No insurance? Meet Crusher!

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Mon 3 Aug 2009 20:11
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - tack
Nice to see police in Newham upping the ante against uninsured drivers. Often, uninsured drivers are engaged in other nefarious activities and if we can keep nipping away at them and disrupt their antics, all the better for the law abiding citizen. Cars seized and crushed are often the working tool of the unlicenced cab driver who (themselves) often have convictions for rape and other serious crimes. The knock on effect of taking these cars out of circulation should not be underestimated.

Interesting to see that higher value and "status" cars are finding their way to Mr Crusher too. It is an interesting comment on our times.

But, anyway, "Chappeau" to the boys in blue who are doing something of relevance.
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Tue 4 Aug 2009 02:31
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - Dave_TD
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8181419.stm
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Tue 4 Aug 2009 02:40
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - captain chaos
What a ridiculous waste. If the vehicles have been confiscated, why not auction them off and put the money into a pot to recompense victims of uninsured drivers, which the MIB do and load our premiums as a result. Sometimes I really do despair. Oh, sorry, crushing them is sending out a message. Well, if you can shell out 70k on a Hummer and not insure it no message is likely to get through really, is it?
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Tue 4 Aug 2009 08:51
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - moonshine {P}
Often uninsured drivers
are engaged in other nefarious activities and if we can keep nipping away at them
and disrupt their antics all the better for the law abiding citizen.


Looks like you are right about uninsured drivers often being involved in other nefarious activities, nothing worse than a banker these days...

"offenders might even include bankers and stockbrokers looking to put off the £1,500 bill it could cost to insure a car such as Porsche. "

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Tue 4 Aug 2009 09:49
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - Happy Blue!
"offenders might even include bankers and stockbrokers looking to put off the £1,500 bill it could cost to insure a car such as Porsche. "

It pathetic. It costs me at elast £900pa and sometimes more to insure my Outback. I live with it because a) I can afford to and b) I like the car. Yet I earn far less than the bonus driven bankers - who probably take home a bonus equivalent to my annual earnings.
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Tue 4 Aug 2009 10:09
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - jbif
Nice to see police in Newham upping the ante against uninsured drivers. >>


Good.
Interesting to see that higher value and "status" cars are finding their way to Mr Crusher too >>


Eh? Mr Plod [Ch Insp Zander Gibson of Newham Police] says the opposite:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8181419.stm
"But high value cars should not be being crushed and I have not heard of it happening."
Cars seized and crushed are often the working tool of the unlicenced cab driver who (themselves) often have convictions for rape and other serious crimes. >>


Eh? Often rapists? Really?

I think most of this story is tosh, and should belong to the Daily Wail or a debunking site such as snopes.com. I am surprised to see Mr Edmund King feeding the mythology without giving facts and figures to support his allegations such as ""Some bankers lost jobs or bonuses in the recession but they don't want to give up their Porsche", Mr King explained. "

* [bold added by me for emphasis]

Edited by jbif on 04/08/2009 at 10:10

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Tue 4 Aug 2009 14:56
No insurance? Meet Crusher! - tack
"Eh? Often rapists? Really?"

If you read my original post carefully, you will have seen that I mentioned rape AND other serious crimes. These crimes include indecent assault, assault to various degrees, robbery, theft, drugs etc.

A considerable proportion of taxi touts arrested by the City of London Police had convictions for such offences, drove non-roadworthy cars and were sometimes unqualified/disqualified drivers. I was in the City of London Police and I can promise you that it isn't a myth. That is why they expend a considerable amount of operational time to stop this type of activity, especially Thursday/Friday evenings and at the lead up to Xmas/New Year. It is all about protecting the public.

"high value cars should not be being crushed and I have not heard of it happening"

Crusher himself said on the 1 o'clock news that it was happening. Obviously not as often though. Bearing in mind that the officer covered Newham only, it may well be that Crusher is also receiving cars from elsewhere, and the officer would not be aware of that.
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