For Cheap Car Customizing, SomeTurn To Bullet Hole Stickers

The Grand Rapids Press ^ | 10-13-03 | The Associated Press

[johnny7]

OAK PARK, Mich. (AP) — Some people are turning to an inexpensive and controversial way of customizing their cars: applying decals of bullet holes.

"So real-looking you have to touch them with your own finger to tell," says the Sterling Heights-based Web site bullet1.com, which offers vinyl stickers depicting .50-caliber holes and smaller ones that look like they came from a .22. Doug Rock, 25, buys the stickers from a North Carolina supplier and sells them on the site to help pay his way through nursing school. Rock said he started selling the decals on e-Bay in 2001 and has since sold millions worldwide.

"They're a great gag item," said Rock, who has the stickers all over his truck and has placed them on his mother's new vehicles as a joke. "Otherwise, I guess it's just for the look, it's like a fad," he said. "I honestly don't think it will fade. My business is doing nothing but growing."

Not everyone finds the stickers funny. "It sends the wrong message to our young people," said Gregory Wims, president of the Victims' Rights Foundation in Maryland. "It's sort of like a badge of honor. It sends a bad message." Daniel Morton, 21, placed 10 bullet-hole decals on his 1994 Honda Accord to make it look as if it had been riddled with gunfire. "A lot of people ask me about them and think my car got shot up," Morton said Monday. "I just try to be different."

Morton, who works for a rubber and plastics manufacturer, said it was cheaper than, say, customized wheel rims. "I just spent a few dollars instead of $20,000," he said.

[Wolfie]

I used to buy these out of the backs of comic books 25 years ago.

[martin_fierro]

[GrandEagle]

Not everyone finds the stickers funny.
Who cares...
If this is the biggest problem in life, we have no problems...

[dead]

"It sends the wrong message to our young people," said Gregory Wims, president of the Victims' Rights Foundation in Maryland.

Homo.

[Skooz]

[avg_freeper]

Where I used to live you could get a much more realistic 3D version of this for free.

[johnny7]

I give the guy credit. He's making an honest buck.

[stainlessbanner]

decorating tips for the Rovie

[GrandEagle]

I give the guy credit. He's making an honest buck.
Absolutely!
I started seeing those things a while back in our town. They got my attention at first! They do look real.

[GrandEagle]

I give the guy credit. He's making an honest buck.
Absolutely!
I started seeing those things a while back in our town. They got my attention at first! They do look real.

[killjoy]

When I was in high school a friend in I took my car out and put a number of rounds through the trunk area. It was an old crappy car and we thought it looked cool.

One day a cop saw it and didn't think it was as funny. Asked us a lot of questions but finally let us go.

[TADSLOS]

...or, you can get the real deal done driving through east L.A.

[LibKill]

LOL! A few years back one of my innumerable cousins was jack-lighting deer. He burned a 7mm hole through one side of his pickup truck's bed, missing the deer in the process.

The hole didn't look anything like these stickers, it looked like it had been done with a drill.

[RippleFire]

bump

[wku man]

"A lot of people ask me about them and think my car got shot up," Morton said Monday. "I just try to be different."

Yeah, doesn't it just give you the warm fuzzies to know that this is the kind of moron who'll be responsible for running the nation after we retire? Oh yeah...that's if we can retire.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the tastes of the American people." (or something like that) -- H.L. Mencken

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[johnny7]

Yea... my old man got the real deal driving through the northend of Hartford, CT back in the 60's. Back fender, drivers side behind rear wheel. Small caliber rifle. The shooter didn't lead him enough.

[Manic_Episode]

A number of years ago I saw a Harley Fatboy parked in front of a bar, that had been shot point blank in the gas tank with a 12 ga, and the tank hadn't ruptured.
It was beautiful.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Those stickers are so south of the border looking, along with chrome wheels on SUVs and lowered pickups.....

[Jim Cane]

Might as well sport a wife beater shirt and mullet if you're going to paste these things on your Harley. It almost makes the Clintons look uptown. Not quite, but almost.