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The Melville Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) Committee in conjunction with Bunnings Melville will provide and install free anti-theft number plate screws
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[WA] Free Anti-Theft Number Plate Screws and Installation @ Bunnings, Melville
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Pisthisadeal on 27/08/2023 - 10:50 melvillecity.com.au (1417 clicks)
Last edited 27/08/2023 - 10:53 by 1 other user
Last edited 27/08/2023 - 10:53 by 1 other user
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Mmmm too far , it says 37 hr (3,485 km)
He means Armadale in Perth which is a fair comment.
Probably Midland and Balga too.
And Koondoola and Girrawheen and beechboro and Lockridge and…
i think you forgot that this deal is "FREE", so it's worth a trip.
wouldn’t work in Qld or NT , they just take the whole car not just the plates ….
Good to see Armadale hasn't been able to improve its image in the last 20 years.
With computer vision being where it's at now, it should be very easy to raise flags as soon as a car's plate is read (at a shopping centre, by a police car, or wherever) and the car doesn't match the plate. Could be by detecting the car colour, logo, height at which plate is mounted, distance between headlights, etc.
A deep learning model trained to recognise car models could solve plate theft better than these screwsOk? Yes, billions of dollars worth of infrastructure would probably do a better job at reducing plate theft than less than $1 worth of screws.
The infrastructure is already there. It's just not configured to see whether the plate matches the car. That's a software solution.
$1000 a camera, 1000 cameras, 1000 shopping centres?
There are anpr open source solutions.
I recon I could implement this for less than a mill a site
Yep we should open up privately trackable information and link it together. For the greater good. They can track you from point A to B and charge you for speeding when you go above the allowed route times, show ads on your commute custom to you on electric displays, enable family access so your spose can know where have been or are at all times. Or open up an share you categorised spending .. imagine how many deals Maccas would send you to ween you off your KFC habits. That's cool too right? Your gym membership could jump in and nagg you too.
there is a difference to retrieve an actual stolen item e.g car or number plate vs potential crime, worse is the coles and woolies checkouts now scan your face , and your fly buys or rewards so have clear shot of face, biometric and your name and address
Lol
I assume you've excluded yourself from every Coles and westfarmers store in the country in protest?
@Davo1111: i put one their vegie bags over the camera , some people put stickers as i’ve seen in many other stores and people doing ….. sends a message ….in a coles local melbourne store ALL the registers had stickers over the cameras ,
@Davo1111: i think the sticker dampens the investment for them, seems staff just wipe down as per normal as you can see wear on black sticker but they don’t seem to have an effort to remove …. bunnings had dealings with the privacy commissioner , some people didn’t like their kids being filmed .
with medibank, optus and latitude / ge finance leaking enough data to allow number porting maybe people will be more careful with what they share ….
supermarkets also have the overhead cameras to check item being scanned, unlike the register which creates biometrics.
@garage sale: It doesn't dampen anything. Some poor kid cleans the screen, and you continue to support the company. They don't make money with the camera, they just reduce losing money with the camera.
Basically, you're all talk - you don't actually care that much
@Davo1111: Are you more inclined to shop at them with extra cameras?
Things add up to dissuade me from giving my custom, and I might not be absolute, but undoubtedly Woolies has lost more of my business profit than their practices have gained them on reduced shrinkage.
I haven't bought Nestle products for 22 years, except occasional tins of Milo.
If I didn't boycott almost all of their products they would have made thousands of dollars in sales from me.
but undoubtedly Woolies has lost more of my business profit than their practices have gained them on reduced shrinkage
Their recent $1B+ in profit shows that you not shopping at Woolies hasn't really had an impact on them financially.
@Trishool: I don't think that is how it works. If they grow profit slower than their competitors, or even just slower than they could, they aren't succeeding as much as they could.
You probably earn much more than someone on the dole, but that doesn't mean you would not like a pay rise.@mskeggs: I get what you're saying and understand that already, but I feel you'd be a minority of people that they're willing to shrug off as part and parcel of doing business, as you can't please everybody but you need to please your shareholders and board of directors. Businesses like Woolies know they already have customers that boycott them for a variety of reasons, it'd be normal to them.
Are you more inclined to shop at them with extra cameras?
Bad question. The question should be, "Are you less inclined to shop at them with extra cameras".
No the extra cameras will not have any effect on me shopping there.
except occasional tins of Milo.
Lol, that's not a boycott if you have exceptions
@Davo1111: Do you reckon Nestle would be cool if everybody boycotted all their products except for a couple of tins of milo because they could tell their shareholders “it’s OK, a post on OzBargain says it isn’t a boycott”?
So the cameras aren’t attracting extra business from you, but they are a deterrent to me. Seems like they might review the “trial” and conclude it is a net negative.
@mskeggs: Lol my point is you have exceptions for Milo, so you're not that passionate about this "boycott". Your half assed approach is what I'm calling out
but they are a deterrent to me.
If the reduced theft saving is greater than people not shopping at Coles, then they will keep the cameras.
so you're not that passionate about this "boycott".
