Police Awareness Aberdeen

[puckrup]

Police have a road traffic awareness drive on in Aberdeen, pulled in 911 and fined £60 for 'illegal' number plates - size, spacing, no BS stamp or postcode of plate manufacturer. Technically 4 offences PER plate or 8 x £60. Completely OTT. Plate was not misrepresented or excessively small. No defence, guilty as charged.......no further comment.

[S2red]

You'll not like this but

Plates are meant to be specific design for a reason.

The rules say what they say so no matter how cool a fancy type face is or what subtle spacing change or strategically placed bolt turns you plate into dont complain when you are pulled up

Might be wrong but I dont recall many other plates where you can do what we do

OK maybe a warning and prove it has been fixed may have been a more sensible attitude from police but if it is police awareness week that a good score for them

Edited by S2red on Wednesday 5th June 07:54

[Humper]

Once more the police's latest obsession with trivia. And the seatbelt fine is going up again. Must be a big party this Xmas.

[mazdajason]

Really? Until you know someone who has died and was not wearing a seat belt, that's a harsh thing to say. Is it so hard to put it on when you get in a car?
I understand multidrop inner city couriers would find it extremely tedious but people who drive to work and back who don't wear a seatbelt should be fined and rightly so.

[gogsboy]

puckrup said:

Police have a road traffic awareness drive on in Aberdeen, pulled in 911 and fined £60 for 'illegal' number plates - size, spacing, no BS stamp or postcode of plate manufacturer. Technically 4 offences PER plate or 8 x £60. Completely OTT. Plate was not misrepresented or excessively small. No defence, guilty as charged.......no further comment.

So are you saying you got £60 which is the norm or they went OTT and did you up like a kipper

[S2red]

Heard of radio this morning £100 fine for tailgaiting and lane hoggers :-)

[Humper]

mazdajason said:

Really? Until you know someone who has died and was not wearing a seat belt, that's a harsh thing to say. Is it so hard to put it on when you get in a car?
I understand multidrop inner city couriers would find it extremely tedious but people who drive to work and back who don't wear a seatbelt should be fined and rightly so.

Or you couldve been sitting next to someone in the back of a car that went nose over tail and landed on the back of the roof. I wasnt wearing a seatbelt. I still have the top half of my body.
We all have reasons for what we think.

[gogsboy]

Funny that happened to me many moons ago, two people had seatbelts on and one broke a leg and an arm, I never actually broke anything and got out the car first....saying that amount of pain was in think would have preferred a broken arm

[McWigglebum4th]

puckrup said:

Police have a road traffic awareness drive on in Aberdeen, pulled in 911 and fined £60 for 'illegal' number plates - size, spacing, no BS stamp or postcode of plate manufacturer. Technically 4 offences PER plate or 8 x £60. Completely OTT. Plate was not misrepresented or excessively small. No defence, guilty as charged.......no further comment.

Please tell me plod didn't try and charge you with more then one offence

[Kiltie]

Yesterday evening, on King Street, a bobby wagged his finger at me for eating a Sherbet Fountain while driving.

I acknowledged his disapproval and just chewed the liquorice bit until he was out of sight.

[puckrup]

Kiltie said:

Yesterday evening, on King Street, a bobby wagged his finger at me for eating a Sherbet Fountain while driving.

I acknowledged his disapproval and just chewed the liquorice bit until he was out of sight.

That puts it in context - minor misdemeanour! I know the rules and regs around number plates so telling a granny to suck eggs is not the issue. Can't treat this in the same light at seatbelt etc. Better use of police time, now that's a fair comment. Stopping motorist and measuring the height and width of letters is bureaucracy gone wrong.

[puckrup]

S2red said:

The rules say what they say so no matter how cool a fancy type face is or what subtle spacing change or strategically placed bolt turns you plate into dont complain when you are pulled up

Edited by S2red on Wednesday 5th June 07:54

I know the rules, no strategically placed bolts, coloured tape etc. Font was approved, spacing was adhered to, plate was 3/4 size as opposed to full size

[S2red]

In that case petty, bored and obviously nothing better to do

[Cambell]

I was pulled over in East Lothian a couple of years ago, initially I was spotted doing over 90 in a 60 (I wasn't!) Then they said they'd pulled me over for an illegal font on my numberplate. No fine, points or anything, just an order to get it changed and a partial re-MOT. I suspect it was a case of mistaken identity as there was a car similar to mine often parked in the less affluent area of my town.

On the seatbelt issue, I feel really strange in the car with no belt on, even just moving it about. I am a door to door delivery / collection driver and as such am exempt from wearing a seatbelt while working unless my next point is more than 25m away. I can be in and out of my van easily 100 times a day.

[S2red]

The problem with seatbelts is there are obviously folk who were lucky and tell you how they survived despite not wearing one.

The unlucky ones not wearing one are not here to tell you their story.

And on same subject why do predominantly young females feel need to drive with seatbelt either over shoulder un fastened or under shoulder fastened round waist?

Stupid

[ModernAndy]

S2red said:

The problem with seatbelts is there are obviously folk who were lucky and tell you how they survived despite not wearing one.

The unlucky ones not wearing one are not here to tell you their story.

My dad is an ex-firefighter and has a lot of experience of cutting people out of cars (being stationed in Aberdeen & then Peterhead). He has seen first hand what happens when people aren't wearing seatbelts in a crash and it's usually very bad.

[ModernAndy]

He showed me a photo photo he had taken after a car crash. The driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The steering wheel rim looked like it had been welded to the dashboard. The driver's torso must have hit the centre of the wheel with massive force. Imagine how much that would injure you

[Corpulent Tosser]

puckrup said:

I know the rules, no strategically placed bolts, coloured tape etc. Font was approved, spacing was adhered to, plate was 3/4 size as opposed to full size

So you were aware of the law and were aware that your plate was too small.

I really don't see what the issue is, you took a chance and got caught.

[Kiltie]

Corpulent Tosser said:

puckrup said:

I know the rules, no strategically placed bolts, coloured tape etc. Font was approved, spacing was adhered to, plate was 3/4 size as opposed to full size

So you were aware of the law and were aware that your plate was too small.

I really don't see what the issue is, you took a chance and got caught.

I didn't get the impression that the OP was whinging at all.

He was merely raising an eyebrow that Police Scotland apparently see this as effective use of their time.

I, on the other hand, have plenty to whinge about. As a starter, when Makro / Yodel will deliver my new picnic table appears to be beyond the greatest minds of the twenty first century.

On another matter, I'm going to phone your missus this afternoon as I have a couple of things for you that I was going to drop off at the house (just a book about rugby and some trousers).

Cheers,

Eric

[Kiltie]

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