SORN scam 886

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:34:38 GMT, AstraVanMan in message

I'm sorry, but you and a few others stating that you disagree with it is NOT "overwhelming evidence".

It is your OPINION that there is no point to it. No more than that.

Believe it or not, it is possible to have a different opinion to you.

With the huge difference that people driving a vehicle that just hasn't been taxed can easily claim they forgot, and the courts will often believe them, provided it hasn't been too long.

That is simply not possible if you declare SORN.

You can say it twenty million times if you like. It won't make it any more true.

There are undoubtedly a significant number of people who are habitual criminals, who think nothing of taking deliberate actions that break the law, and who this will not deter.

But I believe that a far higher number of those who fail to tax their vehicles, or who just skip a month are people who are prepared to break a law by ignoring it, but who would not be prepared to take a definite action to break the law.

They know that within that first month, if they just claim to have forgotten, there is a fair chance they will be let off, and many of them will even have half persuaded themselves that they "just forgot". They know that if they take positive action to state that the vehicle is off the road, that is a very different thing.

That wasn't actually what I meant, although it does still have that effect, by making sure that you know you will be financially penalised if you do forget, and then doing so.

But what I actually meant above was those vehicles just gently rusting away in a back yard, or being taken apart for spares for another car, that eventually are just destroyed, without any record of them having been done so.

I don't believe it will have that effect. Do you have any evidence that it will, or is that just supposition on your part?

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