Lol, that's me alright. Definitely open to accusations of hypocrisy a lot of the time.
It's a bit like the vegan that sneaks a cheeseburger every now and again - at least they are minimising their harm nearly all the time.
Luckily, I'm not aiming to get into an afterlife with no room for slip ups.@mskeggs: If I was you I'd just say "I generally stay away from Nestle products". A boycott has to be 100% imo.
Same with vegans, if they like the occasional non vegan meal, then they're not vegan. They just prefer vegan meald
Anyway, wish you all the best on "staying away from Nestle products.". (That comes off as sarcastic, but it isn't supposed to be, your life, your choice)
Hahaha, you forgot the tin foil hat. But yeah, I'm not a fan of useless oversharing for businesses to exploit. But that's not what I propose.
Shopping centres, parking garages and parking inspectors already scan plates. And if you go to a website of a tyre selling business, it will tell you what model car you have if you enter your plate. In other words, all the information is already readily available. Someone just has to bother adding 2 and 2 together, and a car with a stolen plate won't get far.
plate/model car match comes from the NEVDIS database https://austroads.com.au/drivers-and-vehicles/nevdis
He ain't wrong.. 😅
Luckily I never take my helmet off when shopping. Or mask when I need to drive.. 😅
I don't think they actually work but my crippling anxiety says I should keep wearing it as I'm also a primary carer for my old man who's highly vulnerable.
It may help a bit.
But good on ya for looking after your old man.
@Make it so: Thanks brother.
I didn't actually mean mask while driving.. 😅 Just, I will always have it under my chin when driving around so it's ready to go and I don't forget when I get out to do shopping/errands/take him to appointments.
Hope you're having a great Sunday!
Is this comment serious, Klaus Schwab?
You're right, once it's reported it should flag immediately when the cops drive past that it's stolen. The benefit of this would be that they don't get stolen in the first place unless you're in Qld or NT as @garage sale mentioned
Not if if the car plates matched the make model and colour.
The good thing about WA is it's sub $50 if someone steals your plates, effectively making the crime pointless
They don't steal plates for their value, they steal it to commit crimes without getting caught, e.g. stealing a car and quickly swapping the plate. Someone did it on my driveway once. Police didn't care.
Yeah but once you've reported the theft, the plate is cancelled. At best you'll get away with 1 fuel driveway as they all use NPR and a shared system
Once the plate is hotlisted, you'd be better off not having any plate to avoid the additional charge
They get prisoners to make number plates as part of their rehabilitation scheme. Anyone see that might create an issue after they are released?
What exactly would the issue be?
Clearly prisoners making fake plates and keeping them in their prison wallet so they can get free petrol once they’re released is what he’s worried about.
Great way to land someone in jail put someone else's car plates on yours as you go to work… Have great time explaining it.
Yes I'd do it to you.
Yes, having a stolen plate lands you in jail.
/S
Tell me your car so I can land you in jail.
2018 Hyundai Accent Sport Manual MY18
Tell me the offense so I know what I'm "going to jail" for
Not sure what tin foil hat stuff you’re on about but a number plate is barely enough “proof” for an expiation notice.
What type of screw head are they using?
Anti theft ones
Brilliant.
Sorry couldn't resist
You can also get these for free in QLD by contacting your local cop shop
Anyone looking for this in Victoria, sites are here - https://nhw.com.au/safeplate/
IMO I don't get the point of it. If every car had them thieves would just start carrying the proper removal tool for them (it's just a weird screwdriver). And when you want to change plates you have to get one of those tools yourself.
Handy to avoid it happening to yourself though, since anyone after plates will go the easiest option.
Depends on the brand. Not all have tools you can buy easily. Just an example https://www.brycefastener.com/the-security-screw-problem.htm…
True, but I doubt a free screw from neighbourhood watch is going to be one of those (that's a phrase I never thought I'd say), just the normal one way screw.
I wouldn't mind getting a set of those Bryce ones, but they're minimum 500 purchase and I'm guessing they're not cheap.
Or you can walk into pretty much any 24 hour police station and get them for free also.
Wish i had them, but the little fella took the whole Landcruiser out of our camp instead
I had my car stereo stolen about 20 years ago. I had a special anti theft screw bracket. They got around it by just using a hacksaw blade and cutting the whole thing out.
Wish I didn't have the anti theft bracket as rather than just taking the stereo they damaged the dash by using the hacksaw and made it impossible to put a new stereo in without redoing the whole dash.
Reason I mention this is they'd probably still take your plates bit they'd just do more damage to the bumper in the process.
@Name
Wish I didn't have the anti theft bracket as rather than just taking the stereo they damaged the dash by using the hacksaw and made it impossible to put a new stereo in without redoing the whole dash.Many moons ago i remember seeing a pic of a dash totally destroyed to get the stereo out ( think was a pinch/jemmy bar used)
Already have them installed after my last plates got stolen from Cannington station lol
Armadale store needs to get onto this great initiative