Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
M40, Birmingham-bound.<\/p>\n
Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n
It’s not often I see a need<\/em> for new legislation but this requirement is long overdue\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Vehicle registration plates.<\/p>\n I find that I’m seeing an increasing number of vehicle registration plates that have been tampered with to make them look like something they’re not.<\/p>\n Like right now.<\/p>\n I’m following an Audi on the M40.<\/p>\n I have +20\/20 vision.<\/p>\n I am 30 metres behind it.<\/p>\n The registration number on the plate of the Audi is – quite plainly – HOTT X.<\/p>\n I know that this registration number has been manipulated because HOTT X is not a valid registration number.<\/p>\n I close to 20 metres.<\/p>\n It still only<\/em> says HOTT X.<\/p>\n Traffic slows and bunches up because there’s a jam at an exit ramp so I close to ten metres.<\/p>\n Nope, it still reads as HOTT X – but I can see there’s something after the ‘H’ on the registration plate.<\/p>\n Traffic slows to a crawl so I pull up to five metres.<\/p>\n Guess what?<\/p>\n From this distance I can see that the actual registration number is H17 TTX.<\/p>\n The owner has manipulated it by inserting\u00a0a black ‘.’\u00a0next to the ‘1’ and the ‘7’ has been straightened and placed next to the ‘H1.’ to make it look like ‘]’.<\/p>\n Then the ‘X’ has been extra-spaced away from the first part of the registration detail.<\/p>\n So in ASCII it looks like this: HI]TT\u00a0 X.<\/p>\n I’m not being a killjoy in calling for legislation to stop this from happening, my\u00a0reasoning\u00a0is simple.<\/p>\n If the car in front of me was involved in a hit and run accident no-one<\/em> would have a clue as to its real identity.<\/p>\n So come on you nanny Isn’t it about time you got off your collective arses and did something useful, something that would actually benefit the public for a change?<\/p>\n Stop people from screwing around with their vehicle registration plates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday afternoon. M40, Birmingham-bound. Buckinghamshire. It’s not often I see a need for new legislation but this requirement is long overdue\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Vehicle registration plates. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Conservative<\/strike> New Labour politicians.<\/p>\n