One Irish driver chanced their arm and doctored up a forged disc that they proudly displayed on their windscreen.
They will now have to face a judge over the DIY job after they were stopped by Gardai.
A motorist from Co Kerry forged a CVRT certificate, which proves the road-worthiness of a vehicle, by glueing two discs together. The cheeky crafter failed to spot that their new disc was still out of date, though.
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The Roads Policing Unit in Kerry recently spotted the disc, which was made up of their 2021 disc and the cert from another vehicle.
An Garda Siochana posted the unusual find to their @GardaTraffic Twitter account and said: “Kerry Roads Policing Unit recently spotted this forged CVRT road worthiness disc displayed on a vehicle.
“This disc was made up of the original 2021 expired disc and part of another vehicle's disc which was glued on but also expired.”
The driver will have to explain the creation to a judge, as Gardai confirmed: “Court proceedings commenced.”
Social media users branded the person behind the fraudulent disc a “chancer”, with others joking about the fact that the disc was still not valid, given the expiry date of September 2022.
One person on Facebook said: “If he had brains, he would be dangerous.”
“You have to admire their arts and crafts,” another wrote.
Another joked: “This was obviously the work of serious organised criminals.”
This is not the only forgery attempt in Munster in recent months, with another driver getting caught in Cork for a fake insurance disc back in April.
Officers stopped a blue Nissan Micra at a checkpoint outside the town and, at first glance, the disc showed the vehicle to be insured up to October 2022, Cork Beo reports.
However, when Gardai took a closer look, it turned out the disc had originally been issued in October 2020. The expiry date was showing '28-Okt-2022', a form of dating that makes no sense on a legitimate insurance disc, even after you take in the fact that annual discs should not be covering vehicles for two years.
Whoever put the disc together had made the pretty basic error of spelling "Oct' as "Okt", tried to get away with two years' coverage and failed to put gaps between the numbers and letters as you would see on standard discs.
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