Illegal fonts and spacing on Cherished Number Plates

Hello one and all! Welcome to the new cherished-number-plates.co.uk blog! Now, I'm not one for moaning, (no, really!), but I think the police really should crack down on these illegal number plates. Have a look at this one:

ok, so that one's not too bad. At least it uses the correct font, but the spacing is illegal because it's trying to spell a name of some sort (I haven't worked out what yet!).

You do get much worse examples, though. And I'm sure you've seen them yourself - totally different fonts, squashing letter to make them look like other letters etc.

Sure, these people probably aren't terrorists, but these plates do hamper the Police's Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems, in that they can't read them at all, and an actual policeman has to read it instead and waste even more tax payers' money.

So, come on people. Play nicely and use the correct fonts and stuff. You might even fail your MOT if you don't.