I’d slightly rephrase that. It certainly could be a coincidence. For all the reasons you state. Or it might have been him doing a track-covering exercise that has a veneer of legitimacy because it was legit.
I’ve lived in a bunch of states over the years. After moving to a new state, sometimes it was advantageous to re-register my car locally immediately. If so, that’s what I did.
Sometimes it was advantageous to put that change off for years, whether or not that much delay was actually legal. So that’s what I did. Once I drove on properly renewed out-of-state plates for 6 years past when re-registering locally was legally required by my new home state.
Then one day I finally decided to re-register locally. In my case I wasn’t trying to flee a murder. But the specific date I chose to make the change was also not chosen at random. It facilitated something specific for me.
But that is an interesting idea. Sort of hiding in plain sight. Only the tiniest slice of humanity will get it.
I used to have a personal plate that was my company’s name with almost all the vowels compressed out to fit on the plate. It made sense to me and my employees. I did get some interesting attempts by store clerks and such trying to decode the alphabet soup. Which by happenstance suggested a couple of different plausible readings that were nowhere near correct.
My favorite personal plate here locally says “INNIE”. On an Audi. Always makes me smile when I see them.
I’m not here to talk about license plates. I am, however, here to say that some people are dancing in front of the house where the murder took place, AND POSTING IT ON TIK TOK.
Probably thinking “I want to make a viral video” and “I bet all the predictable outrage over this will help me go viral.” No doubt they are thankful for your support.
Don’t get that Old Fogey ID card yet. The only site claiming this happened is the one nearwildheaven posted, and that article says merely says that one person claimed to have witnessed those dancing hordes. There’s no evidence, no other people claiming to have seen this, and no other other news sites reporting it.
It’s a college town, in a neighborhood that houses college students. Maybe someone is outside their own abode, that happens to be next to the murder house, dancing, for whatever their reasons are.
As for the plate-registration thing, some states have rules that you cannot establish residence in the state while you’re attending college there. They don’t want folks establishing residence just to qualify for in-state tuition.
And when I was in grad school it was exactly the opposite. The department encouraged students to establish residency to lower how much tuition the department had to cover for TAs. Getting a local drivers license and plates alone were not enough to gain residency, but were necessary parts of the process.
It will be exciting for him! He can carry his “study” of criminology to its ultimate conclusion, death by lethal injection for the premeditated slaughter of four innocent students. Since he wanted to experience crime by committing one, let’s have him experience the death penalty by dying.
That too. When I was in grad school, we had to spend a semester or year (I don’t remember which) early on with an extra-light course load, so we wouldn’t count as “full-time students” and could establish our residency.
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