Hi, my sister told me about a sticker she saw mentioned that you stick in your car, it is meant to tell the police the car should not be driven by anyone under 25, and if they see such a driver (will they notice?) they will stop the car as it means some scroat has nicked it. Any details anyone?

I think this is it.

http://prebble.r.tripod.com/sticker.htm

That's a good idea :)

sounds a fantastic idea....but how can the police really tell how old a driver is from a distance?

do you wanna be pulled over every other day?

good if ur a pensioner or had a long paper round perhaps!!!

Are there no car thieves over 25 these days?

Originally posted by kittykat
Are there no car thieves over 25 these days?

A couple of years ago i saw a lot of cars with stickers stating that they don't drive in the early hours of the morning, so if the cars seen being driven between Midnight and 6am then the police should pull it over.

Never heard whether it was a success or not....

I heard of a better idea...

a reg plate with a removeable section behind which lays a red reflector, which indicates the vehicle is being driven without authority. the idea failed because there was nothing stopping some other git taking the little piece.

maybe there an idea in all of this.... a light in the rear plate which stays lit until the owner enters a code in the front to disable it (has to be done otherwise car will not start) - but then i suppose it wont get nicked will it?? Balls, another million pound idea up in smoke......

Originally posted by bonny
I think this is it.

http://prebble.r.tripod.com/sticker.htm

rofl

nice work!

Often the simplest ideas are the best.

Therefore my idea is to never leave the car. If you're in it then it can't be driven without your knowledge. With today's modern conveniences of drive-thru food, full serve petrol stations, indoor carparks, wireless internet access and mobiles there is no need to ever leave your car.

Mollie i think the scheme you are talking about is called vehicle watch 25+ run by rotherham police the number is 01709365908 it costs £2.00 to register good for your ego if you get stopped as well.

Originally posted by 1Man&hisBMW
I heard of a better idea...

a reg plate with a removeable section behind which lays a red reflector, which indicates the vehicle is being driven without authority. the idea failed because there was nothing stopping some other git taking the little piece.

maybe there an idea in all of this.... a light in the rear plate which stays lit until the owner enters a code in the front to disable it (has to be done otherwise car will not start) - but then i suppose it wont get nicked will it?? Balls, another million pound idea up in smoke......

how about a number plate that has a red tint untill you unlock the door with your key or remote or put the key in the ignition. as 99.5% of thefs dont have the car keys then the number plate will keep the red tint & the police will know its been stolen. the only way it wont work is if the theif has broke in to your house & taken the car keys.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
rofl

nice work!
Quite distasteful actually. Just look at the caption of the image a bit further. That's nothing to be joked about.

Originally posted by armin
Quite distasteful actually. Just look at the caption of the image a bit further. That's nothing to be joked about.

totally agree that is awful not funny as they are trying to make out!

Originally posted by armin
Quite distasteful actually. Just look at the caption of the image a bit further. That's nothing to be joked about.


Glad to hear the bypass operation was a success :D

There is nothing in this universe, that cannot be joked about, including having sex with the Queen Mother's colostomy bag hole , the Brazilian Debt Crisis, Hellen Keller, Dead Babies, Allied Carpets, Malcolm X, Mao, Incest and Rape. (not necessarily in that order)

Likening the enforced wearing of one symbol with another, far more sinister enforced wearing of another symbol, as the authors of this site have done is simple juxtapostional comedy.

The fact that the scheme in question Those behind the changes to the scheme point out that, although it is predominantly under 25s who are stealing crimes, it is the older, law-abiding citizens who are penalised by being forced to place disfiguring yellow stickers all over the windows of their vehicles. "A far more sensible option," announced Ratepayers and Consumers Association president Roslyn Barwick, "would be to ensure that the yellow stickers were displayed by the true guilty parties, members of high-risk crime groups."


is clearly a reductio ab absurdum on the sticker scheme proposed at the top of the thread, by a spoof news site.

Just read the creed from the site in question:
I believe in the reforms of Roger Douglas, and am oblivious to the misery that they have caused to many in New Zealand.

I support the right of private enterprise to run absolutely everything in this country, from police and emergency services, to education, healthcare, and roads.

I believe that there are no in-between areas on the political spectrum. All those who are not one hundred percent dedicated to the Free Market and total privatisation of all state owned assets are nothing more than overall wearing, rabble-rousing Bolsheviks who want to take our businesses from us and send us to the Gulag.

I have no time for the unemployed and those who, for whatever reason, receive a welfare benefit. If a person can breathe they can work, and anyone who doesn't is clearly lazy.

I am committed to actively preventing the poor from trying to improve their lot in life. I will place all available obstacles in their way if they try to gain a better education or a better job.

