocTitle=+Vehicle+Code+-+VEH
DMV Reference
https://www.reference.com/vehicles/laws-regarding-looking-up-license-plate-numbers-a8026f44fd52b4d
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islemann
Re Tired Not Dead
FFS - you ride around all over the damn place with your license plate displayed for every Tom, Dick and Harrison to see. Who gives a flying fig if there's a freakin' picture of it on the intertubes? What about all the people who drove or rode past the accident...you know, the ones with idetic memories. They could run home and use Google to steal your unborn children.
Sigh.
GTFO my lawn.
Sigh.
GTFO my lawn.
Schnellbandit
I see 4 lights!
License plates are not private things, they are on public display. If you display something in public, including yourself, ending up in a picture is just a risk you take.
Unless the picture was posted with the intent to out the rider, no harm. Pretty sure if by chance the bike was stolen and someone here said "hey, thats my bike, stolen the other day" we'd all be applauding the picture and the coincidence.
Just saying.
Unless the picture was posted with the intent to out the rider, no harm. Pretty sure if by chance the bike was stolen and someone here said "hey, thats my bike, stolen the other day" we'd all be applauding the picture and the coincidence.
Just saying.
Agreed... thank for posting it up... and removing the pic was cool to do in any case. I know there was nothing bad in mind when you did. I worked traffic just up the road for another crash at the same time. The Paramedics stopped near us looking for the injured rider seeing the yard sale on the road. Rider was basically fine so they threw some flares at us and continued on.
clutchslip
Not as fast as I look.
Just amazing. Apparently many of you are willing to spill your entire life on line, without any regard for consequences.
What if this person did not want his insurance to know about this accident? What about his boss, or his wife, or his mom? Who knows? People have covered license plates on barf and elsewhere for YEARS. This is not a new, or unusual practice. What is unusual is the lack of regard for this fellow rider's privacy, and that somehow people like me that care about personal privacy are in the wrong.
No one cares about your license plate when you are just cruising down the street. Just like they don't care to take a picture of you walking. But if you you fall in the street and get run over by a skateboard, they they will take your picture and post it on line for all to see your dumb face with tire marks on the tarmac. There is an obvious difference in circumstances that I hope some might realize.
Where's my damn soapbox. :rant
What if this person did not want his insurance to know about this accident? What about his boss, or his wife, or his mom? Who knows? People have covered license plates on barf and elsewhere for YEARS. This is not a new, or unusual practice. What is unusual is the lack of regard for this fellow rider's privacy, and that somehow people like me that care about personal privacy are in the wrong.
No one cares about your license plate when you are just cruising down the street. Just like they don't care to take a picture of you walking. But if you you fall in the street and get run over by a skateboard, they they will take your picture and post it on line for all to see your dumb face with tire marks on the tarmac. There is an obvious difference in circumstances that I hope some might realize.
Where's my damn soapbox. :rant
295566
Numbers McGee
FWIW I completely agree with you. It's one thing for the person involved to post their own license plate/identifying information. It's another for someone else to do that without their consent.
I don't think there was any malice intended by this post, but it is a good point on how some view privacy (especially online) very differently than others.
In this scenario, without the shot of the rear being posted, it's just a damaged red Kawasaki Vulcan. Good educational tool for all of us, as was the intent of the post. Friends/family/etc may see it and say, "hey that looks like so-and-so's bike."
However... including the shot of the rear of the bike, now you have a license plate, including a frame that additionally had identifying personal information. Now friends/family/etc see it and say, "hey that is so-and-so's bike."
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Aware
Well-known member
295566
Numbers McGee
Comparing text on a CHP call log to a picture of a crashed bike with the license plate and other identifying marks visible is ridiculous. But I salute you, sir, for trying!
