Carl Bowman wrote: Actually the initial troll got me thinking. Given that it would cost at least £200 for someone to get a set of false plates, spend time getting from France to the UK and then spending time driving around (and I forgot to factor in the ferry/chunnel). I don't know how much a speeding ticket is, because I haven't had one for 15 years, but say £50 for arguments sake then it would take 5 speeding tickets to show a profit.
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Why woukld it cost £200 for a set of false plates??? almost every boy racer mag out there has adverts for show plates, for around 20 quid you can get a set made up with any reg number you want, they are for shows not road use, so they don't have to check reg doccuments or owt.
And why would the foriegn car need to come over to the UK, speeding offences committed abroad will be applied to the person who the plates belong to in england, as the OP said, so all they need to do is spend 20 quid plus a bit more postage to get the show plates delivered aborad, then drive around their local speed camera sites.
Of course if the camera's are front facing this plan will not work to well, an english registered left hooker and all that, but easy enough to get a steering wheel from the scrappy, and get their mate to sit in the passengers seat holding it like he was driving :)
Can't see too many people bothering my self, the french hate speed camera's more than us apparantly, which is why there arent as many as there are over here.