While fitting a plate over an electric-light switch, he noticed that pencil marks he had made on the protective decal were transferred to the other side when he took it off.
The surface of the decal is a crude computer display which then replicates these colours and patterns.
A tourist in Paris would be equally surprised to see a map of France including Algeria and Tahiti.Yet a decal of Greater Hungary is a surprisingly common sight on vehicles in Budapest.
The regular decal, applied to such items as typewriters and trucks, for example, begins with a sheet of porous paper coated with a solution of starch, albumin, and glycerin.
The decal is finished with a coat of water-soluble glue called stickative.
When the decal is moistened and applied to the object to which it adheres, the moistened backing paper is removed, and the design becomes permanently affixed.
It's known as Minxing (after the company who creates the designs) and is achieved with a new "decal" technology, where a layer of patterned or digitally printed film is applied to the nail using infrared light.
Mark Oberholtzer, who owns Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, claims the dealer he traded with resold the truck without removing the decal with the logo and company phone number.
Before knocking on his apartment door, I noticed a decal above the bell showing the American and Israeli flags joined by a swastika.
It showed (before it was taken down) a picture of Brunson posing behind a mounted machine gun, a picture of a truck with a Confederate-flag decal, and a post by Brunson, in response to inquiries about his recovery, that said, "Its goin to thake more than 3 bullets from a mexicant to kill me".
(Dickey has a decal of Darth Vader's chest on the back of his iPhone).
