Is it legal to spray a number plate with this? Does it work?
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Edited by Pugugly {P} on 25/11/2007 at 14:38
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I can't comment on its' legality, but you need to hang a CD from your interior mirror to increase its' effectiveness ;>)
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It ceretainly isn't legal, if it's effective.
If you watch out for Road Wars - they are repeated so often on Sky 3 you'll catch up with the one that features this - a car was pulled because the ANPR camera couldn't read a numberplate. The driver was fined for this.
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With a passing interest in matters legal I have to ask whether a number plate can be 'illegal' if a human being can read it? What a camera can do isn't relevant - or is it? What is the wording of the law re clarity and visibility of number plates?
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You get a lot of people saying "it's a myth - it doesn't work". But I have watched two police programs now where the camera system has been completely unable to read a number plate, and "numberplate blocking spray" type products were suspected as the cause.
I think therefore, that some of these products DO work. What interests me is if you were to be pulled over for it, how could they prove the driver applied the spray or knew it was on the numberplate? How can they prove it wasn't there when he bought the car or that someone else did not apply the spray to 'frame' him?
I could buy some spray, and spray my next door neighbour's numberplate with it. I would hope for the sake of fairness that the police would need some kind of evidence that HE applied the spray for a successful prosecution.
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There are some statements/opinions here on the subject. tinyurl.com/2wem6p
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That is a very good defence............
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