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[ZacVegas]

Cannot believe what I am reading

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10580574.Police__have_no_power__to_seize_stolen_caravan_from_travellers/

[Varche]

There is something very very wrong with the law on caravans and cars in the UK.

There was another thread recently on OOF where someone had been hit by a car "sold 2 years ago" but couldn't remember to who and the person driving was on a test drive without insurance.

ALL these things are very very easy to fix. Tighten up the paperwork and have a tax (could just be £50) payable on every sale. All vehicles to be insured and taxed by the registered owner at DVLA. No refunds unless vehicle written off. Don't know who was driving your vehicle? Registered owner takes the rap.

Caravan. same thing. In this case the police should recover the stolen caravan and look at the paper trail. The travellers would just have to look after their own.Where did they acquire the caravan?  Where is the DVLA documentation.? No documentation, occupants nominate someone to go to jail. Documentation? Should be fairly easy to find where it had been stolen. 

[ZacVegas]

Police probably can't be bothered, I expect a doughnut shop had just opened round the corner 

[YZ250]

Cannot believe what I am reading

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10580574.Police__have_no_power__to_seize_stolen_caravan_from_travellers/

Sounds about right. 

Surely the person who is currently in it has no legal right to it, whether he knew of its origin or not.

[bigegg]

Surely the person who is currently in it has no legal right to it, whether he knew of its origin or not.

except it's "an abode", so the current occupiers have "squatter's rights"

[Andy B]

Too much effort. I'm sure if I'd been caught driving a stolen car I'd bought down the pub, something could be done .....

Similar to the copper that drove passed here ....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6GA735G594&feature=youtu.be

clicky

[Crazycarzowner]

Until the law IS changed there ain't much the police could do! Believe me I know and its very frustrating!!! 

[scimmy_man]

mate of mine had his Landrover nicked 3 weeks ago, after a bit of asking about its been seen in the next town, riding about after dark,
he says if he decides not to have it back he will set fire to it, to stop them having use of it,

[Kevin Wood]

Given a choice of confronting a gang of pikeys and driving past, I know what I'd do, and they'd have to pay me an awful lot to do otherwise.

[Lazydocker]

That's odd... I've had to recover more than one caravan for Hants Plod in my time that they suspected was stolen Although they were from a roadside stop instead of on a site

[Andy B]

.......
Although they were from a roadside stop instead of on a site

..... and therein lies the difference

[78bex]

whats the old saying "possesion is nine-tenths of the law"  this case bears it out.
 Yet I occasionally spot the odd weirdly parked scooter or m/cycle. For 5 days in a row this summer i passed a CB250 leant up against a tree & thru out the week, first the seat vanished then the forks & front wheel finally some erbert torched the rest. I once called in to plod & informed them I had seen a vespa scooter parked up on the edge of portsdown hill. Nothing happened & no one was interested it seems I have a nice quiet spot up there facing south with loads of lift & fly my R/c glider. After 18 months of flying from this spot  the kids finally found the scooter & pushed it off the edge into an old chalk pit. Mind you the wreckage was gone within 7 days. 

[tunnie]

Never mind, perhaps the owner of said caravan will discover hotels 

[MR MISTER]

Correct, Tunnie. One less bleedin nuisance on the roads.

[YZ250]

Never mind, perhaps the owner of said caravan will discover hotels 

Or maybe said Hotels drove him to get a caravan in the first place.