Number Plate Theft...Twice!
Discussion
Had my number plates stolen on Sunday, for the second time in just over a month.
Small, country town, virtually zero car crime and in a long-stay public car park.
What I can't quantify is what attraction has a 22 year-old Audi got to the thieving scum that do this?
After having reported the first incident, BiB contacted me a week later to advise that my plates were used in a fuel theft, but no other info and no arrests made.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.
Small, country town, virtually zero car crime and in a long-stay public car park.
What I can't quantify is what attraction has a 22 year-old Audi got to the thieving scum that do this?
After having reported the first incident, BiB contacted me a week later to advise that my plates were used in a fuel theft, but no other info and no arrests made.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.
Carfiend said:
How about running a small layer of graphite along the edge of the number plate. When the immobiliser is armed it runs a harmless current through the graphite so if some one touches the edge they get a shock?
I am off down the Patent Office!
That could work in the dry, but when it rains the conductor strip will find a path to ground and trigger the alarm.I am off down the Patent Office!
I had a similar system to protect my CB antenna many many years ago.
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
That could work in the dry, but when it rains the conductor strip will find a path to ground and trigger the alarm.
I had a similar system to protect my CB antenna many many years ago.
I had considered a similar idea involving a copper strip, but rain was the problem, so thought about putting a layer of epoxy around the inside edge and sprinkling some glass to it, while using spacers on the screws. Even thought about adding some insoluble-in-water chemical to the glass, but, as I am not a chemist, couldn't come up with something suitably carcinogenic that's easily available.I had a similar system to protect my CB antenna many many years ago.
My mother had her Ford Orion Ghia stolen years ago, but it was only after it was stolen we found out that a cloned version of her car had been used in an armed robbery in London a few months before. Luckily they didn't come to arrest my mother, but we were suprised that we weren't informed that this had happened at the time. Her car had been broken into 16 times in total until it was finally stolen, most of the time for her stereo or wheels, but they did get the plates about a year before the bank robbery happened.
stewy68 said:
Had my number plates stolen on Sunday, for the second time in just over a month.
After having reported the first incident, BiB contacted me a week later to advise that my plates were used in a fuel theft, but no other info and no arrests made.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.
At least the BIB contacted you. I found it incredible when i reported my number plates stolen that the 'tard on the counter at the station couldn't seem to understand why it would be a problem and thoght I should be glad the whole car wasn't taken.After having reported the first incident, BiB contacted me a week later to advise that my plates were used in a fuel theft, but no other info and no arrests made.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.
After explaining that by having my plates on another car id be liable to any fines/prosecutions/crimes committed since i'm the registered keeper the dim wit eventually said that they would "make a note of it." I had to stand there and make sure she wrote something down before I asked for a receipt which stated the time/date that the report was made in order to provide some cover just in case to which I was told id have to report the incident as a crime to get a reference number.
Strange really because you would think that when you walk into a police station saying id like to report a crime it is pretty dam obvious that I want it to be official.
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