Big Brother is watching YOU

[smokie]

ANPR (& CCTV) apparently had a hand in tracking the robbers who murdered the policewoman the other day.

So it's not all bad...

[chrisbeatty]

So this giant computer logs you as a bad "big boy", for whatever reason, and then puts a chase car on your tail - just like that.
Pretty damn clever I'd say. And I don't believe it for one second.

I seem to recall that newer police traffic cars scan number plates of cars in front of them (going in the opposite direction as well??). Then check them against a list of "bad big boy" plates, they can then follow you (as long as they're not busy doing anything else)

[smokie]

Yep, also checks against DVLA database for valid tax & insurance (...they look for likelihood of insurance) and of course with computerised MOTs coming in, them too. The system doesn't require any monitoring or setup by the officers - an alert sounds when a bad car is scanned. Also you will see ANPR vans set up by the side of the road, often with a mobile patrol some way further up the road. I've mostly seen them just as you come off roundabouts. Bit like a camera van but with the device tripod mounted and lower than a camera would be.

[Bob U]

I have no problem with this at all, all cars belonging to my family are legal and are roadworthy. If this helps keep some of the uninsured and untaxed wrecks off the road I am all for it, even more so if it will stop my insuranse premiums rising every year when I havn't made a claim.

[garystout]

I think it's the exact opposite. Those that don't register he vehicle will continue to get away with murder, literally. Those of us who are generally law abiding but make an "administrative error" (i.e. have a brain fart and forget to go to the Post Office) will get hammered. The people behing this little lots are c**nts. As I have said before, Big Brother IS watching and will be prying into more areas of your life from a State Police HQ near you soon.

I think thats what i just said 

Eh? Gary, I don't get it. If you don't register the vehicle or if you use false number plates, then how are they going to catch you?

Please read again my first post, that is what i said

[Andy Zarse]

Mate, honestly I'm not trying to be awkward. I've de-constructed your sentence a million times, looked at it from every which way, but no, I still don't understand how you think we're saying the same thing. I think KPY, who is a trained lawyer and understands such subtlties,  agrees with me too.

Our statements are diametric and polar opposites, unless of course you had intended your non sequitur to be what is known in grammatical circles as a "Conjectural Emendation"; this is where the variants inherent in a text are for some reason unsatisfactory, and the textual critic (me) is forced to make an educated guess about the proper reading of the text.

If only Derrida was still alive...

[redstu]

From the article

The new offence of keeping a vehicle without insurance criminalises the previously harmless pastime of keeping an uninsured vehicle in a garage and not driving it, and comes on top of the previous breakthrough of criminalising keeping an untaxed vehicle in a garage and not driving it. The latter was dealt with by requiring owners to register the vehicle as off the road via a Statutory Off-Road Notification.

So what is wrong with an uninsured car that doesn't go anywhere?

Will we need to provide evidence that it is not driveable or in the process of a ground up restoration (if that isn't also illegal).

Bloody control freaks!