This is an image of a bumper sticker produced by The Miami Herald Tropic Magazine in response to the rash of 1993 shootings of German and other tourists. Details are here . A brief excerpt:
Response after this eighth death in under a year was resounding. Headiness in the British tabloids read “Come to Sunny Florida and be Murdered for Absolutely Nothing,” “Slaughter in the Sunshine” and “Plan Your Trip Like a Commando Raid.” Governor Lawton Chiles issued an emergency executive order abandoning the Y-and-Z-beginning Florida tags for rentals and offering agencies a chance to trade them in for a vastly reduced fee. Sadly, fewer than 10% responded. Rental agencies were also instructed to remove all identifying marking from their rented vehicles so as not to tip off potential carjackers. Similarly, new road signs were immediately constructed and put up to replace old and confusing ones in so-deemed problem areas. But, as is so often the case in Miami, our reaction was exactly that; reactional. Chances are most of this could have been done a long time before the shootings.
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