I was in Wentworthville (Western Sydney, NSW) this evening when I saw a police car drive past in the opposite direction. I didn't think anything of it until I pulled into a shopping centre car park, put the roof up, and got out of the car to head into the centre. As I was walking away from the car, the same police car stopped behind my car. The officer behind the wheel of the car pointed to me as if to say "Don't go anywhere". I was thinking "Oh crap, what is going on here?!?!"
The police officers got out of the car and started asking questions about me and my car like, "Is this your car?", "Where do you live?", "How long have you had the car?", "Where did you buy it from?" and so on. They said that my rego had come up as being stolen! I'm thinking, I know it is my car, because I bought it about 3 years ago.
Anyway, after about 10 minutes of chatting to them while they checked stuff on the computer in the police car and talked on the radio they told me that my number plates (or at least my rego number) had been on a Toyota in 1990 that had been stolen, and that when the recovery was done on the car, something was missed that meant that my number plates were still marked as stolen. I got the number plates not long after I bought my first car in June 2000.... so it has only taken them 8.5 years to catch up with me!
The officers told me that they would try to fix up the problem on the system for me, but also advised that I should call the RTA to sort it all out. They said that the plates had been re-issued because they had been missing for so long and that my car and rego are all OK, so I have nothing to worry about. Obviously, because I haven't been pulled over for anything apart from the odd random breath test, the Police have never had reason to look up my plates. These guys just drove past me and ran a check on my rego, because they said that they do that randomly, and it has come up on the system as stolen, so they chased me down.
Weird ehh??
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what next? your car was involved in a high speed car chase 24 years ago? wait, sorry mate, the rta is at fault. bloody coppers.
Its the chin fuzz mate, makes you look dodgy.
Yeah, hopefully there will be no more problems once I get it all sorted out with the RTA. I must say that the police officers that I was talking to were really good about it. They were pleasant and friendly and knew that there was a mistake somewhere, especially knowing that it was a 2001 car and all the problems were from 11 years before my car was built!!
Andrew, its a good thing you got rid of your chin fuzz... I reckon you look more dodgy than I do with it on :-P
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