Help: Stolen number plates
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I once sold an old banger, and had the cops knock on my door about 3am the next morning, the car had been used in a ram raid, so I explained I had sold it just a few hours before, and showed them the green slip from the reg document, so they were happy enough and left.
I was amazed to get a call from the police a few days later, they thought I would be amused to know the buyer had actually filled in his real name and address on the slip and had been arrested, now that's a criminal mastermind, not!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I once sold an old banger, and had the cops knock on my door about 3am the next morning, the car had been used in a ram raid, so I explained I had sold it just a few hours before, and showed them the green slip from the reg document, so they were happy enough and left.
I was amazed to get a call from the police a few days later, they thought I would be amused to know the buyer had actually filled in his real name and address on the slip and had been arrested, now that's a criminal mastermind, not!
Fuck sakes, you don't use your own car on a ram-raid
nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
Reminds me of my first car.: comprehensive MOT failure so I sold it for £20 scrap and spent the proceeds on a pair of jeans
6 months later the police came knocking as it had been used for nefarious purposes. I think that my demonstration of joy that the thing was still running was the wrong reaction.
I see that it lasted until 1987, so it had a second life in some form, and in a different colour. I miss you yellow mini 850 OGW119K
6 months later the police came knocking as it had been used for nefarious purposes. I think that my demonstration of joy that the thing was still running was the wrong reaction.
I see that it lasted until 1987, so it had a second life in some form, and in a different colour. I miss you yellow mini 850 OGW119K
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Shit! I'll need to sell the Challenger then.Fuck sakes, you don't use your own car on a ram-raid
WouldBe
Dislicksick
You would have thought the idiots who sent the PCN would have checked that first.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
You would have thought the idiots who sent the PCN would have checked that first.
That would have be dealt with by an automated system, based on cameras reading number plates.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Based on those I had, I'm pretty sure that the first actual human involved in the process was the postie when he stuck it through my door. Appealing is a pain as well since I wasn't allowed to just phone up, I had to fill in a form online and upload various photos, then they wrote another letter asking for more details which I had to send off. (I became chummy with our local postmaster during this time). The whole system is geared up to encourage you to give up and just pay the money to shut them up.You would have thought the idiots who sent the PCN would have checked that first.
And I had to go through the whole process separately for each PCN (not allowed to refer to previous ones). It takes patience and persistence.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Surely it would have to access DVLA records to get the owners name and address so should be able to get the make and model of car and compare to the photo.
Otherwise you could nick the number plates of a double decker bus, stick them on a mini and have free rein to drive down bus only lanes.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Surely it would have to access DVLA records to get the owners name and address so should be able to get the make and model of car and compare to the photo.
Otherwise you could nick the number plates of a double decker bus, stick them on a mini and have free rein to drive down bus only lanes.
No, the system just reads number plates and gets the owners name and address from the DVLA database, it's not designed to do anything else.
There was a classic case a few years back when someone got a PCN, it was the correct car, but it was on a bloody tow truck at the time of the offence.
Oh, here it is -
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Surely it would have to access DVLA records to get the owners name and address so should be able to get the make and model of car and compare to the photo.
Otherwise you could nick the number plates of a double decker bus, stick them on a mini and have free rein to drive down bus only lanes.
Lots of stolen plates are just random. I.e. the person who steals them doesn’t really care if they match their vehicle as they will only be on there for one fuel fill up or a day or so. It’s often done like this on pool cars.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Does anyone know how accurate this is?
(From here WHAT IS THE OFFENCE FOR A FALSE NUMBER PLATE - Laser Plates.)
(From here WHAT IS THE OFFENCE FOR A FALSE NUMBER PLATE - Laser Plates.)
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Something similar happened to a colleague of mine. She didn't have her plates stolen, but some boy racers had managed to get some plates made up with random letters and numbers and used them to see how many speed cameras they could trigger.
Fortunatly the pictures showed a completely different car to hers.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
have a snigger for this one.
someone cloned plates "down south" and proceeded to trigger some speed cameras and other traffic cameras, a couple of the former were on some motorway or other ...
the real vehicle in question ?
a fairly vintage tractor, that struggles to do more than approx 20mph, and that's downhill with a following wind !
someone cloned plates "down south" and proceeded to trigger some speed cameras and other traffic cameras, a couple of the former were on some motorway or other ...
the real vehicle in question ?
a fairly vintage tractor, that struggles to do more than approx 20mph, and that's downhill with a following wind !
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Surely it would have to access DVLA records to get the owners name and address so should be able to get the make and model of car and compare to the photo.
Otherwise you could nick the number plates of a double decker bus, stick them on a mini and have free rein to drive down bus only lanes.
You don't need to nick bus plates to drive in bus lanes with impunity, any old plates will do, so long as they're not your plates.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Worked for the arsehole that cloned mine, I got 4 PCN's because of him doing that. That was how I found how they had been cloned when the first PCN dropped on my doormat
