A bumper sticker is like an parallel tweet — it ’s the old - school method of broadcasting your thoughts , opinions , farcical Assumption of Mary , insults , informative resolution and political slogans . " Baby on board , " " Jesus loves you , " " Make America Great Again , " " Ban pre - chopped cheeseflower — make America grate again , " and so off and so on .
Can you have too many of them ? Depends on who ’s asking . The authorities have opinions on the matter , of line , because there ’s the dim-witted matter of safety to moot . In the U.S. , each state has unlike regulation rule the usance of stickers on car windows . Mississippi , for case , forbid all window sticker save official ones . Indiana , on the other hand , allows them as long as they ’re 4 inches square ( 25 square centimeters ) or less and place on the bottom of the passenger ’s side of the windshield .
According to psychologist William Szlemko and a team of other investigator at Colorado State University , there ’s unquestionably such a matter as too many bumper pricker . That ’s because astudythey conducted in 2008 found that the measure of stickers on a car was a prognosticator ofroad rage . The more poppycock plastered on the outside of your ride , the more likely you are to alternate out flourish a tire iron , even if all your auto - message communicates peace of mind and dear . The understanding for this is unsubdivided : Some people describe strongly with their cars and consider them as their personal territory , even when that personal dominion is speeding along a public main road . The more territorial a person is , the more red they ’re prone to be when they perceive a threat to their space . paster are a good indicator of a driver ’s territorial attitudes . So manoeuver clear of be - stickered rigs whatever you do .
Of naturally , it also depends who ’s doing the stickering — the owner of the car , or somebody else . In Oakland , California , an SUV left unclaimed for too long in a parking spot on the street became the site for an intervention organized by an creative person cite Nite Owl . Participants were ask over to a " Slapocalypse , " which resulted in the car being covered in stickers from top to bottom , front to back .
And do n’t park in a disable point in Brazil unless you ’ve got the right . One man returned to his morally unwarrantable parking infinite to find out his vehicle so entirely suffocate in paster , he had to rip some of them off just to see through his windscreen as he drive away in shame from the jeering crowd of onlookers . For added effect , the stickers were knavishly use to represent the general handicapped sign of a person in a wheelchair . The incident may or may not have been a public - awareness stunt . One elbow room or another , the message was highly adhesive .
