Big B.
Your right, it doesn't really serve a purpose for the real theifs out there. it's more for show then anything. Then again, in a place like I live, the flip face would keep prying eyes from noticing it as most people around here wouldn't know what it was to begin with. I take my face off when I am worried about it, but I often wonder, if I take it off every day at work, would the contacts eventually get worn?
I find around here, people see the color, say while she's parked, and go wow that's cool, and then they start looking in the windows and go, s*** look at the Kenwood, and then they just stare. Drives me nuts. I work in a University, and I often see people circling the car. Not so bad now since winter hit, and she's dirty and the steelies. But I can see them from my office, and when I do....I wait until they got their face up by the window, and I flick on the alarm ( horn goes off too)......ahhh man it's a laugh.