A handwritten license plate that caught the eye of police in Benicia early Friday may have looked official enough for its creator, but a check showed the car had been stolen.
About 1 a.m., an officer spotted the license plate in the 5000 block of East Second Avenue and saw “this beautifully handwritten license plate on a car,” police said on social media.
The plate had the requisite seven numeric and letter characters, but it didn’t quite pass muster with police.
Although a photo posted by police of the handwritten license plate appears to show an expiration date of 2025, police said it is actually written to be 2023.
“We know we are not superheroes, but just FYI this is NOT a way to get one over on us,” the department said.
A check showed that the car had been reported stolen out of Alameda.
The driver, a 38-year-old woman, was detained, arrested and booked into Solano County Jail without incident, police said.
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You can’t fix stupid!
A pinnacle of idiocy.
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Just steal a paper dealer tag and make two grayscale photocopies. Take one of the photocopies, cut out, and transpose a couple of the numbers and photocopy it again.
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Alternatively, the same thing can be done with a metal tag but this time make COLOR photocopies.
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This isn’t rocket science!!
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Wow, Exit 12A…way to go…educating the miscreants!
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C’mon now, it’s not like criminals read Claycord.
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I’m just illustrating how much easier it can be.
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The guvmint may disagrees with you on that. They probably think we’re all criminals here. 😄
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CA government is stupid along with their Democrat voters.
….. this is how bad our public school system is … unbelievable 🙁
The driver was 38
Time off for good penmanship!
She qualifies to become a California politician!!!
If you’re gonna steal a car, at least, steal, something better than a Kia
the tags are nearly a year expired as well… :’DDD
All I can say is: Ha, ha, ha.
Even duct tape can fix this stupidity. What a loser!!!!
Notice that this is a Kia? Kia and Hyundai have a bug that makes them easy to steal. Kids go on Youtube and learn how to do it.
and this why they have to steal…they are too damn dumb to do anything else
Too funny for words.
At least she spelled it right. 😝
I think this qualifies for a Darwin Award.
Seriously? How dumb does one have to be to actually think they’d get away with this?
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