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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
It's amazing what some folk will resort to when trying to evade tax or ring a stolen vehicle. Locally stealing number plates from vehicles parked on the road seems to be in fashion again.

I knew of a young lad who lived in Wales, he was courting my friends daughter, he did not own a car nor could he drive being a student at a local college. He received dozens of speeding tickets, parking fines in the post, soon followed by Summons to Magistrates Court over quite a large area extending towards London.

Someone had used his name and address to register the V5 document after purchasing a vehicle from an auction site for cash. It took over 18 months to clear his name including several court appearances where arrest warrants (with doorstep bail) had been issued. I dont think the Police ever caught the culprit, I'm going back to 2001/2002 era. Back then the power for Police to seize vehicles was very limited.

Mikep328:
Wow, I had no idea of such things! 

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