Times are tough in. So tough that one motorist in California just didn’t have the $27 to replace their stolen plate, so they decided making one with their kids’ art supplies was the next best solution.
As the cops patrolled the highway, they noticed this Nissan Sentra with a spare tire strapped to the decklid. No clue how much junk is in the trunk that bungee cords were a good solution.
The driver applied their same logic to forging a plate. They get an ‘A for effort’ by duplicating the California script at the top, and government website address at the bottom of the plate. But it seems the Picasso of plates didn’t plan out spacing of the letters very well, and just bunched the last 4 characters together.
CHP issued a $197 fine for driving without a proper license plates, and shamed the driver by posting their artwork on social media.
Loved this! A for effort!
But an ‘F’ for execution.
A $150 bonus ticket for effort
Amazing what some people think they can get away with.
One shouldn’t do things that draw attention, like strapping a spare tire on the trunk, when one has forged plates on the car. But then again, what does one expect from the land of fruits and nuts?
Wow… the land of fruits and nuts. That’s a good one. One day I met a man from Iran who was living in the industrial town of Hamilton (an hour west of Toronto). He was so happy to live there he called it the land of milk and honey. Hamilton. Where the skyline is made up of smokestacks from the refineries.
But I digress… flying under the radar involves driving marginally over the speed limit (like normal people) and making sure all the lights are working. Don’t give John Q Law any reason to look your way.
I think the driver in this article lacks proper decision making abilities.
I almost fell sorry for them, but if they can’t afford to replace the plate, are they carrying insurance?
I guess everyone else finds out the answer to the insurance question when they get sideswiped by this dork.
Not sure how it is in California, but here in Ontario, it’s called no fault insurance. Basically your own insurance company pays for your vehicle repairs, irrespective of whether the other guy is insured or not.
In general in the US, if the other driver is uninsured, your insurance company will pay. But you have a deductible that you’re responsible for covering.
(That deductible comes into play whether or not the other party has insurance.)
Unless you have uninsured motorist coverage. Then you don’t pay the deductible.
How do I know this? Hit by an uninsured motorist.
Twice.
The fact they were uninsured actually saved me money because I had (and have) the uninsured coverage. But the whole experience still sucked.