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nib1980 - 5/2/09 at 12:52 PM

Hi All,

I've just been out for a walk and I had to post this picture.

Now bear in mind it's deadly out on the rodas and I have happily watched the snow plough slide on the roundabout.

guess what i saw














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r1_pete - 5/2/09 at 12:55 PM

Idiots, even if they're after tax dodgers most numberplates are snowed over......

Daddylonglegs - 5/2/09 at 12:55 PM

I think the term is GOBSMACKED!!

iank - 5/2/09 at 12:55 PM

Is that not illegally parked?
Not that I've got anything against ANPR vans.

Miks15 - 5/2/09 at 12:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Not getting the joke... it's an ANPR van - they pick up unlicensed, uninsured, etc. cars and not speeders!

?


I think its basically because theres noone on the roads so who are they gunna catch?

MikeR - 5/2/09 at 12:57 PM

almost looks like its been abandoned - snow on the window / no tire tracks. Try phoning the police and complaining that someone has parked on the pavement and abandoned a vehicle (i've got a vague memory its technically illegal)

coozer - 5/2/09 at 01:10 PM

Just goes to show the people in charge haven't got a clue what they are doing.

Go back and set it on fire

Mr Whippy - 5/2/09 at 01:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
almost looks like its been abandoned - snow on the window / no tire tracks. Try phoning the police and complaining that someone has parked on the pavement and abandoned a vehicle (i've got a vague memory its technically illegal)


well the back hatches are open and you can see a camera peeping out the driverside one.

Where are the kids with snowballs when you need them!!

Crank Catch Tank
Crank Catch Tank

[Edited on 5/2/09 by Mr Whippy]

carpmart - 5/2/09 at 01:51 PM

ANPR vans are good, help reduce my insurance premiums and get the chav's off the road! On the other hand, speed camera vans are just a taxation scheme

Mr Whippy - 5/2/09 at 02:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by carpmart
ANPR vans are good, help reduce my insurance premiums and get the chav's off the road! On the other hand, speed camera vans are just a taxation scheme


don't worry they'll soon be so many of them, since they can use any linked CTV camera that they'll track the movements of all vehicles and become average speed cameras, even in towns and cities that have cameras at junctions/roundabouts, the computer will just flag up vehicles it see’s passing between two cameras quicker than if they did the speed limit.

Totally automatic instant fines & many take pictures of the driver already so you can't even claim you weren't the driver

[Edited on 5/2/09 by Mr Whippy]

mistergrumpy - 5/2/09 at 03:21 PM

Nah I don't really get it either. If it was a speed camera then yes maybe but it's ANPR so it's catching sh1tbags with no tax or insurance and also the drug runners and weapons carriers who's car registrations have been noted and put on there.
To say that it's pointless because the roads are empty is not true either. For example take this thread where a few people on here have said they've been driving out in the snow. So there are still people going out, the whole countrie's not come to a standstill. Though I'll have it that that's what the media are putting it across as.

quote:

Just goes to show the people in charge haven't got a clue what they are doing

Not that true either that is it? You pay your rates so would you not rather have someone doing summat as oppose to sitting on their arses all day because its too cold and snowing.
I'd go with what carpmart said:

quote:

ANPR vans are good, help reduce my insurance premiums and get the chav's off the road! On the other hand, speed camera vans are just a taxation scheme

Sounds good to me.

scootz - 5/2/09 at 04:41 PM

I agree with MrGrumpy...

Meeerrrk - 5/2/09 at 04:59 PM

i like ANPRs, i got hit by an uninsured driver in may 2007 causing 3k worth of damage to my mini cooper s (whole new passenger side) and i lost all but 1yr of my no claims! ANPR vans are doing a good job!

That said, i 100% would have thrown a snow ball or 10 at the camera for a laugh