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I cannot find the "help me" cartoon--think it's a Loony tunes--large dog clutches Sylvester ( or small cat or Pepe le Pew) who says "help me" . . . memory is funny thing
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LiterallyAWizard
#1 Batmobile didn't hate plates.
TheMightyMollusk
#2 Kubo and the Two Strings.
irrational1618
#1 The nice thing about being a billionaire is you can buy the insurance company and print a proof of insurance card for yourself.
will242
#7 No, I want a bookstore next to a bakery that allows me to take a pie, and I allow them to borrow a book. We both rescue the pets.
PTKrieg
#1 Depends on the Batman. "Nice" version of Batman (like Adam West) are allowed to use "Batman" as a legal identity with the consent of local authorities, so they have things like insurance and credit cards under the name Batman. "Mean" versions of Batman (Dark Knight Returns, Batfleck) are basically outlaws and just ride dirty with no registration or insurance.
MrWobblyHead
#1 Definitely driving uninsured. It's not as if he's going to be pulled over by the cops. And Batman is just going to pay out for any damage.
p7zjnq9gei9000
#1 ffs. Bruce was self insured. 😜
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Exactly. This is an actual thing in most places. You can post a bond instead of having insurance, etc.
budgetnoms
#9 Anyone else bugged by the fact that it'd need to be held in the left hand to be viewed from the front while held?
whosbestmom
maybe printed on both sides?
budgetnoms
That actually makes sense
RelartOfGivia
#7 Too much red tape and unprofitable. Hope you have a lucrative trust fund.
Seethreepeeoh
Why does #5 sound like a story JD Vance is using to explain a leaked video?
Rockstarwizkidd
#1 or Wayne enterprises included an insurance agency. Works make sense given how much damage comic book crime fighting causes. Batman fights evil, Bruce Wayne secretly pays for repairs with his borderline profitable insurance agency.
DopeChicken
Most of what Batman does would be classified as “illegal”
ArkoneAxon
This is very true, especially considering that the REASON why Bruce Wayne became Batman (instead of just funding social programs) is that Gotham is so incredibly corrupt that it's nigh impossible to work within the system.
voodoofu
#1 I've never seen a license plate, so no registration either.
EniChaos
his registration is "that's the fucking batmobile, we all know who owns it"
pdonettes
#1 I have been annoyed by superheroes for a while because of this. 1)anyone can be deputized. Deputize them. 2) the witness protection program only loses people in movies. Their actual record is flawless.
So, why not deputize super heroes, and set them up with a secure secret identity. They could even be paid a salary, and the duties of a marshall are essentially what superheroes should do. Protect witnesses, and enforce warrants. It’s win/win.
InTheBeginningWasTheNerd
Yep. And as we all know, superheroes working for the government always works out splendidly. And even if you wanted to believe no one in real life would ever use the threat of exposure to get someone to do something they don't necessarily want to, Lex Luthor was the President of the US at one point. Do you really think he wouldn't look up Superman's secret identi... Clark Kent? Kent's a nobody! I'm the president, get me the document with the real secret identities! What do you mean that's it?
heptadecagram
Everyone knows that the reason WPP is 100% success is that they just kill the witnesses. Who’s gonna say otherwise?
kramorp
Congrats, you just came up with the basic plot to the Marvel crossover series, Civil War.
pdonettes
No. I'm not suggesting their identities be revealed. I'm suggesting they would be able to stay secret, earn money, and fight crime legally. I'm not suggesting their wouldn't be issues to work out either, more that if it were real, there are systems in place already that could be used to facilitate it being feasible.
