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Off topic, but I badgered my wife with questions about this for 30 miles and now it’s your turn to help me solve this mystery. Did he get the “TACOMAN” vanity plate because he owns a taco shop? Or just loves Tacos? And does he drive a Toyota Tacoma because the word Taco is so front and center in it’s name and he is compelled to blindly pursue all things taco?

Or did he get the “TACOMAN” plate to drive home just exactly how much he loves his truck and “Tacoma” was unavailable? Did he start out with the plate number “TACOMA1”, then, because of his undying Tacoma love, kept adding various Tacomas to his collection until he ran out of numbers, had to switch to letters (TacomaA, TacomaB, TacomaC) and this is actually the 23rd truck in his collection - the “TacomaN”?

A third option?

Sleight-of-hand artist Apollo Robbins is so stealthy that he once started a conversation with Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service agents and had everything out of their pockets within minutes. They were completely unaware that he’d acquired their badges, watches, Carter’s itinerary, and the keys to his motorcade. Source Source 2

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Via The New Yorker:

“In more than a decade as a full-time entertainer, Robbins has taken (and returned) a lot of stuff, including items from well-known figures in the worlds of entertainment (Jennifer Garner, actress: engagement ring); sports (Charles Barkley, former N.B.A. star: wad of cash); and business (Ace Greenberg, former chairman of Bear Stearns: Patek Philippe watch).

He is probably best known for an encounter with Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail in 2001. While Carter was at dinner, Robbins struck up a conversation with several of his Secret Service men. Within a few minutes, he had emptied the agents’ pockets of pretty much everything but their guns.

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Robbins brandished a copy of Carter’s itinerary, and when an agent snatched it back he said, “You don’t have the authorization to see that!” When the agent felt for his badge, Robbins produced it and handed it back. Then he turned to the head of the detail and handed him his watch, his badge, and the keys to the Carter motorcade.”

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Where do we go from here?

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Tens of thousands of people will be killed by guns before we can wrest control of Congress from the gun lobby. Many hundreds will be students sheltering in classrooms. But change is possible.

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