Interesting development...

**Eurodave** · 16th February 2009, 07:51

So i was in at my local friendly WOF station getting the Guzzi legal & he advised me a couple of things.....
Plod are currently photographing vehicles nationwide so they can match the pic to their database.....

[more on this later] & trailers are also now listed according to their dimensions....

Anyway I took the Guzzi & Unigo trailer to Dunedin & back last week & what did I see? Plod doing just that, sitting in a foldup chair beside plodmobile with a hand held digital camera pointing at the back of vehicles as they passed by!!!!! HHmmmmm WATCH OUT ,BIG BROTHER IS GETTING A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY METHINKS!! [Of course this only affects people who are 'creative" with their number plates

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**Hitcher** · 16th February 2009, 07:56

The only difference between a white 2006 Toyota Corolla and another white 2006 Toyota Corolla is (wait for it, drum roll please) the rego!

**MsKABC** · 16th February 2009, 08:04

Originally Posted by Eurodave

[Of course this only affects people who are 'creative" with their number plates

]

I know someone like that

It is easy enough to do with trailers. Have the police really got time to be putting together such a database though??

**Eurodave** · 16th February 2009, 08:11

Originally Posted by MsKABC

I know someone like that

It is easy enough to do with trailers. Have the police really got time to be putting together such a database though??

Apparently so......

**Number One** · 16th February 2009, 08:13

I wonder if they are going to be going through their databases to assign and award all those speed camera tickets of bikes taken front on....

Would that be possible I wonder - maybe if they could match the colour and riders gear....

Hmmm might be time to repaint the SV like I planned and new gear sounds in order now too

**Eurodave** · 16th February 2009, 08:13

Originally Posted by Hitcher

The only difference between a white 2006 Toyota Corolla and another white 2006 Toyota Corolla is (wait for it, drum roll please) the rego!

Youre missing the point buddy, Big Brother is alive & well & watching you even closer...

**Winston001** · 16th February 2009, 08:15

I don't get it. Why are they doing this?

**Eurodave** · 16th February 2009, 08:18

Originally Posted by Winston001

I don't get it. Why are they doing this?

To dish out more tickets & increase their revenue collection from people like me...

**ManDownUnder** · 16th February 2009, 08:24

Originally Posted by Winston001

I don't get it. Why are they doing this?

At a guess I'd say it's a step towards automatic validation of numberplates. Car goes under camera, which does some whizz bang stuff measuring the size of the vehicle reading the numberplate, looking it up on the database, matching it to the dimensions it has on file and saying "that's bad" if a Subaru Justy numberplate goes down the road attached to a 500 series Mercedes

The bastards might be doing somethign to stop theives!

Originally Posted by Eurodave

To dish out more tickets & increase their revenue collection from people like me...

ummm... ok. Other than detecting theft... measuring your vehicle increases your chance of getting a ticket... how?

**MsKABC** · 16th February 2009, 08:31

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

ummm... ok. Other than detecting theft... measuring your vehicle increases your chance of getting a ticket... how?

I think maybe what he was alluding to was the situation where people have 2 trailers, but only one is registered. They swap the number plate back and forth.

The benefits you describe are certainly worthwhile though

**awayatc** · 16th February 2009, 08:40

Back in the 80's in the Netherlands every car would get it's picture taken every few weeks or so....
Both hidden stationary camera's and mufty cars.....Anywhere.....
If the database showed you were out of registration or so, you would get a ticket in the mail......
So yes, big brother tactics can go so much further still.....
Something to look forward to........

**Max Preload** · 16th February 2009, 08:59

Originally Posted by MsKABC

Have the police really got time to be putting together such a database though??

Of course. All cases involving serious crime have been solved and there is no more being committed.

**MsKABC** · 16th February 2009, 09:00

Originally Posted by Max Preload

Of course. All cases involving serious crime have been solved and there is no more being committed.

I shall sleep well tonight then

**Number One** · 16th February 2009, 09:01

Originally Posted by Max Preload

Of course. All cases involving serious crime have been solved and there is no more being committed.

Hmmm I know some people that could help with that

**Eurodave** · 16th February 2009, 09:20

Originally Posted by MsKABC

I think maybe what he was alluding to was the situation where people have 2 trailers, but only one is registered. They swap the number plate back and forth.

The benefits you describe are certainly worthwhile though

I can neither confirm or deny that there may or may not be 2 or more trailers up my drive & indeed several motorcycles....