Jim Choate wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Looks like other states are doing the same thing. So much for erasing the mag strip. But I suppose it would be fairly easy to paint something over the barcode like some plastic disolving solvent, making it unreadable.
Defacing a state DL is a felony in most places. You could get away with a shrug of the shoulders if the mag stripe was bad. The same can't be said of a barcode buried behind platic.
Jim, I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. A few minutes' checking (google and the revised code pages of a handful of states) shows that defacing a DL generally seems to be a violation, not even a misdemeanor. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato