That’s what I thought, but apparently not. 
While the basic shape approximates an oblate spheroid, the mountain ranges and oceans mean that the Earth is rather knobbly. 
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By all means go and start one - I wouldn’t dare!
When I first got my Crit’Air sticker for the NC750S I put it in one of those old-school tax disc holders.
One trip to Slough (yes, my mistake) and it disappeared.
So I now have it affixed to the inside of the bike’s flyscreen in the conventional vignette manner.
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“They” will buy/find another vehicle. UK police seize many vehicles for lack of insurance cover but at £200 recovery plus £25 day storage many are not reclaimed.
All our local speed cameras get shot up or painted over as soon as they’re installed - don’t know why the authorities bother…
How absolutely terrible.
If you had quoted Stella’s whole sentence rather than cherry picking one part it would have been better. Speed cameras aren’t the tool that will pick up the uninsured cars or those without roadworthy certificates that task is carried out by Automatic Numberplate Recognition cameras linked via the internet to the relevant database. These are usually mobile, concealed in cars. Hopefully they will become part of the fixed roadside camera network because unlike the speed fines that can be avoided by keeping within the speed limit while passing the camera the ANPR cameras will check every passing vehicle.
A friend in the next village who’s a retired German army colonel and presumably used to driving at German speeds, told us a few days ago that he’d only just discovered that the speed limit in the Lot is 80kph rather than 90 as in the Aveyron and Cantal. I correctly guessed that he’d been caught by a newly installed camera on a local long straight stretch of the D840 that used to be very good for overtaking slower vehicles. However that camera has since had a coat of paint.
The nearest one to us has been sprayed pink all over so it’s very visible whether working or not.
Good news on the tightening of vehicle exclusion zones (ZFE’s - Zone à Faibles Emissioms) in France.- An important vote has just been passed on 26th March putting a 5-year moratorium on any further tightening of the rules to exclude more vehicles.
I expect Anne Hidalgo in Paris snd the Mayor of Lyon will try to press on regardlesz. Though it might make a few of us less nwrvous when we travel via Rouen.
A chance the moratorium gets derailed at a final.stage in a werk or two but I think not. Sense seems to have prevailed about ordinary people just trying to get by, who aren’t in the expensive EV-buying finance bracket, being excluded from town centres.
Lots of lovely language like “It’s now a crime to be poor”= the effect ZFE’s were having by creating No-go areas for poorer people, and the ZFE’s being called Zones de Forte Exclusion".
French democracy at work. Not happening in England though.
How awful. Such terrible vandalism.
I know, but at least it’s not grafitti…
Certainly is, Pink what were they thinking 
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perhaps they’re hoping that sense will prevail… and folk will stop trying to “break” the cameras. surely makes sense to have them working, as it appears that excessive speed is one of the major causes of fatal accidents, so presumably the authorities are trying to stop this ghastly trend.
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Normal where I lived previously to coat in barbie pink paint and then chainsaw taken to many of them.
Round here the white paint would be removed very quickly, so then they piled tyres up against them and set them on fire 
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Ahh the viking funeral
The UK roads are plastered with ANPR cameras as are most police vehicles. Police in vehicles will sometimes taken action if free to do so. Being active of several motoring offence forums I can’t recall a case of road tax, insurance or MoT offences being processed via ANPR camera information. It seems unlikely that DVLA, the authority responsible for recording/prosecuting those matters, has access to the cameras’ databases as they seem to be operated by local authorities or National Highways but it would be useful to be informed otherwise.
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The green insurance vignettes are no longer required in France because the information is available through ANPR. Just like in the U.K.
2,500 cars a week are seized in the U.K. for being driven without insurance. A huge number of them are stopped after being flagged by ANPR
If the LEZ and ULEZ cameras which do have ANPR features were used they would stamp out un insured un taxed and Mot’d almost completely would you think?
I haven’t got a clue. I was watching a programme with that statistic on it this afternoon. The same programme was talking about cloned cars which wouldn’t be picked up by that means.