To have reported neighbour

[RinkyDinkyDoo]

Tax disc on his second car, they have a main car and a works van, ran out at the end of January.
This car is mainly parked on the road, as is the van and other car, they have room on their drive for one car,but don't use it.
I have now seen him driving the car with out of date tax 4 times now. I reported him on the DVLA website this afternoon.

[Bearbehind]

I have said before that if you are the kind of person who believes all breaches of the law are unacceptable then fair enough, report away, just don't post on a public forum boasting about it.

The OP could have pointed out the expired tax disc to the neighbour, no one accidentally burgles or robs someone but it is conceivable that they can accidentally not tax their car.

Plus, tax evasions by millionaires, burglary and mugging might never catch up with the culprit if it isn't reported - not taxing a car will- the DVLA know exactly what is and isn't taxed and who owns it- reporting this just saves them time but the end result is the same.

[redbinneo]

Bearbehind
you seem to be boasting on a public forum about not reporting crime, It's all about your moral compass I suppose.

[Bearbehind]

I'm not boasting about not reporting a crime, I'm saying my moral compass would tell me to point out the expired tax disc to the appropriate person rather than sneakily reporting them, or just let it be, knowing they'll be caught in the end.

As I said, this isn't a crime that will remain undetected indefinitely.

I certainly wouldn't be swayed by my opinion of the person which seems to be the general indicator of whether to report this or not.

[PigletJohn]

traffic wardens used to ticket or report cars with no tax disc. I got caught once. I probably just hadn't got round to it.

[MistressDeeCee]

Bearbehind yes I shall be very careful

If I saw my neighbour's untaxed car on the road, Im more likely to say in passing I hear theyre in the area lifting untaxed vehicles so best sort your car out sooner rather than later. Thats IF I even noticed, not being in the habit of peering at people's tax discs - I have a life.

There are so many excuses for being mean-spirited as opposed to neighbourly - as if OP or others like her really give a shit about a crime being committed. Theyre just people who don't like people. Most who are discontented and disgruntled in themselves about this or that behave in this way. Vindictive, always got it in for someone. Theyre normally friendless curtain twitchers who probably get off on putting up posts about what theyve done...they can hug the knowledge gleefully to themselves as said neighbour passes by, and revel in the 'you are right' comments. Oh what an exciting life we lead...

Much nicer to be neighbourly

[Nnnnnnn]

MistressDeeCee - I come across so many of these people in my line of work. Taking so much pleasure in being entirely law abiding and self righteous, yet completing missing the fact that they are actually not very nice people. Law abiding, yet nice with it, makes for a much better person. In fact I'd rather the world be full of people who fail to pay their road tax but treat each other nicely, then a world where everyone pays their road tax but stab each other in the back at every opportunity (obviously everyone paying their road tax AND being nice to each other would be the best option before I get accused of saying that breaking the law is OK). It takes more than just following the law to be a decent person.

Had the OP said she'd reported him because he was an arse and he deserved it, I'd have had no issue and just thought good for her. But she made it sound like she was doing it out of social responsibility and came across just like one of the people we've described. Which is why she's had the responses she's had.

I do think he should be fined, but let DVLA's computers get on with it.

Bearbehind - still agreeing with you.

[Adeleh]

Laughing at idea that if we're not zealously reporting our neighbour's crime of forgetting to renew their tax disc it's because we have a defective moral compass.

[MistressDeeCee]

It takes more than just following the law to be a decent person

Exactly, Nnnnnnn

I think the OP sounds as if she's gloating regarding getting her neighbour into trouble, and I find that distasteful.

[ThefutureMrsTatum]

OP , as bear correctly pointed out earlier, the letter from the DVLA is by no means anonymous, and the assumption that all the website asks for is the car reg and the postcode is very telling. The letter states the date and time reported and the road location. Within a few minutes and using a process of eliminationn by which neighbours he knows walks past or has site of his tax disc, and those that are around at that time of day, he will be easily able to single you out, particularly ifhe has noticed your "I dont really like him" attitude. Karma is a bitch but so are nighbours who have been grassed on. I would be prepared for a few nails in the tyres, but hope it was worth the quick leg over and boast!
not sure what you wanted to gain from this thread? A pat on the back and a well aren't you a good citizen. As I. Stated last night they could be having family and/or financial problems that you don't know about, and you may have just added unecessary crap to the pile.

[Troglodad]

"Not reporting crime" is actually not in itself inherently a bad thing if there is a problem that can be fixed with no harm done, it may be part of a little thing called discretion.

When you have discretion and apply it, you talk to your neighbour instead of trying to get them fined, or their car scrapped and potentially ruin their life just for the fun of it, and you have a country that does not have 1 in 3 people sporting a criminal record.

Plus look at the state and law we have, that murders people all over the place, police that run the hell away when people are in real danger, law that has abolished the need to prove guilt before imprisoning people, and doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. I have always been a very conservative, law-abiding person but (like most people I know) I can't consider the state a benchmark of moral judgment any longer. The only people you see who are still on an uber-statist these days are frankly loopy people who are completely out of touch.