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Originally posted by Ian
A guy I worked with had his bike number plate cloned which I believe is an enormous problem within the UK, (and the reason why i would never post a picture on this site showing a bike number plate (lets not make it easier than it is for them)). The criminal sees your bike matching the stolen one he has in his lock up and makes up a plate to match your one that he has just seen passing by. It being an actual plate matching the bike description he is less lilkely to be stopped on a suspect check up. Anyway back to the story of the guy i worked with: He was arrested for hit and run and given that it later turned out that the pedistrian was killed and he could not initially remember his whereabouts at the time of the accident he was in serious trouble until he could prove that it was not him. The responsibility was on him to prove that he was his innocent given that the bike involved in the hit and run matched exactly the bike he owned. |
This happened to a guy I know about 10 years ago. He bought a car out of one of the boy racer magazines, a really nice black Escort RS Turbo. Lovely it was, only a couple of years old, a few nice mods and was pretty quick.
One morning as he got into his car he was rushed by a dozen policemen, many of them armed, and dragged off to the cells.
It eventually turned out that some robbers up north had copied the plates from the registration shown in the advert and put them on a nicked car which was exactly the same - they then went and did an armed robbery in it!
Suffice to say he had a hard time proving his innocence until his workmates verified that he had been there all day at the time of the robbery.