Updatey the third...

[denny]

In exciting news, the Hackney Council charge was indeed a parking ticket, and they did indeed give me the registration plate of the vehicle involved.

In less exciting news, when I reported all this to the local police they basically said "Hereisyourcrimereferencenumberhaveaniceday". When I asked about the possibility of actually using the information to catch someone, they got a bit shifty... I have to call back in a week to find out whether they decided to bother investigating or not. Bit disappointing considering I potentially just gave them the thief's home address.

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[dakeyras.livejournal.com]

I'll be very surprised if they get the actual thief's home address, to be honest. In my experience with this level of criminality there's a probability of over 90% that the car isn't registered with DVLA, therefore nigh-on untraceable without a fair shedload of luck. I'm actually half-expecting the vehicle now to be dumped somewhere and burned out - what happens in a fair number of cases is that a card is stolen so that it can't be traced to the owner, who needs to retrieve drugs / weapons / whatever. The vehicle itself suffers some ignominious end, usually arson, and the owner walks away to get another car from the local auction house, who of course don't bother ensuring that the vehicle is registered, or even that the owner has given any form of credible ID.

I'll stop now, before I start ranting.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

And the question you have to ask yourself is, in that case, why would they be paying the parking ticket?

[dakeyras.livejournal.com]

Just a ticket? Sorry, I presumed it was a retrieval from pound...