How is this possible?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-30424470
So, this car was stolen in Scotland, and found in London.
On the assumption it was driven all the way there (as a couple of sightings would suggest), how the hell did this thing not get caught by either ANPR, or by chance was just spotted by a routine patrol?
I'm just dumbfounded really. You'd think that if any one of us stole a car - or even forgot to renew the insurance, for example, we wouldn't be on the road 5 minutes before being flagged by an ANPR camera or stopped by a patrol car.
In this day and age, how can you do 450 miles in a (distinctive) stolen car and not get caught in the act?
Where are the the routine patrols by motorway cops? I thought this was why they'd spent so much money covering the country with ANPR?
So, this car was stolen in Scotland, and found in London.
On the assumption it was driven all the way there (as a couple of sightings would suggest), how the hell did this thing not get caught by either ANPR, or by chance was just spotted by a routine patrol?
I'm just dumbfounded really. You'd think that if any one of us stole a car - or even forgot to renew the insurance, for example, we wouldn't be on the road 5 minutes before being flagged by an ANPR camera or stopped by a patrol car.
In this day and age, how can you do 450 miles in a (distinctive) stolen car and not get caught in the act?
Where are the the routine patrols by motorway cops? I thought this was why they'd spent so much money covering the country with ANPR?
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Hence routine patrols as well though? It's a distinctive car. If ANPR failed to spot it, then an officer parked up at the road-side, or even cruising down the motorway themselves should have spotted it, surely?
It happens.
Surely yes but who knows how and why they didn't.
Unmarked?
I dunno, maybe it's just a lot easier to serious commit crime than I've been led to believe
It is. You've answered your own question.
The police simply haven't got enough personnel and resources to cover everything straight away. They'll probably catch up with them at a later date, after investigation has taken place and evidence analysed.
i seemed to have solved that particular problem
Not just the car nicked, if the house was burgled also that might suggest that the house was empty at the time.
According to the AA you could drive from Livingston to London in just over 7 hours.
Indeed. It may have been spotted but until it was reported as stolen then it would probably have been ignored.
Probably it would of been containered and shipped to somewhere like cyprus and that would of been the last of it other than everyones insurance going up to cover the payout by probably 5p
Can you really? Where do you get it from? :cool:
Corrected that for you....
Easily done. I've done it in 5 hrs 55mins (Livingston to Kings Cross) (and not gone over 80mph)
I have had two that slipped through the net, one was found bashed up a few days later, the other one we were told was probably nicked to order and never came back.
No you can't. They don't work.
Unless, of course, you're talking about using a can of black spray paint to obscure the registration entirely... which'd be likely to draw attention to the vehicle.
Simple fact is that you've only got to look at the amount of uninsured/untaxed vehicles out there to see that the whole malarkey with ANPR and CCTV is over-rated.
Far be it from me to give criminals ideas but it seems like all you'd need to do would be to steal, say, a black BMW and then have a look on the autotrader website, find a car of a similar model and colour which shows a picture of the number plate and then have a pair of plates made with that reg and bung them on your stolen vehicle with sticky-pads and you'd probably never get noticed.