I can afford all the things I need, and therefore I see no reason why the government should provide anything free or at a subsidised rate. I pay good money for my private health cover and my children's private education, so I think it is wrong that my taxes be spent so that the poor and lazy can go to hospital and learn to read.

I will actively foster an 'old-boys' network in my field of employment. I will not employ those who do not share my social or political attitudes.

I promise that, at all times, I will belittle the aspirations and opinions of those who have less than I do. I will ridicule the institutions they hold sacred, and will stop them from having their voices heard.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Glad to hear the bypass operation was a success :D

There is nothing in this universe, that cannot be joked about

Just because you *can* joke about something, doesn't make it appropriate to do so. Just because you're a uncompassionate cynic doesn't give you a morale right to offend other people's feelings.

First pertinent to this thread and as how I interpreted the first post, a sticker car owners voluntarily put on their cars indicating that this car is not likely to be driven by young people is not a bad idea. It'd be like "Baby on board" stickers.

Now to your "joke", of course I realised that it was from a satirical website, that one was fairly obvious, even to a non- native english speaker. It was still a tasteless, inappropriate and offensive-to-many, caption.

If a car thief is going to do something as series as steal a car, what would stop hem going that little bit further and ripping the sticker form the window?

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
If a car thief is going to do something as series as steal a car, what would stop hem going that little bit further and ripping the sticker form the window?

True that, but if those folks were smart they wouldn't steal in the first place =)

Originally posted by armin
Just because you *can* joke about something, doesn't make it appropriate to do so. Just because you're a uncompassionate cynic doesn't give you a morale right to offend other people's feelings.

First pertinent to this thread and as how I interpreted the first post, a sticker car owners voluntarily put on their cars indicating that this car is not likely to be driven by young people is not a bad idea. It'd be like "Baby on board" stickers.

Now to your "joke", of course I realised that it was from a satirical website, that one was fairly obvious, even to a non- native english speaker. It was still a tasteless, inappropriate and offensive-to-many, caption.

Firstly, it's not my "joke"; I didn't post the link. I merely happened to find it funny. I wish I could be sorry for being an uncompassionate cynic.

Secondly, as the site points out, it would be a much better idea to enforce labelling of under 25s as they are most often the perpetrators of car crime. That way, people don't need to stick ugly stickers on their beautiful cars.

Thirdly, if you do find a website tasteless, then perhaps you might consider either contacting the website or quoting the person who posted the link, rather than someone who plainly and only commented that they found it funny.

And being a non-native english speaker myself, I wonder how that status is relevant.

As far as a sticker scheme goes.....

Peeling a sticker off isn't going to present much of a challenge to a 3 year old kindergarten kid, let alone a determined 17 year old car thief. Better and quicker still, stick some cheesy sticker over it. (car thieves take note)

Point is - the idea is a stinker.

(And what are those baby on board stickers for anyway? The only possible sensible reason I have ever heard is that you place one in your car when and only when a baby is onboard, so that if you have an accident, the emergency services are clued up. Of course if you leave it in there all the time (the sign, not the baby), it's useless to the emeregency services.QED.

If not for the emergency services, then they need to be about 5 times the size if I am going to be able to read them from my normal braking distance

Having learned that there is a perhaps a baby onboard how am I in any way illuminated, as the same can be said of any other car on the road?)

Originally posted by armin
True that, but if those folks were smart they wouldn't steal in the first place =)

Have you time-warped here from the 1950's??

None of you has obviously visited or stayed in Christchurch for any length of time otherwise you would not defame them by implying that the idea of badging under 25s is a 'joke'. This idea was being mooted in the early 70s when I lived in NZ and was still being strongly debated when I left. The only thing stopping the legislation being enacted, as far as I remember, was that some of the more rural members of the council objected on the grounds that it could be confused with a 'sheep I have had' sticker campaign which the leisure industry had launched a few years earlier.

Originally posted by max
None of you has obviously visited or stayed in Christchurch for any length of time otherwise you would not defame them by implying that the idea of badging under 25s is a 'joke'. This idea was being mooted in the early 70s when I lived in NZ and was still being strongly debated when I left. The only thing stopping the legislation being enacted, as far as I remember, was that some of the more rural members of the council objected on the grounds that it could be confused with a 'sheep I have had' sticker campaign which the leisure industry had launched a few years earlier.
I thought I was doing them a favour by considering it humour. Not doing so would be to imagine that New Zealanders are actually like that, and would actively consider badging under 25 year old Maoris so they were visible to the police.

Originally posted by Killian
Have you time-warped here from the 1950's??
Apparently so, since I consider people who are stealing other people's property to be nothing more than *thieving scum*. Sorry, but I guess I grew up in a society which doesn't consider property crime to be an acceptable part of life.