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Repo Men Using New Technology To Track Cars

kamapuaa writes "The NY Times has an article about how real-time license plate scanning is changing the car repo business. MVTRAC is one of several companies providing technology to track car license plates automatically, in order to populate private databases. This new tech is used by car repo companies to help banks or other lenders repossess cars; by police to find stolen cars or to locate ticket scofflaws; or really for whatever application MVTRAC and its competitors feel like pursuing, as the new-found industry lacks any kind of government oversight."

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  1. Can you help me... by ak_hepcat · · Score: 3, Funny

    find my internet girlfriend?

    she said she went to school yesterday, but my best friend Mike who says he's in her class didn't see her at all, and that she hasn't taught class all week..

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  2. Like the film says by BigFire · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The life of a repo man is always intense."

  3. Re:Why? by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then ride a bike, problem solved. I just don't see the BFD.

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  4. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I do - MOTHERFUCKER.

    My fist name is ANONYMOUS

    And my last name is COWARD.

    As in Noel. coward. And my parents were stupid fucking hippies who thought it would be cool to name me Anonymous.

    Luckily, my middle name is Aloysius. So, my friend call me Al, and a lot of other known me as A. Coward.

    Fuckers.

  5. i thought by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    she was canadian

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  6. Re:driving is not a right by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 2, Funny

    People who exaggerate are worse than Hitler

    People who keep using Hitler analogies are worse than, well, Hitler.

  7. Re:driving is not a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    People who exaggerate are worse than Hitler.

    Yes because everyone knows that engaging in a bit of exaggeration is far, far worse than plunging the world into the most violent conflict of an entire century as well as orchestrating the industrialized murder of millions of innocent people.

    *facepalm* and WHOOOOOOOOOSH!

    This, my friend, is why you will never, ever get out of community college.