Why does nobody put there general location

[Britishlion]

On peoples Avatars why does no one put there location is the for theft purposes and should i there fore remove mine ???

[Saint Steve]

People get abit parinoid . I posted a pic of my ugly mug, which i think is helpful at events for example, so makes it easier to recognise somebody, so then then can give you a wide birth, or come up and say hi

I think if someone puts their county, that they are from, it helps to know your fellow local forum friendlys

[Britishlion]

 

happy days !

Thanks Saint Steve

[rdfcpete]

why does no one put there location

Most of us do indeed want to keep our GTI's 

[Britishlion]

why does no one put there location

Most of us do indeed want to keep our GTI's 

My thoughts were indeed right 

[stealthwolf]

I did propose a map type thing where you could see who was based where. Even when I suggested a general location eg county, nobody wanted to know.

[Gene Hunt]

why does no one put there location

Most of us do indeed want to keep our GTI's 

..............i would say it's more important not to show you number plate than tell people were you live ?.

[P80RSY]

your not going to post your address though it's just a idea of the location of people say north east, north west. I do have mine on but the north east is a big place.

the plates can be made on the net and delivered in 2 days from some companys but tbh how many times do you see another golf ..........quite a few i guess but showing your plate in a pic = no isn't it just as easy to see a gti in the supermarket car park and write the plate down(for those of us who clone ), apart from the well known fact that i'm sure 99.99% of people on this site have spent god knows how much modding and the car is individual so i don't worry about showing a plate in a pic.
(not that i have yet but soon i will)

thats my 2 pence worth anyway, and if you wondering wtf its 4am i'm in the states so catching up on the inters pics 

and for the lucky forum members who made it to inters how many times randoms took pics of you car with the plate on !!!

[jsklair]

"no isn't it just as easy to see a gti in the supermarket car park and write the plate down"

Good point, I suppose I just want to do everything I can to stop cloning.

Plus I've heard people who use escrow scams on autotrader scour the internet for good looking sets of pictures of a car to use.  Maybe they'd still use them without plates, but...

[RedRobin]

why does no one put there location

Most of us do indeed want to keep our GTI's 

..............i would say it's more important not to show you number plate than tell people were you live ?.

....Then that's me scuppered!

In the UK, if someone wants to find you, they will - It's too easy. Once upon a time (it's a long story) I had to seriously consider disappearing in America and that's much easier. Authorities will always eventually find you one day if they're determined enough. Btw, I didn't have to disappear as things turned out.

[tony_danza]

I'll go get a coffee and you get typing, Robin. I want to hear that story!!

Nice to meet you BTW, even if you looked a little bemused at someone shouting your name out of a Passat.

[jsklair]

Btw, I didn't have to disappear as things turned out.

[Rich]

Btw, I didn't have to disappear as things turned out.

Must be serious there Robin... some MCat Druggie dealing going on ?

[RedRobin]

I'll go get a coffee and you get typing, Robin. I want to hear that story!!

Nice to meet you BTW, even if you looked a little bemused at someone shouting your name out of a Passat.

....Good to meet you at last too! Even if very briefly. It's funny how the car you drive becomes your 'coat' and you initially recognise someone from the coat they're wearing. I don't know anyone with a silver Passat but have nothing against them. For looks I prefer a modded Bora though.

The story involves my son, Jay, who died when 4yo but who was 3yo when.. Me+barristers versus Great Ormond Street Hospital in The High Court in a case hinging around the very thorny subject (in UK law) of Parental Consent.. GOS getting very nasty indeed (never ask me to give anything to any of their charities!!). It looked at one stage as if we would need to appeal to the European courts and that would probably have made it a landmark test case. It certainly would have then burst into the press and public domain and been far less controllable. I was advised to take my son and temporarily disappear just to buy time had it gone that far and I could easily have done so through my American Indian connections.

Fortunately GOS caved in (I don't think they wanted it to go to Europe) and were shown to be wrong. It's not a subject I can write much more about without getting tearful.

There are other stories of disappearance I have been very close to (Lord Lucan for example) but they're not for public disclosure. A good friend of mine says I should write a book but I think I would be putting my head in a Lion's mouth and it's also against my personal code of loyalty. Most of us love some public attention, but having been close to those putting up with it, it's not for me. Also I feel uncomfortable with how it might stroke my ego.

[tony_danza]

Deffo, Ben thought I was Wilko when he came to say hello, simply because I was driving his car. The Passat is my mate Gary's.

I'm very sorry for your loss, Robin. I can't imagine what that must have been like. In a completely different set of circumstances, disappearing into the middle of nowhere in the US would be a great adventure - kind of like Easy Rider, but without the crap ending.

Next time I'm down at my office in Bournemouth, we'll hook up and you can tell me some more stories, Mum's the word, obviously.