Just read on the BBC website how using the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system has allowed police forces to up their arrest rate tenfold. Basically, they can spot suspected criminal's cars and stolen cars and track them with existing roadside cameras.

[news.bbc.co.uk]

Sounds good to me. However, my question is:

Wouldn't it be a good idea just to carry on catching criminals this way rather than publicising it so they know to use all the backroads ?

Is it me ??

heehee i agree, maybe they think criminals don't read the news...

Hmmm. Most odd. I'm with Rob on this one.

Well, they do say the law is an ass, even if this wasn't originally the way it was meant!



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Sarah

Is the law the ass or is it the press? In movies its always cops that are trying to keep the case all secret and then some reporter trying to get a byline spoils it all.

Good point... you're probably right.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Strange law time: In Ohio (IIRC) it's illegal to make a fish drunk.

But of course.



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"You are charged that on the 24th inst you were reponsible for a major road traffic incident, caused by allowing a haddock to become inebriated whilst in charge of a bicycle. How do you plead?"

"Innocent but insane."



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

And i'd like two counts of innapropriate lifebelt construction and aggravated mortar to be taken into account.



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Wilfred thinks getting a fish drunk is a great idea. He reckons it would save him valuable drinking time when he ate it...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

LOL

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"Some days I diet, other days they serve lasagne."

How do you get a fish drunk? It would have to be very small, or people would choke if they weren't allowed to chew it.....



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Some people will swallow anything.....

Hang on, didn't I say that in another thread? And didn't PSD then make a remark which I didn't understand but which turned out to be rather filthy?

Don't encourage him! :-S



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Not the old 'Love, true love and showing off' gambit again, surely?

Apparently Errol Flynn was banned from drinking on set by a director. It was two weeks before they twigged he was injecting vodka into his oranges...



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That'll hurt.



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Not as much as if he injected into his plums.



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[shakes head and groans]