What crappy personalised plates have you seen recently?
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av185 said:
Cliftonite said:
Maybe the chauffeurs a Chav and chose the plate as well as the feu orange......I suppose whether a number plate is crappy is subjective. I mean, if it means something to the owner then who cares although trying to spell a word, badly, out of a retarded formation of letters and numbers is quite stupid. Sadly, any plates that spell a name in a coherent manner are out of reach financially of most people.
This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.
I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.
So as to not totally derail this with my own question, I see one regularly on an old SL500 that perhaps looked good on the car 20yrs back when it was one of the quickest things around...C 2 U E L, spaced like that (for years also with no issue) which I assume is supposed to be CRUEL, as in "I have more money than you" or "you got done".
That brings me onto the local chav actually. Ford Fiesta ST with reg plate U G07 DUN (UG07 DUN), meant to read U GOT DUN. By a Fiesta ST? I hope not.
This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.
I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.
So as to not totally derail this with my own question, I see one regularly on an old SL500 that perhaps looked good on the car 20yrs back when it was one of the quickest things around...C 2 U E L, spaced like that (for years also with no issue) which I assume is supposed to be CRUEL, as in "I have more money than you" or "you got done".
That brings me onto the local chav actually. Ford Fiesta ST with reg plate U G07 DUN (UG07 DUN), meant to read U GOT DUN. By a Fiesta ST? I hope not.
Riknos said:
Steffan said:
Riknos said:
Possibly going to get my ass handed to me here, but why the hate for incorrectly spaced plates?
I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.
But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?
Because the law says so. That is the law. You could equally argue why wear a seat belt? Or use indicators? Because it is a legal requirement. It is not a defence to ignore the law because you disagree with that law. If it were there would be precious few prosecutions.I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.
But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?
It's just reading some posts on this thread from users getting really upset that someone has removed a space from their numberplate!
M3DGE said:
Riknos said:
Steffan said:
Riknos said:
Possibly going to get my ass handed to me here, but why the hate for incorrectly spaced plates?
I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.
But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?
Because the law says so. That is the law. You could equally argue why wear a seat belt? Or use indicators? Because it is a legal requirement. It is not a defence to ignore the law because you disagree with that law. If it were there would be precious few prosecutions.I think it's downright chav, and illegal, to put screws on plates and use fonts etc to make letters and numbers look like something different - You might as well put a fake plate on your car, totally unacceptable and illegal.
But moving some spaces around? The plate spells EXACTLY the same as before, it's not misleading, it's obvious that it's a genuine number plate, the letters and numbers are perfectly legible, nobody can dodge a speeding fine that way, why should it be illegal?
It's just reading some posts on this thread from users getting really upset that someone has removed a space from their numberplate!
Panda P said:
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This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.
I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.
We have fewer and fewer traffic police about, and given the number of people who obviously think it's their god-given right to plaster their car with any kind of number plate abortion they like and get all sneery about it if anyone else objects, I can't imagine it would be top of my list of fun things to pull people over for if I was a copper. No doubt the people who have them would start giving the copper the "why aren't you catching real criminals" lecture.This leads me to something I've wondered a while, as a person who has a private plate represented in the correct way. How do so many people get away with their plates being incorrectly spaced? Such as that ORG454M plate (ORG 454M), it's been around for years, always displayed like that and I'll be honest, Guildford is not the most friendly Traffic Policed area in the UK so I'm surprised that it has escaped reprimand.
I see tens of cars a day with mispresented plates, sometimes with Police/Traffic Police behind but they do nothing. Is the law against misrepresentation of a number plate becoming loose? Are ANPR camera's able to read the plates in any format, determining who's bad and who's not, and therefore offering little incentive for the Policeman to stop the car? MOT testers turn a blind eye (I doubt most of the owner's swap the plates to legal ones)? I'm not ranting, it doesn't really bother me honestly but I've always wondered.
There is certainly zero enforcement evident around here - either on incorrect spacing, butchery of the characters, dodgy fonts and black and silver plates fitted illegally - all of which I see every single day
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