Worried about CCTV?…
Geeklawyer has a most interesting post on his blog
Let me give you a flavour….here is Biker Geeklawyer:
“We Brits are the most surveilled nation on the planet with more cameras per square acre than everyone else put together. Geeklawyer hates that. He hates the future police plan for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) that enables the capability that whenever he charges around on ‘The Terrible and Inexorable Wrath of God‘ he will be watched and logged and his route and dalliances recorded in the Police National Computer. Oh sure, its all for his own good, to make him safe; it helps deny the roads to criminals and terrorists – yada yada. “
Predictably, I make an absurd and mildly irresponsible response… but the cricket is about to start… and I have had a relaxing evening drinking a bottle of Rioja with some good friends at The Swan.
Here is my response:
Response to Geeklawyer post: Read the Geeklawyer Post
Without in any way wishing to suggest that bikers break the law – but… the old phrase ‘put a sock in it’ is most useful. Charon did three evenings of ‘hanging out’ late on a Friday night at Bar Italia in Soho in 1997 (in full leathers with a yellow helmet) on a Ducati 916 (Rosso) with a sock over the number plate (I hasten to add that it was not my Bike – although I did buy a Ducati 916 a year later)… and then went on a well known motorway for a quick circuit… sober… at 2.00 am…. via the M4…
No traffic…. it was interesting and exhilarating… We called it ‘making progress’ !
The Police were, of course, in bed…catching up on episodes of ‘The Bill’ on UK Gold TV
Anyway… how can the cops deal with a cartoon character?… I don’t have any DNA… and I forgot to draw fingerprints onto my fingers… ’serendipitous’.
Mind you… ‘Old Bill’ don’t like to find bikers with socks on bike number plates… so, do bear this in mind… not one of the great ideas!
You could try this with the ‘Wrath of God’… BUT…for god’s sake… don’t even think about ’special transparent film’ – doesn’t work… but an electronic ‘flip up rear number plate’ – activated from a button just above the front brake lever… does work. I don’t, of course, have such a device – but I know a man who does. It works. Mind you… he does the ‘Cannonball run’ down to Bol d’or (En France de Sud) most years…with 2000 Euros in his pocket to pay the fines if caught… totally irresponsible…. and I can’t remember his name.
