Tickets - What's the chances of dodging it?

**** all I expect as I'm not a terrorist and technicalities don't apply
to humble SOVan driving motorists such as myself.

I just got a pull and six pigs descended on my van. Six!

They gestapoed me about general shite, but to cut a very long story
short they gave me a ticket for not displaying a tax disc despite my
pleas of it being in the post and having receipts to back it up.

The ticket has:
My name - spelt wrong.
My DOB - wrong

Also, they've put that the offence of No vehicle excercise licence [sic}
Now, IANAL, but road going vehicles don't need an excercise licence do
they? I notice the **** managed to get the date and time right though.

Oh, and one of the cheeky bastards said I looked ill and fucking
searched me for narcotics!

I hate London. You don't get shit like this in the country.

Fucking wanker.

 

Oh, and one of the cheeky bastards said I looked ill and fucking

I think it's called stereotyping

 

I asked why I got a tug and was it because 'I'm driving a pikey van'.

Apparantly not, they just didn't like the fact I wasn't displaying a tax
disc.

Since I cancelled the original message and you've snipped out all the
relevant stuff I don't suppose it matters now anyway.

I'm going to post the main points again, not that I think it will do me
much good: the do the crime, do the time brigade will be out in force
but **** 'em.

Name on ticket - spelt wrong; forenames and surname.
DOB - wrong
The ticket says automatic number plate recognition - I don't know if
this is relevant but I was stopped in a routine stop with a load of
other pikey looking wagons.

Oh, and the offence I got a ticket for was No vehicle excercise licence
[sic]

The fact I could prove the tax was in the post made no difference, is
there any way of dodging this? Unfortunately, despite the glaring errors
in my name, DOB and offence description they managed to get the
registration number correct and the time and place.

Tickets for this and that are like waiting for a frigging bus for me and
stopping work hasn't slowed the onslaught.

 

It was a load of rookies on a day out IYKWIM.

It isn't the tax people that have got anything to do with this, it's
purely a bill (old bill) issue.

AFAIK, they're not going to inform the DVLA. The same thing happened two
weeks ago when I got stopped on my bike and they radioed in and they
said I had no tax (or insurance)

Cunts. As I pointed out to chinky bitch at the desk, it's a fucking
inconvenience. Had I been working I'd have paid the ticket but since
I've got nowt better to do I asked for a court appearance.

I reckon I should do the same with this one, assuming my V5 comes back
before 28 days.

 

Go for a court date, then when[1] the summons appears, write all of the
above facts down in a POLITE manner, and post to the issuing office. It got
my complete bollocks summons withdrawn a coupla years back.

[1] I really mean "if". In order to prosecute for no tax, they MUST get
details from DVLA, despite what nobber on the roadside said. The idea of
prosecuting for "not displaying" when you are in fact legitimately taxed is
a fucking joke, and they would probably get a bollocking from the
magistrates for wasting everybodys time.

 

I can do polite very well but I seem to be having a very long run of
back luck.

Thanks for the advice. I never considered I could send evidence or a
statement before going before the magistrates.

Normally, I'd take the hit and say a fair cop but as you say it is
legitimately taxed[1]

[1] I mean it has been applied for. What happens if they hadn't received
my application at the time of the stop? I guess I'm going to have to
cough up.

 

I wasn't sweating at all. I told them exactly what I thought of them in
the most condescending way I could and I knew they'd do next to nothing
about it.

This is the bad bit. I phoned the DVLA again today about taxing it.
They've got my V5 application and it is being processed. They said it
won't be with me until about the end of November, probably to make
enquires and check with the old owner but they did say that I shouldn't
be keeping it on the road, despite having applied for it.

I am insured. I was insured the moment I collected the van and Carole
Nash, bless 'em, had an insurance certificate delivered to my door next
day.

If the worst comes to the worst, I'll get hit with the £60 and have to
pay it but it might be worth stringing it out to see if they'll drop it.
I'm undecided at the moment.

The bike one I'm definitely fighting though, that *was* out of order.

No, that was the bike one. I think I'm a fairly good judge of character.
Sometimes I got against my better judgement but as regarding the old
bill, I'll respect the older ones because you just know they've heard
everything before and even the newer ones if they aren't displaying an
ego. The ones I condescended to got a laugh anyway (you had to be there)

Never heard of that one. I did ask today but they insisted I needed a
V5.