CrappleJack
#1- Wayne Industries is big enough and has enough of a fleet of vehicles to Self-Insure(in NY at least), and they could do it on an "all owned vehicles" basis. When asked, they could just say that they loan it to Batman, and the authorized driver on the paperwork could be "Batman". I do not think they would have to disclose anything else.
justherefortheconfession
Okay, so we're really wasting mental energy worrying that the costumed vigilante who drives recklessly, damages people's property without regard, isn't above beating and torturing people ("bUt hE dOeSn'T KiLl!"), takes the law into his own lands--who is basically an idealized cop just a step under the Punisher--is driving without insurance? ACAB, even Batman
evilspock
Batman doesn't kill, and your taxes don't pay for his activity. He also has no qualified immunity. That puts him a few steps above cops IMHO.
GravyEducation
Why the fuck are we talking about insurance, he's a fucking vigilante. He doesn't get tabs either, the batmobile is not street legal, the bat plane doesn't respond to air traffic control unless he decides to, the only possibly traceable thing about batman is Ace's flea treatments
reineseele
Nowadays the comic books expand on that and say he sponsors clinics and people who got hit by the Bat by accident or third party stuff.
nasukkin
Or, y'know... He's Batman. Bending and outright breaking the law to get to the real baddies is part of his MO.
CoinedWatcher
I've heard it referred to as "insured by income" by the police at accidents involving high-end cars...
Zastrozzi
If you deposit a bond (probably several million $$) with the DoT you can go without insurance.
AndyTheAbsurd
I think it was $50k last time I lived in NY. That was about 25 years ago, though, so I'm sure it's been updated to a more reasonable amount to pay for modern medical care of anyone hit.
OdinYggd
More along the lines of $250k. And at that point the bond IS the insurance. If you crack up and someone else gets hurt by you, the bond is cashed out and used to pay them for the damages/injuries.
Omnimorph2112
Think you'd want to make sure Wayne industries didn't associate with batman at all. You know, just to make sure there's not a connection that people might go "hmmm." about.
ZookyPooky
Maybe, but if superman wearing glasses can fool people, then this should be even easier
ArkoneAxon
At one point in the comics, Bruce Wayne actually came out and admitted, on TV, that Wayne Industries had indeed been funding the Batman from the start... and then he went on to announce an expansion to the program. Batman, Inc.
Everyone just shrugged and figured that, given the things that LexCorp and other companies had been funding, Wayne Industries funding a costumed crimefighter was pretty small potatoes.
mward1984
Yeah. A few years later STAGG industries got in on it by drilling into the Antarctic to awaken nighmarish primordial horrors, and come to think of it... everyone kind of knows that Ted Kord is/was the Blue Beetle right?
At least Starr Enterprises has absolutely nothing to do with any of that! Yup!
teberoth
Of course Wayne enterprises wouldn't own the fleet themselves. They subcontract it from a fleet company to limit their liability, nevermind that the chain of shell companies and international interests that own the fleet company would eventually lead back to Wayne enterprises if anybody could untangle it.
christophersouthworth
Bruce Wayne publicly came out to admit that he bankrolled Batman a few years ago, even creating Batman, Inc. to serve as a franchise worldwide. Now imagine Elon Musk doing this, showing up to mental hospitals beating the shit out of people and claiming "I'm Batman!" Bruce Wayne is an absolute, grade-A asshole. Child-endangering cult leader bastard... SMH
CrappleJack
doesn't he do that already?
christophersouthworth
Welllllllll, that might explain the state of Twitter these days....
NineByNine
what are they gonna do? Arrest the batman? :3
Mikeiller
https://imgur.com/OnT1MkV
FeloniousMonk13
I was thinking Alfred could just get the insurance, and then he can let whoever borrow the car and they're covered, right?
evilspock
It's still a connection between Wayne and Batman - to be avoided.
shinakuma2
I'm no insurance broker, but I'm pretty sure insurance only covers a borrower on a temporary basis. If the driver in question is borrowing so often that they're arguably the primary user of the vehicle, he needs to be insured under his own name.
astrangehop
Which is Batman. Address the batcave
shinakuma2
Sure, what’s Batman’s SSN?
astrangehop
so... You CAN get insurance without a SSN, but iirc companies have a right to refuse. I bet huge amounts of money would work though.