thats why!!!! hope that helps mate!!!!
Does anyone know why people fuzz out their reg plates on website photos??!?!
I can understand if they were writing about how they'd used their transit van on a bank job or how they'd blatted down the M1 @ 120mph at
4.30 in the morning on the 9th November 2006 etc etc but what's the worry otherwise?!?!
I know the Police do check out forums and us it as evidence (I read how someone had shot himself in the foot on Pistonheads saying how he'd
fibbed to avoid a speeding fine) but hey, whats the worry otherwise?!?!
Just curious cos I'm about to take some pictures for my website of the car with plates, and will obviously fuzz 'em if there's a good
explanation!
Cheers
Ben
simple. someone steals a car, looks on a website for the identical car and "steals" your reg number. or, they make a copy of your plates,
add them to there identical car, and wow, free fuel, free conjestion charging, no parking tickets etc etc, well, free for them, but you will get the
summonds, bills, arrested etc etc......
thats why!!!! hope that helps mate!!!!
i Think its to stop people cloning your car details
Doh too slow
[Edited on 23/11/06 by kitcar007kev]
anything written on a forum etc, is not legally binding as a statement...
i could say i killed someone last week, etc, but its classed as hearsay, unless its taken as a statement and signed, its not worth the screen its read
from...... so to speak.............
quote:
Originally posted by Dazza
simple. someone steals a car, looks on a website for the identical car and "steals" your reg number. or, they make a copy of your plates, add them to there identical car, and wow, free fuel, free conjestion charging, no parking tickets etc etc, well, free for them, but you will get the summonds, bills, arrested etc etc......
thats why!!!! hope that helps mate!!!!
I agree, I think it's daft. Anyone can copy your registration fropm anywhere.
And while I'm on about it, why do TV companies pixilate the faces of those feckers who are filmed carrying out robberies and assaults? There is
no doubt they are doing the crime!
I think a more valid reason is to prevent vechile theft.
You can still find a car's location if you know how.
Ok think about this we all blur our number plates out to stop criminal activity
I dont and this is why
we all are car enthusiast therefore we got to Car shows meets etc when were there hundreds of people take pics of our cars do you know them??
do you take your plate off?? no
if they want a pic of your car
they will
they also could live across the road
its totally pointless
I kind of agree its another issue of web paranoia. I don't see cloning much of an issue with our cars they are all unique and registered as all
sorts of different manufacturers and models.
The fuzzy faces thing is that if they were identifiable and a juror or witness saw it on TV the trial would be unfair and probably declared a mistrial
if the judge found out. Anyway the buggers aren't guilty of anything until found so in court!
Caber 
Glad to hear its paranoia!! I won't bother
Anyway, if someone went to the effort of making a car exactly the same as mine just to avoid congestion charge they'd be pretty silly!! I can
understand with mass-production stuff though...
Cheers peeps...
Ben
quote:
I think a more valid reason is to prevent vechile theft.
Presumably the only way would be through the police database!?! Or is there publically accessible source?
DVLA sells your details to criminals
Borrocks... Fuzzy filter here we come to my photos...
i have special show plates for my tintop, and yes , i do take out the plates if i post on a website.
yes i know, anyone can read it on the road...but why make it easier for em.
A tintop clubmate, had a phone call from a tuning magazine asking if he would let them feature his car they had took pics of.
he had never spoken to any photographer that showday (we all noticed him though) and neither did anyone else.
so you see, you can be found from your plates by anyone who needs to.