Oddbean new post about login | logout Half the replies say she’s a target for human trafficking. The same people who say to do nothing about a virus that has killed 1.2 million people think a piece of masking tape on your car means you’re about to be kidnapped off the streets of suburbia and turned into a sex slave. https://files.idlethumbs.social/media_attachments/files/111/021/338/626/000/740/original/584f9b21c8bb8ade.jpeg
@b65192d2 I dunno why they're saying that. AFAIK it means the car is a target. The tape is meant to tell the burglar if the car is abandoned. They probably see it parked in the same space always. Why are right wingers so obsessed with human and child trafficking?
@b65192d2 they're not necessarily wrong about this one, actually. It's an old trick - put something noticeable but tricky to remove on a car, and the owner stops to wonder about / remove it, just long enough to grab them. I expect it's more likely for handbag theft than trafficking, but that doesn't really make it any more acceptable.
