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From: Steve Firth on 23 Mar 2010 18:21 Iain <spam(a)smaps.net> wrote: > Out of interest then, if the information is not up-to-date (or wrong) on the > database and it cannot be proven there and then that the car is legal, and > the car is siezed, is it easy to claim the towing and storage back? Or > would the car simply not be siezed? That's down to the operational side (the Kevins of this world) and basically I think you'd be on a loser. The plod are keen to seize and crush cars and they don't listen to any arguments at the side of the road. They expect drivers to carry all of their documents with them at all times and TBH they don't even accept Certificates of Insurance as evidence that a car is insured.
From: I.curious on 23 Mar 2010 19:06 Cynic submitted this idea : > As a very obvious and comonplace example, judiciously applied splashes > of mud or spots of tar can make letters and numbers indecipherable to > the ANPR computer, yet have sufficient "plausible deniability" of > deliberate intent (unless the rest of the car is squeaky clean) to > avoid a ticket in the unlikely event that you are pulled up on it by a > real policeman. Or one of the illegal style of number plates. However thinking about it, I don't seem to be seeing many of those about at the moment - have they tightened up on them at last? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Conor on 23 Mar 2010 19:18 On 23/03/2010 19:54, Ret. wrote: > What I keep trying to point out is that although a vehicle plate may be > read and recorded - it is simply data in a database. Unless there is a > need to access that data (and in most cases there wont), then it will > never be anything other than data. There is not an officer who is > responsible for tracking *your* movements (or anyone else's other than > people of specific interest), for example. > Yes, you keep pointing it out and people keep pointing out that data crawling does it for you. As I said, how do the security services suddenly become interested in someone with no criminal record? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 23 Mar 2010 19:23 On 23/03/2010 19:58, Adrian wrote: > Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were > saying: > >> I've been stopped at a checkpoint whilst going about my legal business, >> asked who I worked for (plastered all over the side of the wagon) > > Every wagon that says has a brand name on the side is driven by an > employee of that organisation, is it? > > No, thought not. It was a haulage company, not something with Carlsberg on the side -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 23 Mar 2010 19:27
On 23/03/2010 20:04, Ret. wrote: > These are simply traffic census points. Intended to discover traffic > flow along a particular road and where it is coming from and going to - > usually with the aim of improving local roads. Being rude and > uncooperative is self-defeating. > What does where I've come from have to do with traffic flow? What does who I am working for have to do with traffic flow? What does what I'm carrying have to do with traffic flow? What does my name have to do with traffic flow? Surely, all it needs is those people you see sat at the side of a road in pairs with a counter counting the traffic by category? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |