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What's Normal? - Do you have anything hanging from your rearview mirror? (1 Viewer)

Do you have anything hanging from your rearview mirror?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 10.3%

  • No

    Votes: 131 89.7%
  • Total voters
    146
A gentleman I knew years ago would make crosses each year out of different materials and string them with yarn.
I have a wood one hanging from my rear-view mirror. Once at a stoplight a woman behind me got my attention and she had the same one.
He has passed away since, so the run is over for new stock.
 
At times in my life I've had dice, crucifix, or rosary. Presently and for the last 10 years or so, nothing.
 
Went with no. Sometimes when transporting the in-laws, I have their handicap hangtag. I asssume that doesn't count. It's also not supposed to be displayed while driving, only when parked.
 
I inherited a truck from my FIL that he inherited from his brother. There is a dream catcher hanging that I left in there. It's my chore truck and not a daily driver.
 
nope. when i was a kid, attending traffic school on the regular, i was forced to watch asphalts of blood, asphalts of blood 2 and i believe there was a 3rd installment as well. they always had these sections devoted to loose stuff in your car killing you when get in accident. best 80's computer graphic? grandma getting decapitated by the box of kleenex that old people have in the back window

i was scared straight.
 
No, because I hate the distraction and obstruction.

Wife always has something swinging around like the bridge in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom.
 
No but I have a story about a friend that did.

At some point he found a hawk dead on the side of the road. He thought the talon looked cool so he removed the talon and strung it with a piece of leather and hung it from his rear view mirror. Some years later on the way back from a hunting trip he had to go through a checkpoint (a heavily hunted area for dove season where fish and game would post up to make sure nobody was over limit during opening weekend). The officer spotted the talon hanging and since it was from a protected species he was pulled aside and inspected. He tried explaining how he came into possession of it and the officer was not hearing it. . The talon was confiscated and the fine was like $500. That'll teach you to hand something from your rearview window.
 
Gally said:
No but I have a story about a friend that did.

At some point he found a hawk dead on the side of the road. He thought the talon looked cool so he removed the talon and strung it with a piece of leather and hung it from his rear view mirror. Some years later on the way back from a hunting trip he had to go through a checkpoint (a heavily hunted area for dove season where fish and game would post up to make sure nobody was over limit during opening weekend). The officer spotted the talon hanging and since it was from a protected species he was pulled aside and inspected. He tried explaining how he came into possession of it and the officer was not hearing it. . The talon was confiscated and the fine was like $500. That'll teach you to hand something from your rearview window.
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You can get a ticket for possession of bird feathers from protected species as well, doesn't matter if the bird naturally shed them or not. It is well known and a hunter should have known better.
 
Dezbelief said:
Gally said:
No but I have a story about a friend that did.

At some point he found a hawk dead on the side of the road. He thought the talon looked cool so he removed the talon and strung it with a piece of leather and hung it from his rear view mirror. Some years later on the way back from a hunting trip he had to go through a checkpoint (a heavily hunted area for dove season where fish and game would post up to make sure nobody was over limit during opening weekend). The officer spotted the talon hanging and since it was from a protected species he was pulled aside and inspected. He tried explaining how he came into possession of it and the officer was not hearing it. . The talon was confiscated and the fine was like $500. That'll teach you to hand something from your rearview window.
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You can get a ticket for possession of bird feathers from protected species as well, doesn't matter if the bird naturally shed them or not. It is well known and a hunter should have known better.
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Oh he knew better. He just didn't think they would do anything about it. He had the talon for probably 10 years before he got popped.
 
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On our first trip to Disney World my daughter, who was 11 at the time, bought my wife a stich character whose hands are magnets.

Wife had it attached to the mirror. When I took over the truck we decided it belonged there so it stays. :drive:
 
Nothing now. Previous car had my radar detector mounted on the mirror. Unfortunately that got destroyed, by my head, when the car got totalled.
 
Georgia state parks parking pass - I hike and run often enough at the state parks that it’s easier to leave it up all the time than forget and risk a ticket.
 
When I was a kid, I was told that cops can use that as an excuse to pull you over. No idea if that is true or not, but I had plenty of reason to not get pulled over.

Plus, I have no idea where my tassle is from high school graduation.
 
massraider said:
When I was a kid, I was told that cops can use that as an excuse to pull you over. No idea if that is true or not, but I had plenty of reason to not get pulled over.

Plus, I have no idea where my tassle is from high school graduation.
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The pine tree air freshners would get you profiled in some neighborhoods.
 
Tree Air Freshener on the mirror, balls on the trailer hitch (not really). I always have something hanging on the mirror fwiw.
 
Voted no because 99% of the time there's nothing there. My daughter's school issued us hang tags with a number on them for end of day pickup, but they are way bigger than they need to be and it blocks my view so I only put it on once I get in the pickup line and before I leave the parking lot I take it down.
 
Dezbelief said:
Nope, I have nothing on my car that makes it stand out. I prefer to blend in with surrounding traffic.
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My wife and kids got me a vanity license plate for Christmas like 20 years or so ago. I'm like you -- I do not want to stand out in traffic. For the next two years, I was absolutely mortified driving anyplace, but I couldn't just remove the license plate because it was such a thoughtful gift that my kids were so happy about. I was overjoyed when those tags expired.
 
IvanKaramazov said:
My wife and kids got me a vanity license plate for Christmas like 20 years or so ago. I'm like you -- I do not want to stand out in traffic. For the next two years, I was absolutely mortified driving anyplace, but I couldn't just remove the license plate because it was such a thoughtful gift that my kids were so happy about. I was overjoyed when those tags expired.
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What did it say?
 
ChiefD said:
IvanKaramazov said:
My wife and kids got me a vanity license plate for Christmas like 20 years or so ago. I'm like you -- I do not want to stand out in traffic. For the next two years, I was absolutely mortified driving anyplace, but I couldn't just remove the license plate because it was such a thoughtful gift that my kids were so happy about. I was overjoyed when those tags expired.
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What did it say?
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ASSMAN
 
No for my car, but wife has something in the minivan that I drive regularly. I think it’s a fake aloe plant or something stupid that occasionally obscures my view of the main display screen
 
Technically yes - my parking garage parking pass. If there was anywhere else I could put it I would, but that's what the garage staff wants and they're ****ing sticklers and look for reasons to boot your car.

For some unsolicited general advice that may or may not apply to your state, anybody with something hanging from their rearview that could possibly be obstructing your view you may be giving a police officer an automatic valid reason to pull you over. For example, in my state, oftentimes drug interdiction officers/highway patrol will use something hanging from a rearview as an excuse to pull a car over even though they have no intention of writing a ticket for said minor violation.
 
massraider said:
When I was a kid, I was told that cops can use that as an excuse to pull you over. No idea if that is true or not, but I had plenty of reason to not get pulled over.

Plus, I have no idea where my tassle is from high school graduation.
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There's some jurisdiction dependent truth to this.
 
IvanKaramazov said:
Christmas like 20 years or so ago. I'm like you -- I do not want to stand out in traffic. For the next two years, I was absolutely mortified driving anyplace,
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My favorite is when a big guy is stuck driving the wife's car and it has a pink framed vanity plate that says "Daisy"
 
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