Personalised number plates - your theory

[upsidedown]

Saw a lap-dancing club mini bus at Edinburgh airport PU51 VAN.

Apparently if you put a piece of black tape across the middle of any plate's 0(the new format where the first number is either 0 or 5), to make it an 8, they will be pulled by ANPR as illegal, just thought it was worth a mention.....

 

[totallyfixed]

Most traffic police cars in Birmingham now have ANPR in. It beeps every time it spots a car with an issue. It's great.

What's the penalty?

 

[slowmotion]

Bottle mounted guns is for wimps...

Get a real gun!

Yes indeed. It might be a useful piece of kit next to the helmet cam..

 

[Alan Frame]

Bottle mounted guns is for wimps...

Get a real gun!

Now , that's what I call a high calibre cyclist !

 

[661-Pete]

In Liverpool though, so many plates have LFC or EFC in them the DVLA must make a mint out of these things.

...but not at the same time, I take it!

Wasn't there a story, at about the time the first '51' plates appeared in 2001, that someone snapped up "EN 51 GER" just after England had (uniquely)beaten Germany by that very score?

 

[661-Pete]

Apparently if you put a piece of black tape across the middle of any plate's 0(the new format where the first number is either 0 or 5), to make it an 8, they will be pulled by ANPR as illegal, just thought it was worth a mention.....

That would be daft-plus, seeing as new-style plates with '8' as the first digit won't be around until 2030. Time-machines ain't that good....

Talking of which, the restrictions of the new format can be useful to know of, at times. One car which I had to shop to the police, had an old-style number beginning with with "L836..." (I think). I mis-read it as new-style "LB36...". It was only as I was repeating it to the police that I realised that "LB36" was impossible, so I was able to catch myself in time. And the number I gave them was the correct one!

 

[Crankarm]

Most traffic police cars in Birmingham now have ANPR in. It beeps every time it spots a car with an issue. It's great.

I understand that many traffic officers believe that if they acted on every bleep from the ANPR they wouldn't travel more than 100yds a day in certain parts of the country..........

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Yup. And apparently it's getting worse.

It's much cheaper to buy a car, not bother registering, insuring it etc, and then buying another banger when it gets crushed. than running one properly.

I can imagine. My insurance and tax together are roughly the same as what I paid for my car. And I don't drive a banger, either.

 

[Archie_tect]

It beeps to indicate that there's an issue linked to the car, whether it be no tax, insurance, warrants out for the driver, car involved in criminal activity etc.

So it really depends on what the offence is.

So the police have to get busier sorting it all out? Oh well, that's what they are there for... if it's too much trouble for them to be bothered with the paperwork, log the offenders on a register so that they gat picked up after a fixed number of 'offences'

...but if they really can't be bothered even to do that then don't bother taking people to court- just crush the cars immediately without compensation.

 

[totallyfixed]

I don't know if anyone else heard this, but in Bradford either just over or just under 50% of cars are driving without insurance. I can't remember which way it was, but hell, does it matter!

 

[Greedo]

I think if it's funny or relates to your business then fair enough

like 2 in Glasgow

P1 55 AFF
B19 TOE - on a chiropodists car

Other unrelated but distinctive like a few I see are okay too

V 70
A 1
A 11

but it's when there are numbers and letters with screws and letters in funny shapes and they then have to put what it's meant to be in writing below are sad as hell.

 

[Archie_tect]

Local Vets have: K9 VET

 

[Archie_tect]

Local businessman has W8 MAN....presumably because that's his surname.

 

[totallyfixed]

Just back in from training ride, saw this, P12RCY but he [middle aged man in Merc passing me too close, nobody else on road] had squashed the 1 & 2 together, sado.

 

[lukepinkhandbag]

In the states they call them, more appropriately, vanity plates....Mmmm