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Most people don't check the FBI's most wanted criminals list, nor do I often watch 'Most Wanted' TV shows. They should post the pictures of 'most wanted' criminals and kidnapped missing children on billboards, it would be harder for criminals to go unnoticed.
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Whenever a suspect is in a localized area and has a car that can be identified, it sometimes goes up on highway dynamic-message boards. The high cost of changing a billboard frequently may be the major downfall of this idea. |
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Baked in Boston, MA. Funded by The Boston Police Foundation, which also provides funds for Crimestoppers hotline rewards. |
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BC: // The high cost of changing a billboard frequently may be the major downfall of this idea. // |
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Good point. The answer might be a sort of huge whiteboard behind a transparent panel, and an inkjet printer head on a carriage. Then the whole image can be rpidly erased and dynamically rewritten. Cheaper than a fifty square metre LCD or similar; far, far quicker and easer to change than a conventional paper poster. |
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Maybe a huge etch-a-sketch would work well. Though I wouldn't fancy having to shake it clear. |
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Easy enough in L.A. - just wait for the next 'quake .... |
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Here and there, in large metro areas, electronic billboards have started to pop up. Every thirty seconds or so, a different advertisement would appear. This way, a billboard company ccan sell screen time to several clients, instead of selling space to one client, which is becomming popular in this era of anti-bilboard zoning laws.
I also saw billboards that show pitctures of fathers who have not paid their child support. |
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