Congestion Charging - Minor system error?

[Dan]

Individual errors my ar*e

105-year-old car gets congestion charge penalty notice

A museum's 105-year-old Daimler which hasn't been on the road since 1947 has had a penalty notice for evading London's congestion charge.

The veteran car was said to have been driven into the capital at 8.15 on the morning of February 17 without paying the £5 charge.

The notice said the car had been seen at Elephant and Castle/London Road. "The contravention is supported by a number of evidential images."

The car, with the number plate Y99, has a maximum speed of only 15mph.

"We were surprised to get the paperwork because the Daimler has not moved under its own power for decades," said Andrew King, curator of the Bristol Industrial Museum, where the car has been on display for 25 years.

The administration centre for the London congestion charge penalty notices is in Coventry where the Daimler was built in 1898, says The Daily Telegraph.

Transport for London said: "It would be ridiculous to expect there are not going to be individual errors."

[AlexH]

Transport for London said: "It would be ridiculous to expect there are not going to be individual errors."

Yeah but most won't be as clear cut as this and the poor bastards will end up being chased by Ken's extortionists.

[P*Ting]

Shows what lying thilth were dealing with.

"Pay up coz we've got piccys to prove its you."

Do you now? Really? Good resolution on them cameras then?

[funkihamsta]

It worries me that the misreads are turning up such notable errors already. How many misreads don't go anywhere because the misread plate number is completely invalid.
I'm already practicing my civil disobediance ahead of some spastard cloning my plate or the cameras misreading someone's as mine.