Does anyone know who to call in the UK about a British car which has quite obviously been dumped in a village here.

Because it's on UK plates, people are asking me if I know who it belongs to, and can I contact the UK Police.

It's a "seen better days" blue Mitsubishi 4x4, obviously not MOT'd, taxed or insured, why cant people dump stuff on their own doorstep instead of on other people's?

Jools

Hi Jools
I have recently spoken to a UK policeman pal on exactly the same subject as you refer to. Appears the UK police jurisdiction on UK registered vehicles out the country is non-existent.  They will however deal with any UK registered vehicles which are not complying fully with UK vehicle legislation when they re-enter the country.  His advice was to contact the local police if a UK registered vehicle was deemed to be causing problems.  I remember as long as 10 years ago that the authorities here were towing away dumped UK vehicles (this was Tortosa Council towing a dumped UK registered vehicle left in Bitem). I suggest the villagers contact their council first to start the ball rolling.
ebrorob

Thanks guys,

Yes your right, it does look bad against the Brits, but as usual the minority spoil it for the rest.

It would be bloody good though if the owner got a letter through his/her door in the UK with the bill for removing it.

Why should others foot the bill.

Jools

From what I have read, I would tend to think it's been stolen and the owner may not even know, becuase they might not even be in the Country at the moment?. Lets face it, we have all at some time or other gone back to the U.K. leaving our homes/Fincas & posessions as we would like to find them when we got back HA!!!!!!
A similar thing recently happened to me...a car of mine was stolen while I was back in the U.K......,butchered,vandalised and dumped somewhere. It was only by word of mouth that someone told a friend of ours where it was, and he very kindly towed what was left of the car back to our property. It could quite easily have remained dumped for several months until I returned.

Normally if people want to dump something, they will find somewhere fairly remote......(like deserted mountain tracks etc as previously mentioned in this posting).....NOT in the middle of a village?.
My guess it has been stolen by someone purely to get from A to B (I.E your village), then once it's purpose has been served they have just left it?.
A fairly simple tell tale sign would be to see how intact the door locks and ignition barrel are?
If dumped by the ligitimate owner, THEY would have had the keys, therefore there is likely to be very little/no damage to those areas. On the other hand, if it IS stolen....,the door locks/windows and ignition are likely to be well and truly.....got at!!!!.

At least they just left the car, (unlike the one dumped on the spare ground at the cross roads,at the top of the hill just outside Aldover, heading towards  Els Reguers), they torched it as well, leading to a trip out for the local Bombers, at what cost?

Well at least as it was known to the Guardia and the Bombers, so the burnt out wreck was eventually removed.

May be that is your possible solution, set fire to it and it may get removed.

Wouldn't last long in England though would it, some 14 year olds would probably joy ride in it till the juice ran out.
Not so bad in Spain really is it!

Rapping Cats, now there is a novelty, I've heard a rubber band, I even heard of a house fly, but I be dog gone if I see a Elephant fly. I've heard of a Cat Nap, but never a cat rap, unless they have changed the trend for those ladies stoles from fox to cat

The only rapping cats I've seen is on National Lampoons Christmas Vacation where Aunty wraps her cat up every year as a Christmas present, meeeeoooow

Anyway what was that to do with dumped cars?

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Well I didn't believe you! but i stand corrected, Rapping cats, do exist se link :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT8sD7Ef9O4

Hi Nuts,
Yep, that is exactly what the cats are doing in my street, although I reckon it is more break dancing than rapping, don't you reckon?
In fact I'm going to start a new keep fit rage by purchasing one of those lazer pens and trying it out at the next festa, that could be interesting!
PS. I went out this morning and there was a great pile of fish bones in the street. I'm going to call the head of fisheries and foods to complain about illegally caught red herrings being dumped and my street.