Reply to: Riots in Bristol

[NickFitz]

OK then, I dug out the actual answer as opposed to my earlier off the cuff one.

Police vehicles are not required to be MOT'd, although they do receive very regular maintenance. Also, as Crown vehicles, they do not require road tax, And, incidentally, insurance is covered by central funding - just like Post Office vans for example.

Back in the 1980s I got to know most of the number plates of unmarked police cars around Leicester as I lived in some quite dodgy areas and they could often be seen staking places out if you learned how to spot them. Usually there'd be a whole bunch with consecutive number plates (e.g. YRY 210Y to YRY 223Y), and often any Post Office vans from the same registration year would have plates in a similar range - as I recall, the PO were somewhere in the YRY 3xxY range that year

[malvolio]

The Police car pictured is a Ford Kuga and the reg matches up to a Ford Kuga with no MOT and no tax

OK then, I dug out the actual answer as opposed to my earlier off the cuff one.

Police vehicles are not required to be MOT'd, although they do receive very regular maintenance. Also, as Crown vehicles, they do not require road tax, And, incidentally, insurance is covered by central funding - just like Post Office vans for example.

[courtg9000]

Or that police vehicle number plates are hidden on the DVLA website...? They are, after all, coded in various ways and not published.

The local guys have a good idea who the 200-300 instigators of the violence are and are starting to round them up. This was simply criminal vandalism, nothing more, nothing less.

The Police car pictured is a Ford Kuga and the reg matches up to a Ford Kuga with no MOT and no tax

[vetran]

BrilloPad tried to start a riot once, but nobody else turned up. Just one fool in a batman costume.

I thought he had promised not to mention your attendance.. now you out yourself.

[malvolio]

Something does stink about this.
I saw a post on Facebook earlier, where one of the attacked police cars was pictured along with its MOT and tax status. This vehicle had neither according to the screenshot of DVLA checker!
The cynic is me says that this is not an administrative error!

Or that police vehicle number plates are hidden on the DVLA website...? They are, after all, coded in various ways and not published.

The local guys have a good idea who the 200-300 instigators of the violence are and are starting to round them up. This was simply criminal vandalism, nothing more, nothing less.

[courtg9000]

Something does stink about this.
I saw a post on Facebook earlier, where one of the attacked police cars was pictured along with its MOT and tax status. This vehicle had neither according to the screenshot of DVLA checker!
The cynic is me says that this is not an administrative error!

[LondonManc]

It'll help the bill through but I think it's more a case of useful idiots proving the case for the bill rather than Tory rentamob. Tories know they don't need to and that the activists will gladly waste taxpayer money they've not contributed to. Water cannons with soap would be a good deterrent for them.

[d000hg]

That will be a sight. IT geeks starting a riot.

BrilloPad tried to start a riot once, but nobody else turned up. Just one fool in a batman costume.

[DonaldJTrump]

Tulips used to come from Amsterdam, now you can get them in the strrets of Bristol: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/b...ficers-5212101

Kind of apt

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[Uncle Albert]

Tulips used to come from Amsterdam, now you can get them in the strrets of Bristol: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/b...ficers-5212101

[SueEllen]

ftfy

I would be so lucky!

Hairdressers aren't even open here.

[NickFitz]

There's a huge anti-establishment community in Bristol, mainly centred around Stokes Croft these days; but the city has a proud tradition of rioting. There's even a Wikipedia page for Bristol riots, and there's one that I know of that isn't on there, when they got really upset about a closed-down comedy club on Cheltenham Road being turned into a Tesco Express about ten years ago

[shaunbhoy]

I seem to have issues posting Beeb links from my phone in a boozer.

ftfy

[ladymuck]

That will be a sight. IT geeks starting a riot.

Did someone unplug the router?

[DealorNoDeal]

It would be a sit down vigil with laptops and mobile devices.

Nah, no-one would show up unless it was billable.