seen from the office window

Time for number plate fasteners using those 'secure' fasteners that require
a special tool to remove methinks...

G-S

 

to report what? The fact that a parking inspector was putting defect
notices on motorcycles?

betty

 

He did take the plates - as far as I know that's standard practice for
cars that are well out of rego - they took the plates from my son's car
when the idiot let his rego slide - perhaps that was the problem with
the bikes as well. The thing is, he was a policey-looking uniformed
bloke with a little hand-held machine doing nasty but official things
to the bikes.

As an aside, one of the bikes in question is still sitting in the car
park, plateless but with the orange notice removed... sad...

betty

 

so you weren't interested enough in what the orange notice said to go
down and have a look and read it to see why the plates had been
removed... but you're interested talking about it.. *boggle*

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

No, not really - in the same way that I don't go and read what's in the
yellow envelopes that parking inspectors leave on windscreens - I'm not
THAT curious. My original post was more of a heads-up about what
appears to be a bit of a blitz on bikes in Canberra at the moment - it
was only a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the fact that some of the
most popular (not strictly legal but tolerated by the powers that be)
bike parking spots here were about to be targeted by parking
inspectors...

My being "interested in talking about it" has been in response to stuff
that other people have said in response to the original post. Sorry if
that's a problem for you

betty

 

I suspect we all thought you'd said it wrong, which would explain why
you didn't seem to be responding correctly to some of the teasing.

My plate is going to be fixed with a pair of those clever Government
screws that can't be undone as soon as possible!

 

Well I reckon whatever was on the orange notice told the owner of the
bike why the plates were removed. At a guess I'd say the orange notice
is with the bike-owner now, and he/she is doing whatever is necessary
to get the plates back and ride away from the car park.

But if you saw what looked like a cop/parking cop etc..... you know,
with the uniform, the little machine etc, doing stuff that you know
parking cops do in car parks, would you still call them?

Yeah, but.... (andrew, am I being teased now or not, I can't bloody
tell with you lot!)

Ok..... the bikes were parked in designated motorcycle parking areas in
a car park. One of my colleagues, who gets to sit near the window,
instead of in the black hole where I am, called me over and said "Hey
betty, I hope your bike's in decent nick, coz there's an inspector down
there defecting bikes. He's got two of them so far."

And I looked down and saw that it was so. Official-looking uniformed
person doing official-looking things to bikes. And then, behold, I
remembered that the cops took my son's plates from his car when they
caught HIM unregistered in a car-park.....so I think it's the done
thing in the ACT, Smee - in car parks, anyway, don't know about on the
street - they take your plates until you pay your rego and can get them
back. By taking the plates I suppose they make you more obvious to cops
if you actually drive/ride the plateless vehicle/motorcycle on the
road... so I guess perhaps I made some kind of reasonably logical
connection and assumed (god help me) that the bike was unregistered. I
don't know enough about bikes to know whether it was unroadworthy. It's
a nice big blue Honda that looks clean and loved, and that's about all
I can say about it! The fact that the official-looking person had one
of those hand-held machines that a copper showed us at an MRA seminar
one night - and told us how much information those things store -
caused me to make yet another assumption (god help me) that there was
no need to call the police to let them know that one of their own was
doing his job and ask them why...

Crikey some of you are pernickety sometimes! And FFS if you are teasing
me, give me a hint - I'm new here and don't know you enough to be able
to pick it sometimes! Something like <HINT> should be enough of a
sledgehammer :-D until I get a feel for different ppl's humour -
please???

betty

 

Well, Smee doesn't seem to be teasing and I'm not either. He sounds
genuinely surprised that parking officials anywhere are allowed to steal
number plates, and I was so surprised by what you said I didn't believe
you'd actually said it.

Bush lawyers? Are you purchasing the licence plates when you pay you rego?

 

Wot he said
Doesn't sound like common practice.

 

Wow, really? Oh dear... After what happened to my son I just figured
that was the way things worked here - and besides, I was so pissed off
with him for being so irresponsible that I thought it was probably a
GOOD thing that the cops took his number plates!

Anybody here an expert on ACT law???

Yeah...... what Andrew said...

betty

 

Nice plan..... but I bet Government officials will have Government
screwdrivers to defeat your Government screws (oh crap, we can't win
<grin>)

betty

 

Will investigate...... you've really piqued my curiosity now....

betty

 

Right, have checked with my ACT legal-eagle sister in law

Section 30 of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1999 ( she
thinks) -

Seizure of number plates.

A Police officer or authorised person may sieze a number plate attached
to a registerable vehicle if the registration has expired more than 15
days or is cancelled or a number plate is used in contravention of the
Regulations.

(If the vehicle is defected it means it is not compliant and therefore
the plates can be siezed.)

betty

 

OH CRAP!!!! SEIZE, SEIZE!!!!! <speling self-nazi mode off> Poo, neither
one looks right any more.....

betty

 

oh betty ... how could you?

 

<mortified blush>

betty

 

<hint> don't take anything Smee says seriously unless you particuarly
want to.

Moike

 

A real spelling Nazi would pronounce one of those "see-seh", the other
"sigh-zeh"...

 

Not in NSW, the plates remain the property of the govt. thats why they
can demand their return if yuor rego is more than 3 months elapsed. The
plates are for the govt's benefit not yours anyway.

JL
(fwiw parking inspectors can't, but coppers *can* impound your plates in
NS,( even if the car is correctly registered in certain circumstances))

 

Well it disappeared sometime over the weekend, but today it's BACK!
With a shiny new rego sticker and its numberplate attached I love a
happy ending.

betty