Whilst I admire THE INGENUITY occasionally some are going too far in spacing abuse.Does any body know to whom you report abuse
Examples recently
J9NY T
Travel agent???
FLY 2 1T
These are just the last 2 I have sen.
I know DVLA make money on selling but it appears lack of traffic police means they can get away with murder.
ALSO really dirty rear plates (presumably to avoid speed cameras identification).
Is this a police matter
THANKS
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I think juggling the spaces to confer alternative meanings is pathetic. But each one to his/her own. I do worry that dodgy spacing hinders law enforcement, and I wish Plod would pull in these people (but there are hardly any Plod on traffic work) or they were nabbed by ANPR cameras.
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Whilst also admiring some of the personal registration numbers ingenuity, I also believe it makes it easier to remember such a number plate if necessary.
Incidentally I notice that one local owner, whose number plates spelled out the model of his Toyota, has recently had them replaced with new and correctly spaced examples.
Presumably he has been advised to do so by Mr Plod.
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Presumably he has been advised to do so by Mr Plod.
More like it was MOT time...
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>>More like it was MOT time...>>
Wouldn't think so - he's had the personalised number plate spacing for several years.
If the MOT had been the case, wouldn't it be easy enough to temporarily use correct number plates for the test?
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I have no interest in private reg. plates myself, but did not used to think dodgy spacings were a problem as long as it was legible. But I suppose nowadays it could confuse ANPR?
Actually doctoring letters would be more of a problem. I knew someone years ago who used a black marker pen to change a "0" to a "D" to spell his name better, and got an MoT failure notice for his efforts. He got properly spaced ones made up but then fitted the dodgy ones again after passing the MoT (dodgy spacings but without the filled in "D"). I think after a while he was stopped twice by the police and decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
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no one 'owns' their plate, DVLA can take them back. If my memory serves me correctly if they're formally reported twice then DVLA can re-claim it. I'm sure one of the BR traffic cops can elaborate.
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ANPR get a "hit" on them as not in reading them (depends on the font and the spacing of course) as few locals found out it annoyed the Police in wasting time in stopping them they got a fixer and a report to DVLA.
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I thought it was "two strikes and you've lost it" for getting stopped.
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ISTR he said he was stopped twice, but its likely to have been exaggeration on the part of my ex-colleague, he was probably just stopped once. ;o)
Has that rule always been in force or is it quite recent? The case I mentioned was at least 10 years ago.
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J3NNY seems to change her car quite often!
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L\'escargot.
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Saw a real blatant example last week. HOP 21T. Right pair of misfits inside too and the name of some dodgy-looking pest control outfit on the side, and I'm sure the van was too old to be wearing a 1979 plate. Perhaps it's true that there just aren't enough police about to spot them.
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too old to be wearing a 1979 plate.
Blimey!
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GE7 4 LYF is wholly appropriate for this thread
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GE7 4 LYF is wholly appropriate for this thread
Agree with that. A traffic policeman told me he likes these plates as if people spot the car then they remember the plate - as evidenced by the number quoted in this thread.
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A traffic policeman told me he likes these plates as if people spot the car then they remember the plate - as evidenced by the number quoted in this thread.
A traffic policeman? You must be really old if you remember them! {grin}
Not only do I very rarely see them, but when I tried reporting some hooliganism on the road, the police I called eventually told that they'd only take even consider taking action if I dropped into their office. Sure, at 7am, when I'm just going to get to my destination clear of the rush hour, I'm going to take a 20 mile-each-way detour off the motorway to file a report with people who have told me pretty clearly that they really aren't interested unless there was a collision.
So there's no need to mangle your plates to get away with anything that isn't covered by an automated camera.
But does anyone know whether the plate-recognition camera on a garage forecourt is much different to those used as police cameras? I saw the display on one recently, when it had scanned my car ... and it reported a digit "1" as the letter "Y". Very useful, that :(
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I went to Stansted mid-stay car park yesterday, pressed the buttong and got my ticket. When I looked at in an idle moment in the interminable security queue I noticed that the correct number plate of my car had been printed on the ticket. This seems as though it might be a useful security check ie wouldn't let a car out unless the number on the ticket matched that read by the camera at the exit? APNR also now used by T*sc* to enforce the 3 hour limit at shop car parks.
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