These shows were fun at 1st and thought provoking but now the just make huge leaps and done under the premise that ancient alien theorist say it could be possible.
Owner of ‘Area 51’ Nevada License Plate Flooded With Tickets Thanks to Novelty Tags Tourists from all over the U.S. buy up “Area 51” license plates, and the real owner is getting fines in the mail. BYROB STUMPF|PUBLISHED JUN 12, 2023 4:00 PM EDT The Drive Area 51 is one of the most well-known places in the United States—not in a "seven wonders of the world" kind of way, but in an "aliens and conspiracy theories" one. People from across the nation flock to Nevada every year to the area surrounding the U.S. Air Force facility where they can buy their share of souvenirs from every small corner store. Locals like to poke fun at its lore too, including one BMW owner named Chris who owns the actual "Area 51" Nevada license plate. There's just one problem: all of those novelty license plates that tourists can buy have apparently wreaked havoc on Chris' driving record. Tickets have erroneously arrived in the mail for Chris over the last seven years, according to a series of TikTok videos released under his account called Area51Plate. In one video, Chris shows 172 different tickets arranged on the floor, all of which contain a photo of his license plate—or, what would be his plate if it were legit. For those keeping track, that means an average of one ticket every other week for the last seven years. Chris says that the majority of the tickets stem from drivers simply driving through toll booths without paying. The biggest single fine was a $200 parking ticket from New York City. Because the novelty plates sport his actual registration details on a faux-Nevada plate, the automated ticketing processes across various state lines automatically assume that Chris is toll dodging and send him the ticket instead of the actual vehicle owner. He then has to dispute the ticket, which Chris says he has been successful doing each time that he has received one in the mail. Some government agencies, like the Las Vegas Metro Police, have reportedly even threatened to issue warrants for Chris' arrest. Chris didn't get into the details of what the warrant would have been issued for, and a spokesperson for the Las Vegas Office of Public Information wasn't familiar with the issue to provide further information to The Drive, but we're willing to bet it was related to some sort of traffic incident tied to the license plate. Continued...
Slightly reminded me of this map stealing story. If a map making competitor just so happens to have the same fake town on their map as the one you printed intentionally to catch thieves stealing your hard work, then you’ve pretty much caught them red-handed stealing all your work and reprinting it. That’s what Otto G. Lindberg of General Drafting Co. thought when he saw Agloe on competitor Rand McNally’s map in 1930. Agloe was the invention of Lindberg and his assistant, Ernest Alpers; its very name was a mix of their initials (OGL and EA). Agloe did not exist, Lindberg asserted with confidence to the supreme court. Except it did. Rand McNally had sent cartographers up to upstate New York, and there, where Agloe was marked on a map, was a building called Agloe General Store. Huh? Some guy built the store based on the fake map Lindberg had created, which in the court of law, legitimized the town and therefor the supposedly stolen map record was legit... and Rand McNally was free all charges in the case. And went on to make a lot of money-making maps. The town was essentially faked into existence, and is still there today.
