To Wonder Why My Weird Neighbours...

[JoffreyBaratheon]

Just yesterday I noticed something. Nuts neighbours (they of the dog kicking) have parked their car (boy racer car/mid-life crisis sports car) the other way round to how they normally do, in their drive. And it has a different number plate. I mean - the front of the car has a different number plate to the back!

Not radically different - just the first letter. But... wtf? What crimes could you commit by only changing one letter in your rear licence plate and keeping the original one, on the front?

They've had this car for several years and we only knew the licence plate vaguely as we noticed the (original) number plate's first letter meant it was from the city where we used to live -and that is the only reason I noticed.

But just double checked and sure enough - it begins with one letter on the front plate and another on the back. Theories?

To dodge speed cameras. Go on dvla website and report. It's an offence to have incorrect plates.

They probably haven’t taxed it.

It fell off and that was the closest they could get?

Yep illegal report!

I thought I was seeing things, at first. Speed camera avoidance sounds like a possibility.

They have 6 CCTV cameras around their house so I will have to photo it from an angle where their cameras can't pick me up!

If it's in the UK, check it out

www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dvla

Could they have been involved in an accident? Is there any damage to the front of their car? Just wondering why they have parked it a different way round to normal.

Ooh it seems the DVLA have a page where you can check if a car is taxed. I just fed in the back number plate (the recent one) and it gave me the car's colour and make correctly and said it is taxed til Dec. However, when I fed in the front numberplate (the one they have had for three years) it doesn't recognise the details... So they have taxed it, but only under the newer licence number.

Most peculiar.

No, the parking it a different way round after several years has been going on for a month or more. Thing is, it had the other plate front and back, at a time they must have been paying tax for it, on the 'newer' plate, if it runs out in Dec. So the original plates were false, but only out by one letter. Curioser and curioser.

Means some speed cameras won't pick it up - average ones as they read both plates!

My Dad once had differing plates for a year as garage made a mistake and he just randomly noticed one day whilst washing it

Could be on purpose, could be a mistake (if they cracked theirs and gave the wrong number by mistake for the new plate). Either way it is illegal.

Whatever the reason, they are up to no good for sure.

Are you saying they kick their dog?

Because if so, report them to the police for their number plate. They deserve to be fucked with.

It’s probably somebody else entirely who has been paying tax on the new plates..

It can’t be for speed cameras if the rear plate is the correct one though. Don’t they photograph from the Back?

They may have noticed a car with similar plates to their old ones and robbed it,and they now show the car as taxed on that plate.

See if you can report online to your local police - they're not going to bother checking IP addresses to trace you for this !

I’m not sure the reasons but I would bet money that it’s dodgy!!

Brendas the RSPCA could do nothing as we didn't film it happening and it had no obvious marks on when they examined it. As the RSPCA couldn't act neither could the police. I saw it clearly in broad daylight and the council (they are council tenants) told us I must have 'misinterpreted' something else. I guess they think there is a dog kicking simulation folk dance...

But yes, they deserve to have their lives made hell. But whenever they get reported, they always end up getting away with it.

I can photo one plate from my front garden without being caught on their camera (don't want to alert them or they will change it before someone comes out). And son has to walk right past the front of their car coming home from school so may get him to photo that one...

No, Eltonssyrup (love the name) - cos the DVLA site tells you the make and colour car, and it's the same car they have had for several years. It's one of those boy racer cars with twin exhausts and not a common one.

I don't think you need "evidence" in the form of a photo. Just report registrations as being different and address of where car is parked.

What I mean is, if you are planning to use photos to report, if police checked the car and it then had correct plates, they wouldn't do anything with your photos anyway.

Can you phone whatever the non emergency number is and ask them?

"DVLA does not accept reports of illegal number plates from the public, as the vehicle must be seen by the police on the public highway to establish that an offence has been committed."

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/contact_point_to_register_illega

Ah maybe I need to tip the police off then.