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Car registration plate near the track at Redhill: worrying photo!

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I suspect a good percentage of the enquiries are from none of the parties listed on MID as 'allowed', and probably most of the enquiries about tax & MOT are from neighbours concerned about dodgy motors :)

I very much doubt anybody has ever been done for not being one of the 'allowed' parties!
 
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Wow! I don't know what's worse, these reply or the fact I've just read all 3 pages worth of them!!! I must be bored!
 
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Has anyone checked underneath all the trains which worked this section?, maybe there's a unit somewhere with an entire Yaris, less front number plate of course, that nobody has spotted yet ......... ;)
 
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Meanwhile... Back at the OP...

Deepgreen said:
I took this at Redhill yesterday. The registration plate had been there for a couple of days. It is sitting on the up through road. The question is, did it drop off a train and, if so, how did it come to be there? I'm sure there's an innocent explanation (e.g. thrown from platform) but the mind does tend to wander to a level crossing meeting!
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What I don't get is the idea of a level crossing meeting at Redhill...

Maybe I'm just being pedantic?

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There is also a technique for pinching petrol which involves chucking away numberplates once the deed is done ....
 
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6Gman said:
There is also a technique for pinching petrol which involves chucking away numberplates once the deed is done ....
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No need to do that in Devon and Cornwall - the police here no longer consider it a criminal matter, so will not investigate<(

Actually, I was somehow reminded of this recent John Finnemore sketch when reading some of the responses: JF goes into a betting shop and

JF - 'Can I place a bet on Barcelona being the capital of Spain?'
BS employee - 'Look, sir, why don't you just look it up on the internet?'
JF, in extremely pained voice - 'But that would be cheating!'

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sw1ller said:
Wow! I don't know what's worse, these reply or the fact I've just read all 3 pages worth of them!!! I must be bored!
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I remember similar ridiculous indignation years ago on a forum when I posted that the last actual selling price of private houses could be searched for on the Land Registry's website.
 
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You can often find out the vehicle make/model through sites like webuyanycar.

I want to know if the burger was insured!!! :D:D

If there is genuine concern about why the reg plate is there, why not advise station staff or the BTP?
 
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Knowing Redhill it'll have been ripped off a car in the station car park!
 
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Worrying photo my ar$e. Sometimes the tripe on this forum never ceases to amaze me! As someone said 3 pages of it and I only read though to make sure someone hadn't already said what I'm saying!
 
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shedman said:
Worrying photo my ar$e. Sometimes the tripe on this forum never ceases to amaze me! As someone said 3 pages of it and I only read though to make sure someone hadn't already said what I'm saying!
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Someone's left some tripe on the forum? How did it get there?? If no-one claims it, can I scrape it off and have it for tea??
 
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Redhill Station has some of the larger car parks in Redhill, surrounding it on several sides. It is hardly inconceivable that a number plate may be thrown, blown or dumped on the tracks - and frankly, unless it gets caught in the third rail or some points, it's hardly going to be a priority to remove. There's plenty of random debris all over the railway, and if you wondered how it all got there, you'd spend most of your life doing so. There was one train carriage a while back which spent several weeks if not months running round with a rather long steel joist perched inside because nobody could work out how it got there or how to remove it. Weirder stuff has ended up on railway premises, and Redhill has plenty of inhabitants who specialise in this sort of thing (see also, underneath all the footbridges near there).
 
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Very glad this thread has been removed (or so I had been told by a moderator) because what was obviously a light-hearted post has been taken far too seriously by far too many people! My reluctance to use 'emoticons' to convey humour, etc., may mean that many people who rely on them were blind to the nature of the post. Oh well...!
 
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