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Re:The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put... by XaspR8d on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:42PM (#11680983)
That's some beautiful self-referentiality. Here's a photo of your handbook, which contains a photo of this exact car. If only he could have made it appear recursive...
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Re:The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put... by lotharbot on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:57PM (#11681224)
I wouldn't be surprised if he photographed the van with the photo in the window to submit to the police as an "updated" photo. He was a software engineer for a few decades and it would fit his sense of humor.
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Re:The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put... by B1FF_PSUVM on Thursday May 12, 2016 @04:25AM (#11682091)
Sneaky/easy version, he'd just photoshop his displayed page to have that in the photo.

He'd be displaying a fake page, identical in all details, except for the recursion. "You won't believe the one difference in this ..."

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