Just returned from a great week-long business trip to Athens, where several of us noted that all the license plates there use letters common to any language throughout most of Europe, as opposed to using any Greek-only letters. My guess is that this is probably based on some European Union law (it there's one thing the EU is good for, it's creating new laws...covering everything), aimed at making policing easier in countries north of Greece. But can you imagine if this weren't the case, and that Greek cars could have plates with letters like Psi, Rho, and Sigma? Picture a radio call from a cruiser to his station, reporting on a speeding Greek car:
"I have the vehicle in sight. Here is the license number: 529 . And the letters that follow are...er...um...well, OK, the first one is sort of like three sticks sideways, with the top and bottom ones wider than the middle one, then there's a big vertical line with the little zero stuck in the middle of it, and the final one is a long, bending stick, held up by another, smaller one, below it and to the left."
Suffice it to say, by this time the perp has had plenty of time to get lost in traffic, safely headed back to the driving chaos that is Greece.
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