Apart from the foolish and immsturity of the idea, a friend is driving a J-reg vauxhall astra across europe to a new holiday villa he has just purchased in bulgaria.
He will however be doing this without road tax and insurance (although he claims it has an MOT!).
Without the complications of him crashing, does anyone know of the consequences if he is randomly pulled over by foreign police officials without insurance documents; i presume a UK registration plate will be an obvious sign of a short cash windfall for corrupt forign officials.
I am also presuming UK road tax wont matter abroad so i presume this will not be an offense.
Will he face a fine in some countrys? Car confiscated? even possible court hearing?
He is starting his journey in holland (getting HULL ferry) and i presume will drive through germany to reach bulgaria.
Also, will officals in Hull stop him as no tax on the screen will be a give away sign?
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Your friend is a fool - I hope he gets pulled over the moment he turns the key on the first leg of his journey.
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Where do you get this idea of corrup foreign officials?
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Sooner he's off the UK roads, the safer I'll feel.
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Well I hope the twit gets done before he gets a chance to wreak havoc on all our European friends. How can anyone in their right mind contemplate driving across Europe with no insurance? In Europe it'll be more than fines he has to worry about.
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Having fancied a move to Bulgaria for several years I am most envious of your friend in that respect.
Otherwise, I hope he gets caught pdq.
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do us all a favour and steal his pasport as you wave him bye bye on the dockside.
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With a bit of luck he'll get through the more westerly part of Europe before he gets pulled, then he'll be able to report back on the state of Eastern European gaols; they tend to bang you up for a while to consider the error of your ways before bringing you up in court.
Reckon he must have had his brain removed, I take it he wears a baseball cap back to front.
Cockle
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This another one of those wind-up threads?
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Hope he doesn't have a bump o he will be in the pockey for definate. Hopefully ANPR on the port will nick him.
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I think you are all being a bit hard on davey's friend.
Yes, the man is clearly a menace. Yes, he is self-evidently irresponsible, dangerous, and it's hard to diagree with the idea that he oought to be arrested ASAP, for his own protection as much much as anyone else's.
However, the folly he displays is of a rare and brilliant sort, worthy almost of a John Cleese creation. In fact it's so foolish that it almost goes round full circle to become a form of inverted genius.
His chances of getting away with this scam are next-to-nil, and he risks anything betwen a whopping fine in the UK and a prolonged bit of rock-breaking a Bulgarian prison.
But is our boy worried? Is he having second thoughts? Is he deterred?
Of course not! He is, apparently, determined to sacrifice his own wealth and freedom to allow his friends (and us) to sigh predictably and say (altogether now) "told you so".
We haven't had a decent anti-hero for a while, but this man could be the next Eddie The Eagle. I suggest that we organise a backroom outing to Hull docks to wave him off and cheer him on his way to imminent doom.
Any offers for the film rights? This could be a blockbuster: Dukes of Hazzard meets Midnight Express! (I propose Leonardo di Caprio Jones for the lead role, just so that I can ogle at him)
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A tatty J reg astra hardly makes it a glamour movie, and certainly not a general lee!
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A tatty J reg astra hardly makes it a glamour movie, and certainly not a general lee!
OK, we may need to use a bit of artistic license to generate a real box-office blockbuster.
But then, on the other hand, the American audience may well find something quaintly British in the incongruity of a road movie in a clapped-out repmobile. Plucky underdog sort-of-stuff
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This another one of those wind-up threads?
Agreed - should get a 100 posts
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>> This another one of those wind-up threads? Agreed - should get a 100 posts
Maybe the story needs a few extra twists -- e.g. Mr NoTax's mum has just been eaten by a shark, and he is is on the run from a jilted g/f with a black belt in Karate, and he is off to Bulgaria because his perfect (tax+insured) BMW has been "repossessd" by hoods working for the local drug dealer who have mistaken him for a deadly rival in the trade, leaving his foolish run looking more like the last throw of the dice for a man whose time is running out ...
now, where did I put my medication??
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and the shark follows him as well!
(sure that was jaws4 or 5 ?)
(how the hell can a shark follow someone 3000 miles ?
that is just downright silly)
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