Clubbing in Fortress Amerika (fwd)

[Steve Furlong]

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.


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