Students Rioting in London.

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Derek

Quite simply the Police have far more important things to deal with than an old sticker on a rarely used vehicle. Plenty of forces who assist the met with mutual aid have their own unofficial sticker on their riot vans that seem to last through services without being removed.

Do they keep of a stock of knackered vans to police demonstrations? Would they use vans that had not passed the safety tests, for example?

I give up. Instead I'll just admit that the van, which we have already demonstrated had a valid number plate, was being driven, and is of a similar age to other vans used by the Met in London didn't have a valid tax disc but instead they decided to put a small red sticker, almost exactly the same size as a tax disc, in the same place a tax disc is stuck and no-one has picked up that it wasn't actually a RFL.

It has not been established either way whether the van had number plates, but it doesn't make any difference. If there is an RFL on the van, what was the expiry date.

Well when they are PERSONAL ISSUE (i.e. each cop has their own, with their own ID on it) then yes it would be too much trouble to leave it in a van.

So, there exactly the same number of helmets as there are officers, there are no spares, no training gear, no old ones from officers who have left the service (or do they get to keep them?)?

When did I "deny there was anything in the van?"

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Really, my experience (and that of many Sprinter owners) differs. I am not aware of any inherent bodywork fault with the sprinter.

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Good points: comfort, load space, Smooth gearbox and underworked engine.

Bad points: Sprinters rust! chassis and underside is well protected and stay good but the bodywork paint isnt the hardest and stone chips and scratches soon blister and scab, although superficial this can look ugly.

Autocar

Ahh, the legendary Mercedes build quality again!! This isn't the first time I've heard of this issue. Indeed a friend has just returned a year old Mercedes Sprinter Van and been given a free of charge replacment because of a rust problem

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What a heap! After getting my 2007 model replaced due to rust, after a long fight, I have the some problem again!

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Bought this vehicle 6 months ago. Sailed through it’s first MOT. However, I am NOT happy with the bodywork. I was warned they rust but typical female, I wanted a Merc so that’s what I got! Rust spots all over it

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The chassis and underside of a Mercedes Sprinter is pretty well protected from rust but that doesn’t extend to the body. They are very prone to rusting

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Hugh

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But but but its all a conspiracy i tell you,

They are all in league with the police and the Government to make those peaceful law abiding demonstrators OK radical i will admit but peaceful look bad in the eyes of those that have to pay for all the damage.

It is my belief that there are those in this thread that think THIS is true and factual and would not believe otherwise even if it hit them on there tin foiled covered heads

At the end of the day, they did not have to smash it up in the first place did they?

Even if it was placed there intentionally, they took the bait and smashed it up thus damaging the credibility of the whole protest.

They have shot themselves in the foot, clever bunch these students eh?

And it's not as if they removed anything else from the police van, like the windscreen riot shield, is it?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Tuftus

At the end of the day, they did not have to smash it up in the first place did they?

Even if it was placed there intentionally, they took the bait and smashed it up thus damaging the credibility of the whole protest.

They have shot themselves in the foot, clever bunch these students eh?

And to think some of them might be Surgeons and Doctors soon

Originally Posted by Hugh

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Thank you for that Hugh ,i was in the process of doing the same but you beat me to it ,i will however supply these as proof that the van was indeed taxed ,and there are a few vans in the old livery used on the day ,the one on the extreme left is the one that was wrecked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgrvHYuSd-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srljmvrfWFU

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Tuftus

At the end of the day, they did not have to smash it up in the first place did they?

Even if it was placed there intentionally, they took the bait and smashed it up thus damaging the credibility of the whole protest.

They have shot themselves in the foot, clever bunch these students eh?

but what if the van was placed there already full of hoodied vandals,strategically placed to incite a riot -perhaps its precious cargo was fifth columnists from within the met -the plot thickens

At last - the truth is out!!!!!!

Dumdumduuuuummmmmm!

Honestly, Fr de Ockham would spin in his grave at some of this loopy nonsense.

It was a proper police vehicle and it got smashed up by people who thought their cause justified criminal actions.

Simples.

Originally Posted by Chris

Honestly, Fr de Ockham would spin in his grave at some of this loopy nonsense.

It was a proper police vehicle and it got smashed up by people who thought their cause justified criminal actions.

Simples.

now, now chris ,stop talking sense remember logic is your enemy

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Chris

Honestly, Fr de Ockham would spin in his grave at some of this loopy nonsense.

It was a proper police vehicle and it got smashed up by people who thought their cause justified criminal actions.

Simples.

well i suppose that's one way of looking at it and your entitled to put forth your theory no matter how contradictory to the evidence it is

Fr de Ockham- wasn't he the bloke who invented shaving .

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Chris

Honestly, Fr de Ockham would spin in his grave at some of this loopy nonsense.

It was a proper police vehicle and it got smashed up by people who thought their cause justified criminal actions.

Simples.

chris

The conspiracy theorist on here already know that. The problem is it does not fit in with there police brutality, Government agenda, That there out to get us theory and no amount of facts or evidence will change that because they don't know any other way they really do believe that there all out to get them.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Chris

Honestly, Fr de Ockham would spin in his grave at some of this loopy nonsense.

It was a proper police vehicle and it got smashed up by people who thought their cause justified criminal actions.

Simples.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...x629_popup.jpg

on side of van is a number bov this is the van some time ago

if you put reg no here
http://www.askmid.com/ownvehicle/
you get this LX54CPY is on the Motor Insurance Database today