<story><title>We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web?rq=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjindev</author><text>Reminds me of a story a police reservist told me.  Guy got a license plate caled &amp;quot;none,&amp;quot; and instantly had thousands of outstanding warrants. (The cop thought &amp;quot;none&amp;quot; was trying a fast one, and so deserved it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>In 1986, Robert Barbour applied for a personalized plate. The DMV gives you three choices: he picked SAILING, BOATING. If he couldn&amp;#x27;t get those, he didn&amp;#x27;t want a personalized plate, so he put NO PLATE. Of course, he ended up with NO PLATE. Since that&amp;#x27;s what the police put as the license if a car doesn&amp;#x27;t have a plate, he ended up with 2500 tickets. Eventually the DMV told the police to write &amp;quot;NONE&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;NO PLATE&amp;quot; and said &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re just hoping that no one will come up with plates that say NONE.&amp;quot; (Which would be ironic if the parent comment is accurate.)&lt;p&gt;The article is pretty entertaining - it talks about him becoming semi-famous and getting pulled over because cops wanted their picture taken with him:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-23/news/vw-20054_1_license-plates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articles.latimes.com&amp;#x2F;1986-06-23&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;vw-20054_1_licen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The comp.risks article (where I originally read about this) is also amusing: &lt;a href=&quot;http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.45.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;catless.ncl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;Risks&amp;#x2F;6.45.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web?rq=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjindev</author><text>Reminds me of a story a police reservist told me.  Guy got a license plate caled &amp;quot;none,&amp;quot; and instantly had thousands of outstanding warrants. (The cop thought &amp;quot;none&amp;quot; was trying a fast one, and so deserved it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sehrope</author><text>If it&amp;#x27;s the same one I remember the plate was &amp;quot;NO TAGS&amp;quot;[1].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/no-tags-meet-sauced_n_1282486.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;no-tags-meet-sauced...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>