Don’t you think that it is cute that the Froggies think that we have competent authorities in our country?
Yeah, made me smile.
As you will find if you try and tell DVLA there is a clone of your reg about they are certainly not competent. You cant do that online or by email, you have to write a letter, which will not get to the right department using the advertised address. When it gets to that righ department they will tell you what you already know — yes my vehicle does have the correct registration and is registered to me. Reporting the clone to police is also pointless: the police here in Dorset don’t want their crime stats cluttered, if my cloned number was used to evade a parking penalty in Liverpool then the ‘crime’ is something to be reported by the parking operator in Liverpool. But they will put a note on the database so if anyone gets stops on suspicion of a cloned reg it is likely to be me.
“The verification’s made effectively exonerate you”
It would be interesting to know what “verification’s” have been made? Cross channel / border crossing data?…or is this a fancy way of saying they’ve cocked up without admitting as such?
Perhaps, like the private parking enforcers they know that it’s a scam and if the victim doesn’t cough at the first attempt then further action is throwing good money after bad.
Regardless, they’re French..so fuck ’em.
I favour cock-up over conspiracy. It would cost them too much to chase across borders a case they were going to lose. I think the verification was no more than my hotel invoice clearly showing that I was in Scotland at the time, so couldn’t possibly be in France.
I don’t know so much about “got away with it” if you could prove that you had been in Scotland.
But this shows that the French system still works in much the same way that it did when the company I was working for (in France) received silly numbers of sppeding fines. Most of the (British) staff thought that because they were seasonal workers they would be away before the paperwork arrived and the company would have to pay. Wrong! Uploading a pdf of the culprit’s licence and completing an online form meant that the fines caught them up. The most satisfying one was an oik who was flashed three times in one day!
What a nice letter. And in good English too.
Maybe the French do not have a term for “arrogant job’s-worth”?
Well done, you got away with it. 😉
Don’t you think that it is cute that the Froggies think that we have competent authorities in our country?
Yeah, made me smile.
As you will find if you try and tell DVLA there is a clone of your reg about they are certainly not competent. You cant do that online or by email, you have to write a letter, which will not get to the right department using the advertised address. When it gets to that righ department they will tell you what you already know — yes my vehicle does have the correct registration and is registered to me. Reporting the clone to police is also pointless: the police here in Dorset don’t want their crime stats cluttered, if my cloned number was used to evade a parking penalty in Liverpool then the ‘crime’ is something to be reported by the parking operator in Liverpool. But they will put a note on the database so if anyone gets stops on suspicion of a cloned reg it is likely to be me.
It would be interesting to know what “verification’s” have been made? Cross channel / border crossing data?…or is this a fancy way of saying they’ve cocked up without admitting as such?
Perhaps, like the private parking enforcers they know that it’s a scam and if the victim doesn’t cough at the first attempt then further action is throwing good money after bad.
Regardless, they’re French..so fuck ’em.
I favour cock-up over conspiracy. It would cost them too much to chase across borders a case they were going to lose. I think the verification was no more than my hotel invoice clearly showing that I was in Scotland at the time, so couldn’t possibly be in France.
I don’t know so much about “got away with it” if you could prove that you had been in Scotland.
But this shows that the French system still works in much the same way that it did when the company I was working for (in France) received silly numbers of sppeding fines. Most of the (British) staff thought that because they were seasonal workers they would be away before the paperwork arrived and the company would have to pay. Wrong! Uploading a pdf of the culprit’s licence and completing an online form meant that the fines caught them up. The most satisfying one was an oik who was flashed three times in one day!
What a nice letter. And in good English too.
Maybe the French do not have a term for “arrogant job’s-worth”?