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    How dumb can you get?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8411976.stm

    Own car with personalised number plate

    That's almost in the same league as driving your quad bike up a railway line after a job & getting run over by a train.

    #2
    James Snell, 27, of Cardiff, used his BMW with the number J4 MES to plan a raid on the Halifax, where he and accomplices stole £100,000.
    Obviously too young to have watched Z Cars, The Sweeney etc. In that era, any fule knu that you should nick a car for a bank job.
    Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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      #3
      10 years for stealing £100,000 - compare that with bank losses and nobody walked the plank for it

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        #4
        Now that would have been a great trial to do jury duty on. What a plonker.

        (Although I am a little niggled that such a toerag has a nice Beemer with a personalised registration plate. Crime doesn't pay? Really?)
        My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Sysman View Post
          Obviously too young to have watched Z Cars, The Sweeney etc. In that era, any fule knu that you should nick a car for a bank job.
          Prefrably a D type Jag as that's what the stuntmen prefer.

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            #6
            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            Prefrably a D type Jag as that's what the stuntmen prefer.
            Probably more like a S-Type Jag, as the D-Types were and are worth serious cash.

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              #7
              Originally posted by The_Equalizer View Post
              Probably more like a S-Type Jag, as the D-Types were and are worth serious cash.
              And nick the one with the small engine, handles better, way better. Top speed doesn't mean much in a chase believe it or not.
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                Now that would have been a great trial to do jury duty on. What a plonker.

                (Although I am a little niggled that such a toerag has a nice Beemer with a personalised registration plate. Crime doesn't pay? Really?)
                Judging by the usual standard of driving I'd say he was brighter than the average driver of a bimmer with a pathetic "personal" plate.

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                  #9
                  A friend's parents named their son so that his initials matched the car reg they had at the time (which was a 1960 Rover). When he came to drive he had his own personalised number plate.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by The_Equalizer View Post
                    A friend's parents named their son so that his initials matched the car reg they had at the time (which was a 1960 Rover). When he came to drive he had his own personalised number plate.
                    If my parents had kept a couple of their old plates they would have been worth quite a lot of money...

                    ...eventually, but it didn't seem worth the cost and hassle at the time
                    Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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