Rather odd behavior - writing down numberplates
Rather odd behavior - writing down numberplates
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gh0st

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4,693 posts

278 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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Driving back from KFC in Newton Abbot last night, some man wearing a darkish flourescent jacket wondering round writing down car numberplates!

Stopped and asked him what he was doing, he said "nothing. just carry on".

DEFINATLY was NOT plod.

Called the local police non-urgent number and reported it.

Dunno what the f**k he was doing! Was not a traffic warden either.

meeja

8,290 posts

268 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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Is there a time limit on the car park? Have seen this at a KFC in Birmingham which is part of a retail park with a 2 hour limit for free parking (you have to buy a pay and display ticket for longer than that)

gh0st

Original Poster:

4,693 posts

278 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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nah its all roads, no car park.

maybe it was a weirdo that gets off on numberplate numbers

Fat Audi 80

2,403 posts

271 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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gh0st said:
nah its all roads, no car park.

maybe it was a weirdo that gets off on numberplate numbers


The motoring equivalent of a train spotter but collects rare number plates?

Mon Ami Mate

6,589 posts

288 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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Fat Audi 80 said:

gh0st said:
nah its all roads, no car park.

maybe it was a weirdo that gets off on numberplate numbers



The motoring equivalent of a train spotter but collects rare number plates?


You may laugh - I went to school with a chap who used to do exactly this. Amazingly he also had a photographic memory - if you gave him the number of a local car he would tell you the make, model and colour. He was almost never wrong. I understand he went on to become a Conservative PPC!

Wacky Racer

40,312 posts

267 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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gh0st said:
Driving back from KFC in Newton Abbot last night, some man wearing a darkish flourescent jacket wondering round writing down car numberplates!

Stopped and asked him what he was doing, he said "nothing. just carry on".

DEFINATLY was NOT plod.

Called the local police non-urgent number and reported it.

Dunno what the f**k he was doing! Was not a traffic warden either.



That's nothing, it was on the tv there was a group of electricity pylon spotters in the uk with 500 members!!!

They spent their time tramping through muddy fields all over the country noting down the numbers on the side of the pylons....

When interviewed, the spokesman said "Well, it's suprising how many different types of pylons there are, tall ones, short ones, thin ones, fat ones".....

Each to his (or her) own I suppose

beano500

20,854 posts

295 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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...mis-read that as "pythons" for a moment!!!



Wacky Racer

40,312 posts

267 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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beano500 said:
...mis-read that as "pythons" for a moment!!!





Well, they'll both give you a shock!!!

mel

10,168 posts

295 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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Our regular Sunday morning off road bike route takes us over a little bridge crossing the new high speed rail line (also on the edge of some woods that appeared in the Daily Mail's "doging" article but thats another story) anyway last Sunday the bridge was crammed with anoraks and tripods all trying to get a picture and a number off the Eurostar ! I couldn't believe it I thought Trainspotters were just an item of fun nowdays, not that anyone actually did it.

bongomania

105 posts

269 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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Worst ones I have heard about are people who collect types of barbed wire, or those who spot different types of railway tracks - timber sleeper + 12 gauge rail, concrete sleeper + 18 guage rail etc etc.

meeja

8,290 posts

268 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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Mind you, he could have been copiling a list of "safe" registrations for cloning.....

Boosted LS1

21,200 posts

280 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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Maybe he wanted to look important and wear the bright jacket. You made his day.

s6blr

886 posts

302 months

Tuesday 21st October 2003
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c0ngestion charge goons regularly seen in our middlesex villages doing this

they have hand held ticket machines and groups of 10-20 + roam the streets checking registration numbers against cars being sought not funding red ken's farsical scheme .

then a truck comes along and gives your car that special yellow boot