There’s more than one of me out there…
Categories: Featured, Personal Life
Written By: James
Had an interesting turn of events recently, something that has never happened to me before at any rate. Woke up one morning last week to find the number plates on my car had been stolen. Nothing else done to the car - luckily it has a fairly good security system - but finding the plates missing pissed me off completely! Amazingly, the police classed this as a priority issue and were here within an hour, so I had my crime log number and reference number within a couple of hours too. Good work on the part of the police, but is that it? Is this little episode in my life over? No, not by a long shot it seems. So far it has cost me only £13.00 to replace the plates after a visit to my local MOT car parts establishment. [It still blows me away that I could actually purchase new number plates so easily on a Sunday morning, but that's life in the UK for you.]
However, the police warned me that I could [make that should] expect some nasty surprises in the mail within a few weeks and maybe even some knockings on the door as well. You see, they didn’t steal the plates because they looked nice, or they were personalised in any way. Oh no, they stole them just to use them in future robberies, speeding through speed cameras and whatever else they feel like doing but do not wish to be accountable for. And it seems I cannot do a single thing about it. The DVLA gods tell me that they will not give me a relacement set of new number plates [as in - completely new numbers] until they feel there are enough justifiable reasons to do so, but when I start receiving these nasties they will listen to my complaints and judge each case accordingly. Basically, I am guilty until I prove myself innocent. So, I am keeping every piece of evidence I can to state where I am - shop receipts, signed in at work, purchasing goods etc, etc, but how do I prove I am home and not out on the road? It’s all fun! Who knows what little surprises I have in store. I can’t wait!
