...the car registration you decide to hack is owned by "the next Alexander Litvinenko" for instance, you might get a bit more attention from other sources than you perhaps bargained for.

This isn't a TfL innovation. The Government have been publishing details of our vehicles on the web for quite a while now. Go to http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/ and click the "vehicle enquiry" option in the menu.

It will tell you lots of useful stuff, including whether the vehicle is licensed, which is very handy as then you know you won't get pulled in an ANPR tax disc check.

Or you could just do as some thieving pikeys did to me - unscrew the plates from the matching vehicle, fit them to your chavmobile, and then fill up with petrol at my local station and drive off without paying!

even provides a handy manufacturer / model / colour matching service - just find the ones with the pictures and often enough the plates are there for all to see.

Then use the handy DVLA lookup to check that its got a valid RFL and your sorted.

What could be easier.

IT? - beats all that leg work and you can do it at work

for the "good old days" when the only people who could do all this were the plods!

And don't get me started on the latest parking 'Laws'

Mines the one with the blood pressure medication in the pockets...

...doesn't seem to be regged anymore :-(